Materials And Tools
• Yarn of three colours on your choice.
Drops Nord and Drops Alpaca for fluffy toys or YarnArt Jeans,
Drops Safran, YarnArt Ideal for smooth ones.
• Crochet hook according to your yarn. (Clover 1.5 or 1.75)
• Yarn needle, sewing needle.
• Black thread for embroidering the nose (e.g. YarnArt Canarias).
Small amount of ivory yarn for embroidering the claws (e.g. 100%
cotton baby cotton 50g 180 m).
• Button eyes diameter 5 mm, sewing thread of black colour to sew the eyes.
• Poliester fiberfill.
• A piece of velcro tape if you use a fluffy yarn.
Abbreviations
MR– magic ring
Ch– chain stitch
St(s)– stitch(es)
Slst– slip stitch
Sc– single crochet
Hdc– half double crochet
Inc– increase
Dec– decrease
(…)x n– repeat the instructions in the brackets n times
(n)– amount of sts in row
rnd(s)– round(s)
Work in continuous rounds unless otherwise instructed.
Face
Rnd 1: 9ch, start the second chain from the hook: 1 inc, 6sc, 3sc in the last st, turn and continue on the other side of the chain, 7sc (18)
Continue crocheting in spiral.
Rnd 2: 2 inc, 6sc, 3inc, 6sc, 1inc (24)
Rnd 3: (1sc,1inc)x2, 6sc, (1sc,1inc)x3, 7sc,1inc, slst (30)
Fasten off, cut the yarn leaving a long tail for sewing.
After crocheting the face of the cute little sloth amigurumi toy, let’s move on to making the spots on its face.
Spots around the eyes (make 2)
7ch, start in the second chain from the hook: 1inc, 4sc, 3sc, in the last st, turn and continue on the other side of the chain, 5sc (14)
Fasten off, cut the yarn leaving a long tail for sewing.
After crocheting the spots on her face, let’s start crocheting her arms.
Arms (make 2)
Rnd 1: 6sc in MR
Rnd 2-3: 6sc (2rnds)
Rnd 4: (1sc,1inc)*3 (9)
Rnd 5-13: 9sc (9rnds)
Rnd 14: 8sc
Don’t stuff the arms.
Fold the detail and crochet 4sc joining both sides together. Fasten off, cut the yarn leaving a long tail for sewing.
We continue to embroider the amigurumi toy with crochet step by step. Next up are the legs.
Legs (make 2)
Rnd 1: 6sc in MR
Rnd 2: 6sc
Rnd 3: (1sc,1inc)*3 (9)
Rnd 4-5: 9sc (2rnds)
Rnd 6: (2sc,1inc)*3 (12)
Rnd 7-9: 12sc (3rnds)
Rnd 10: 9sc
Don’t stuff the arms.
Fold the detail and crochet 6sc joining both sides together. Fasten off, cut the yarn leaving a long tail for sewing.
After crocheting her legs, we can start crochet her body.
Body
Rnd 1: 9ch, start in the second chain from the hook: 1inc, 6sc, 3sc in the last st, turn and continue on the other side of the chain, 7sc (18)
Continue crocheting in spiral.
Rnd 2: 2inc, 6sc, 3inc, 6sc, 1inc (24)
Rnd 3: (1sc,1inc)*2, 6sc, (1sc,1inc)*3, 7sc, 1inc (30)
Rnd 4: (2sc,1inc)*2, 6sc, (2sc,1inc)*3, 8sc, 1inc (36)
Rnd 5: (3sc,1inc)*2, 6sc, (3sc,1inc)*3, 9sc, 1inc (42)
Rnd 6-7: 42sc (2rnds)
Rnd 8: 4sc, 1inc, 20sc, 1inc, 16sc (44)
Rnd 9-10: 44sc (2rnds)
Rnd 11: 5sc, 1inc, 21sc, 1inc, 16sc (46)
Rnd 12: 46sc
Rnd 13: 6sc, 1inc, 22sc, 1inc, 16sc (48)
Rnd 14: 48sc
Rnd 15: 7sc, 1inc, 23sc, 1inc, 16sc (50)
Rnd 16-20: 50sc (5 rnds)
Rnd 21: 7sc, 1dec, 23sc, 1dec, 16sc (48)
Rnd 22-23: 48sc (2rnds)
Rnd 24: 7sc, 1dec, 22sc, 1dec, 15sc (46)
Rnd 25: 46sc
Rnd 26: 2sc, (1dec,3sc)*3, 8sc, (1dec,3sc)*3, 6sc (40)
Rnd 27-28: 40sc (2rnds)
Rnd 29: (3sc,1dec)*8 (32)
Rnd 30: (2sc,1dec)*8 (24)
Rnd 31: (1sc,1dec)*8 (16)
Stuff the body tightly. But it must not be too round.
Rnd 32: 8dec (8)
Add some fiberfill if you need to.
Cut the yarn leaving a long tail. Close the remaining hole using a yarn needle: weave in the yarn through the front loops of all 8 stitches and pull tightly.
Hide the remaining yarn tail inside the detail.
Assembling
Sew on the face, then the spots over the face. The outer corners should be directed downwards.
Sew on the eyes over the spots.
Embroider the nose in the center between the eyes. It should be on the same level with the eyes.
Sew on the arms and the legs.
Embroider three claws on each paw.
Make a tuft on the sloth’s top head. Take a piece of main yarn and make a loop with the help of the hook under the first row. Cut the ends of the thread at the desired lenght and fluff the ends.
If you crocheted with some fluffy yarn. Use the velcro tape to comb the toy and make it fluffier.
*The size of the finished toys made of Drops Alpaca. Drops Nord is about 7cm the size of the finished toys made of YarnArt Jeans is about 8cm.
Congratulations
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