January | 2015 | Like a Galway hooker

I made Harvey for my friend Brianne, I’m not as happy as I thought I would be cause I didn’t have any safety eyes so I had to make pupils with black yarn and I’m not sure about them. Also my sewing and embroidery skills are awful 🙂
Anyway, I thought I’d write the pattern out cause he was fun to make and would be a nice softie pressie.

Skills you need to know are: magic ring or similar, working in the round, increases and decreases.
It’s all worked in a continuous spiral so you will need to know how to do that.
I worked all in the back loop cause I’ve been experimenting with that technique as it does give a much softer fabric than working under both loops. (I’ve become a big fan of Stacy’s work at freshstitches.com)

Abbreviations: sc (single crochet), st (stitch) decr (decrease).

Materials: locking stitch marker, 3.5 mm and 4.5 mm hooks, tapestry needle, safety eyes or black yarn for mouth and pupils, white felt for teeth (obviously that’s optional), some fabric glue or just sewing thread to attach the teeth, stuffing.

For the main body and the eyes I used roughly 60/70 grams of aran weight yarn worked with a 4.5 mm hook, and for the legs I used different colour DK yarn with a 3.5 mm hook.

I haven’t specified the colours for the legs cause anyone can use any colourful DK yarn they want.

Legs
Large legs, make 2:
1 – magic ring with 6 sc (6 sc)
2 – 2 sc in each st (12 sc)
3 – 1 sc in next st, 2 sc in next st, till end of round (18 sc)
4 – 1 sc in next 2 st, 2 sc in next st (24 sc)
5 – 1 sc in next 3 st, 2 sc in next st (30 sc)
6 – 1 sc in next 4 st, 2 sc in next st (36 sc)
rnds 7 to 10 – 1 sc in each st (36 sc)
11 – 1 sc in next 4 st, decr in next st (30 sc)
12 – 1 sc in next 3 st, decr in next st (24 sc)
13 – 1 sc in next 2 st, decr in next st (18 sc) – begin stuffing.
14 – 1 sc in next st, decr in next st (12 sc)
rnds 15 to 25 – 1 sc in each st. (12 sc) –
finish off, stuff the stem lightly, set aside.

Medium legs, make 2:
Follow until round 5 of large legs (30 sc)
rnds 6 to 9 – 1 sc in each st (30 sc)
10 – 1 sc in next 3 st, decr in next st (24 sc)
11 – 1 sc in next 2 st, decr in next st (18 sc) – begin stuffing.
12 – 1 sc in next st, decr in next st (12 sc)
rnds 13 to 23 – 1 sc in each st. (12 sc)
finish off, set aside.

Small legs, make 2:
Follow until round 4 of large legs. (24 sc)
rnds 5 to 8 – 1 sc in each st (24 sc)
9 – 1 sc in next 2 st, decr in next st (18 sc) – begin stuffing.
10 – 1 sc in next st, decr in next st (12 sc)
rnds 11 to 21 – 1 sc in each st. (12 sc)
finish off, set aside.

Eyes
Small eye, make 1:
1 – magic ring with 6 sc (6 sc)
2 – 2 sc in each st (12 sc)
3 – 1 sc in next st, 2 sc in next st, till end of round (18 sc)
rnds 4 to 6 – 1 sc in each st (18 sc)
finish off, set aside.

Big eye, make 1:
1 – magic ring with 6 sc (6 sc)
2 – 2 sc in each st (12 sc)
3 – 1 sc in next st, 2 sc in next st, till end of round (18 sc)
4 – 1 sc in next 2 st, 2 sc in next st (24 sc)
rnds 5 to 7 – 1 sc in each st (24 st)
finish off, set aside.

If you don’t have safety eyes, take some black yarn, do a magic ring with 4 sc and use it as pupil for small eye. Do another magic ring with 4 sc, then 2 sc in each st (8 sc) and use it as pupil for the big eye.

Body
1 – magic ring with 6 sc (6 sc)
2 – 2 sc in each st (12 sc)
3 – 1 sc in next st, 2 sc in next st, till end of round (18 sc)
4 – 1 sc in next 2 st, 2 sc in next st (24 sc)
5 – 1 sc in next 3 st, 2 sc in next st (30 sc)
6 – 1 sc in next 4 st, 2 sc in next st (36 sc)
7 – 1 sc in next 5 st, 2 sc in next st (42 sc)
8 – 1 sc in next 6 st, 2 sc in next st (48 sc)
9 – 1 sc in next 2 st, 2 sc in next st (60 sc)
rnds 10 to 19 – 1 sc in each st (60 sc)
20 – 1 sc in next 3 st, 2 sc in next st (72 sc)
21 – 1 sc in next 4 st, 2 sc in next st (84 sc)
23 – 1 sc in next 10 st, 2 sc in next st (90 sc)
rnds 24 to 30 – 1 sc in each st (90 sc)

31 – 1 sc in next 13 st, decr. in next st (84 sc)
32 – 1 sc in next 12 st, decr. in next st (78 sc)
33 – 1 sc in next 11 st, decr. in next st (72 sc)
34 – 1 sc in next 10 st, decr. in next st (66 sc)
35 – 1 sc in next 9 st, decr. in next st (60 sc)
36 – 1 sc in next 8 st, decr. in next st (54 sc) –
37 – 1 sc in next 7 st, decr. in next st (48 sc)
38 – 1 sc in next 6 st, decr. in next st (42 sc)
39 – 1 sc in each st (42 sc). Sew on the eyes, embroider the mouth, attach legs to previous row.
40 – 1 sc in next 5 st, decr. in next st (36 sc) – begin stuffing the body
41 – 1 sc in next 4 st, decr. in next st (30 sc)
42 – 1 sc in next 3 st, decr. in next st (24 sc) – add more stuffing as required
43 – 1 sc in next 2 st, decr. in next st (18 sc)
44 – 1 sc in next st, decr. in next st (12 sc)
45 – decrease all around – finish off.