Thursday, December 31, 2009

Crocheted Christmas pudding

You will need:
* 4mm crochet hook

* 3.5mm crochet hook
* brown yarn
* off-white yarn
* green yarn or felt
* three red beads

Pattern for Christmas pudding:

Pudding:
With 4mm hook and two strands of brown yarn,
6 sc in ring
Increase around - 12
*1 sc, inc* six times - 18
*2 sc, inc* six times - 24
Sc around 3 rounds
*3 sc, inc* six times - 30
Sc around 3 rounds
Finish off...

Bottom:
With 4mm hook and two strands of brown yarn,
6 sc in ring
Increase around - 12
*1 sc, inc* six times - 18
*2 sc, inc* six times - 24
*3 sc, inc* six times - 30
Finish off...

Sauce:
With 4mm hook and two strands of off-white yarn,
6 sc in ring
Increase around - 12
*1 sc, inc* six times - 18
*2 sc, inc* six times - 24
Sc around
Wavy edge:
Dc, trc inc, dc, hdc, sc, chain 4, **3 sc in 2nd chain from hook, sc to end of chain**, 2 sc in prev round, hdc, dc inc, hdc, sc, chain 6, repeat from ** to **, 2 sc in prev round, chain 3, repeat from ** to **, 2 sc in prev round, hdc, dc inc, hdc, sc, hdc, dc inc, hdc, sc, chain 5, repeat from ** to **, sl st in last stitch
Finish off...

Leaves (make 2):
With 3.5mm hook and one strand of green yarn,
Chain 10
Sl st in 2nd chain from hook, hdc, dc, trc, chain 1, sl st in front loops of trc, trc, dc, hdc, dc, chain 1, sl st in front loops of dc, (hdc, 2 sc, chain 1, sl st in front loops of sc, sc, hdc) in last stitch of the foundation chain.
You are now working on the other side of the leaf:
Dc, chain, 1, sl st in front loops of dc, hdc, dc, trc, chain 1, sl st in front loops of trc, trc, dc, hdc, sl st in last stitch
Finish off...



Assembly:

Attach the leaves to the white sauce, sew on the beads as shown on the picture. Sew the sauce to the pudding. Stuff the pudding, attach the bottom, weave in all ends, and it's ready to be enjoyed :)

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