Ordinary bathing will turn into a fun activity if such a puppy named Mochalkin settles in your bathroom. It fits easily on your hand, holds soap suds perfectly and immediately performs two functions: as a bath accessory and as an entertainment item.
In order for such a blue miracle to wink at you from the shower, you should get polypropylene yarn. The choice of color is at your discretion; combinations are encouraged, as in this case. Please note that knitting the body comes in two threads, so stock up on two skeins at least. To help you, hooks with numbers 5.5 (for the body) and 3 (for everything else), a sewing needle with a fairly wide eye and a burning desire to become the owner of a washbasin puppy.
Like many knitted products, the puppy begins with a set of air loops and closing them into a ring. To make a washcloth easily fit on the hand of an adult woman, thirty-two loops are enough. Next, let’s introduce a couple of notations: let the single crochet be the basic column, and in our case we’ll call the long loops elongated elements.
The puppy stands on three circular rows of basic blue columns.
Then we turn the knitted strip inside out and boldly continue to create in a circle, only we move on to the elongated elements.
From the fourth to the 14th row we do not change the pattern, in the 15th row we evenly reduce the circle by 4 columns, knitting each 7th and 8th element together, and in the 16th, 17th and 18th rows we switch to the base columns and use a white thread to form a collar.
Next, in each circle we combine the basic columns and elongated elements in a ratio of 10 to 18, where ten is the place for the future muzzle, and 18 is the curly back of the head. In this way we make six rows.
From the 25th row we begin decreasing, three circles are completely knitted with elongated elements in this order: 1 decreasing circle after every fourth element, 2 circle - decreasing after every second element, 3 circle - all decreasing. Pull the remaining loops tightly and sew on the wrong side.
Let's move on to the details. We turn our washcloth into a funny little animal: we make ears, an oval nose, a gold medal, and we embroider the eyes with stitches using a regular sewing needle. We work with a single thread.
Mochalkin’s ears are double: the bottom is white, and the top part is shaggy and colored, it can be to match the body or with the addition of other colors from the remnants of yarn. The lower part consists of 20 rotary rows connected from base columns; at the end of each row, do not forget one loop for lifting. So, we start with three basic columns, then, knitting two columns each from the left and right edges, we reach 5 basic columns in a row. After three rows, we also add one loop at the edges and finish a couple of rows (5 and 6) on seven basic columns. The seventh row becomes longer by two more columns; row 11 inclusive, we count 9 elements in rows. In the twelfth row we make a similar increase along the edges and form the next pair of rows from 11 columns.We expand the fifteenth row to 13 columns, carry out two turns without changes and proceed to rounding the ear. We bring the number of base columns to 9, performing in order: decrease, two base columns, decrease, two base columns, decrease, 1 base column, decrease. The penultimate turn is designed for 9 columns, and in the last one we knit each pair of columns together and stop there. We perform the colored outer part of the eyelet in the opposite direction, that is, the first row will consist of 4 basic columns and every second turn will consist of elongated elements.
The halves of the ear are connected using a needle.
For the medal you will need two circles, double crochet in the center of the amigurumi ring. The first circle is the 15 columns mentioned above, in the second and last circle we double the number of elements, sew the obverse and reverse, and use simple knots to make fasteners for the medal.
The nose is formed on six air loops, in the first circle we bring the number of basic columns to 10, and for height and roundness we knit ten loops in three circles.
We attach the medal to its rightful place in the middle of the collar, placing the nose and eyes on the puppy’s face.
Now let's move on to sewing on the ears. And now the puppy named Mochalkin is ready for a bath!
We wish you a fun bathing experience!
