Features and Additions – The Bawnimals

Louie's Loops

Medium

45 minutes

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Video

Lefty

In the following sections we’ll be looking at a variety of different features that can be added to the base body to create noses, ears, and tails to customize your Bawnimal. These additions will either be made separately and sewn on or simply added by changing a few stitches in the base pattern. Refer to the video for detailed instructions.

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What you'll create

What you'll learn

01 Facial Features

02 Ears

03 Tails

What you'll need

Cotton Yarn

Weight

Colors

Main Color

Secondary Color

Black Thread

Crochet Hook

G6 / 4.00 mm

Safety Bead (x2)

6 mm

Darning Needle

Stuffing

Abbreviations

Chain Stitch

Stitch

slst

Slip Stitch

Single Crochet

inc

Increase

dec

Decrease (Sharp)

invdec

Invisible Decrease

FLO/BLO

Front / Back Loops Only

Double Crochet

hdc

Half-Double Crochet

mbo

Mini Bobble Stitch

sc2tog

Single Crochet 2 Together

Bobble Stitch (4-dc bobble)

Mini Picot

Other Useful Info

Gauge

5 Rnds and 4 sts per 1”

Size

Finished piece is about 1 – 2” tall

Worked

In the Round (unless otherwise stated)

Useful Tutorials

Frog - The Bawnimals

How to Crochet Better Color Changes

The Pattern

01Facial Features

In this section we’ll look at the various different types of noses, snouts, jowls, and snoots that you can add to your Bawnimal to create all different kinds of creatures!

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Bobble Nose Addition

I use this nose for animals with small snouts (aka snoots) such as a mouse (mawse) or small dog (dawg) like a chihuahua, or fox. This is nose is the easiest to add because you don’t need to sew it on, but rather replace the 8th stitch in Rnd 3 with a bobble stitch! Make the bobble stitch bigger or smaller to fit the animal best (ie. mbo, or bbo).
To make this nose replace Rnd 3 of the base pattern with…