Crochet top for stuffed animal

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I just created this pattern to dress up the amigurimi cow that I made with Rose and Lily’s Strawberry cow pattern! 

 I started it from the hips up and it’s only 10 rounds :) 


Materials used: 5mm crochet hook and worsted weight soft acrylic yarn. 

Pattern is written using US crochet terminology. 

The hips of my cow were 14” but this pattern is easily adjustable for other sizes with using the simple rules for decreasing and it’s worked in alternating sc and hdc rounds.


Abbreviations: 

Ch: chain

DCR: decrease (single crochet 2 together) 

HDC: half double crochet 

HDC-DC: half double crochet decrease ( half double crochet 2 together) 

RND: round 

SC : single crochet 

SLST: slip stich

SK: skip 

ST: stitch 

(#st): amount of stitches at end of round 


Notes: when it’s written 11sc (or whatever number) that means sc in next 11 st’s.


Ch’s at start of round count as 1st st, slst will go to the left of top ch.


On round 10 I worked this round on my cow to make sure the straps would line up where I wanted and my 10sc in that round are for the front of the garment. This round may need to be adjusted depending on the stuffy that the top will be fitting. 


To adjust the decrease to the size you need divide your st count by the amount of decreases and minus 2 and that is the number of stitches between decreases. 

I did 4 decreases per round that I needed to decrease . 



Pattern: 

 To begin from the hips up I chained the width of my cows hips which were 14” , so I did ch 56 and joined to first chain with a slst  as my foundation chain. 


RND1: sc in each stitch , slst to 1st sc at end of rnd (56st)


RND2: ch2 , hdc in each st around , sl st to top of ch2 (56st) 


RND3: ch1 12sc, dcr, 12 sc, dcr, 12sc , dcr, 12 sc, slst to 1st st (52st) 


RND4: ch2, hdc in each st , slst to 1st st (52st) 


RND5: ch1, 11 sc, dcr, 11sc , dcr, 11sc, dcr, 11sc, slst to 1st st (48st) 


RND6: ch2, 10hdc, hdc-dc, 10hdc, hdc-dc, 10 hdc, hdc-dc, 10 hdc , slst to 1st st (44st) 


RND7: ch1, 9sc, dcr, 9sc, dcr, 9sc, dcr, 9sc, slst to 1st st (40st) 


RND8: ch2, hdc in each st around, slst to first st. (40st) 


RND9: ch1, 8sc, dcr, 8sc, dcr, 8sc, dcr, 8sc, slst to 1st st (36st) 


RND10:  ch1 , sc 4, ch7 , sk8 and slst to next st, 10sc, ch7, sk8 and slst to next st, sc4 and slst to 1st st, fasten off, weave in ends.


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