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It is Day 9 of the Woodland Christmas Mini Amigurumi Crochet Along, three-quarters of the way through. Today's little woodland creature is a tiny Radiant Raccoon shining bright with a little string of Christmas lights.
This little guy made me think of my parents as I made him. They recently moved to a tiny town and kind of live on the outskirts of town surrounded by cornfields. They have had a major raccoon issue since they moved in. They have had caught several and they keep coming back. I am pretty sure they are my mom's least favorite animal at this point. And to be fair I think they are pretty nasty animals, and not one I would ever want to run into in real life, I don't think the trash panda name is without merit. But I'm pretty sure I would freak out to find a mouse in my stocking too, so I don't know that there are any of the animals I have made, or will be sharing in the next few days, that I would actually want to run into.
This little raccoon turned out pretty cute though, it would surely never terrorize anyone. Although he is holding a string of lights, is he getting ready to decorate, or being destructive and pulling them off of something? Who knows, you can decide.
I made my raccoon with little eye patches to make the mask on its face, a big striped tail, and little pointy ears. A tiny scarf is tied around its neck and a string of lights in its hands. For the string of lights I used a variegated yarn with short color changes, if you don't have any yarn like that, or want to buy any, you could just do a solid color.
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How to Crochet a Radiant Raccoon
Finished Size about 4" tall sitting
You will need:
- Worsted weight yarn in gray, white, black, green, multicolor, and scarf color (Sample made with Red Heart Super Saver in Dusty Gray, White, Black, Hunter Green , Loops & Threads in Claret, and Fiesta)
- G crochet hook (4/4.25 mm)
- 2- 6mm safety eyes
- 8 or 9 mm safety nose
- stuffing
- yarn needle
- stitch markers
- scissors
Instructions:
All of the pieces, except the ears, the scarf and the Christmas lights, are made in the round beginning with a magic ring, the head and body made in one piece, although unlike the other animals the eyes are not actually attached to the body, they will be attached with the eye patches. The eye patches, nose, arms, legs, tail, and ears are made separately and sewn on. Safety eyes and nose attached to the eye patches and nose where directed, if you choose two embroider the eyes and nose (better for small children) just embroider in the same spot. The scarf and lights are made separately and sew on at the end. The string of lights is made by first crocheting a chain with little bumps out of the "lights" color, then crocheting over that with green yarn to make the cord.
Body/Head
Make 1with gray yarn, beginning with magic ring
Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: 2 sc in each st (12 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (18 sc)
Rounds 4-8: 1 sc in each st (18 sc)
Begin stuffing and continue stuffing as you work
Round 9: sc2tog around (9 sc)
Round 10: 2 sc in each st (18 sc)
Round 11: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (24 sc)
Rounds 12-15: 1 sc in each st (24 sc)
Round 16: [sc2tog, sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (18 sc)
Round 17: [sc2tog, sc in next st] repeat around (12 sc)
Round 18: sc2tog around (6 sc)
Finish off, weave in ends
Eye Patches
Make 2 with starting with black yarn, switching to white where indicated, beginning with a magic ring
Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: 2 sc in each of first 3 sts, switch to white yarn, 2 sc in each of next 2 sts, [hdc, dc] in last st (6 black sc, 4 white sc, 1 hdc, 1dc)
Finish off and cut yarn, leaving long tail for sewing, I left a long tail of the black yarn to use for sewing to the face, I wove in the white yarn and trimmed
Turn the eye patches so that the white is sticking out toward the outside on both (one of them you will have to flip upside down so be sure to pull your ends to the front on that one), you want them to mirror each other.
Add a safety eye to each patch
Sew eye patches to the face, close together with the white wing part sticking out (it may be easier to wait until you have the nose done so you can be sure that the placement works, but you will sew the eye patches on first and the nose will overlap the eye patches)
Nose
Make 1 with white yarn, beginning with a magic ring
Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: 2 sc in each st (12 sc)
Round 3: 1 sc in each st (12 sc)
Finish off and cut yarn, leaving long tail for sewing
Insert safety nose, or embroider, to tip of nose
Add a tiny bit of stuffing to nose and stitch in place on face below eyes overlapping the edges of the eye patches
Ears
Make 2 with gray yarn, beginning with a chain
ch 3
Row 1: sl st in ch closest to hook, sc in next ch, hdc in last ch (1 sl st, 1 sc 1, hdc)
Finish off and cut yarn, leaving long tail for sewing
Sew ears to the top of the head
Arms
Make 2 starting with black yarn and changing to gray where directed, beginning with a magic ring
Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (9 sc)
change to gray yarn
Round 3: [sc2tog, sc in next st] repeat around (6 sc)
Rounds 4-5: 1 sc in each st (6 sc)
Finish off and cut yarn leaving a long tail for sewing
Sew the 2 arms to the side of the body between the body and head
Legs
Make 2 starting with black yarn and changing to gray where directed, beginning with a magic ring
Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (9 sc)
Round 3: [sc2tog, sc in next st] repeat around (6 sc)
change to gray yarn
Rounds 4-6: 1 sc in each st (6 sc)
Finish off and cut yarn leaving a long tail for sewing
Sew the 2 legs to the bottom side of the body in a sitting position
Tail
Make 1 starting with black yarn and changing between gray and black where directed (carry the yarn inside the tail to switch between colors), beginning with a magic ring
Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat (8 sc)
Change to gray yarn
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 3 sts] repeat (10 sc)
Round 4: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 4 sts] repeat (12 sc)
Change to black yarn, begin stuffing lightly and continue as you work
Rounds 5-6: 1 sc in each st (12 sc)
Change to gray yarn
Round 7: [sc2tog, sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (9 sc)
Round 8: 1 sc in each st (9 sc)
Change to black yarn
Round 9: [sc2tog, sc in next st] repeat around (6 sc)
Round 10: 1 sc in each st (6 sc)
Finish off and cut yarn leaving a long tail for sewing
Sew the tail to back of body
Scarf
Make 1 with yarn in desired color (sample made with Loops & Threads Impeccable in Claret), beginning with chain
ch 37
turn, sk first ch, sc in each ch to the end (36 sc)
Finish off and weave in ends
Wrap scarf around neck and tie in front
String of Lights
Make 1 starting with lights color (Sample made with Loops & Threads Soft Classic in Fiesta), then working second part in green cord color (Sample made with Red Heart Super Saver in Hunter Green
beginning with colored yarn (lights color) you will make a ch, adding little picots with slip stitches every few stitches to make the "lights". Then you will connect your green yarn and crochet over the top of the chain, enclosing that first ch in your single crochet stitches to hide it.
Row 1:ch 6, sl st to second ch from hook (first picot made), [ch 4, sl st in second ch from hook] repeat 5 times, or until you reach desired length, ch 4
Row:2 attach green yarn, turn, work 4 sc around the ch, covering the last 4 ch of the previous row, sl st in the top of the first picot, [2 sc over the ch, sl st in top of picot] repeat to the last picot, 4 sc over end of ch
Finish off, weave in colored ends, leave green tail for sewing
Stitch the string lights to each of the raccoons hands so he is holding it.
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