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Happy December,
This month’s Midi tier pattern is Pua the pig from Moana.
Thank you so much for your patience in waiting for the release of this pattern, I truly appreciate it.
I initially planned to crochet Pua in white and then needlefelt on his patches, but in the end decided not to. It is not as easy to crochet onto cotton yarn as it is to crochet onto acrylic yarn. So, I decided that when I remake my Pua in DK acrylic (whenever that may be!) I will needlefelt on his patches.
Both ears, front legs and back legs are crocheted the same, but there are individual patterns for them due to the difference in the colour changing sequence.
I used felt for the other smaller details, such as the lining of the ears, nostrils and eyes (the eyes were designed on my PC and sublimation printed, I will include the PNG image for the eyes).
Overall, this was a straight-forward pattern and the only difficulty I had was getting the eye patch placement right. I had to frog all the rows with the eye patch four times before I was happy with the placement. Fortunately, I did get there in the end and am so happy with the outcome. Hopefully it was worth the wait.
Pua measures approximately 4.25 inches / 11cm tall and 4.25 inches / 11cm wide.
MATERIALS
- 4ply cotton yarn in off white, light pink, grey/brown and black
- 2mm crochet hook
- Yarn needle
- Fire retardant fibrefill
- Felt glue
- Scissors
- Black and light pink felt
- T-shirt paper printed eyes (OPTIONAL – you can use your preferred method)
- Pins
- Stitch marker
ABBREVIATIONS
A full list of the abbreviations that I use in my patterns:
- MR# – magic ring with the specified number of single crochets
- SC – single crochet (double crochet English)
- HDC – half double crochet (half treble English)
- DC – double crochet (treble English)
- TC – treble crochet (double treble English)
- INC – single crochet increase
- #in1 – the specified number of SC in the same stitch (i.e. 3in1)
- #DCin1 – the specified number of DC in the same stitch (i.e. 3DCin1)
- #HDCin1 – the specified number of HDC in the same stitch (i.e. 3HDCin1)
- hdcINC – half double crochet increase
- dcINC – double crochet increase
- trINC – treble crochet increase
- DEC – invisible decrease (if it is a DEC in BLO I tend to use the 2TOG decrease method)
- 2TOG – two stitches together decrease (non-invisible method)
- *_______* X# – repeat sequence within the asterisks the specified number of times e.g. *SC, INC* x6 (may also be seen as • SC, INC• x6)
- #in1DEC – the specified number of stitches in a decrease (invisible method) (e.g. 3in1DEC)
- FLO – front loop only
- BLO – back loop only
- CH – chain stitches
- CC – colour change
- CH1T – chain a stitch then turn your work
- SS – slip stitch
- ST/STS – stitch/stitches
- OFFSET – a term I use when adding or taking away additional stitches in order to line up or get the right placement
- = # ROWS – repeat the stitch sequence for the row the specified number of times e.g. 32SC (32) = 5 ROWS
- FO – fasten off
You are now complete!
How did your Pua turn out? Are you happy with the overall look? Did you make any changes to the customisation? I would love to see how your Pua turned out.
When I return, the next Midi tier pattern release will be Hei Hei the chicken from Moana. In the meantime please check out the other patterns in my Moana series HERE. You can also get this individual post through my Patreon shop.
Until the next post, Happy crocheting!
Chantelle X
