I'm a slow starter, at the late November the Mall already begin decorating their shop in Red and Green, while me just getting the holiday spirit 10 days before Christmas.
Instead of making traditional Red and Green Christmas ornament, I made a little twist. it's a coincidence actually, I got free yarns from Mbak Oty (@Rajutanmama), the colors are pink and black. I love Pink, I hate Black, but I love the combination. So I made a black Reindeer with a shinny shocking pink nose :)
I think it's okay to add some dark color to the season of joy, isn't the light looks brightest in the dark?
since it's Holiday, I'm sharing the pattern too:
Head
With black yarns working in rounds (slst to the first st of every rnd and add 1ch before every rnd)
Rnd1: started with 6 sc in a magic loop
Rnd2: scinc 6 times (12sts)
Rnd3: [sc, scinc] 6 times (18sts)
Rnd4: sc around (18sts)
Rnd5: [2sc, scinc] 6 times (24sts)
Rnd6-10: sc around 6 times (24sts)
Rnd 11: [2sc, scdec] 6 times (18sts)
if you are using safety eyes for the eyes, it's time to attach them.
add some fillings.
Rnd 12: [sc, scdec] 6 times (12sts)
Rnd 13: [scdec] 6 times (6sts)
finish off
Ears (make 2)
3 ch
work from the second ch to the hook, sc, 2 hdc,
turn over (work on the lower side of the chains), hdc, sc. finish off.
leave a long tail of yarn to sew the ears to the head.
Antlers (make 2)
13 ch
work from the second ch to the hook, 4 slst,
add 3ch, then slst until you meet the base ch.
3slst,
add 4ch, then slst until you meet the base ch.
3slst, finish off
leave a long tail of yarn to sew the antlers to the head (in front of the ears)
Nose
With pink yarns working in rounds (slst to the first st of every rnd and add 1ch before every rnd)
Rnd1: started with 6 sc in a magic loop
Rnd2: [2sc, scinc] 2 times (8sts)
Rnd3: [2sc, scdec] 2 times (6sts)
add some fillings
Rnd4: [sc, scdec] 2 times (4sts)
finish off, leave a long tail of yarns to sew the nose to the head
Body
With black yarns working in rounds (slst to the first st of every rnd and add 1ch before every rnd)
Rnd1: started with 6 sc in a magic loop
Rnd2: scinc 6 times (12sts)
Rnd3: [sc, scinc] 6 times (18sts)
Rnd4: [2sc, scinc] 6 times (24sts)
Rnd5: sc around (24sts)
Rnd6: [2sc,scdec] 6 times (18sts)
Rnd7: sc around (18sts)
Rnd8: [sc,scdec] 6 times (12sts)
Rnd9: sc around (12sts)
add some fillings
Rnd10: [sc,scdec] 4 times (8sts)
Rnd11: sc around (8sts)
finish off, leave a long tail of yarn to sew the body to the head. (yes, you may sew them now).
Tail
With black yarns working in rounds (slst to the first st of every rnd and add 1ch before every rnd)
Rnd1: started with 6 sc in a magic loop
Rnd2: [2sc, scinc] 2 times (8sts)
Rnd3: scaround (8sts)
add some fillings
Rnd4: [scdec] 4 times (4sts)
finish off, leave a long tail of yarn to sew the tail to the body
Hands (make 2)
With pink yarns working in rounds (slst to the first st of every rnd and add 1ch before every rnd)
Rnd1: started with 8 sc in a magic loop
Rnd2: [sc, scdec] 2 times (6sts)
change into black yarns,
Rnd3: [sc, scdec] 2 times (4sts)
Rnd4-8: sc around (4sts)
finish off, leave a long tail of yarn to sew the hands to the body
Hands (make 2)
With black yarns working in rounds (slst to the first st of every rnd and add 1ch before every rnd)
Rnd1: started with 8 sc in a magic loop
Rnd2: [sc, scdec] 2 times (6sts)
Rnd3: [sc, scdec] 2 times (4sts)
Rnd4-8: sc around (4sts)
finish off, leave a long tail of yarn to sew the hands to the body
Neck warmer (optional)
with pink yarns and a set of DPN
make an icord, measure it so the length could cover the neck,
once it's done, finish off, place it on the reindeer's neck sew the ends together.
add some beadings for accents.
you could also make shawl or crocheted shawl instead of neckwarmer.
done! you have a reindeer :)
(maybe I'll make santa claus too...MAYBE)
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