Pink Mouse

Here's the second of the baby toys I crocheted for my daughter's lovely friends and their soon-to-be firstborns.

This is much more of a traditional Amigurumi pattern in that the head is larger than the body and it has a sort of cartoonish feel. The pattern is a free one from Little Muggles.

Take great care when you are following the pattern, as some of the instructions start out by seeming to be the normal ' increase evenly throughout the round' sort of thing, but when it comes to things with an asymmetric shape, like the feet, the increases are on one side of the circle only.

The tail, I have to confess, is not as written in the pattern. The instructions blithely said to make a magic circle, crochet 4 DC into it and then continue crocheting 4 DC on each round for 21 rounds. Well I'm sorry, but I tried several times and after about half a dozen rounds my hook seemed to just pick up the opposite stitch as well and I ended up with 2 stitches in a flat shape rather than 4 in a tube. Therefore the tail does not stick up all stiff and curvy like it does in the pattern. Maybe you need tiny little fingers to cope with a tube only 4 stitches round, or maybe I should have put the work under a bright light and a magnifying glass! Never mind, I expect it will get chewed enthusiastically all the same.