Free Sheep crochet pattern

 

Materials

- Cotton Yarn in white, cream, pink, and dark grey

- Super Bulky Yarn in White

-  Sewing Threads in black

- Crochet hook sizes 2.5 mm and 4.5 mm

- Tapestry Needle

- Polyfiber Filling

- Stitch Markers (used at the beginning of each Round) Sewing Pins (optional)

Abbreviations

Rnd - Round

MR - Magic Ring

st(s) - stitch (es)

ch - chain

sc - single crochet

slst - slip stitch

inc - increase

dec - decrease

dc - double crochet

(...) -------the total number of stitches in the current round/row

FLO - front loops only

BLO- back loops only

Head

Start with white color fingering yarn and 2.5 mm

crochet hook

Rnd 1: 6 sc in a MR (6)

Rnd 2: BLO inc around (12)

Rnd 3: BLO [sc, inc] x 6 (18)

Rnd 4: BLO [2 sc, inc] x6 (24)

Rnd 5: BLO [3 sc, inc] x6 (30)

Rnd 6: BLO [4 sc, inc] x6 (36)

Rnd 7: BLO [5 sc, inc] x 6 (42)

Rnd 8: BLO [6 sc, inc] x6 (48)

Rnd 9: BLO sc around (48)

Change to cream color yarn. Leave the previous yarn on the right side of your work. We will use it later.

Rnd 10 BLO sc around (48)

Rnd 11-14: sc around (4 rnds) (48)

Rnd 15: [7 sc, inc] x 6 (54)

Rnd 16-18: sc around (3 rnds) (54)

Rnd 19: [7 sc, dec] x 6 (48)

Rnd 20: [6 sc, dec] x 6 (42)

Rnd 21: [5 sc, dec] x 6 (36)

Rnd 22: [4 sc, dec] x 6 (30)

Rnd 23: [3 sc, dec] x 6 (24)

Stuff firmly. Continue stuffing as you go.

Rnd 24: [2 sc, dec] x 6 (18)

Rnd 25: [sc, dec] x 6 (12)

Rnd 26: dec around (6)

Finish stuffing firmly. Cut the yarn leaving a long tail. With your tapestry needle, weave in the yarn through all of the FLO from the last round and pull tightly to close up your work. Hide yarn inside your work.

Ears

Weave in the yarn through the first st of Rnd 7. Sew the ears on both sides of the head in Rnd 10 underneath a curl. The distance between each ear is 8 curls.

Eyes/nose

Use black embroidery thread

Make to "U" over 4 sts for each eye. The eyes are located in Rnds 12-13 of the head with 4 sc apart.

For the nose, embroider a "T" in the middle of the face in Rnds 14-15.

Blushes (make 2)

Use pink color yarn and 2.5 mm crochet hook

Rnd 1: 5 sc in MR (5)

Rnd 2: inc around (10)

Make a slst in the next st. Cut the yarn leaving a long tail for sewing. Sew the blushes in Rnd 14-17 of the head with 1 sc apart from the eye.

Mane

Hold the head with the front loops facing away from you. Pick up the white yarn from Rnd 9. To make the mane, we are going to crochet little curls around the front loops of the head.

Rnd 1: [ch 2,2 DC, slst] x 16 (16 curls)

Rnd 2: slst [ch 2, 2DC, slst] x 15 (15 curls)

Rnd 3: [ch 2,2 DC, slst] x 14 (14 curls)

Rnd 4: slst [ch 2, 2DC, slst] x 12 (12 curls)

Rnd 5: [ch 2,2 DC, slst] x 9 (9 curls)

Rnd 6: slst [ch 2, 2DC, slst] x 8 (8 curls)

Rnd 7: [ch 2, 2 DC, slst] x6 (6 curls)

Rnd 8: slst [ch 2, 2DC, slst] x6 (6 curls)

Make a slst in the next st and cut the yarn leaving a long tail. Hide yarn inside your work.

Ears (make 2)

Use cream color yarn and 2.5 mm crochet hook

Rnd 1: 6 sc in MR (6)

Rnd 2: [sc, inc] x 3 (9)

Rnd 3: [2 sc, inc] x 3 (12)

Rnd 4-5: sc around (2 rnds) (12)

Rnd 6: [2 sc, dec] x 3 (9)

Flatten the ear and work through both sides of

the ear.

Rnd 7: 4 sc (4)

Do not stuff. Cut the yarn leaving a long tail for sewing.