Free Crochet Giraffe Rattle Pattern To Keep Baby Engaged
To keep your baby engaged and happy, learn how to crochet a giraffe rattle with this step-by-step pattern for beginners. Due to the small wooden ring, it is easily holdable and looks much adorable. You can crochet one in a few hours, but it will be a keepsake for years. So, let’s get started!
Designer: Crafty Lacey On Instagram
Supplies Needed For Giraffe Rattle
To follow the crochet giraffe pattern, you must have these crochet supplies as given below:
- Yarn: Use cotton for its great stitch definition, softness, and durability. In this pattern, the designer used brown and yellow colors easily available for cotton.
- Stuffing: Polyester fiber fill is an excellent option.
What can I use instead of stuffing?
While stuffing gives the amigurumi part of the giraffe rattle a tight and even shape, you can also use many other items. i.e., yarn scraps, cotton balls, stuffing from old and ruined amigurumi, threads, plastic bags, and more.
- 2mm hook
- 6mm Safety Eyes: If you are crocheting the rattle for a much smaller baby, skip them.
- 70mm Wooden ring: You can choose as small or large as the kid can hold.
- Yarn Needle
Tip! Use stitch markers: Amigurumi is a little mind-ruining task if you are a beginner. Even few wrong stitches can badly impact whole task. So, to keep count of stitches, alwsy use these little but useful tools.
Abbreviations Used In Pattern
If you are a very beginner, you may not understand the abbreviations and processes. So, Here are the guides for each:
Chain (ch): It is a very basic and useful technique while working in the rounds. To do this, Yarn over and pull through the loop on the hook.
Single crochet (sc): It is a tight stitch that is necessary to save the stuffing inside. Insert the hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over, and pull through both loops on the crochet hook.
Half-double crochet (hdc): To do half-double crochet, yarn over and insert the hook into the stitch (where you want to make hdc), yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over, and pull through all three loops on the hook.
Increase (inc): In this step, you will work a specific no. of crochet stitches in the same stitch. For example, single crochet 1 inc means working two stitches in one stitch.
Decrease (dec): It means working a particular stitch incompletely in many stitches and then pulling through the loops at once.
Stitch/es (st)s
How to Crochet Giraffe Rattle?
In this section
Skill Level: Beginner
Pattern Note: All the instructions are written with US terms.
Instructions
Head
1- 6sc in ring 2-inc (12)
3- 1sc, inc (18)
4- 2sc, inc (24) 5- 3sc, inc (30) 6- 4sc, inc (36) 7-5sc, inc (43) 8-14- sc in all
Attache safety
eyes between rows 11-12 with 7st apart. 15-5sc, dec (36) 16- 4sc, dec (30) 17- 3sc, dec (24) 18-2sc, dec (18) 19-1sc, dec (12)
Horns x2
Start with brown 1- 6sc in ring 2- inc (12) 3- sc in all 4- dec (6) Change to yellow
5-7- sc in all
Ears x2
1- 4sc in ring 2-1sc, inc
3- 1sc, inc
20- dec (6)
4- 2sc, inc
5- 3sc, inc
6-7- sc in all
Nose
Ch 7, start in the second ch From hook.
1- inc, 4sc, 3 sc in same st, Continue working Around, 5sc
2- (inc)*2, 4sc, (inc)*3, 4sc, in 3- sc in all
Around ring
Ch 25 starts in.
Second ch from hook, 1- sc in all, ch 1 turn (continue to repeat Row 1 till you have enough rows to go around the ring)
Collar
Ch 20 and start in the Second ch from hook,
1- 2dc in every st till end, Ch 1 turn
2- 2sc in every st till end, Ch 1 turn
3-4-sc in every stitch
