Animal Crossing Reese the Alpaca Amigurumi Crochet pattern by Sarah Sloyer Please do not copy, resell or redistribute tumblr: http://www.sarsler.tumblr.com etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/sarsler email: sarsler@gmail.comPlease read! Reese and all Animal Crossing characters are © Nintendo. This crochet pattern, however, is my own creation and is intended for your personal use only. ask that you please do not copy, redistribute or resell these instructions, or sell any finished products made from this pattern publicly for your own profit, online or elsewhere. If you are being paid to make a Reese for a friend, or you are paying a friend to make one for you, that's fine, but please don't sell them as made-to-order items on Etsy or in other online marketplaces. Ido my best to make my patterns as detailed as possible, so that youll find them helpful and easy to follow. However, if you are confused at any point while reading these instructions, please contact me at sarsler@gmail.com and | will help you as quickly as | can. J also enjoy feedback, so if you have any comments, concerns, or you notice any issues with the pattern, let me know! Pattern sales allow me to purchase yam and supplies so | can keep creating new patterns. I love designing amigurumi and getting to share them with you, and | hope that you'll enjoy following this pattern. Thank you so much for your generosity and support! Sarah 4Breakdown of parts 1. Ears 2. Middle hairpiece, Back poof 3. Head 4. Sideburns 5. Neck and Ruff 6. Arms. 7. Apron 8. Legs and Body 1. Ears - Page 13 2. Middle hairpiece - Pages 11 + 12, Back poof - Page 13 3. Head - Page 5 4. Sideburns - Page 11 5. Neck - Page 6, Ruff - Pages 16 + 17 6. Arms - Page 10 7. Apron - Pages 18 + 19 8. Legs and Body - Pages 7, 8,9 +10 The pages in this pattern are organized from start to finish, shown in the order you should make the pieces and then assemble them.Materials Yarn 1. Size F (3.75 mm crochet hook) Worsted Weight/4 2. Polyester stuffing One skein each (or less) was used, each 3. Sewing pins skein was 170 yards 4. Locking stitch markers 5. Yam needle S. ong “ needle Color A: Pink (Vanna’s Choice Baby in Poodle Pink) & Uchoktavttvead Color B: White (Vanna's Choice in White ) Te, y Color C: Dark Grey (Vanna's Choice in Charcoal Grey) 9.12 fet ‘ IO PaaGbie Color E: Dark Pink (Vanna's Choice Baby 11. Blush, eyeshadow, chalk in Cheery Cherry) pastel or colored pencil (for insides of ears) 12. White craft felt (optional) Embroidery floss Light brown (nose) l nfo Light pink (mouth) Finished size: 7.5” tall Black (eyelashes) Approximate time: 15 hours Light blue (apron x’es) Stitches used: SC, HDC, DC, sist, Ine, Invdec Additional Notes + Reese was crocheted with fairly tight tension * The long doll needle and upholstery thread are used to sew the arms to the body in a button-jointed style. | like this method because it allows the arms to be posed. You do not have to use this method if you don't want to. You can also stitch the arms to the body with yarn and a yarn needle, as you normally would + | like to cut white craft felt into a small circle to use as a firm backing on the inside of the head while | embroider the nose, mouth and other features. | find that it makes embroidering easier, but it's not necessary. * Work in a quiet place with limited distractions, make sure to take frequent breaks to give your hands a rest, and remember to breathe!Head Important! In some rounds of the head, | say Inc 2 instead of Inc 1. This means you make 3 SC in one stitch, as opposed to making 2 SC in one stitch (like you normally do when you Inc 1). In rounds following rounds with a series of Inc 2s, the stitches are crammed pretty close together, so take care not to miss any stitches! Start with Color B (White) Round 1: Make an adjustable ring with 6 SC and close stitches tight. (6) Round 2: Inc 1 in each st around. (12) Round 3: SC 6, Inc 1 in next 6 st. (18) Rounds 4-7: SC 18 around. (18) Round 8: SC 1, Ine 2 in next 4 st, SC in remaining st. (26) Round 9: SC 20, Inc 1 in next 2 st, SC in remaining st. (28) Round 10: SC 6, Inc 2 in next3 st, SC 6, Inc 1, SC in remaining st. (35) Round 11: Inc 1 in first st, SC in remaining st. (36) Round 12: SC 11, Inc 1 in next 2 st, SC in remaining st. (38) Rounds 13-14: SC 38 around. (38) Round 15: SC 4, Inc 1, SC 9, Inc 1, SC 8, Inc 1, SC 9, Inc 1, SC in remaining st. (42) Take a break here to insert the eyes and embroider the nose, mouth and eyelashes. Switch to Color A (Pink) Round 16: In FLO, SC 42 around, (42) Rounds 17-21: SC 42 around. (42) Round 22: (SC 5, Invdec 1) 6 times around. (36) Round 23: (SC 4, Invdec 1) 6 times around. (30) Round 24: SC 30 around. (30) Start to stuff the head generously with polyester stuffing, continuing to do so during the following rounds. Round 25: (SC 3, Invdec 1) 6 times around. (24) Round 26: (SC 2, Invdec 1) 6 times around. (18) Round 27: (SC 1, invdec 1) 6 times around. (12) Round 28: Invdec in all st. (6) Fasten off and leave a long tail, Thread the tail onto your yam needle and pull it through the front loop of each of the remaining 6 stitches, one at a time, and pull it tight to close the hole on the back of the head. Then, insert the needle into the center of the hole, and pull it back out between some stitches below the center. Don't cut the yam -- you'll be using it to sew the head onto the neck.Neck With Color A (Pink), Ch 30, Join the two ends together, taking care not to twist the chain. Rounds 1-2: SC 30 around, (30) Round 3: In FLO, SC 30 around. (30) Round 4: SC 30 into the back loops left over from the previous round, (Photo 1, below) (30) The FLO stitches you made in Round 3 create a ridge around the circumference of the neck. You will not be working into these stitches until you create the ruff of the neck later on Round 5: SC 30 around. (30) Round 6: In FLO, SC 30 around. (Photo 1 of 2, below) (30) Round 7: SC 30 into the back loops left over from the previous round, (Photo 2 of 2, below) (30) Round 8: SC 30 around, Fasten off, leave a tail for sewing and set aside. You'll create the ruff around the neck later, once you've attached the neck to the body. The top of the neck is where you began, and the bottom is where you finished.Legs (make 2) Start with Color D (Dark Grey) Round 1: Make an adjustable ring with 6 SC and close stitches tight. (6) Round 2: (SC 1, Inc 1) 3times around. (9) Round 3: In BLO, SC 9. (9) Round 4: SC 9 around. (9) Round 5: (SC 2, inc 1) 3 times around. (12) Round 6: SC 12 around. (12) ‘Switch to Color A (Pink) Round 7: (SC 2, Inc 1) 4 times around. (16) Round 8: SC 16 around. Round 10: (SC 3, Inc 1) 4 times around. (20) Round 11: SC 20 around. (20) When you finish the first leg, fasten off with a sist and cut your yarn. When you finish the second leg, fasten off with a sist but do not cut your yarn. Pull the yarn on your hook and loosen it so the loop gets bigger, and drop the loop from your hook. You'll now join the two legs together and work upwards, treating them as a single piece, to create the body. Body (continued from legs) Step 1. Hold the two legs together (Photo above). The first leg you made will be on the right, and the second leg you made (the one with the uncut yarn) will be on the left. In this position, the side closest to you will be Reese's back, and the opposite side will be her front. You may pin the legs together here if you like, to hold them in place while you join themStep 2: Take your hook, from right to left, and insert it, as shown, into the center of the right leg, and then into the left leg, Step 4: Grab the loop that you dropped on the left, Step 5: Then, pull the loop through the stitch leg, and pull it back through the stitch you came. in the right leg. Yarn over and pull through in from to secure Step 6: Repeat steps 1 and 2 in the stitches Step 7: Begin to SC around both legs, as if they below. yarning over and then pulling through were a single piece. Stop when you've crocheted both stitches. once around.Once you've joined the legs and crocheted around once, you should end up with around 36 SC. Count your stitches here to see how many you have -- to follow the pattern exactly, you should have 36. If you have less or more, go back and see if you missed any stitches. If you still can't seem to get 36, it's okay to sneak in an increase or a decrease before you continue onto the following rounds. When you're ready to continue, place your stitch marker in the center of the back, as shown, , as the increases and decreases after this round shape Reese's back and stomach. Once you've placed your marker, continue. Round 1: SC 36 around. (36) Round 2: (SC 4, Invdec 1) 6 times around. (30) Round 3: SC 11, (Inc 1, SC 1, Ine 1, SC 1, Inc 1, SC 1, Inc 1, SC 1, Inc 1) w) SC 7, (Invdec 1, SC 1, Invdec 1, SC 1, Invdec 1) > 2, below) (32) Reese's front is shown. The red dots Reese's back is shown, The red dots represent the increases made in Round 3, represent the decreases made in Round 3, spaced 1 SC apart. spaced 1 SC apart (2 pins = 1 invdec)Body (continued) Rounds 4-8: SC 32 around. (32) Round 9: SC 15, Invdec 2, SC in remaining st. (30) Round 10: SC 30 around. (30) Fasten off, weave in ends and fill with polyester stuffing —_ Arms (make 2) e Start with Color D (Dark Grey) Round 1: Make an adjustable ring with 6 SC and close stitches tight. (6) Round 2: In BLO, SC 6 around. (6) Round 3: SC 6 around. (6) Round 4: (SC 1, Inc 1) 3 times around. (9) Switch to Color A (Pink) Round 5: In FLO, (SC 2, Inc 1) 3 times around. (12) Round 6: (SC 2, Inc 1) 4 times around. (16) Round 7: SC 16 around. (16) Round 8: (SC 2, Invdec 1) 4 times around. (12) Rounds 9-13: SC 12 around. (12) Ifyou're not planning on sewing your arms on in the button-jointed style, with a long doll needle and upholstery thread (as mentioned in the Additional Notes section on page 3), then stop after round 13, fasten off, leave a long tail for sewing and stuff the arm. Put more stuffing at the bottom and less (hardly any) at the top, and then use your yam tail to stitch the sides of the top shut If you want to sew on the arms in the jointed style, continue. Round 14: SC 4, Invdec 1, SC in remaining st. (11) Round 15: SC 9, Invdec 1. (10) Round 16: Invdec in all. (5) Fasten off and leave a long tail, Thread the yarn through a yarn needle and close the remaining stitches by inserting the needle into the front loop of each remaining stitch and pulling it tight. Cut your yarn and tuck in the ends.Sideburns (make 2) With Color A (Pink) Round 4: Make an adjustable ring with 6 SC and close stitches tight. (6) Round 2: Inc 1 in each stitch around. (12) Rounds 35: SC 12 around. (12) Round 6: SC 2, Invdec 1, SC 4, Inc 1, SC in remaining st. (12) Round 7: SC 2, Invdec 1, SC 4, Inc 1, SC in remaining st. (12) Round 8: SC 2, Invdec 1, SC 4, Invdec 1, SC in remaining st. (10) Round 9: SC 1, Invdec 1, SC 2, Invdec 1, SC in remaining st. (8) Round 10: Invdec 1, SC in remaining st. (7) Fasten off, leave a tail for sewing, and stitch shut. Set aside. Hair (center piece) Round 1: Make an adjustable ring with 6 SC and close stitches tight. (6) Round 2: Inc 1 in each stitch around. (12) Round 3: (SC 2, Inc 1) 4 times around. (16) C 16 around. (16) Round 8: (SC 2, Invdec 1) 4 times around. (12) Fasten off and set aside. Hair (side piece - make 2) Round 1: Make an adjustable ring with 6 SC and close stitches tight. (6) Rounds. Round 2: Inc 1 in each stitch around. (12) Rounds 3-6: SC 12 around. When you finish your first side piece, fasten off and cut your yarn. When you finish your second, fasten off but do not cut your yarn. You'll be joining all 3 pieces (2 side hair pieces, 1 center piece) together to make the hair. (Continued on next page)Note: You'll be joining the 3 hair pieces together and joining them the same way you joined the two legs together. This time, however, the number of stitches you end up with after joining the pieces is not that important, nor is marking your rounds, Step 1: Line up the 3 hair pioces as shown, with Step 2: Join the center piece and the left piace using the the center piece in the middle and the two other ‘same method you used to join the two legs together on Page pieces (the side pieces, not the sideburns) on each end Begin to work around the pieces normally, asif they were one Place the side ph with the dropped loop on the let large piece. E ‘Step 3: Once you've single crocheted around and you ‘Step 4: Continue te single crochet around the piece. lerocheted teach the third, unjoined piece, insert your hook into ‘upwards for about 5 more rounds, making 1 nvcec on each itand continue to single crochet around normally. outside end (marked above) during each round, Fasten off and leave a tal nS | A , -7 ie = Step 5: After stuffing the piece, stitch the top shut and set it vw & y aside,Hair (Back poof) With Color A (Pink), Round 1: Make an adjustable ring with 6 SC and close stitches tight. (6) Round 2: Inc 1 in each st around. (12) Round 3: (SC 1, Inc 1) 6 times around, (18) Round 4: (SC 2, Inc 1) 6 times around. (24) Round 5: (SC 3, Inc 1) 6 times around. (30) Round 6: (SC 4, Inc 1) 6 times around. (36) Round 7: SC 10, (Inc 1, SC 1, Inc 1, SC 1, Inc 1), SC 6, (Inc 1, SC 1, Inc 1, SC 1, Inc 1), SC 10. (42) Rounds 8-10: SC 42 around. (42) Round 11: SC 10, (Invdec 1, SC 1, Invdec 1, SC 1, Invdec 1), SC 6, (Invdec 1, SC 1, Invdec 1, SC 1, Invdec 1), SC 10. (36) Fasten off and leave a tail for sewing. Ears (make 2) With Color B (White). Round 1: Make an adjustable ring with 6 SC and close stitches tight (6) Round 2: SC 6 around. (6) Round 3: (SC 1, Inc 1) 3 times around. (9) Round 4: SC 9 around. (9) Round 5: (SC 2, Inc 1) 3 times around. (12) Round 6: SC 12 around. (12) Round 7: (SC 1, Inc 1) 6 times around. (18) Rounds 8-9: SC 18 around. Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing. You've now made everything you need to assemble your Reese! The following pages will show you how to sew her together, crochet the ruff around her neck, and make her apron.Assembly - Neck and body Line up the neck and body, as shown. Remember, the top of the neck is where you began the neck, and the bottom of the neck is where you ended it. You can use your stitch markers to line up your stitches and hold everything in place. Using the yarn tail you left after finishing the neck, whip stitch the neck to the body.Assembly - Arms Note: These instructions are for giving Reese jointed arms, with a doll needle and upholstery thread, Ifyou do not want to use this method, you can just stitch the arms to the body with yarn. If you are using the jointed method, you can actually wait until after you've made the neck ruff and attached the head to attach the arms (just push the ruff up to move it out of the way), or you can do it now. If you are not using this method, though, it helps to put the arms on before the ruff and the head, otherwise the ruff and the head will get in the way and make stitching the arms on with your yarn needle more difficult. Step 4: Position the arms as shown. Step 2: With your doll needle and thread, secure a knot on the top inside of one of the arms Step 3: Insert the doll needle through the Step 4: Repeat Step 3, back and forth body and through the top center of the other through the arms and the body, as many times arm on the other side. Pull the yarn snug and —_as you like until you feel like the arms are secure. go back through the arm and the body, coming When you're done, secure another knot on the back on out the other side, through the other arm. _ inside of one of the arms (where it won't be seen) and cut your thread.Neck ruff Step 1: Hold Reese's body, as shown, with her back facing you, and insert your hook into a stitch ‘on the bottom FLO ridge that you made while crocheting the neck. Grab a new piece of Color A (Light Blue), yarn over, and pull through the stitch Step 2: SC around the bottom ridge of FLO stitches, until you've made 2 rounds of SC. You should end up with something that looks ike the photo below. (Continued on next page)Step 3: (DC 3 in next st, DC 3 in next st, slst in next st) repeat around once. Switch to Color C (White) Step 4: Slst around in each st, including the sist spaces between each ruff. Fasten off and repeat Steps 1-4 on the upper ridge of FLO stitches. When you begin Step 3, you may want begin making your DCs a few stitches after you began them on the ridge below, so that the ruffs are offset from one another. You'll have a lot of yarn tails left after you're done -- | like to weave them into the body and tie them into a big knot, then tuck it down into the stuffing.Assembly - Head Note: The head is attached to the neck using the seamless join method, which is shown below. This method is ideal because the stitches appear invisible, even when the blue yarn from the head is used to stitch into the beige yam of the face. If my instructions aren't clear enough, a quick Google search of ‘amigurumi seamless join’ will give you some excellent video tutorials by June Gilbank. (These photos are of my Cyrus doll, but the steps are the same for Reese!) Step 1:Pin neck to head as shown. You'l Step 2: Begin to stitch the head onto the stitches of the neck De diste te veri tet over tomatic directly below it. To make a seamless join stitch, insert your needle from right to left into A (the stitch you just came out of), out of the head. Add stuffing to the neck as you go. 2 ¢ i s B (the next stitch over), and then into C (the neck stitch directly below B). Needle is inserted into Stitch A, comes out of Stitch B. ‘And is inserted into Stitch C. Pull your stitches tight, and repeat this stitch around until the head is attached to the neckAssembly - Hair Stitch the pieces of the hair (center piece, sideburns) onto the head as shown. | used my large doll needle to stitch the center piece onto the head, and found it easier than using a yarn needle. Pin the back hair poof onto the back of the head, like a cap, with your yarn tail at the top center to start, and stitch it to the head using the seamless join method, stuffing it as you go. Assembly - Ears Pin the ears to the head and stitch them on using the seamless join method, as shown on the previous page. Use blush, eyeshadow, chalk pastel or a colored pencil to color the insides of the ears yellow. | used a Prismacolor colored pencil in yellowed orange. (I cannot vouch for any other brand of colored pencil and how well it shows up on yarn, or doesn't!) ron A piece With Color E (Dark Pink), Ch 14 and make a turning chain of 1 Row 1: Turn, SC 14 across. (14) Row 2: Turn, SC 14 across. (14) Row 3: Turn, SC 2, Dec 1, SC 6, Dec 1, SC 2. (12) Rows 4-8: SC 12 across. (12) Fasten off and weave in ends, Use your light blue embroidery threaa™ Neck strap Ch 32 and make a turing chain of 1 Row 1: Turn, HDC 32 across. Fasten off and sew each end of the strap to either side of the front of the main piece, at the top, on either side of the red x'es, Add buttons. Side ties (make 2) Ch 25. Fasten off and sew to either side of the front of the apron, 2 rows up from the bottom (Continued on next page)Put the apron on by slipping the neck strap up and over Reese's feet and arms, placing it around her neck, undemeath her ruffs, Bring the side ties around back and tie them into a bow. You're all done! Enjoy your Reese! Thank you for purchasing and using my pattern -- please let me know if you enjoyed it, or if you think there's something | can improve!