KNITTED TOY "SQUIRREL"

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Knitted toys are gaining popularity among both children and adults. Toys made of yarn are not only beautiful, but also very soft. These toys are lightweight and pleasant to hold in your hands. If you look at the assortment of shops with toys, you can see that there are not very many squirrels, or there may not be any at all. Mostly sell dog toys, bears, bunnies. A squirrel can be crocheted without too much difficulty.
This will require the following materials:

Orange yarn.
White yarn.
Gray yarn.
Pink yarn.
Black yarn.
Hook.
White cotton wool.
Eyes.
Glue gun.
Synthetic winterizer.
Needle.

We start knitting from the head. In this case, we will knit the head and body of the squirrel together. On the hook we collect loops and round them into a ringlet. We begin to tie the ring in a circle with a hook. After 11 connected rows, we begin to narrow the rows to get the shape of the head. When the head is ready, we gradually proceed to knitting the body. To do this, we begin to expand the product, that is, we begin to add loops. We knit the rows in this way and add the loops so that as a result an elongated body for the squirrel is formed. The trunk is wider below than above. We fill the finished body with a synthetic winterizer and sew it up.

The squirrel ears are in the shape of a triangle. You need to knit the ears from the bottom and gradually reduce the loops, giving the product a triangle shape. Above we do not completely cut the thread. Glue white cotton on the ears.

For the lower legs you need to crochet 4 parts. Two of them are oblong, and the other two are round. Paws are also filled with padding polyester.
The upper legs are also knitted in an oblong shape, but twice as long as the lower ones. The length of the foot is about 8 cm. The legs are filled with padding polyester.

The tail for a squirrel is knitted similarly to the body, but it is smaller in size, that is, it is typed in half less loops. In order for the tail to stand out, we will knit it from pink yarn. We begin to knit the tail from the tip, which we make in pink, and we knit the rest with pink yarn. The tail is also filled with padding polyester, sewn.

We begin to collect the squirrel. Glue the tail, legs, ears to the body as shown in the photo.

From black yarn we make the nose and mouth of the squirrel, glue them with a glue gun. Glue the eyes.

Now for the squirrel you need to tie a mushroom. It fits in from the bottom, that is, first we make a circle and gradually reduce the loops to make the leg of the mushroom. Then we put in gray yarn and knit a hat for a mushroom. If it is inconvenient to knit a whole mushroom, then the leg and hat can be knitted separately, and then glued. We fill the mushroom with a synthetic winterizer from above, and then crochet to the end.