Oct 06 2008
Elephant Complete
After deciding that the Lion Brand amigurumi elephant wasn’t what I needed to make for my sister-in-law, I just took the general idea and modified it for what I wanted. The first one I did was OK but then it was claimed by my daughter.
He was a little top heavy with the trunk and all. I tried to make the head bigger than the body but it didn’t work that well. On my second one I stuffed with beans instead of fluff to give it more weight in the back. I also made it smaller.
He’s a cutie and I think my sister-in-law will like him. His scarf is done in Alabama Crimson Tide colors since she is a huge fan.
For the body, I started with the back and basically worked single crochet rounds until I had around 30. Then I decreased the stitches for a few rounds to create the neck and then added them back. The trunk was started when I again decreased around 10 single crochet in a round.
The feet were basically six single crochet in a round for three rounds. The ears were three or four rounds of single crochet until the size was 24. The appendages were almost exactly from the Lion Brand free pattern, just modified to be smaller to fit my elephant.
Overall it didn’t take that long to crochet. It took longer to finish it than actually crocheting. Still I did two of these in one weekend, so not bad at all.
