My daughter has some troubles getting used to the daycare and there they suggested we bring a little stuffed animal with my scent on it for her. Since I've heared horror stories of kids falling in love with a specific cuddly toy and then losing it, I wanted to make the stuffed toys for them myself (so I can make extra's when I need to). For my son I made a dinosaur and for my daughter I now made a ladybug. I found a cute pattern online, but unfortunately it was only available in Swedish and Google-translate translated the pattern with words as "take 5 grandma's and place them on the needle." Since I only have 2 grandma's ;) I decided to make the ladybug myself from different crochet patterns:
I briefly write down what I did since some of the different patterns used are not mine:
The head and antenna's I derived from this pattern: Bug rattles all in black cotton.
The arms are 8 single crochets in a magic ring, followed by 8 rows of 8 single crochets.*
Then the 'body' of the ladybug is a granny square made to the appropriate size (matching the head) in red cotton. The edge is in black cotton and made by -1 single crochet*, skip a stitch, 4 double crochets*, skip a stitch - and repeat from - to - untill you reach the edge.
The dots are in black cotton and 6 or 8 single crochets* in a magic ring. And the eyes are made of white cotton and are 6 single crochets* in a magic ring.
And voila, within 3 days of hard work I made this very cute ladybug cuddly toy!
* I've translated the pattern from Dutch to US-English, so I used the US crochet terms.
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