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Amor the Cupid

This is the original pattern of Amor the Cupid by Elif T. You purchased it for only personal purposes. Also may sell the ready toy you created with the help of these instructions, but you are NOT allowed to sell the pattern, or/and copy, share, distribute the instructions via internet or paper even. Thank you for your understanding.

Sc – single crochet Dc – double crochet Hdc – crochet

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St(s) – stitch(es) Dec – 1 decrase = sc 2 together *x – repeat x times Inc – 1 increase = 2 sc in the same st Slst – slipstitch (x) – stitch count of the row Ch – chain Blo – back loop only Flo – front loop only

Finished size: Amor the Cupid is - with using similar yarn - and 2,5 mm crochet hook around 20 cm. He might be a bigger cuddly friend with using a slightly thicker yarn and 3 or 3,5mm crochet hook.

Fpdc – front double crochet

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Sc3tog – simple crochet 3 together

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Supplies: 1. Yarn 1.: the example is crocheted from Schachenmayr Catania Originals mercerized cotton yarn (except hair), 50g = 125m. You won't need a full skein of any color. I have used the following shades: – white: 00106 – skin: 00263 – gold: 0249 – strawberry: 00258 (for heart) 2. Yarn 2.: You might use any kind of textured (effect) yarn for the hair. The samples were crocheted with: – Light brown hair: Catia VIP – Dark brown hair: Yarnart Mink 333 – You might use eyelash yarn also. 3. Polyester fiberfill 4. Crochet hook: 2,5 mm, or in accordance with the yarn you use. 3,5 mm for the hair. 5. Stitch marker, or a little piece of a different color yarn. 5. Darning or embroidery needle. 6. One pair of 6 mm black safety eyes. 7. A little bit of brown eyeshadow and pink brush for shading the face. 8. 40 cm of black embroidery threed. 9. 30 cm of pink (strawberry) yarn piece. 10. 17 cm of plastic covered 2,5 mm wire. 11. You will also need some equipments to cut and shape your wire for the bow: pliers and nippers. 12. 10 cm of thin wooden stick. 13. 40 cm of sewing tread same color with the hair.

Abbreviations: --- Work in continuous rounds. Do not join or turn if not instructed in the pattern. --- It is suggested to use a stitch marker. Place it at the last stitch of the row and move it up when working always to the last stitches of the rows. Pattern may ask you to move your stitchmarker, this might happen for getting the color change to the proper place or for getting the proper shape. --- When finishing any of the body parts except the head leave a long yarntail (around 20 cm) which you can use by sewing. --- Fill the stuffing into the body parts while crocheting them. Be sure that you filled the legs and arms with same amount of fiberfill, so the left ones shape won’t be different than the right ones. --- Start color change always by the last step of the last sc you make before pattern calls for color changing. --- By the thinner parts, like legs arms and bow leave the starting yarntail the outside of the piece, so you will be able to fix it, and hide it into the piece with a help of an embroidery needle after finishing it.

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PATTERN HEAD: Crochet from up to down from skin color. 1. magic ring and 6 sc into it. 2. inc*6 (12) 3. (sc, inc)*6 (18) 4. (2sc, inc)*6 (24) 5. (3sc, inc)*6 (30) 6. (4sc, inc)*6 (36) 7. (5sc, inc)*6 (42) 8. (13sc, inc)*3 (45) 9. (14sc, inc)*3 (48) 10-16. sc in each st around (48) Place safety eyes between 13th-14th rounds leaving 11 sts space between them (9 visible sts). 17. (6sc, dec)*6 (42) 18. (5sc, dec)*6 (36) 19. (4sc, dec)*6 (30) 20. (3sc, dec)*6 (24) 21. (sc, dec)*8 (16) 22. (2sc, dec)*4 (12) Cut yarn and fill the head firmly.

HAIR: With 3,5 mm crochet hook and from desired effect yarn. If you use different kind of effect yarn or different size crochet hook than I did you might need to adjust this part of the patter to create a proper fitting hair piece for your doll. Crocheting with effect yarn can seem complicated, but don’t worry not any of your failures will be visible. 1. magic ring and 6sc into it 2. inc 6 times (12) 3. (sc, inc)*6 (18) 4. (2sc, inc)*6 (24) 5. (3sc, inc)*6 (30) 6. (4sc, inc)*6 (36) 7. (5sc, inc)*6 (42) 8. (6sc, inc)*6 (48) 9-10. sc in each st around (48) You might add more or crochet less rounds up to your yarn and hook. Cut yarn. With the help of a needle and a long piece of sewing thread sew the hair onto the head. But firstly create the shape of the bangs with inserting the needle around 5th row and looping around the hairs corner few times (inserting at the same place againg) and pulling tight.

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EARS: Make 2 from skin color. 1. magic ring and 6 sc into it (6) 2. inc, sc (leave the rest of the row empty) (3) Use invisible finishing method for closing the round or slst to the next st. Cut yarn leaving long yarntail for sewing. – Find video help for invisible finishing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKGfb8k7Hu0 Sew the ears up on each side of the head over 14-15th rounds. Embroider the details of the face as you can see at the pictures. You might use some pink brush on the cheeks and some light brown eyeshadow over the nose.

ARMS: Make 2 of them from skin color. Fill the arms while crocheting! 1. magic ring and 6 sc into it. 2. (sc, inc)*3 (9) 3. (2sc, inc)*3 (12) 4-5. sc in ech st around (12) 6. make a 4 dc cluster st (for creating the finger), 11 sc (12) – Find video help for 4 dc cluster st here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAzFIlkmGj8 7. (dec, sc)*4 (8) 8-11. sc in each st around (8) 12. 5sc, (3 dc in the next st), 2sc (10); 13. (sc3tog, 2sc)*2 (6) 14. (inc, 2sc)*2 (8) 15-17. sc in each st around (8) 18. dec 4 times (4) Cut yarn leaving long yarntail for sewing.

BODY: Crochet from down to up, starting with white color. 1. magic ring and 6 sc into it. 2. inc*6 (12) 3. (sc, inc)*6 (18) 4. (2sc, inc)*6 (24) 5. (3sc, inc)*6 (30) 6-8. sc in each st around (30) 9. sc blo in each st around (30) 10. repeat round 9. (30) At the end of this round change color to skin color. 11. sc in each st around (30) 12. (6sc, dec, 7sc)*2 (28) 13. (6sc, dec, 6sc)*2 (26) 14. (6sc, dec, 5sc)*2 (24) 15-16. (sc in each st around (24)

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17. (sc, dec)*8 (16) 18. (2sc, dec)*4 (12) 19-20. sc in each st around (12) Cut yarn leaving long yarntail for sewing. Fill the body firmly.

SKIRT: Join white yarn at the last st of 9th round holding the body upside down. We will create a pleated skirt look with crocheting blo and flo dc to the same sts in different orders. 1. Ch1, starting in the same st: (sc, inc)*14, 2sc, slst to the 1st st of round (44) 2. Ch2, starting in the same st: {(flo dc, than blo dc to the same st), blo dc to the next st. (blo dc, than flo dc to the same st), flo dc to the next st}*11, slst to the first st of round (66) After working blo dc it is easier to crochet flo dc in the same st by inserting your hook from back to front direction (normally we do it opposite). 3. Ch2, fpdc around first st, (3dc, 3fpdc)*10, 3dc, 2fpdc, slst to the first st (66) – Find video help for front post double crochet here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPHsb9N9zng&pbjreload=10 Cut yarn.

DRESS UPPER PART: Join yarn at the first st of 10th row of body holding it straight. 1. Ch2, starting in the same st: (4dc, inc)*6, slst to the first st of round (36) 2. Ch2, starting in the same st: dc in each st around, slst to the first st of round (36) 3. Ch1, starting in the same st: (7sc, dec)*4, slst to the first st of round (32) 4. Ch1, 8sc TURN! (8) 5. Ch1, 6sc, dec TURN! (7) 6. Ch1, skip first st, dec, 4sc TURN! (5) 7. Ch1, 3sc, dec TURN! (4) 8. Ch1, skip first st, dec, sc TURN! (2) 9. Ch1, 2sc TURN! (2) 10. Ch1, inc, sc TURN! (3) 11. Ch1, 2sc, inc TURN! (4) 12. Ch1, inc, 3sc TURN! (5) 13. Ch1, 4sc, inc TURN! (6) 14. Ch1, inc, 5sc TURN! (7) 15. Ch1, 6sc, inc TURN! (8) Cut yarn leaving long yarntail for sewing.  Sew the arms up on each side of the body over rounds 17-18.  Sew the front edge to the 3th row of the dress leaving 2sts open at underarm.  Take a 20 cm long golden or yellow yarn piece and tie it around the hip of Amor.  Sew the head over the body. Take care that the decreases of the body get to the sides.

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LEGS: Make 2 of them starting with skin color. Fill the legs while crocheting! Firts leg: 1. magic ring and 6 sc into it, ch5 2. starting from the 2nd ch: 4sc into the ch sts, 6sc around the sts in the magic ring, 4sc in the other side of the ch (14) 3. (inc, 6sc)*2 (16) 4-5. sc in each st around (16) 6. (dec, 6sc)*2 (14) 7. sc in each st around (14) 8. (dec, 5sc)*2 (12) 9. 7sc, ch1 TURN! (4) – Now we will create the Toe, so this part you will need to turn back at the end of the rows. 10. dec, 2sc, dec, ch1 TURN! (4) 11. dec 2 times (2) Cut the yarn. Join the yarn again at the first empty st of round 8 next the toe shown at picture. 12. 5hdc around the toe (go on crocheting around the leg), 6sc at the front side of the leg (11) Don't turn anymore, crochet in continous rounds again from now on. 13. 5hdc, 2sc, dec, 2sc (10) 3sc more! To get to the back middle point of the leg. Mark this st as the new last st of the round! Now change color to gold or yellow. 14-16. sc in each st around (10) 17. sc in each st around (10) inc to the next st! (with this step we got one extra st, so our round st count will be 11) Mark this st as the new last st of the round! Now change color to skin color.

18-19. sc in each st around (11) 20. sc in each st around (11) sc one more! Mark this st as the new last st of the round! 21. 8sc, sc3tog (9) 22. 4sc, (3dc in the next st), 3sc, (3sc into the next st) (13) 23. 4sc, sc3tog, 6sc (11) 24-28. sc in each st around (11) Fill the leg the last time. 29. 10sc, go on crocheting the sts like: (sc3tog, 2sc)*2, slst to the next st. Cut yarn leaving long yarntail for sewing. Second leg: Repeat 1-8th rounds of First leg. At the end of 8th round sc one more st, ch1 and TURN! Skip the 9th round of First leg. Repeat 10-29th rounds of First leg. Sew legs up on each side of the body between rounds 4-5.

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WINGS: 1. Ch21, starting from the 2nd ch: (3sc, inc)*5, than go on crocheting on the other side of the chain like: (3sc, inc)*5 (50) Go on crocheting in continuous rounds. 2. (4sc, inc)*10 (60) 3. (5sc, inc)*10 (70) 4. (6sc, inc)*10 (80) Don’t cut the yarn, go on crocheting Feather1.

FEATHER 1.: 1. 5sc, skip next 70 sts and 5sc to the last 5 sts of round to create a 10 sts circle. Work on these stitches only. 2-8. sc in each st around (10) 9. (dec, 3sc)*2 (8) 10. (dec, 2sc)*2 (6) Cut yarn and pull together leftover sts.

FEATHER 2.: Join yarn at the first skipped st next to Feather1. (This is the 6 th st of wings 4th round.) 1. Ch1, starting in the same st: 5sc, skip next 60 sts, 5 sc to the last 5 free sts. (10) Work on these sts only. 2-6. sc in each st around (10) 7. (dec, 3sc)*2 (8) 8. (dec, 2sc)*2 (6) Cut yarn and pull together leftover sts

FEATHER 3.: Join yarn at the first skipped st next to Feather2. (This is the 11 th st of wings 4th round.) 1. Ch1, starting in the same st: 5sc, skip next 50 sts, 5 sc to the last 5 free sts. (10) Work on these sts only. 2-4. sc in each st around (10) 5. (dec, 3sc)*2 (8) 6. (dec, 2sc)*2 (6) Cut yarn and pull together leftover sts

Opposite side FEATHERS: For the other side of wings join yarn directly at the side corner st of wing. That should be the 41st st of 4th round. Starting from this st repeat FEATHER 1. 2. and 3. using 5-5 opposite sts to create the 10 sts circles. Sew the middle corners where piece is open together with a long yarn piece, which you might use when sewing the wing onto the back of body either. Sew wings onto the back of your doll. Try to fix it not only to the dress but to the body either.

BOW: Cut 17cm of plastic covered wire (2,5 mm thick). From gold or yellow yarn crochet: 1. magic ring and 6 sc into it 26sc

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repeat round 2 until your piece is 17 cm. Fill in the wire, than pull together the leftover sts. Shape the bow the way you can see at the pictures.

Take a piece of jute rope or any kind of yarn and tie it around the bow each side keeping it a bit loose.

HEART: Make 2. 1. Ch2 and 2 sc in the second chain from hook, Ch1 TURN! (2) 2. inc 2 times, Ch1 TURN! (4) 3. inc, 2sc, inc, Ch1 TURN! (6) 4. inc, 4sc, inc, Ch1 TURN! (8) 5. 5dc to the second st from the hook, skip one st, slst to the next st, skip 1 st, 5dc to the next st, slst to the last st of the row. Cut yarn. Leave long yarntail for sewing by the second piece.

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Facing backside to eachother sew together the corners of the hearts with hiding the end of a 10cm wooden stick between them. You also might use some silicon or fabric glue to keep the stick in it’s place.

With the help of a knife make a tiny cut into the free end of the stick so you can place the jute rope into there. You might want to fix the bow onto your doll. Check out the pictures to see how you can sew it on.

Now you are ready. If you have any question about the pattern don't hesitate to contact me: [email protected] and don't forget to share your pictures with us on ravelry, facebook or instagram for participate in later giveaways with hashtag: #amorthecupid and #zipzipdreams.

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