Recently I had my third baby and I made him some homemade crochet toys to look at (while I crochet even more). I bought this wooden baby gym, but any wooden baby gym should be useful – or even a homemade one if you are more handy than I am (or less lazy … )
For the cloud and the bees I used free patterns. Below you’ll find the easy instruction on how to make to make the flower. The balls should be pretty self explanatory, I added a circular rattle box to those too make it more exciting (?) for the baby.
Flower:
I used a 2.5 mm crochet hook and DROPS Safran cotton yarn
You’ll also need polyester stuffing and a rattle box (ex. something similar to this), and a needle to attach petals and weave in ends.
Use yellow:
R1: 6sc in magic ring
R2: inc x6 (12)
R3: (sc, inc) x6 (18)
R4: (2sc, inc) x6 (24)
R5: (3sc, inc) x6 (30)
R6: (4sc, inc) x6 (36)
R7: (5sc, inc) x6 (42)
R8: (6sc, inc) x6 (48)
R9: 48sc
R10: (6sc, dec) x6 (42)
Add the rattle box and start filling with polyester filling
R11: (5sc, dec) x6 (36)
R12: (4sc, dec) x6 (30)
R13: (3sc, dec) x6 (24)
R14: (2sc, dec) x6 (18)
R15: (sc, dec) x6 (12)
R16: dec x6 (6)
weave ends
Petals -make 12:
R1: 6sc in magic ring
R2: inc x6 (12)
R3: (2sc, inc) x4 (16)
R4-7 (4rnds): 16 sc
R8: (dec, 6sc) x2 (14)
R9-10 (2rnds): 14 sc
R11: (dec, 5sc) x2 (12)
R12-13 (2rnds): 12 sc
R14: (dec, 4sc) x2 (10)
R15: 10 sc
Don’t fill, flatten and sew together ends when attaching to the core
Enjoy! If you find any inspiration from me I would love to see the result – please get in touch on instagram (tag me @inarho or #inarho – so that I can view your result).
Oh…. it’s so cute!!… I’m in love with it!!… where can I find the pattern to make de bees and the clouds?… what a perfect combination!! Beautiful world 😍