Boop!
I’ve been so busy with custom makes that I just haven’t had any time to sit down and write something down and test it, but I made Boop! on a whim for a customer with a small child was having a birthday, and I managed to re-test the pattern over the last couple of weeks.
Materials
- Approximately 20 g of Main Colour (MC), 30 g of Contrast Colour (CC), Oddments of White and Black for eyes and Pink for mouth
- 2.75 mm crochet hook for DK yarn, 3.5 mm crochet hook for Aran yarn, 4.5 mm hook for chunky yarn
- Tapestry Needle
- Stitch marker
- Toy stuffing
Skill Level
Easy. You will need to be able to work sc stitches, to increase and decrease and to change colours in the round. You will need to be able to make dc popcorn stitches for the toes and thumbs. You will also need to be able to make dc and hdc stitches for the mouth.
Abbreviations
Please note that I am using US crochet terms throughout. I am actually British, but I find the US terms more intuitive. Measurements are metric.
sc – single crochet (UK = dc)
hdc – half double crochet (UK = htr)
dc – double crochet (UK = tr)
sl – slip stitch
ch – chain
mr – magic ring
st – stitch
inc – increase by 2 st (2 stitches into the same stitch from previous row)
dec – decrease over 2 st (1 stitch across 2 stitches from previous row)
start(x) – Either mr (x sc in mr) or ch2, x sc in 2nd chain from hook –
whatever you like best [I am personally not a fan of mr and just
stick to the ch2 method]
(x) – x = number of stitches at end of round
Y/O – Yarn Over
F/O – Fasten Off
BLO – Back Loops Only
Special Stitch: 4-dc popcorn –Y/O, insert hook into st,Y/O and pull through loop (3 loops on hook), Y/O and pull through 2 (2 loops on hook). Repeat 4 times, pulling though only 2 loops at a time on the last Y/O. You should now have 5 loops on the hook. Y/O and pull through all 5 loops. Ch1.
Pattern
Body (with MC, CC)
Round 1: with MC, start(6)
Round 2: inc*, repeat * around (12)
Round 3: (1 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (18)
Round 4: (2 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (24)
Round 5: (3 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (30)
Round 6: (4 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (36)
Round 7: (5 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (42)
Round 8: (6 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (48)
Rnds 9-11: 48 sc around, changing to CC on the last st of round 11
Rnds 12-13: with CC, 48 sc around, changing to MC on the last st of round 13
Round 14: with MC, 48 sc around
Round 15: (6 sc, dec)* – repeat * around (42)
Rnds 16-18: 42 sc around, changing to CC on the last st of round 18
Rnds 19-20: with CC, 42 sc around, changing to MC on the last st of round 20
Round 21: 42 sc around
Round 22: (5 sc, dec)* – repeat * around (36)
Rnds 23-24: 36 sc around
Round 25: (4 sc, dec)* – repeat * around (30)
Round 26: (3 sc, dec)* – repeat * around (24)
Round 27: 24 sc around
Round 28: (2 sc, dec)* – repeat * around (18)
Round 29: 18 sc around
Round 30: (1 sc, dec)* – repeat * around (12). Stuff Body now.
Round 31: dec around (6)
F/O, weave in ends
Legs (with CC make 2)
Round 1: with CC, start(6)
Round 2: inc*, repeat * around (12)
Round 3: (1 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (18)
Round 4: (2 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (24)
Round 5: (3 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (30)
Round 6: 30 sc around BLO
Round 7: (3 sc, dec)* – repeat * around (24)
Round 8: 24 sc around
Round 9: (2 sc, dec)* – repeat * around (18)
Round 10: 18 sc around
Round 11: (1 sc, dec)* – repeat * around (12)
Round 12: 12 sc around. Stuff foot
Round 13: dec around (6)
Rnds 14-28: 6 sc around (do not stuff legs)
Round 27: inc, 4 sc, inc (8)
Round 28: 8 sc around
F/O, leaving a long tail for sewing
Toes (with CC make 5 on each Foot)
Insert hook through the stitch one row above, and through to row under the BLO remaining stitches (the little line of front loop stitches left by the BLO) of the foot and join yarn. Working though that row: (4 dc-popcorn, sl st in next st) 5 times
F/O. Weave in ends
ARMS (with CC make 2)
Round 1: with CC, start(6)
Round 2: inc*, repeat * around (12)
Round 3: (1 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (18)
Round 4: 18 sc around
Round 5: 18 sc around BLO
Round 6: (1 sc, dec)* – repeat * around (12)
Round 7: 12 sc around. Stuff hand
Round 8: dec around (6)
Rnds 9-21: 6 sc around, turn
Rows 22-24: 3 sc, turn
F/O, leaving a long tail for sewing
Thumbs (with CC make one on the inside of each hand)
Insert hook through the row one up and through to one under the BLO row on the inside of the hand opposite the flap created by rows 22-24 of the arm and join yarn. Working though that row: (4 dc-popcorn, sl st,
F/O. Weave in ends
Eyes (with CC, White, Black make 2)
Back of Eye (with CC)
Round 1: with CC, start(6)
Round 2: inc*, repeat * around (12)
Round 3: (1 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (18)
Round 4: (2 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (24)
Round 5: (3 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (30)
Rnds 6-8: 30 sc around (in the first Boop! above I didn’t do the extra round, but I think it looks better with the bigger outer eyes as in the second Boop! below)
F/O, Leaving a long tail for sewing
Front of Eye (with White)
Round 1: with White, start(6)
Round 2: inc*, repeat * around (12)
Round 3: (1 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (18)
Round 4: (2 sc, inc)* – repeat * around (24)
Rnds 5-8: 24 sc around
F/O, Leaving a long tail for sewing
Pupil of Eye (with Black)
Round 1: with Black start(6)
Mouth (with Pink
Round 1: ch 10
Round 2: work 1 dc, 1 hdc, 1 sc, sl st to final 3, 1 sc, 1 hdc 1 dc into chain
Round 3: working on opposite of chain: sc to end of chain
F/O, Leaving a long tail for sewing
Assembly
Sew pupils onto the centre of the Front of the Eyes.- Stuff the front of the eyes and sew into the Back of the Eyes
- Sew the Eyes onto the Body using the photos as a guide
- Sew the Arms onto the Body using the photos as a guide. The Thumbs should be pointing inwards
- Sew the Legs onto the bottom of the Body using the photos as a guide
- Sew the Mouth onto the body above the second CC stripe. See the photos for placement.
- Using CC, and back stitch sew an outline around the Mouth
You now have a Boop! 🙂 Why not crochet some in different colours?
The Legal Stuff
Copyright 2022- Cazimodo Creative by Caz Thomson. I am very happy for you to make and also sell items using this pattern, but please don’t sell or otherwise distribute the pattern itself. Please credit me with a link to the pattern if you do sell your finished item online.
