The pokemon crochet journey!

And here we are in the final phase of the growlithe. On hindsight I should have sewn on the black before sewing on the tail because some of the tail overlaps the black but that's okay! If you are reading along with this you can learn from my not quite planning ahead. I am not going to have a pattern for the black lines on there because I think the black lines on a growlithe should be unique to each mon. The way I did the black lines is I chained together a random amount of stitches in black DK weight yarn (half the weight of the yarn I used for the rest of growlithe) and then crochet'd a few rows. I then used the tail I left to sew it on. To make the V shaped black on the front, I crocheted two rows, then I chained an amount that was similar to the rows I crocheted. On the way back I crocheted across the short end of the previous row and that created a V. Or you can crochet two small rectangles and sew them together to form a V. To get around the tail part, I...

So growlithe isn't progressing as quickly as I would like him to but we will continue on with this! There's only the legs, tail, stripes and chest bushy part to go. This is pretty much the home stretch. And we copy the legend again and off we go! Legend (This is all US crochet terminology) * SC - Single crochet * SC2tog - Single crochet two stitches together * SCx[A] - Single crochet A amount of times * [SCxA]xB - repeat whatever is in the bracket B amount of times * [A]SC - single crochet A times in the same stitch * LS - loop stitch * SS - Slip stitch * HDC - Half double crochet * CH - chain * When I write my colour change, I will write "change to <colour>", that means the next stitch is the new colour. Eg, SCx3 (change to white) SC It means on the last stitch of the x3 you will change to white and the SC is the first stitch in white. * The number in the brackets is how many stitches should be in that round This is what we have so far! ...

And here we are continuing with the journey to a completed growlithe! I'm actually really enjoying this make so I think he's progressing a lot faster than I believed he would. To make my pokemon, I rely on a lot of sources! Firstly, I am constantly on google, looking at official art and fanart to see if there are any little details I may have missed but I also use the pokedex pro on my 3DS. I really like this app. It lets me rotate the pokemon 360 to make sure I see all of the details. This also lets me be a teensy little bit more anal about my pokemon as well. Haha. The hardest thing about writing this pattern? Is counting the stitches and making sure I tell you guys the colour change at all the right places. Usually I just eyeball it. This colour changing won't be perfect...I might change colour in some random spots leaving a few colour spikes. The way I fix that is in one of the later colour changes, I leave a slightly longer tail and then I go backwards and sew over...

Hello everyone! Back with the next part of growlithe. Please refer back to part one of Growlithe for the guide for the start of the head. Legend (This is all US crochet terminology) * SC - Single crochet * SC2tog - Single crochet two stitches together * SCx[A] - Single crochet A amount of times * [SCxA]xB - repeat whatever is in the bracket B amount of times * [A]SC - single crochet A times in the same stitch * LS - loop stitch * SS - Slip stitch * HDC - Half double crochet * CH - chain * When I write my colour change, I will write "change to <colour>", that means the next stitch is the new colour. Eg, SCx3 (change to white) SC It means on the last stitch of the x3 you will change to white and the SC is the first stitch in white. * The number in the brackets is how many stitches should be in that round Before I started the ears and the mohawk, I stuffed the head because I to have a nice hard surface to sew other parts onto. You can stuff the head when...