The third toy from my Everyday Heroes pattern collection (of 4). Firefighters have more work to do because we’re all cooking from home (lol). Thanks, firefighters!

Difficulty Level: Intermediate

Materials needed to create a 6 in (15.5cm) tall toy:
-Paintbox Yarns Cotton Aran in Pansy Purple, Pale Lilac, Soft Fudge, Buttercup Yellow, Pillar Red, Misty Grey, and Granite Grey
-3.5mm Crochet Hook
-6mm Safety Eyes and Matching Backings
-Scissors
-Darning Needle
-Locking Stitch Markers (Optional)
-Pins
-Polyfil Stuffing or Scrap Yarn
-Grey or Black Embroidery Thread
-White Felt (Optional)
-Fabric Glue (This is optional, but I use it to glue down the exposed tail ends from the suspender straps and to glue the number badge to the helmet)

I used Paintbox Yarns Cotton Aran to create my Firefighter Panda, but you can use any cotton yarn as long as you correspond your hook to the weight of your yarn.

For this pattern, I used roughly 25g of Pale Lilac (~ half a skein of yarn), 10g of Marine Blue (< half a skein of yarn), 25g of Soft Fudge (~ half a skein), 15g of Pillar Red a (< half a skein), and a little bit of: Buttercup Yellow, Granite Grey, Misty Grey. (1 skein of yarn is about 50g)

TERMINOLOGY USED IN THIS PATTERN
st(s): stitch(es)
ch: chain
sl st: slip stitch
sc: single crochet
hdc: half double crochet
dc: double crochet
tr: triple crochet
inc: two single crochet in one stitch
dec: invisible decrease, single crochet two stitches together through the front loops only
BLO: crochet only in the back loops (loop away from you) of each stitch
FLO: crochet only in the front loops (loop closest to you) of each stitch
sk next # st/ch: skip the next number of stitches or chains and work the next step into the st/ch after the ones you skipped
ch sp: chain space, the space you create when you chain and skip stitches
(…) x #: repeat anything in the parenthesis however many times the number indicates

hdc/dc2: two hdc/dc in one stitch
(x, y) in the next st: work both of the indicated crochet stitches into one stitch
turn: turn your work