The first toy from my Everyday Heroes collection (4 patterns total)! Thank you to all the nurses who are working so hard to keep us all safe!

Difficulty Level: Easy

Materials needed to create a 5.5 in (14cm) tall toy:
-Paintbox Yarns Cotton Aran in Melon Sorbet, Slate Grey, Misty Grey, Blood Orange, and Champagne White
-3.5mm Crochet Hook
-6mm Safety Eyes with Matching Backings
-Scissors
-Darning Needle
-Locking Stitch Markers (Optional)
-Pins
-Polyfil Stuffing or Scrap Yarn
-Fabric Glue (This is optional, but I use it to glue down the exposed tail ends from the mask straps and stethoscope)

I used Paintbox Yarns Cotton Aran to create my Nurse Cat, 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 30g of Melon Sorbet (> half a skein of yarn), 15g of Marine Blue (< half a skein of yarn), a little bit of: Slate Grey, Misty Grey, Blood Orange and Champagne White. (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
inc: two single crochet in one stitch
dec: invisible decrease, single crochet two stitches together through the front loops only
YO: yarn over
sc2tog: single crochet two stitches together: (insert hook into next stitch, YO, draw up a loop) x 2. You should have 3 loops on your hook. YO and draw through all 3 of the loops on your hook.
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

turn: turn your work