This is halloween
This is halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night…

Materials
To make the pumpkin bear you will need:
– A 2.5mm crochet hook
– Brown and green yarn for the pumpkin, yarn in your bear-color of choice, plus small amounts of pink and black for facial features
– A tapestry needle and scissors
– Stuffing
– Safety eyes
– A stitch marker to help you keep track of the start of the round
– Optional: Felting supplies for the panda
Please note that you can make the pumpkin bear using any size crochet hook and yarn weight for a smaller or bigger result. I like using DK as it’s most commonly available. If you make amigurumi, it is usually recommended to go down a bit from the recommended hook size for the yarn to allow for a no-hole look (we don’t want to see the stuffing show through in between stitches)! Using DK yarn and a 2.5mm crochet hook, the pumpkin bear should be about 10cm tall.

Stitches & Abbreviations
The pattern is written using US crochet terms in continuous spirals. You will need to know the following kinds of stitches to make him:
– Magic Ring (MR)
– Chaining
– Single crochet (sc)
– Decrease (dec); preferably using the invisible decrease method
– Increase (inc)
– Slip stitch (sl)