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Skills needed:

• Basic amigurumi techniques: creating a magic ring, working in the round (both in a continuous spiral and with joined rounds), increases and invisible decreases
• Basic working in rows (for the scarf)
• Colour changes, and ideally half colour changes. However, the half colour changes can just be worked as regular stitches in the new colour instead for a slightly messier result.
• Basic sewing pieces together
• Basic embroidery (I just used a back stitch) for embroidering the mouth, or you could do the mouth some other way like with felt if you prefer

Materials:

• size 4/medium/worsted weight yarn in:
  • Accent colour (I used green; you would probably use blue)
  • Body colour (white)
  • Scarf colour (I used gray; you would probably use coral red)
  • Paw colour (I used black; you would probably use blue)
• Crochet hook (3.25mm, size D)
• Black safety eyes (8 mm) and black safety nose (11 mm)
• Black embroidery thread
• Craft wire (optional for poseable legs)
• Typical amigurumi tools and materials: stuffing, stitch markers, yarn needles, etc.