I was watching the live action Alice in Wonderland the other day, and I guess the caterpillar, Absolem, crawled into my mind because I had a dream about a rainbow caterpillar. Although this color palette was significantly more chaotic than Absolem’s (who is primarily blue), it was beautiful. I woke up and started writing this pattern! I had this specific image in my head of a rainbow caterpillar with a worried expression and yellow legs and antennae, and I wanted it to come to life.

For those of you that don’t like reading boring stuff (same lol):

• This is a stuffie, so ANY GAUGE.
• I used a 3.75 mm hook, but you should use whatever hook works best for your yarn.
• I used standard acrylic worsted weight yarn from Walmart.
• you don’t need that much yarn for each color, the segments really don’t use that much. Just scraps are fine for the facial embroidery.

MATERIALS:

• yarn colors for each of the body segments (I did rainbow, obvi: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.)
• a yarn color for the antennae and legs (I did yellow)
• Yarn color for facial embroidery of eyelids, nose, and cheeks (I did a salmony pink)
• Black yarn to embroider mouth and eyebrows
• 2 safety eyes in any size (The bigger the better, it’s a bug. Give it buggy eyes)