Franny the Seal FREE PATTERN

 

Free pattern for Franny the Seal. Watch the video on YouTube.

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MATERIALS:

• YarnArt Happy - 1 skein, grey no 778 (you may use any yarn that is suitable for crochet hook 2.5 mm; Yarn Art Happy is a bit thick for the crochet hook 2.5. mm but I decided to use it because I had it in my stash)
  (I used this yarn to crochet my Bears in Love)
• Alize Softy black for embroidering the nose and muzzle (nose can be made with black felt)
  
• grey minky material for the flippers (the flippers are sewn). 

 You may cut the flippers out of a piece of grey felt, sew on the machine or by hand (felt is good to sew with the blanket stitch - I show you the blanket stitch in my video about NUMBERJACKS).

• Black and white piece of felt for the eyes (you may also crochet the eyes with white and black yarn)
• White fabric paint and thin brush for painting the eyes reflexion
  
• Crochet hook 2.5 mm.

 

In my pattern, in even-numbered rounds, I divided scs to obtain almost perfect round (not hexagonal shape): e.g. Rnd 4: (1 sc, inc, 1 sc) x 6 [24]. You can of course crochet traditional way: Rnd 4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 [24].

HEAD & BODY

YarnArt Happy, grey

Stuff before you close the opening.

Rnd 1: 6 sc in MR [6]
Rnd 2: 6 inc [12]
Rnd 3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 [18]
Rnd 4: (1 sc, inc, 1 sc) x 6 [24]
Rnd 5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 [30]
Rnd 6: (2 sc, inc, 2 sc) x 6 [36]
Rnd 7: (5 sc, inc) x 6 [42]
Rnd 8: (3 sc, inc, 3 sc) x 6 [48]
Rnd 9: (7 sc, inc) x 6 [54]
Rnd 10: (4 sc, inc, 4 sc) x 6 [60]
Rnd 11: (9 sc, inc) x 6 [66]
Rnd 12: (5 sc, inc, 5 sc) x 6 [72]
Rnds 13-22: 72 sc [72] 

Rnd 23: (5 sc, dec, 5 sc) x 6 [66]

Rnd 24: (2 sc, dec) x 12, 18 sc [54]

Rnd 25: (1 sc, dec) x 12, 18 sc [42]

Rnd 26: 12 dec, 18 sc [30]

Rnd 27: 6 dec, 18 sc [24]

Rnds 28-33: 24 sc [24]

Rnd 34: (2 sc, dec) x 6 [18]

Rnd 35: (1 sc, dec) x 6 [12]

Rnd 36: 6 dec [6]

Fasten off, close the opening and weave in yarn ends.

MUZZLE

YarnArt Mink, cream

Rnd 1: ch 4, work from 2nd chain from the hook around the foundation chain: 

(2 sc, 5 sc in last st) x 2

 

Rnd 2: (2 sc, 5 inc) x 2 [24]

Rnd 3: (3 sc, inc) x 6 [30]
Rnd 4: (4 sc, inc) x 6 [36]
Rnd 5: (5 sc, inc) x 6 [42]
Rnd 6: (6 sc, inc) x 6 [48]

Rnd 7-11: 48 sc [48]

Fasten off. Leave a long tail for sewing.

You may turn the piece right side out (when you crochet the fluffy yarn, the wrong side is more hairy).

Sew the muzzle to the head (pin it firstly to find good placement). 

Stuff before you sew the muzzle completely.

 

FLIPPERS

Fore and hind flippers

 TEMPLATE (print the actual size)

 

 

Flippers are not stuffed.

Sew the flippers to the body (pin before sewing to place them better). Use the ladder stitch.

 

 

Embroider the nose and smile after sewing the muzzle to the head.

Oval nose can be made with a piece of black felt (pattern in the flippers template above).

 

The muzzle: 

Nose in the picture comes form the Peter the Dog pattern - make an oval instead of triangle shape

 

Direction of the needle: 1-2-1, 2-3-4-4 (scallop stitch), 2-5-6-6 (scallop stitch) 

 

 

Embroider the eyebrows.

EYE (make 2)  

Version 1 - crochet:

White

Rnd 1: 6 sc in MR [6]
Rnd 2: 6 inc [12]
Rnd 3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 [18]

 

Black pupil

Rnd 1: 6 sc in MR [6]
Rnd 2: 6 inc [12]

 

Sew the pupil to the eye. Embroider white reflexion. 

Version 2 - felt:

See the template above.

Felt eyes are glued with magic glue and then I added white reflexion with white fabric paint and thin brush.

 

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