The Grinch’s Ugly Cousin?

This week, I decided to use a pattern for a new project so that I could learn a few new techniques for making my patterns.

This week, I decided to make a Grinch stuffy. I was searching Pinterest for inspiration when I came across a super cute crochet Grinch stuffy. So, I decided to try it! Although I found the link for the pattern on Pinterest, the pattern itself was uploaded to a website called Amigurumi Cat. Amigurumi Cat is a website led by Abbey Gloria, where she uploads free amigurumi crochet patterns. I enjoyed browsing the website, it’s very organized and appealing. Each pattern is nicely written, which makes it very easy to follow. If you are ever looking for free crochet patterns for a stuffy, I highly recommend using Amigurumi Cat.

Head and Body part of Grinch pattern

From this pattern, I learned a new technique! Notice how in the image of the Grinch stuffy, you can see the cheeks are puffed out to give him big round cheeks. My technique is to increase the amount of stitches in that area, which still works very well. For this pattern, she still increased the stitches but used a half-double crochet instead of a regular single crochet to increase. Half double crochets are taller than single crochets, so using them instead makes the cheeks bigger. This is a great technique to have as it can be used in various different ways.

Below you can see the top of the head and the protruding cheek with the half-double crochets.

Top of Grinch’s head

Although this pattern was super cute, I didn’t fully finish the grinch, I think this week was a success. The new technique with the cheeks is so helpful and I will definitely be using it in the future. Here is my Grinch that I made, he definitely isn’t as cute as the one in the pattern, i didn’t fully finish him even though I got very close, I just wasn’t loving the color, it wasn’t giving Grinch. But here he is so you can see him!

The Grinch’s Ugly Cousin?