Snuggle up with Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer when you make this pillow using Bernat Blanket Yarn! A little more Christmas in July fun and the perfect piece to add to your holiday decor. Or a fun gift for the holidays! Never to early to start your Christmas crochet projects!
Materials:
Bernat Blanket Yarn in: Race Car Red (for the nose – this is from the Bernat Blanket Brights line), Taupe (antlers), Sand (main pillow form and ears), and White (eyes).
– Size K Crochet
– Large tapestry needle
– 2 inch black buttons for the eyes (or you can crochet the eyes)
– 16 inch pillow form
Main Pillow Circles (make 2 with sand color):
Magic ring, chain 2 and make 15 DC in ring, join to first DC, chain 2
Round 2: 2 DC in each stitch around, join to first DC, chain 2 (30 DC)
Round 3: 2 DC in first stitch, DC in next, repeat around, join, chain 2 (45 DC)
Round 4: 2 DC in first stitch, DC in next 2, repeat around, join, chain 2 (60 DC)
Round 5: 2 DC in first stitch, DC in next 3, repeat around, join, chain 2 (75 DC)
Round 6: 2 DC in first stitch, DC in next 4, repeat around, join, chain 2 (90 DC)
Round 7: 2 DC in first stitch, DC in next 5, repeat around, join, chain 2 (105 DC)
Fasten off and weave in ends.
Add face elements to one of the circles before single crocheting the two circles together around the pillow form.
Ears (make 2 with sand color):
Chain 5, SC in 2nd chain from hook and the rest of the way down chain, chain 1, turn.
Row 2: SC across, chain 1, turn.
Row 3: 2 SC in first stitch, sc in next 2, 2 SC in last stitch, chain 1, turn.
Row 4-5: SC across, chain 1, turn.
Row 6: SC decrease, SC in next 2, SC Decrease
Row 7: SC across
Row 8: 2 SC decreases
Row 9: SC decrease
Chain 1 and SC around edges, fasten off and weave in ends.
Antlers (make 4 with taupe color):
chain 5, SC in second chain from hook and rest of way down (4 SC)
Row 2: SC in each stitch across
Row 3: 2 SC in first, SC in next 3, Chain 5, DC in 4th chain from hook and in last chain, turn and join to top of last stitch with a SC and SC across, chain 1, turn
Row 4-5: SC in each stitch across, chain 1, turn (5 SC)
Row 6: SC in first 4 stitches, chain 7, DC in 4th chain from hook and remaining chains. SC in last. fasten off
Row 7: Join to first stitch in row 6. SC in first 5 stitches, chain 1, turn
Row 8-9: SC in each stitch across, chain 1, tun
Row 10: Skip first two stitch and make 5 DC in the middle stitch. join with slip stitch to last stitch in row. fasten off weave in ends.
Line up two of the antlers and single crochet the edges together. Do the same for the other two.
Eyes (make 2 with white):
Magic Ring, chain 2, and make 10 DC in ring, join to first DC and chain 2
Round 2: 2 HDC in first 5, 2 DC in last , join to first HDC and fasten off leaving long tail
Nose (with red):
Magic ring, chain 2, and make 15 DC in ring, join, fasten off leaving tail to sew onto face.
Sew antlers and ears on to top edge of pillow.
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A cuddly cushion for Christmas. It is lovely. Thanks for this pattern.
Have a great weekend, Margaret
This is just adorable! Thank you for the pattern!!
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I actually found this more eneirtaintng than James Joyce.
can you tell me how much of the Bernat Blanket Yarn Sand color is needed
I am interested in this too. I bought a big ball will I need more? I had to order it online.
Would love to know how much yarn is needed
Hi, I love this pillow, however I’m having a terrible time with the antlers! Please help!
Thanks,
Sandi
You will need one 10.5 oz. of the sand for the pillow. (I bought 4 on line…only needed 1 !!!) Antlers have very poor directions….finally on 7th try I managed one that looked similar…so I hurried and made 3 others using my directions. Eyes have bad directions also. So far huge bulging round eyes that are too big for Rudolph (not the oval eyes shown) it’s my 5th time trying….if I put a 2″ button on it, the eye will be mostly covered …so something isn’t right in those eye directions either. I think I just thought what should be done with eyes. …In Round 2, she says 2 dc in last…but doesn’t say what last is…the last 5 hdc???. I think I will try “Turn and do 2 dc in the each of 5 hdc”..think that will make them oval.
The nose seems large also. Think I will use hdc instead.
Have fun!!!
It’s a darling idea…just better directions are needed.
Instead of 2 inch black buttons for the eyes, it should be 2 one inch black buttons.
Hi, I am having a terrible time getting the antlers to turn out? What am I doing wrong? Can you help to explain it a bit better? T
Thanks!!!
Antlers: I think for the antlers, ( if I remember what I did!) in Row 3 where after you make the “Point” of the antler, she says to turn and join to top of last stitch with a sc. I think I joined it to the last stitch in the row that you made in row 3 (not the antler). You do the same thing in Row 6..once again sc in the last stitch of the ROW (not the antler!)
After putting 2 antlers together she said to sc them together, which I did. I think if I would do it again, I would just sl st them together. When you “sew” them together you can “make” them look better.
Instead of sewing the antlers to the front of the head like she did, as I went around , I put the antlers and the ears (as I got to where I wanted them) between the back and the face side and sl st them in. ( I slip stitched around the whole head.)
Another suggestion: Don’t sew the eyes and nose on until you stuff the head. The “stuffing” changes the contour of the face and throws off how it looks. My `16″ pillow form was too big to get into the “deer” and I had to remove about 1/2 of the stuffing (might be I crochet tightly?)
The black of the eyes and the nose…….. I did a magic ring. I used I think 8 hdc and they turned out to be about 1″ circles.
Hoped I helped!
Can someone tell me where I find the amount of yarn needed for this project? New to crochet and thought this was super cute to try! Thanks!