Crochet a Cute Dinosaur Puppet

This dinosaur puppet pattern is my original design and the PDF is available to download from Ravelry.com. Please not that this instructable gives an overview of the creation and assembly of the pieces. To get the crochet instructions with stitch counts, please visit my Ravelry Pattern shop.

To see more of my work or get copies of other patterns I've written, please visit my blog or Ravelry Pattern Shop . I also sell finished amigurumi in my Etsy shop .

Thanks for checking out my instructable and happy crocheting!
Karla (The Itsy Bitsy Spider)

Step 1 Getting Started

To make my dinosaur, I used the following materials:

• 3 oz acrylic yarn in main color. Small amount (<1 oz) of acrylic yarn in complimentary color.
  Scrap amounts of black and white (optional).

All of the yarns were purchased at Jo-Ann Stores, but you can find them at almost any craft store. By the way, you can use any colors of yarn you like for this project, so have fun with it!

The tools you will need include:

• Size G crochet hook (see my workshop on hooks for tips on selecting one)
• Scissors
• Yarn needle
• Stitch marker
• Copy of the Dinosaur Puppet Pattern

Comments

[MichelMoermans]

Again, great work!

I'm happy I subscribed to you, now I only need to learn how to do this stuff :p

A series of these puppets would be nice to use in my class. I can see a whole puppet theater developing. I'm sure the kids would love it :D

A question though. Wouldn't it be possible if you added the paterns to your instructables? I checked out the site and it seems like a good site but I'm sure many people will be put off with creating accounts for sites they only need 1 file from. So maybe you could include it here? I'm sure it"ll increase the views of your ible and  that more people will build it :)

Just a suggestion though :)

Michel

[theitsybitsyspider]

Michel -- I wanted to share some of my more complex work (like the dinosaur), but Instructibles doesn't really give me an option to charge for my patterns - -that's why the link to Ravelry on this one.

I'm not making a lot of money on the patterns -- really just enough to fund yarn purchases so that I can come up with more patterns (LOL). As a stay-at-home-mom, I feel like it's only fair to my husband to contribute to my own hobbies ;-)

If you know of a way that I can still get a couple dollars for some of my more complex patterns while still posting them on Instructibles, please shoot me a message on how to do this. I would love to make it easier for folks!