Super Fast and Easy
Crocheted Rainbow Mice
with or
without bell and with or without curly tail!
Materials Needed
A small amount of worsted
scrap yarn. I used Craft Smart Fiesta worsted weight acrylic yarn
for the rainbow mice. A 3.5 mm/E crochet hook *, yarn needle,
poly-fill stuffing, catnip, black embroidery thread and needle.
* Note on hook- I used an
E hook because it gave me a tight crochet as I am a loose crocheter.
Feel free to experiment on what hook will give you good tight crochet
so that the filling is not seen.
Optional a Jingle bell,
plastic wrapper or bag scraps that makes that crinkly sound cats
love. Stitch Marker or piece of yarn to mark your stitches. Dental
floss to help with bell.
Skill Level Easy
Stitches used
Single Crochet (SC)
Half Double Crochet (HDC)
Double Crochet (DC)
Slipped Stitch (SLST)
Single Crochet Two
Together (sc2tog)
Finish Off (FO)
If you want a
bell on the tail
Chain 2 add bell using
dental floss or waxed cord makes it easy to pull yarn through bell
hole.
Chain 7 more. Move on to
round one.
Without a bell
Chain 9 move on to round
one.
Curly Q tail
Chain 12*, DC in 2nd
chain from the hook 2 SC repeat until second to last chain from hook.
Move to round one.
- Note on chain you can make your curly tail as long or as short as you like, although too short will be like a pigs curly tail! Below is a picture of a mouse
- with a short curly q tail.
Round 1
6 SC in the last chain,
join together add stitch marker and turn so tail is facing you.
Round 2
Working in spiral 2 SC in
the 6 stitches -12
Round 3-8
Work in a spiral for 5
more rounds. You can go further is you want a longer mouse.
Round 9
Easy
Peasy Ears!
I like to find the top of
my tail and have it perfectly in the middle before I add my ears.
Crochet around stopping to
slightly to right of top of your mouse
In front loop only*
1 SC 1 HDC 1 DC 1 HC 1 SC
then 1 SC in the next front loop stitch, in the front loop of the
next stitch 1 SC 1HDC 1 DC 1 HDC 1 SC, continue SC all around
stopping when you get to first ear and do 1 SC in the back loop of
the ear stitch, then 1 SC in the next back loop, then 1 Sc in the
next ears back loop.
You just made ears!!
Round 10
Okay you should still have
12 stitches in the round, (don't freak out if you don't just keep
going) this is where we will start decreasing and stuffing this baby
mouse!
2 SC, sc2tog, repeat all
around – 8 stitches
This is a good place to
stuff your mouse. I add a little poly-fill, a pinch of catnip (
optional bell or crinkly plastic) then more poly-fill.
Round 11
1 SC , SC2TOG, repeat
around -5 stitches
Round 12
5 SC around, this should
close it up, finish off leaving a long enough tail so that you can
sew up if there is a slight hole and then weave in your yarn with
your yarn needle.
Use your embroidery thread
and needle to sew on eyes. TA DA! Your cat now has a new play toy!
Now make more!!
