This time I felt like making something completely different. Meet Frissle, a crochet boarlet amigurumi!
When we go hiking, we often go to a place a little over an hour from where we live, where there is a lot of wildlife. If you are lucky, you can spot different kinds of animals there, like foxes, deer, and wild boar. I especially like going in Spring, when the days are longer and the boar have young (they can also have young in the winter, but you hardly ever see them then). In Spring they are much easier to spot, and I’m always so delighted when I see the boarlets in their stripy pyjamas.
Although I’ve always wanted to create a boarlet pattern, I was never sure about how to design it. But now that I’ve made a few animals on all fours, I had a good idea of how to shape this baby boar. The first test version looked more like a fawn than a piglet, but I have to start somewhere. Now I knew the paws needed to be much shorter and the head had to be placed lower and more to the front. So I made a second and a third version, and I then had the shape I liked. All I had to now was to design the stripy pyjama, which took some trial and error but in the end turned out ever so cute.
I’m very pleased with this new addition to my woodland creatures and absolutely love this crochet wild boar piglet. I hope you like it as much as I do. Maybe I should make a big, sturdy parent for it someday soon!
Here are some more pictures of the boarlet amigurumi, and below them you can find info about and links to buy the pattern.
This is an intermediate pattern. It’s made with basic stitches. The difficulty of this pattern lies in crochet-attaching all four paws. I try to explain it as thoroughly as possible, and it isn’t that difficult when you understand the principle. The benefit of this kind of shape is that there’s hardly any assembling to do once you’ve finished crocheting. You only need to attach the ears and the head.
This crochet baby piglet is made with Istex Lett Lopi, a 100% wool with a lot of fuzziness. It’s 5.5 inch / 14 cm tall. The pattern contains a clear and colour-coded description of how to crochet and assemble the doll, with instruction images with notes next to the text and pictures of the finished doll at the bottom. In the pattern you can also find out what materials you need, the yarn colour numbers — in short, everything you need to know to make your own realistic boarlet amigurumi. All the additional information you need to know about this pattern you can find in the shop listings. You can purchase it in my shop at Ravelry or Etsy.
And heads up! This pattern has a one dollar release discount till the 10th of July.
