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Hello there, it's Anna here and welcome to Little Crochet Farm
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Today I share this chubby bear. If you have following me here already, you knew that this pattern was coming on
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This is the version for the valentines I make. I use 2 mm crochet hook for this bear and it's the first of 4 patterns that it's about
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to come here for the valentines, alright? So we'll start first with this very easy to do chubby bear
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Let's move on to the pattern. Great, we start here with the magic ring
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If you don't know how to make a magic ring, there is a complete tutorial with the link
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in the description below. But here you can pretty much see how it's done
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Alright and now you will crochet 6 single crochet inside the magic ring
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Okay, so here I will go through all the six single crochet inside this magic ring
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If this video is too fast for you, check the complete tutorial for the magic ring
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There I show you how I hold the yarn, how my fingers are positioned so the magic ring is easy to work with
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Alright, so here 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 single crochet. I will pull this yarn to close my magic ring
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And we'll move on for the round number 2. For the second round here you will start with increases
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So you'll work 6 increase. Having a total of 12 stitches at the end of this round
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So here what you do is you crochet 2 single crochet inside 1 stitch
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stitch that is a increase alright so here one single crochet and another one
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inside the same stitch right one single crochet and another one inside the same
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stitch and you do this repetition all the way until the end and it should have
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12 stitches here I wanted to show you how I fastened the beginning of my yarn I
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I like to do this at the beginning of every project of mine, so I guarantee that the center
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is very nice, neat and closed, tight closed. Alright, so here I insert the yarn inside the first stitches of the round
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Ok, this is super good. Now I will add my stitch marker here in the last stitch of the round
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In my case I just use a different color piece of yarn
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And for round number 3 you will crochet 1 single crochet, 1 increase, repeat 6 times
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and you should have a total of 18 stitches at the end
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I always suggest you to count how many stitches you have at the end of every round so you make
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sure that you are on the right track. Okay, so here 1 sc and 1 increase, repeat this all the
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way until the end and this is how it should be looking like. Alright, so now we move on for round
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number 4 and here you will crochet 2 sc, 1 increase, repeat 6 times and here you should
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have 24 stitches at the end of this round. So just work 2 sc here and now my increase
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Alright, 1, 2 sc and here is the increase inside the same stitch. Super good! This is how it should
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be looking like. Now you're growing our chubby body. Round number 5, you will have 3 sc, 1
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increase, repeat six times and you should have a total of 30 stitches at the end of this round
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So here three single crochet and now here it's my increase. Very well, one, two, three and the increase here repeat all the way until the end
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And this is how it should be looking like by the end of round number five. and for the next round you will crochet four single crochet, one increase, repeat
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six times and you should have a total of 36 stitches at the end of this round
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Always count how many stitches you have at the end of every round just to make
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sure that you're right on track because if you need to unravel it's just one
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round, right? Better now than later. Alright, so 1, 2, 3, 4 and then increase, okay
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Repeat all the rounds and I will catch you up here. Super good! Now let's move
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on for our next round. Here you'll work 5 single crochet, 1 increase, repeat 6
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times and you should have a total of 42 stitches here at the end of this round Okay
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Alright, now my increase. Here this is my increase. So here you see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1
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increase. Repeat all the way until the end and I'll catch you up here. I want to show you here
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where are the stitches. You see here one V, another V, another one. Those are one stitches
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another one here, and then you arrive here you have four lines here coming forming these two
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stitches. You see this one is a straight, straight, straight again, straight again
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And here you have this combine these two together. And you can see this in any pattern even if it's done the finished toy
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For example, here is the increase. You see these two V's together
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This is the increase. And here you see all the stitches alone
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And then here one more increase. Okay? Let me know if you want a video about this
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Alright, so this is at the end of the round. Now for round number eight, you will crochet six, single
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crochet, one increase, repeat six times and you should have a total of 48 stitches here at the
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end of this round and here is our last round with increases alright six here and
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now my increase all right super good I will catch you up at the end of this
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round. Very nice, so here we have already the beginning of our chubby body and I
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will grow the height here of this body. So for round 9 to 21 you will work only
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48 single crochet. So you have it here 13 rounds only with single crochet. You can
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stop the video here, work your rounds and I will catch you up at the end of round
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21 and this is how it should be looking like. Very good, we have this shape, now
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you will start working with the decreases. Ok, so for round 22 you will start
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decreasing. 6 single crochet, 1 decrease, repeat 6 times and you should have here
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42 stitches at the end of the round. Here for crochet toys I like to work with
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the invisible decrease which is when you grab only the front loop of the stitches
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I will show you here how it's done but of course there are a complete YouTube
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tutorial about this. So here you grab only the front loop you see and finish
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your single crochet normally as you would. Alright there you go invisible
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decrease in Namigurum is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and this is the decrease. Okay work all the way around and
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I will catch you up at the end. That's very nice, now we were moving on for round number 23. You will
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work five single crochet, one decrease, repeat six times and you should have a total of 36 stitches
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at the end of this round. Okay remember to count how many stitches you have at the end of every
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round so you are sure that everything is right what it should be. Okay here my
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decrease, only the front loop of the next two stitches and finish the single
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crochet. Very nice invisible decrease here. Alright, repeat all the way around
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and I will catch you up for the next round. So here we are seeing very nice
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shape of the decreases. So now for round number 24 you will work 4 single crochet
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1 decrease, repeat 6 times and here 30 stitches at the end of the round
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Alright, we are almost done with the chubby body. Okay, this is great. Now first
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decrease. Great! Now you repeat this all the way until the end and I will catch
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you up for the next round. Alright? Super good! We're almost there. Now for round
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number 25 you work three single crochets one decrease repeat six times and you
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should have a total of 24 stitches here at the end of this round, alright? So one
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1, 2, and 3. Now you work the decrease only grabbing the front loop of the
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stitch and finish your single crochet Alright this is great 1 2 3 decrease and this is how it should be looking like once you finish all the 6 repetitions
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So now let's move on for round number 6, 2 single crochet, 1 decrease, repeat 6 times
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and you should have a total of 18 stitches at the end of this round
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Here's my decrease, we are almost done, we have just one more round after this one
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Alright, super good. Okay, here now at the end of this round, number 28, we will stop a little bit to add the stuffing
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material before we move on for our last round, okay? So here you add as much stuffing material you want
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I like to add a lot, like a good amount of stuffing materials because I like my toys very
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firm, that's optional to you. So I add here my stitch marker and let's move on for our last round, round number 27
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Okay, so here you will work one single crochet, one decrease, repeat 6 times and here you should
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have only 12 stitches at the end of the round. This is where we will stop the crochet toy
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Okay, so here. Finish here and now we will continue all the way until the end until you have like this, 12 stitches only
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Now you cut the yarn, you leave a small tail here for fastening off
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I will show you here how I fasten off my toys but there is also a video tutorial about that
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So basically you only take the first loop of every stitch. So you just start passing the yarn through this front loop
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You don't need to pull it tight for closing right now. We will do this at the end
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Just make sure you're not grabbing the yarn in between the plies, okay
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Okay, this can complicate things here when you need to close it completely
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So pull it very tight. And now here, here's what you're going to do
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You will insert your needle in the last stitches of this round here to help to close very firm
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And I also make this hole in between the first round to make as small as possible
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okay fast enough and this is the chubby body very nice super pretty all right this is good
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now we'll start working the chubby ears all right so you'll repeat rounds one and two and here you
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will just grow the length of this ear so you repeat the rounds one and two from the beginning
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of this video and you move for around 3 to 5, 12 single crochet okay so here you
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don't have more increases this is the size of our chubby ears I will leave you
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here and I will catch you up at the end alright so this is how it should be
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looking like once you're done with the round number 5 you cut the
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yarn leave a tail for sewing later. Okay, pull this thread here through, hide the
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beginning of your tail. Super good. And you now send this tail that you will use
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later for sewing. You pull it back to inside of your toy like this. This will
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make it look nicer when you are sewing it. Now you flatten here the ears. You see
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folded nicely and your ear is done now you make another one
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super good moving on again here now we're working with the back paws okay so
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here you will work again rounds one to two and work the length of the paws here
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so this is the back paw and you will work here round three to eight twelve
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single crochet. So for these next six rounds you just work with 12 single
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crochet and you'll have a long paw and I will catch you up here to show you what
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you need to do for round number nine which is a little bit different. Okay so
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this is done. Now you add a little bit of stuffing material just a little bit
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just on the tip of the paw because we want the paw to be able to move a little
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bit, all right? Okay, now what's you going, what you're going to do here is you will
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crochet together one side to another. So, for round number nine, you will crochet
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six single crochet. So, here you have 12 stitches in the round, right? When you
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fold it like this you have six in one side and six to another side The first one here it a bit more complicated to catch but once you done with it all the rest is much nicer to work So here my first single crochet and I will work
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the following here. You see this is much better. Just the first one you need to put a little bit
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more effort to find it, the first two stitches, and that's it. Okay, this is my
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fourth. Working on the stitch number five and the last one is this one. You see
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it's in between the posts of the last two stitches. Super good! That's it, this is
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one paw is ready here. So again, we will cut this tail, we'd leave a little bit to
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sew it later and you pull the thread out. Ta-da! Very nice and you make another one
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just one more of this following the same instructions. Okay and here now we will
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work the snout. Here you will repeat round 1, 2, 3, okay from the beginning of
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this video so you should have now 18 stitches and you will work just one more round, round
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number four with 18 single crochet so no increases here and this will be ours now, it's super
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fast to do, okay? I'll go a little bit faster here and I will catch you up once
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this is done. Super good! You see this is the snout ready. Now you just cut the
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yarn here and do the same thing. You pull the thread and you hide... and you not hide..
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you send this yarn to the back of the detail. This little thing makes a
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difference when you were sewing it. Super good! Okay, and now we'll work the front
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paw which is remaining, right? So here you will start again with the magic ring
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and you will work five single crochet in the magic ring okay so I'll go with you
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on this one it's a small detail two three and four one two three four five
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great super good now you pull the yarn here very tight and let's start working
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the second round. Here you will work five increases. Okay, so you should have ten
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stitches at the end of this round and it's with these stitches that we will
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work. We will stop the increases here. So the back paw, the paw that it's under, has
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12 stitches. This one that it's upper is the one hugging the heart. It has ten
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stitches on its size. Here you secure the beginning of your yarn, always remember
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to do that, it makes more neat. And now you will work here from round 3 to 9, you
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will work 10 single crochet. So here that's it, very simple. You work these
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rounds with just repetition, you will not increase anything and I will catch you
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up here for the round number 10, which we will work with the same way that we did
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for the back poles. Okay, we will crochet together the sides. Okay, moving fast
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forward here, you need to add little bit of stuffing material just until halfway
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of the arms and I will work round number 10. So here's the same thing, find the
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first and the last stitch you work because you are crocheting together. You
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fold the paws and you'll crochet together. The first stitch it's a little bit harder to find
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but you see here, you just grab that and the rest is much easier
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That's super good! So here now our fourth stitch and the last one. Right? So you have 10 stitches
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you fold in half, you have five in one side, five in another one. So for round 10
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that's why you are working with five single crochet. Okay? I'm a very smart mathematician
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Okay, so this is the front paw ready and you make another one following the same instructions
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Okay, I have my one here. Ta-da