You can make something with your yarn scraps?!

With the amount of crocheting I have done, I constantly have a bin full of small balls of leftover yarn. When the bin got full I knew I needed to do something with all of it, but so many of my projects need larger amounts of a majority of their colors.

I started seeing scrap blankets all over the internet, which of course turn out beautiful but aren’t really a project I was interested in doing at the time. I decided instead that I wanted to create a stuffed animal out of those scraps. Thus, Scrappy the Bear was born!

Scrappy the bear is the perfect project for someone relatively new to crochet and/or stuffed animals since it is made completely with single crochet, single crochet two together, and slip stitches.

I started by taking my bin of scrap yarn and tying the ends together using the magic knot technique (using a tutorial from YouTube). Some of the scrap balls were larger than others so I cut those ones into smaller pieces to avoid a large section of one color within the bear. Once I finished tying all of the scraps (or at least what seemed like enough for the project) together, I rolled it into a ball and got started!

I like the look of Scrappy better using white yarn for the bottoms of the hands and feet as well as the muzzle. But if you have enough scrap yarn and like the look with all of the different colors you can create this bear 100% using scraps!

Scrappy the Bear

Supplies Needed: ball of scrap yarn, white yarn, a pair of 18 mm safety eyes, a 21 mm safety nose, 3.0 mm crochet hook (or 3.75 if you want to make the jumbo bear), yarn needle, polyfil stuffing.

Abbreviations Used: sc – single crochet, sc2tog – single crochet 2 together.

Finished Bear Size: using a 3.0 mm hook, the bear measures about 13.5 to 14 inches tall; if making the jumbo bear (3.75 mm hook) measures to be just over 15 inches.

ALTERNATE TO MAGIC RING: ch 2, create the number of stitches required in the 2nd chain from hook.

Head (using scrap yarn):

Round 1: magic ring – 6 sc.

Round 2: 2 sc in each stitch around.

Round 3: *2 sc in first stitch, 1 sc in the next stitch* repeat * to * around.

Round 4: *2 sc in first stitch, 1 sc in the next 2 stitches* repeat * to * around.

Round 5: *2 sc in first stitch, 1 sc in the next 3 stitches* repeat * to * around.

Round 6: *2 sc in first stitch, 1 sc in the next 4 stitches* repeat * to * around.

Round 7: *2 sc in first stitch, 1 sc in the next 5 stitches* repeat * to * around. (42 stitches)

Round 8: *2 sc in first stitch, 1 sc in the next 6 stitches* repeat * to * around.

Round 9: *2 sc in first stitch, 1 sc in the next 7 stitches* repeat * to * around.

Round 10: *2 sc in first stitch, 1 sc in the next 8 stitches* repeat * to * around. (60 stitches)

Round 11 – Round 24: sc in each stitch around.

Round 25: *sc2tog, 1 sc in each of the next 8 stitches* repeat * to * around.

Round 26: *sc2tog, 1 sc in each of the next 7 stitches* repeat * to * around.

Round 27: *sc2tog, 1 sc in each of the next 6 stitches* repeat * to * around.

Round 28: *sc2tog, 1 sc in each of the next 5 stitches* repeat * to * around.

Begin stuffing.

Round 29: *sc2tog, 1 sc in each of the next 4 stitches* repeat * to * around.

Insert safety eyes between rounds 15 and 16, leaving 6 stitches between them.

Round 30: *sc2tog, 1 sc in each of the next 3 stitches* repeat * to * around.

Finish stuffing.

Round 31: *sc2tog, 1 sc in each of the next 2 stitches* repeat * to * around.

Round 32: *sc2tog, 1 sc in the next stitch* repeat * to * around.

Fasten off, weave in ends.

Snout (using white yarn)

Round 1: magic ring – 6 sc.

Round 2: 2 sc in each stitch around.

Round 3: *2 sc in first stitch, 1 sc in next* repeat * to * around.

Round 4: *2 sc in first stitch, 1 sc in each of the next 2* repeat * to * around.

Round 5: * 2 sc in first stitch, 1 sc in each of the next 3* repeat * to * around.

Round 6 – Round 8: sc around.

Fasten off.

Attach safety nose between rounds 3 and 4.

Sew onto head so that the top of the snout rests at round 18.

Ears (make 2, using scrap yarn)

Round 1: magic ring – 6 sc.

Round 2: 2 sc in each stitch.

Round 3: *2 sc in first stitch, 1 sc in next* repeat * to * around.

Round 4: *2 sc in first stitch, 1 sc in each of the next 2* repeat * to * around.

Round 5 – Round 7: sc around.

Fasten off, leave tail for sewing to head.

Flatten the ear so that you are sewing through the front and back of the ear at the same time. Sew to head between rows 4 and 10, curving the ears slightly as you sew.

Body (using scrap yarn):