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Crochet Pattern So just crochet this cute bookmark

Are you constantly looking for something that can quickly serve as a bookmark? Just make an animal bookmark that you will not lose!

You need this:

This cute gecko might soon come out of your book!
Photo: Frech Verlag
  • crochet hook
  • Wool in golf green (FB 241)
  • Wool in black (FB 110)
  • Wool in white (FB 106)

And this is how it's done:

Head:

The head in golf green in spiral-rd arb.
ROUND 1: Work 6 dc in a string ring (6).
2nd round: 2x (1 dc doubles, 2 dc) (8).
3rd round: 2x (1fm doubles, 3fm) (10).
4th round: 2x (1 dc doubles, 4 dc) (12).
5th round: 2x (1fM doubles, 5fm) (14).
6th round: 2x (1 fM double, 6 fM) (16).
ROUND 7: 2x (1 dc double, 7 dc) (18)
ROUND 8: 2x (1 dc, 8 dc) (20).
Rd 9: Double every 4th dc (25).
10th 12th Round: Crochet 25 dc (25).
ROUND 13: Crochet each 4th + 5th dc (20).
ROUND 14: Crochet every 4th + 5th dc (16).
Fill the head with cotton wool.
Rd 15: Crochet the head (see page 100): Add 7 sc (7).

Gecko Kopf
Here you see the individual steps for the head! (From left to right) Photo: Frech Verlag

Body:

Continue in R in golf green.
1st R: Work without Turn, work 6 dc (6).
2nd R: Work without Turn, work 5 dc (5).
3rd round: Crochet 1 dc, 5 dc (5).
4th round: 1 turn round, double 1 dc, 3 dc, 1 dc doubles,
1. Crochet the front leg (see "Front legs" page 53).
R: 3 dc in the next sts on body, 5 dc, 1 dc doubles,
2. Crochet the front leg (see "Front Legs" page 53).
6th round: 3 sc in the next sts on the body, 7 dc, 1 dc doubles.
7. R: 1 turn ch, do 1 dc doubles, 9 dc, 1 dc doubles (13).
8-46th R: 1 turn lm, 13 fm (13).
47. R: 1 Turn ch, 13 dc, Work 1 hind leg (see "Hind legs" page 54).
48. R: Crochet the next 2 dc on body, work 11 dc, 2nd hind leg (see "hind legs" page 54).
49. R: Crochet the next 2 dc on body, 10 dc.

Tail:

Continue in R in golf green.
1st R: 1 turn round, 10 dc (10).
2nd round: Crochet 1 dc, 2 dc, 8 dc (9).
3.-fifth R: 1 turn round, 9 dc (9).
6th round: Crochet 1 dc, 7 dc, 2 dc (8).
7-ninth R: 1 turn lm, 8 fm (8).
10th round: Crochet 1 dc ch, 2 dc, 6 dc (7).
11th-13th R: 1 turn round, 7 dc (7).
14. R: Crochet 1 dc, 5 dc, 2 dc (6).
15th-17th R: 1 turn round, 6 dc (6).
ROOT 18: Crochet 1 dc, 4 dc (5).
19th-21st R: 1 turn round, 5 dc (5).
22. R: Crochet 1 dc, 3 dc, 2 dc (4).
23-25th R: 1 turn round, 4 dc (4).
ROUND 26: Turn 1 dc, knit 2 dc, 2 dc (3).
27th-29th R: 1 turn lm, 3 dc (3).
30. R: Crochet 1 dc, 1 dc, 2 dc (2).
31.-33. R: 1 turn round, 2 dc (2).
34. R: Turn without ch, 1 dc (1). Cut and sew all threads.

Forelimbs:

Always in golf green weiterarbende without cutting the thread.
1st round: 15 ch, 4x (6 ch, 1 tr in the 3rd st from crochet hook, 3 km).
Using the crochet hook, cut through the sts to the left of the last crocheted toe, pick up the thread and pull through. Repeat this for all the other sts between each toe and the st to the left of the first crocheted toe. There are now 5 loops on the crochet hook. Get the thread again and pull through all 5 loops.
2nd round: 5 dc, 3 hdst, 3x (1 dc, 1 dc double).

Gecko Vorderbeine
And so the front legs are crocheted! (From left to right) Photo: Frech Verlag

Hind legs (2x):

Always in golf green weiterarbende without cutting the thread.
1st round: 15 ch, 4x (6 ch, 1 tr in the 3rd st from crochet hook, 3 km).
Using the crochet hook, cut through the sts to the left of the last crocheted toe, pick up the thread and pull through. Repeat this for all the other sts between each toe and the st to the left of the first crocheted toe. There are now 5 loops on the crochet hook. Get the thread again and pull through all 5 loops.
2nd round: 5 dc, 3 hstb, 6 tr.

Eyes:

Make the eyes in variant 1, then add the pupils (see page 100/101).

Completion:

Sew the eyes over the 6th row of M from the top of the head to the head, at the narrowest point 1 m apart.

This great crochet pattern comes from the book "Bookies. Animal bookmarks for crochet " from the Frech Verlag!

The good animal crochet bookmark to make yourself
Photo: Frech Verlag

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