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Ratatouille

Making my dream Halloween costume
#Crochet#Pattern design#Prototyping

I’ve been doing a lot of crochet, and pinning different inspirations on Pinterest. The algorithm eventually fed me a crochetted Remy the rat from Ratatouille and I wanted one. The patterns I found online weren’t doing it for me, so I designed one myself.

I made a few different attempts to get the shapes right, but I really love how it turned out.

Three different crochet heads.
Two crochet bodies.
The crochet rat sits on my head.
The crochet rat sits on my head.

The pattern

This might not be 100% accurate, because I didn’t write anything down as I went. You’ll be working everything in the round and sewing things together. You’ll need pink, grey, and white yarn in a chunky weight. You’ll also need stuffing, safety eyes, a tapestry needle, and little hair clips.

Skills and notations: single crochet (sc), increase (inc), decrease (dec), back loop only (BLO), magic ring,

  1. Magic ring, 6sc into the ring [6]
  2. (sc, inc) 3 times [9]
  3. 9sc [9]
  4. (2sc, inc) 3 times [12]
  5. 12sc [12]
  6. 12sc [12]
  7. 8inc, 4sc [20]
  8. ?? [32] 9-12. 32sc [32]

Attach safety eyes (I used 8mm ones) between rows 7 and 8. Stuff the mouth and head.

  1. (3sc, dec) 6 times [24]
  2. (2sc, dec) 6 times [18]
  3. (sc, dec) 6 times [12]
  4. dec 6 times [6]

Sew the hole closed with a tapestry needle, and stitch the tail into the stuffed head. Stitch the nose on using pink yarn.

Chef hat

  1. Magic ring, 6sc into the ring [6]
  2. inc 6 times [12]
  3. (sc, inc) 6 times [18]
  4. (2sc, inc) 6 times [24]
  5. BLO 24sc [24] 5-10. 24sc [24]

Fasten off, leaving a long tail. Sew the hat to the head. Squash it into shape once it’s attached.

Ears

Make two.

  1. Magic ring, 6sc into the ring [6]
  2. inc 6 times [12]
  3. (sc, inc) 6 times [18]

Fasten off, leaving a tail for sewing. Attach near the hat, sewing the stitches closest to the bottom together to make a cup shape.

Body

  1. Magic ring, 6sc into the ring [6]
  2. inc 6 times [12]
  3. (sc, inc) 6 times [18]
  4. (2sc, inc) 6 times [24]
  5. (3sc, inc) 6 times [30]
  6. (4sc, inc) 6 times [36]
  7. 36sc [36]
  8. (16sc, dec) 2 times [34]
  9. 34sc [34]
  10. (15sc, dec) 2 times [32]
  11. 32sc [32]
  12. (14sc, dec) 2 times [30]
  13. 30sc [30]
  14. (13sc, dec) 2 times [28]

Fasten off, leaving a tail for sewing. Sew the head and the body together.

Arms

Make two. Start with pink and switch to grey after the first round.

  1. Magic ring, 6sc into the ring [6]
  2. (sc, inc) 3 times [9]
  3. 9sc [9]
  4. (2sc, inc) 3 times [12]
  5. 12sc [12]

Stuff the arms lightly. Fasten off, leaving a tail for sewing. Sew the arms to the body. Using a needle and thread (not yarn) attach small hair clips to the hands.

Tail

  1. Magic ring, 6sc into the ring [6] 2-12. 6sc [6]

Fasten off, leaving a tail for sewing. Attach to the body where you would expect the tail to go.

Feet

Make two.

  1. Magic ring, 6sc into the ring [6]
  2. inc 6 times [12]

Fasten off, leaving a tail for sewing. Attach to the body where you would expect the feet to go.