Poké Ball

Poké Ball

Crochet By Katie Humes

My Pokémon Project

 

Welcome to my first blog in a series of something that is very near and dear to my heart!! My Pokémon Project!! At the end of this series I will have designed for you all 150 original Pokémon Characters. Today we will be making a Poké Ball that each of these characters will easily be able to fit nice and snug inside. I'm seriously so excited for this project!! Let's get stitchin!!

 

Materials needed:

• 3.75mm hook
• Red Yarn
• White Yarn
• Black Yarn
• Scissors
• Yarn Needle
• Stitch Markers
• VELCRO circles 3/8 in

Pattern Notes: You can use any yarn you desire, I used Red Heart Yarn for this project. The red shade I used is called "Cherry Red" and the white is plain "White" there are a ton of different shades of white and I didn't realize this until recently, this is just plain old white. I crochet in continuous rounds and this pattern is written in US terms.

 

 

Abbreviations

MR - Magic Ring

sc - single crochet

inc - increase

dec - decrease

sl st- slip stitch

BLO - back loops only

 

 

Bottom Part of the Poké Ball

Begin with white yarn and work in continuous rounds.

 

Round 1: MR of 6 (6)

Round 2: 6 inc (12)

Round 3: (1 sc, inc) x 6  (18)

Round 4: (2sc, inc) x 6 (24)

Round 5: (3sc, inc) x 6 (30)

Round 6: (4sc, inc) x 6 (36)  

Round 7: (5sc, inc) x 6 (42)

Round 8: (6sc, inc) x 6 (48)

Round 9-12: 4 rows - sc 48, sl st, cut yarn.

Round 13: Switch to black yarn, connect to the white, sc BLO, sl st, cut yarn (48)

 

 

Top Part of the Poké Ball

Begin with the red yarn and work in continuous rounds.

Round 14: MR of 6 (6)

Round 15: 6 inc (12)

Round 16: (1 sc, inc) x 6  (18)

Round 17: (2sc, inc) x 6 (24)

Round 18: (3sc, inc) x 6 (30)

Round 19: (4sc, inc) x 6 (36)  

Round 20: (5sc, inc) x 6 (42)

Round 21: (6sc, inc) x 6 (48)

Round 22-25: 4 rows - sc 48, sl st, cut yarn.

Round 26: Switch to black yarn, connect to the white, sc BLO, sl st, cut yarn (48)

 

 

Poké Button

 

Make 2 circles one black and one white, the black one will be larger than the white one.

 

Begin with black yarn and work in continuous rounds.

Round 1: MR of 6 (6)

Round 2: 6 inc (12)

Round 3: (1sc, inc) x 6 (18) sl st, cut yarn, leave tail.

 

Begin with white yarn and work in continuous rounds.

Round 4: MR of 6 (6)

Round 5: 6 inc (12) sl st, cut yarn, center and sew the white circle directly on top of the black circle.

 

 

 

 

Poké Ball Assembly

 

Using the tail you left on the bottom side of the Poké Ball weave around to the opposite side of the Poké Ball. Sew both sides together using a whip stitch, you can hide your stitches by weaving in and out and behind the black crochet stitches. Make sure to carefully check that everything aligns exactly, taking your time sewing the red top to the white bottom.

Sew on the Poké Button to the front of the Poké Ball. If desired use a precut circle VELCRO to hold both sides of the Poké Ball together. Using fabric glue fix in place the soft fuzzy side of the VELCRO to the inside of the Poké Ball Button.Glue the rough, scratchy side to the outside of the bottom white side of the Poké Ball. Let this dry for 24 hours.  

 

Thank you so much for crocheting along with me today! I hope you had fun making this Poké Ball with me!! You can check out my YouTube Channel Crochet By Katie Humes for more patterns and the Pokémon Mini's that will fit inside of this ball. Happy Crochet Day!! If you would like to show me your work use the hashtags: #crochetbykatiehumes and #mypokemonproject I can't wait to see your creations!! See ya soon.