Penny Tennis

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PATTERN
CROCHET DOLL
PENNY, THE TENNIS PLAYER

Contents:
1. About me
2. Introduction
3. Supplies
4. Abbreviations
5. Process description
6. Conclusion
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Hello!
My name is Dasha and I'm a fan of
amigurumi!
I create and crochet brooches,
toys and also make patterns to
them.
I've been keen on handmade since
my childhood, but only crocheting
has been thrown me into!
Recently, I've started to blog my
cozy Instagram about crocheting.
Привет!
Привет!

Introduction
Before starting to create the doll, I sencerely ask you to get
known the following information:
This pattern doesn't include any tutorial lessons.
Buying the pattern you accept the following requirements:

✔The pattern is my authorial work;
✔The pattern is only for personal use;
✔Selling, presenting, or destributing any other ways are
prohibited;
✔If you publish on the Internet any photos of the doll,
crocheted by this pattern, mention me, as the author, please.
Don't forget to mention my Instagram account:
@pollytoys_crochet
Thanks for understanding and respecting my work.

Enjoy the process and have a nice day!

Supplies
The size of a ready doll is 11,02 inches, if you use supplies mentioned
below.
For the doll:
1) Yarn of 5 different colors: beige,

yellow, white, brown, grey:
- YarnArt Jeans, 50g/ 160m, 55%

cotton, 45% acryl, color 07 (beige) -
for the body, color 187 (yellow) - for
cap, T-shirt, sneakers and
stockings, color 62 (white) - for T-
shirt, pants, stockings and
scrunchie;
- Alpina Vera, 100g/ 280m, 55%
cotton, 45% acryl, color 29 (grey)
(you can use YarnArt Jeans, color 49
or Alize Cotton Gold, color 200
instead) - for skirt, stockings,
sneakers and cap;
- Alpina Rene, 50g/ 125m, 100%
cotton, color - 229 (brown) - for
hair.
You can use any other yarn of the same characteristics.
2) hook, suitable for the chosen yarn, I've used Tulip 1,5;
3) moulinet thread of black and brown colors, some piece of YarnArt
Jeans, color 62 (white) - for face embroidering;
4) alluminium wire of 2mm thick (2 pieces of about 11,02 inches long) and
1/1,5mm (1 piece of about 9,06 inches long) and adhesive plaster.
If you're going to make a doll without any wire skeleton, you need a
skewer or any other skeleton to strengthen neck.

5) a piece of plastic or cardboard of 3,9x 3,9 inches;
6) eyes 10mm and some strong glue if you are going to glue them;
7) oil pastel of brown and peach/pink color (you can use blusher instead),
a paint brush to tint;
8) pliers, scissors, pins;
9) a tapestry needle and a long needle;
10) fiberefill.
for tennis racket and a ball:

1) a piece of cardboard of 7,87x7,87 inches;
2) PVA glue or some strong glue;
3) Acryl paints or gouache (white color for a ball, grey and yellow for a
rocket);
4) a thin paintbruch;
5) a piece of tulle of 3,9x3,9 inches;
6) checkered sheet of paper and a pencil;
7) a piece of yellow paper of 0,79x0,79 inches;
8) a small piece of polymer clay or air plasticine of yellow color;
9) acryl paint of white color and a thin paint brush.

Abbreviations
MR - MagicRing
sc- single crochet
ch - chain
dec- decrease
inc- increase
hdc- half double crochet
dc- double crochet
sl st -slip stitch
BLO - Back loop only
FLO - front loop only
(..) * - repeat figure in brackets required number of times

Process description
Arms
3dc bubble
Beige color
2 pieces.
Don't fill with fiber
1 row: 5sc in MR
2 row: 5inc (10)
3 row: 10sc
4 row: 1 3dc bubble -9sc (10)
5 row: (1dec-3sc)*2 (8) (the 1st dec must be exactly above 3dc bubble)
6 row: 8sc
Work 3 shifting sc in the left arm.
Then work wristbands. I've worked wristbands of different colors for
each arm, but you can make them of one color.

Right arm:
Change color into white one, but don't
cut beige thread.
7 row: 8sl st (work loose)
Change color into yellow one, cut white
thread.
8 row: 8sc (BLO and sc of the 6th row)
Link to the video to get known how to
change thread color.
Here and further press icon to link
to the video.
Change color into grey one, cut yellow
thread.
9 row: 8sc CHANGE THREAD COLOR
Change color into beige one, cut grey
thread.
left arm:
Change color into yellow, but don't cut beige thread.
9 row: 8sc
Change color into beige one, cut yellow thread.

12-17 row (6 rows): 8sc
18 row: (1inc-3sc)*2 (10)
Inc must be exactly in both sides of the arm.
19-24 row (6 rows): 10sc
Work 5 shifting sc in the right arm, and 4 shifting sc for the left one to
make color changing exactly in the cetner of inner side of the arm.
Change color into white one, cut beige thread.
Change color into grey one, but don't cut white thread.
Change color into white one, cut grey thread.
27 row: 10sc
Fix and cut thread, hide tail thread.

Legs
Grey color.
2 pieces
Don't fill with fiber.
8ch,turn the work, from the 2nd ch.
1 row: 6sc-3sc in 1 stitch-5sc-2sc in 1 stitch (16)
2 row: 1inc-5sc-3inc-5sc-2inc (22)
3 row: 1sc-1inc-5sc-(1sc-1inc)*3-5sc-(1sc-1inc)*2 (28)
Link to the video to get known how to make and
oval.
OVAL
4 row: BLO 28sc

Change color into yellow one, cut grey thread.
Insert insole right now.
Cut an oval insole from plastic or cardboard of the
length of the foot (in my case, it's an oval of 0,98 x
1,38 inches).
Insert (or glue) it inside the foot. I recommend to cut
the 2nd insole at once to have them of the same size.
Dec must be exactly in the center from 7 - 9 rows, if

it's necessary make shifting sc.
7 row: 8sc-5dec-10sc (23)

Insert wire right now.
Take a wire of 2 mm thick and 11,02 inches long and
twist it in spiral and wrap ends with adhesive
plaster. Bend it to make a form of foot.

Insert wire skeleton with wrapped part down. Fill the foot with fiber
tightly with the help of a skewer or sushi stick. Then fill the leg with
fiber in the process.
Link to the video below to get known how to make a wire skeleton.
WIRE SKELETON
Change color into white one, but don't cut yellow thread.
10 row: BLO 3sc-1dec-(2sc-1dec)*2-3sc -1dec (14)
11-15 row (5 rows): 14sc
Work 1 shifting sc to have color change exactly above the heel in the
back.
Change color into yellow one, but don't cut white thread.
Change color into white one, cut yellow thread.
Change color into grey one, don't cut white thread.
Change color into white one, cut grey thread.
20 row: 14sc

Change color into beige one, cut
white thread.
21 row: BLO 14sc
22-25 row (4 rows): 14sc
26 row: 3sc-1inc-7sc-1inc-2sc (16)
Inc must be exactly along both sides
of the leg. If it's necessary make
required number of shifting sc.
27-29 row (3 rows): 16sc
Inc must be exactly along both sides
of the leg. If it's necessary make
required number of shifting sc.
31-35 row (5 rows): 18sc
Work 3 shifting sc to have color
changing exactly in the center of the
back.
Change color into white one, cut
beige thread.
36 row: 18 sl st (work loose)
37 row: 18sc (BLO and sc of the 35th
row)
38 row: 18sc
Leave unfinished 4 shifting sc in the
left leg; fix and cut thread, hide tail
thread.
Work 5 shifting sc in the rifght leg,
don't cut thread, we go on working
the body.

Bind off foot
Attach thread of grey color to FLO of the 3rd row, as it's shown in the
photo and work 28sc.
Bind off the edge of the sneaker

Attach thread of yellow color to FLO of the 9th row, as it's shown in the
photo and work by the scheme.
1 row: 18sc
Change color into grey one, cut yellow thread.
3 row: 18sc (BLO and sc of the 1st row)
Bind off stockings

Attach thread of white color to FLO of the 20th row, as it's shown in
the photo and work 14sc.
Embroider shoelaces on the sneakers with grey color.

Body
Continue to work.
Fill the body with fiber in the process.
Place the legs to make them face with toes exactly straight. Legs
attachment must be exactly along the center of inner part of hip.
4ch, sl st in the last sc of the 2nd leg.
Twist wire of both legs together as it's shown in the photo.
39 row: 18sc along one leg-4sc along chain-18sc along the 2nd leg -4sc
along chain (44)
Place the marker, which must be exactly in the back.
40-47 row (8 rows): 44sc
Work several shifting sc to have the marker aside the body (in my case,
i've made 9 shifting sc).
Change color into grey one, but don't cut white thread.
48 row: 44sc

Skirt
Yarn of grey color, use hook of the
same number or a bit bigger one.
Work in turning rows.
Probably, you have to use hook of
bigger number or add/remove 1-2
rows.
Check to your work.
12ch, turn the work, from the 2nd ch.
1 row: BLO 9sc-BLO 2sl st, 1ch, turn
the work (11)
2 row: BLO 2sl st-BLO9sc, 1ch, turn
the work (11)
Repeat the 1st and the 2nd rows 26
times; there must be 54 rows.
55 row: BLO 9sc-BLO 2sl st, 1ch, turn
the work (11)
Fold the piece in halves and work 11 sc
in both sides.
Continue to work the body and attach

the skirt. Put the skirt on the body
with row in sl st up and work in the
following scheme.
49 row: catch stitches of the skirt and
the body - 44sc

Wrap twisted wire with adhesive plaster to
make the skeleton safer.
Change color into yellow one, cut grey
thread.
Change color into white one, cut yellow
thread.
53 row: BLO and sc of the 51st row: 1dec-
20sc-1dec-20sc (42)
Dec must be exactly aside the body.
54 row: (5sc-1dec)*6 (36)
55-57 row (3 rows): 36sc
58 row: (4sc-1dec)*6 (30)
59-62 row (4 rows): 30sc
Attach the arms.

Attach arms in 1 sc.
If it's necessary shift the marker to have it
exactly before right arm attaching (I've
shifted in 2 sc).
Place the arms to the body to make the
fingers face straight.
Attach left arm, working sc together with
the arm (it's the 1st sc of the row) and then
work along the arm.
63 row: 10sc along left arm-14sc along the
body-10sc along right arm (attach right arm
in the same way as for the left one)-14sc
along the body (48)

Insert wire skeleton inside the arms.
Take a piece of wire 1/1,5mm thick and
9,06 inches long, bend it in both ends in
about 0,39 inches and wrap with
adhesive plaster. Insert wire in both
arms behind main skeleton (see the
photo). Fill the arms with fiber a bit
with the help of a skewer or sushi stick
(fill palms with fiber tightly, but the the
rest of arm a bit).
64 row: 48sc
65 row: 3sc-1 triple dec-21sc-1 triple dec-
18sc (44)
dec in 65, 66, 67 rows must be exactly
aside in the center of shoulder.
Link to the video to get known how to
make a triple dec.
TRIPLE DEC
66 row: 2sc-2dec-18sc-2dec-16sc (40)

67 row: 1sc-2dec-16sc-2dec-15sc (36)
68 row: (4sc-1dec)*6 (30)
69 row: (3sc-1dec)*6 (24)
Work 2 shifting sc to have the marker
aside.
Change color into beige one, cut white
thread.
70 row: BLO (2sc-1dec)*6 (18)
71 row: (1sc-1dec)*6 (12)
72-79 row (8 rows): 12sc
Work required number of shifting sc to
have the marker aside.

Collar
Attach thread of yellow color to FLO of the 69th row and work by the
scheme: 12sc-1hdc-4dc-1sl st-4dc-1hdc-1sc
Make sure, sl st must be exactly in the center.
Logo
Embroider a logo on the T-shirt with yellow and white color.

Head
See the photo next page.
Beige color.
Fill the head with fiber in the process.
13ch, turn the work, from the 2nd ch
1 row: 11sc-3sc in 1 stitch-10sc-1inc (26)
2 row: 1inc-10sc-3inc-10sc-2inc (32)
Inc must be exactly aside.
8 row: 58sc
Inc must be exactly aside.
10-17 row (8 rows): 60sc
18 row: 4sc-1dec-(8sc-1dec)*5-4sc (54)
19 row: (7sc-1dec)*6 (48)
If you use eyes on safe fastening, insert them between 11 and 14 rows
in the distance of 6 sc.
21 row: (5sc-1dec)*6 (36)
23 row: (3sc-1dec)*6 (24)
25 row: (4sc-1dec)*3 (15)
26 row: BLO 15sc
27-33 row (7 rows): 15sc
Fill the head with fiber.

Push the lower part of the head inside the head with the help of sushi
stick. Make sure, the head is filled with fiber tightly, but it can easily
be put on the neck.
Attach the head to the body.
Firstly decorate the face and then fix it to the body.

Ears and decoration
Ears
Beige color. 2 pieces
1 row: 6sc in MR, 1ch, turn the work
2 row: 6sc
Fix and cut thread, leave long tail thread for attaching.
Decoration
Make eye contractions (link to the video next page).
Insert/glue/sew eyes between 11 and 14 row in the distance of 6sc if you
haven't done it before.
Embroider the whites of the eye with thread of white color. Embroider
eyelids with moulinet thread of black color (in 4 threads), embroider
eyelashes with moulinet thread of black color (in 2 threads).

Embroider eyebrows with hair thread. Embroider the nose with yarn
of beige color (1sc lower than the eyes, 2sc wide). Embroider the mouth
with moulinet thread of light-brown color (in 1 thread) - 2sc lower
than the nose, 4sc wide.
Tint the cheeks and nose with oil pastel or blusher of pink color.
Tint eyebrows a bit with oil pastel of brown color.
Attach ears between 13 and 17 rows in the distance of 6sc from the
eyes.
Link to the video to get known how to decorate the face (it's an
example of face decoration).
FACE
DECORATION

Hairstyle and a cap
Brown color.
Don't fill with fiber.
13ch, turn the work, from the 2nd ch.
1 row: 11sc-3sc in 1 stitch-10sc-1inc (26)
2 row: BLO 1inc-10sc-3inc-10sc-2inc (32)
Inc must be exactly aside
8 row: 58sc
Inc must be exactly aside
10-12 row (3 rows): 60sc
Cut thread, leave a short tail thread, but don't hide it. Continue to work.
Work pony tail.
Attach thread of brown color to FLO of the 1st row and work by the
following scheme: 1sc-(16ch,turn the work, along the chain -15hdc-1sc in
next stitch)*26
Continue to work. Change color into grey one.
13 row: 60 sl st (work loose)
Don't cut thrad, we'll use it after cap peak.

Peak
Yellow color, in turning rows.
15ch, turn the work, from the 2 nd ch.
1-2 row (2 rows): 14sc, 1ch, turn the work
3 row: 1inc-12sc-1inc (16), 1ch, turn the work
4 row: 16sc, 1ch, turn the work
5 row: 1inc-14sc-1inc (18), 1ch, turn the work
6 row: 18sc, 1ch, turn the work
7 row: 1inc-16sc-1inc (20), 1ch
Bind off the piece in 3 sides (follow arrows in the photo).
Grey color: work the peak to the head.
15 row: 29sc-20sc together with the peak-11sc (60)
Bind off the cap in sc.
Attach hair with the cap to the head.

Scrunchie
White color.
33ch, turn the work, from the
2nd ch: 32hdc.
Try the scrunchie on the hair
and attach in sl st; sew the
scrunchie with tail thread.
Fix and cut thread, hide tail
thread.
Head attachment
Attach the head to the body
after face decoration and
making hair style.
Link to the video below to get
known how to attach the head.
HEAD ATTACHMENT

Tennis racket and a ball
Racket
Pencil a racket on a sheet of paper and cut it.
Move a drawing on a cardboard and cut 4 equal pieces.
Glue 4 pieces together, making 2 rackets. Draw 2 pieces in grey color
in one side and draw yellow lines on them.
Take a piece of tulle and glue it to undrawn side of a racket, glue the
2nd piece on it.
Cut extra tulle. Glue a small piece of colored paper, imitating a racket
handle.
Ball
Make a ball from polymer clay of 0,59 inches dia. Dry the ball,
following an instruction (bake it in the oven/ dry in the air). Paint
stripes of white color from acryl paints.
Our Penny, the tennis
player is ready!

Thanks for buying the pattern!
If you publish the photo with a ready doll on the Instagram, mention
@pollytoys_crochet , please.
If you have any questions in the process, e-mail me:
@pollytoys_crochet
[email protected]
+7(905)7226704
Have a cozy day!

Daria,
@pollytoys_crochet

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PENNY, THE TENNIS PLAYER

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This pattern doesn't include any tutorial lessons.

Buying the pattern you accept the following requirements:

Thanks for understanding and respecting my work.

@pollytoys_crochet All the rights are reserved

1) Yarn of 5 different colors: beige,

- YarnArt Jeans, 50g/ 160m, 55%

You can use any other yarn of the same characteristics.

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for tennis racket and a ball:

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10 row: 8sl st (work loose)

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4 row: BLO 28sc

Dec must be exactly in the center from 7 - 9 rows, if

7 row: 8sc-5dec-10sc (23)

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Bind off the edge of the sneaker

Bind off stockings

Embroider shoelaces on the sneakers with grey color.

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Continue to work the body and attach

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Attach the arms.

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66 row: 2sc-2dec-18sc-2dec-16sc (40)

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Firstly decorate the face and then fix it to the body.

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