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Posm Crochet Pattern
Fun Fact! Opossums are the only marsupial native to the United States and Canada.
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Abbreviations and Notes
Abbreviations
● Sc — Single crochet
● Inc — Increase (Sc 2 in one stitch)
● Dec — Decrease (Invisible Decrease, Sc 1 in the front loops of two
stitches at once.)
● Ch — Chain
● Slst — Slip stitch
● FO — Fasten Off (Slip stitch in the next stitch, ch 1, pull and cut
the yarn.)
● Rnd — a round of your work, the end marked with a stitch marker
● [crochet words]x6 — Brackets indicate that something is
repeated multiple times in one round. A number (x6) should tell
you how many times it is repeated.
● (##) — Numbers inside parentheses tell you how many times
something should be repeated. At the end of a round, it tells you
how many stitches should be in that round.
Fun Fact! Due to their lower body temperature (94-97 degrees), many opossums are immune to
rabies!
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Materials
● 4mm (G) crochet hook
● Scissors
● Darning needle
● A stitch marker or a piece of yarn
● White yarn
● Gray yarn
● Black yarn
● Light Pink yarn
● A small amount of Black yarn
● A clean chopstick or stuffing stick (optional)
● Polyester fiberfill
● The yarn I personally use is medium (or “worsted”) weight, acrylic
yarn. This yarn may also be labeled as weight 4.
● Note: if there is no stitch count after the instructions for a round,
it means that the count is the same as the last round.
Fun Fact! Opossums have 13 nipples, an odd number!
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Here are all the colors you will need. Don’t hesitate to use other colors
if you’d like! Be creative :)
Pictured: “baby pink” as light pink, “white” as white, “grey heather” as gray, and “dk grey heather”
as black. Dk grey heather has been discontinued and regular black yarn will work.
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Head & Body
(Start with white yarn)
Rnd 1. Ch 2 and Sc 6 into the first chain.
Rnd 2. [Sc 1, Inc 1]×3 (9)
Rnd 3. Sc around
Rnd 4.[ Sc 2, Inc 1]×3 (12)
Rnd 5. Sc around
Rnd 6. [Sc 3, Inc 1]×3 (15)
Rnd 7. Sc around
Rnd 8. [Sc 4, Inc 1]×3 (18)
Rnd 9. [Sc 2, Inc 1]×6 (24)
Rnd 10. Sc around
Rnd 11. [Sc 5, Inc 1]×4 (28)
Rnd 12-13. Sc around 2 rounds
(Change to gray yarn)
Rnd 14-16. Sc around 3 rounds
(Between rounds 13 and 14, in stitches
13, 14, and 15, create the “widows peak”
that opossums have with your needle. The
yarn should go down 4 rounds on the
sides, and 5 rounds in the middle. Wrap it
around at least 3 times, or until the empty spaces between stitches are full. The
pictures provided will guide you.)
Rnd 17. [Sc 5, Dec 1]×4 (24)
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Rnd 18. [Sc 2, Inc 1]×8 (32)
Rnd 19. [Sc 7, Inc 1]×4 (36)
Now is a good time to stuff the snout and head. Pay extra attention to the snout,
as simply stuffing the head will make the snout feel hollow. Give the head a
generous amount of stuffing, and continue crocheting.
For a chunkier posm like mine, add another round here:
([Sc 5, Inc 1]×6 (42))
Rnd 20-35. Sc around 16 rounds
([Sc 5, Dec 1]×6 (36))
Rnd 36. [Sc 4, Dec 1]×6 (30)
Rnd 37. [Sc 3, Dec 1]×6 (24)
Now it is time to stuff the body. Stuff the
body generously, while making sure there
aren’t disproportionately lumpy parts, or
parts where the stuffing can be easily
seen through the stitches. You may have
to stuff a little more after round 39.
Rnd 38. [Sc 2, Dec 1]×6 (18)
Rnd 39. [Sc 1, Dec 1]×6 (12)
Rnd 40. [Dec 1]×6 (6)
FO and sew shut
Time for another Fun Fact! The scientific name for
the Virginia Opossum is Didelphis Virginiana.
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Ears
(Make 2 black ears. No stuffing required.)
Rnd 1. Ch 2 and Sc 6 into the first chain.
Rnd 2. [Sc 1, Inc 1]×3 (9)
Rnd 3. [Sc 2, Inc 1]×3 (12)
Rnd 4. Sc around
Rnd 5. [Sc 2, Dec 1]×3 (9)
Sc shut (4) and FO, leave a long tail for sewing.
(First image is a different color for clarity.)
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Sewing on the Ears:
For the possum’s left ear, insert your hook 5 stitches away from the widow's peak.
Sew along the numbers using the 4 single crochets on the bottom of the ear. You
should only use 4 sc stitches on the head, although it will look like 2 single
crochets on the head have been unused (5th image).
Then, I like to weave the yarn behind the ear, and knot it like the 2 pics below.
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Now for the possum’s right ear, insert your hook 2 stitches away from the widow’s
peak. Sew to the left of it similarly to the way you sewed the left ear. Use the 4
single crochets at the bottom of the ear, as well as 4 stitches in the head. When
you are done, weave your yarn behind the ear and knot it.
When you are done sewing the ears, weave the yarn into the body. Do not cut the
yarn before weaving it into the body. This technique hides and secures the tail you
used to sew. Now, your ears should appear to be 2 stitches apart from the marker
you made.
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Face
For the nose, take some of the light pink yarn and sew in from the center of the
snout to the stitches in round 2.
Repeat to the left for the next 3 stitches in round 2, so that you have 4 stitches
(3rd image). Then, sew over them again at least 2 more times, making sure to fill in
empty space between the sewing stitches. When you are done, tie the two ends in
a knot and weave it into the body.
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Start the eyes by inserting your needle 5 rounds above the nose. Make a stitch,
and then make another stitch 4 stitches to the left.
Wrap yarn around your stitches with the needle at least 7 times, until the eyes look
like the image below. For the mouth, weave the yarn to the bottom of the snout,
and use images 5 thru 8 to make the mouth loop.
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Images 8 thru 13 show how to secure the mouth in place. Take your yarn and wrap
it around the mouth, then weave it through the same stitch it is coming out of.
When you are done making the mouth, weave your yarn to the eye (or wherever
the yarn is coming from) and tie the yarn ends together. Then, weave them
through the body and cut them off.
Download part 2 to continue!
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