Hey all! I got a request for the pattern to my sandworm, and luckily it is fairly simple! I used a 3mm hook and Red Heart Super Saver yarn in warm brown and coffee. As usual, if anyone uses this pattern, please link back to my page, don’t sell things you’ve made with this pattern, and also send me a picture! I’d love to see what people do!
^Body (light brown yarn):
I would like to start by saying that I definitely didn’t complete the body all at once, I only did a short section of it before starting on the mouth and gullet parts, and that I recommend this for stuffing / sewing purposes. It’ll be clear in the next images, but for keeping things a bit organized I’ll put all the instructions for the body in this bit!
Foundation sc 30x, connect in a loop
30 rows of 30 sc in back loops (stuff as you go, but only after adding the gullet piece!)
Crocheting in the backloops is what gave my worm his segmented appearance, critical for anyone who needs to ride! After my worm was long enough, I started doing very slow decreases over the course of about 12 rows, just trying to make it even. SUPER IMPORTANT NOTE! Nothing I did while crocheting the body made the undulations like that, I just took it and squished it into the shape I wanted - trade secret ;)
sc 28 in back loops (decrease once on each side)
sc 26 in back loops (decrease once on each side)
sc 24 in back loops (decrease once on each side)
sc 22 in back loops (decrease once on each side)
sc 20 in back loops (decrease once on each side)
sc 18 in back loops (decrease once on each side)
sc 16 in back loops (decrease once on each side)
sc 14 in back loops (decrease once on each side)
sc 12 in back loops (decrease once on each side)
sc 10 in back loops (decrease once on each side)
sc 8 in back loops (decrease once on each side)
sc 6 in back loops (decrease once on each side)
If you have never used the foundation single crochet, you can probably just start with chain 10 and then single crochet 10 in those, but foundation sc was definitely a game changer when I learned about it! Here is the link for the tutorial I used!
^Light brown triangles (make 3):
So as you can see from the images, I only did about 12 rows of the body before adding the triangles - This is a good point to make sure the triangle will nicely match up when sewing them around the edge - since they’re 10 single crochets across, it should match nicely, but if not you can make them bigger or smaller!
Then sew these triangles around the opening of the mouth - for me they were a bit curly and scrunchy, but that is fixed with the addition of the brown triangles later.
^Cone for gullet (dark brown):
With this dark brown color, all I was looking for was to make it seem like my worm had a deep, gaping maw, so it’s not that important how deep it goes, only that it ultimately is able to sew in to the mouth
increase 3x to make 6 stitches
increase 6x to make 12 stitches
(sc 1, inc 1) 6x to make 18 stitches
(sc2, inc 1) 6x to make 24 stitches
(sc3, inc 1) 6x to make 30 stitches
sc 30x and end leaving a long tail
When sewing the gullet in, be careful to not pass the dark brown yarn tail (which is what I used to sew it on completely through the stitches of the light brown body. After this, I was just careful whenever I added more polyfil to not bulge the gullet out - I would use a finger to make sure it kept its shape!
^Brown triangle inside (make 3):
I actually made these dark brown triangles as an afterthought because I didn’t like how the light brown triangles looked on their own. Since I used single crochets instead of half-double crochets, these turned out stiffer and denser than the light brown triangles - I continually compared them to the light brown so that they would match up and leave just a small border of light brown once they were sewn on.
sc 1x, end and leave a long tail for sewing
Again, when sewing these on, I was VERY careful to pass the yarn tail ONLY through loops of light brown yarn that were on the forward facing side, so there weren’t weird dark brown stitches showing through the mouthpieces!
At this point I thought he looked pretty dang cool, but still decided to add in teeth since of course those are also an important part of the sandworm’s mythology!
For these, I just cut tiny triangles out of off-white felt and carefully hot glued them in (put the glue on the teeth then place them, to minimize drips and globs in the mouth). I started in rows from the deepest part of the throat and working outwards, trying to keep them in concentric circles but staggering where the teeth were relative to the ones behind!
Once you’ve added teeth to taste, he is done! Squash the body into your desired undulation, and start up your thumpers because we have wormsign! Happy crocheting!
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