Snowdude Stress Ball or Ornament

Description

Make a snowdude’s head as an ornament or stress ball.

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This pattern is available for FREE on my blog.* The free version is supported by advertising on my website. The downloadable PDF for sale on CraftFoxes includes the full pattern in one printable file without advertisements.*
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Skills Used **
Basic crochet stitches: chain, single crochet, slip stitch
Crocheting in the round
Increasing, decreasing, crocheting in the back loop
 
Skill Level
Easy
 
Finished Size **
Approximately 6” (15 cm) tall with hat.
 
**Materials
Red Heart Super Saver (7 oz/198 g/364 yds/333 m/100 % acrylic) – 1 skein each in 311 White (CA), 312 Black (CB), and 256 Carrot (CC), or approximately 60 yd (55 m) each in CA and CB, and 30 yd (27.5 m) in CC in any medium weight yarn.
 
US Size F-5/3.75 mm crochet hook, or size needed to obtain gauge.
 
Fairfield Poly-Fil Crafter’s Choice Dry Polyester Packing Fiber Fill – 10 ounce bag.
 
Yarn needle.
 
Locking stitch marker.
 
2 matched sew-through buttons. (I used 2 - 0.75” (2 cm) buttons from a Buttons Galore Apothecary Button Jar.)
 
*Gauge *
Through Rnd 11 in pattern for head = 4” (10 cm) diameter. Exact gauge is not critical for this project but stitches should be small so that fiber filling doesn’t show.