~ Orihime & Hikoboshi ~

PATTERN: TOP-DOWN / LEVEL: BEGINNER-INTERMEDIATE

Create your own Orihime & Hikoboshi kokeshi-style dolls to celebrate their celestial love story.

For this project you’ll need:

Suggested materials:

• 3.5 mm crochet hook with medium weight yarn (4/Worsted) in the colours of your choice for the skin, two different colours for the kimonos, the hagoromo (Orihime’s shawl), and the embroidery on the kimonos
• 3 mm crochet hook with light weight yarn (3/DK) in the colours of your choice for the hair and the two obis (belts)
• 1 cm safety eyes or black buttons
• Scissors
• Tapestry needle
• Stuffing fibre
• Handicraft dry-clear glue OR
• Sewing needle and thread in the same colour of the hair
• Blush makeup (optional)

Yarn information:

For this project, I used:

• Medium-weight yarn (4/Worsted) Bernat Super Value 100% acrylic from Yarnspirations
• Medium weight yarn (4/Worsted) Cloud Cotton 100% Pima Cotton from Estelle Yarns
• Medium weight (4/Worsted) plush yarn for the hagoromo (Orihime’s shawl)
• Light weight yarn (3/DK) Snuggly Replay 50% cotton / 50% acrylic from Sirdar
• Light weight yarn (3/DK) Eco Cotton DK 100% Organic Cotton from Estelle Yarns

My abbreviations (based on US terms):

• MR - magic ring
• ST - stitch
• CH - chain
• SL ST - slip stitch
• SC - single crochet
• INC - increase (2sc in the same st)
• DEC - decrease (sc 2 together)
• DC - double crochet
• TR - treble crochet
• ( )xNUMBER - number of times you have to repeat everything inside the brackets
• square brackets - total number of stitches on the row

Tips:

• If you’re unfamiliar with any crochet stitches used in this pattern, try searching YouTube for “stitch name + tutorial.” You’ll find plenty of beginner-friendly, detailed video guides.
• Rows without a mention of a chain between them are worked in continuous rounds. To keep track, use a stitch marker to mark the last stitch of each row.
• In crochet, yarn over (YO) and yarn under (YU) refer to how the yarn is wrapped around the hook when making stitches. Yarn over (bringing the yarn over the hook from back to front) is the standard technique and is used throughout all my patterns unless stated otherwise. Yarn under (bringing the yarn under the hook from front to back) creates tighter stitches and a firmer fabric. Using yarn under instead of yarn over may result in slight differences, such as a smaller final piece, more visible slip stitches, and a firmer, less soft texture.

Crochet pattern designed by Lumy Levenhagen. All Rights Reserved. Sharing, selling, re-writing, copying or translating any part of this pattern is prohibited and subjected to international copyright law.