Putting it All Together

Finishing is a very important part of crochet as it could make or break your project. The perfect join should be one you can't distinguish from the work, as bad finishing is always noticeable and messy.

Luckily, most of your finishing points will be hidden in the joints of the animal, so often there is no need to even close the shape completely.

1. When you finish off the end of your arm, or leg, keep a long yarn end for sewing in, then when you are attaching the limb to the body you will be using the same color.

2. Hold the two pieces to be connected together in your left hand, or in your right if you are left-handed. With the left-over yarn and a blunt tapestry needle sew the two pieces together with a whipstitch.

Take the needle into the main body, and bring the needle back up inside the edge of the new limb. Continue all the way around.

3. As the yarn is the same color, the stitches will be almost invisible. Piece the sections together as shown in your assembly diagram.

Fastening off
1. After finishing the last stitch, snip off yarn from ball, leaving a couple of inches to weave in. Yoh.
2. Draw through tail, pulling tightly to fasten.

Weaving in ends
1. Use hook to draw yarn through at least five stitches, winding the yarn over and under as you go to secure yarn and ensure it doesn't work free.
2. Snip off excess yarn.

Slip stitch join
Place two pieces together, right sides facing. Work a row of slip stitch along the join, inserting needle through back loops only of both pieces (the two loops which touch when placed side by side).

Single crochet join
Place two pieces together, right sides facing. Work a row of sc along the join of the two pieces, going through the whole of both stitches.

Whipstitch
Place two pieces together, and using a knitter's needle, join the back loops of each piece with a diagonal stitch motion. Use this stitch when attaching patches of felt, or other fabric, for faces or clothing.