the nightmare before christmas

Hey Lovelies! Today I really wanted to make you another TsumTsum pattern, and since halloween is coming, I wanted something a it less cute haha xD. So today we will make a Jack Skellington Tsum! I hope you will enjoy~~!

For this DIY you will need:
♥  Yarn: in the colors Black and White.
♥  Crochet hook.
♥  Stitch marker. (optional)
♥  Fiber fill.
♥  Yarn needle.
♥  Embroidery needle with black thread or black felt.
♥  Scissors.

Stitches used (US):
SC = Single Crochet.
ST = Stitch.
Inc = Increase.
Dec = Decrease.
BL = Back Loops only.
Slst = Slip Stitch.
(…) = Repeat the space in brackets the given number of times.
[…] = Total number of stitches.

Pattern

Body
Start with the color White

1: 6SC in magic ring. [6]
2: Inc in each st around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc), 6 times. [18]
4: (2SC, inc), 6 times. [24]
5: (3SC, inc), 6 times. [30]
6: (4SC, inc), 6 times. [36]
7: (5SC, inc), 6 times. [42]
8: SC in each st around. [42]
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14: SC in each st around. [42]
Change to Black.
15: SC in each st around. [42]
16: SC in back loops only, in each st around. [42]
17: SC in each st around. [42]
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29: SC in each st around. [42]
30: (5SC, dec), 6 times. [36]
31: (4SC, dec), 6 times. [30]
32: (3SC, dec), 6 times. [24]
33: (2SC, dec), 6 times. [18] Stuff the body here.
34: (1SC, dec), 6 times. [12]
35: Dec around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail. Make with White yarn some stripes on the black part, make it look like his fancy suit!

Now at row 16  you worked in the back loops only. Join now, with black in the front loops, and crochet 42SC around. [42]

Legs (4)
2 in White, 2 in Black.

1: 4SC in magic ring. [4]
2: Inc in each st around. [8]
3: SC in each st around. [8]
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5: SC in each st around. [8]
Fasten off and leave a long tail vor sewing.

Assembling

To make sure you sew all parts in the right place, you can use some sewing pins to position them. When you are happy with the position, you can sew them on.
Sew the legs on to the bottom of the body, the front legs are pointing to the front. The back legs are pointing to the side.
For the eyes, nose and other details, you can either choose to use felt or you can embroider them on. I chose to embroider them on, cause yeah why choose the easy way haha. But which way you choose, your Tsum will be cute anyway.
With some black plushy yarn I created his beard, but you can use regular yarn for it as well. Just go around half way his face, pull the yarn through and repeat a few more times.

I hope you Enjoyed this pattern! Don’t forget to show me when you did make him~~.

Love
Danielle