Very Small Boy Appliques

[dalmatianmom]

I am making baby hats/caps to donate to my local hospitals. It's so easy to come up with a butterfly, bow, flower to add to a little baby girl's hat, but I cannot for the life of me find small little baby boy appliques like a car, frog, fish, dinosaur etc. Can anyone help? The baby hats are so small so these need to be as well. I've found refrigerator sized renditions of these, but I am not very good with adapting a pattern like this to a smaller size.

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Karen

[RoseRed]

Here's 26 pages of appliques and embellishments. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/search#craft=crochet&sort=best&pc=frog|applique&view=captioned_thumbs

 

Another thing you can look for or google is 'fridgies' or refrigerator magnets.

 

If you find some that you like but are too big you could always make them with embroidery floss and a #3 steel hook or thread.

[dalmatianmom]

Thanks, Michele, for the input. I was able to get a couple of cute boy appliques from Ravelry, but most of the people posting them charge for the patterns. When you're doing a project to donate and have to pay for yarn, on a retired income it's difficult to add any more expense.

[webfeet]

Here are a few I found. Most will need to be tweaked for size using thread instead of yarn. Maybe substituting sc for dc will help, too.

http://debs1967.blogspot.com/2009/10/turtle-applique-crochet-pattern-thread.html

http://www.aliciakachmar.com/blog/craft/one-little-giraffe/

http://www.crochetspot.com/crochet-pattern-goldfish-applique/

http://www.crochetville.org/forum/showthread.php?t=85773

http://yeenmachine.blogspot.com/2007/05/mari-saurus-rex.html

http://amurushka.blogspot.com/2010/11/car-applique.html

http://calleighsclips.blogspot.com/2010/12/owl-hat-applique-crochet-pattern.html

[dalmatianmom]

Thank you so much, Mary aka webfeet. I only hope I can tweak for little hats/caps...lol I like the idea of substituting sc for dc. As I said, I am beginning again after a couple of decades of not crocheting. With help likes yours and others, I will get the hang of all of this again. I appreciate the help more than you know.

 

Karen