Trans bear

This pattern is designed to fit any of the animals from my little animals collection. It was made as part of a series of designs I made to celebrate pride month. You can find all the other patterns I have so far published in this series by clicking on the "LGBTQ+" label on the right-hand side of this post

Difficulty:

Easy - medium

You will need:

• A little bear (or other little animal), the pattern for which can be found here
• A 2mm crochet hook
• 4ply yarn in light blue, light pink, white, and grey
• 0.5mm craft wire
• Pliers
• wire cutters
• A darning needle

Note:

• This pattern includes the back-to-front single crochet stitch (bfsc). A video to show you how to do this can be found here. It's pretty simple but if you can't work it out you can just use a regular single crochet stitch, but this will give it a slightly different look.
• 'fasten off neatly' refers to a special way of fastening off which is neater and makes it easier to see where you should be crocheting on the next round (also known as invisible fastening off). This involves pulling up your yarn through your stitch, threading the yarn underneath the second stitch from where you pulled your yarn up, then threading your yarn back through the top of this stitch and down through the back of the work. There is a very helpful site that explains it clearly found here.

 

For the shorts:

With blue 4ply yarn ch25
Round 1: sc in the first chain st you made, then sc in every other stitch around. This should form a loop (25sc)
Round 2: sc in each st. ch1, turn
Row 3: bfsc in the following 22sts. ch1, turn.

Fasten off

Rejoin with pink
Row 4: sc in each of the first 22sts (22sc)
Round 5: ch4, sc in the stitch across from the gap (the first stitch you crocheted in the previous row, sc in the next 21 sts (26sts)
Round 6: sc in each of the next 4 chain sts and following 22 sts (26sc)

Fasten off neatly

Rejoin with white yarn to the 5th st before the 'new' st you made when fastening off neatly
Rounds 7 - 8: (2 rounds) sc in each st (26sc)

Fasten off neatly

Rejoin with pink yarn to the 6th st after the 'new' st you made when fastening off neatly
Round 9: sc in this same st, ch3, skip13 from base of chain, sc in each of the next 12sts. These last 16 sts form a new round (16sts)

Round 10: sc in each st

Fasten off

Rejoin with blue yarn
Rounds 11 - 13: (3 rounds)sc in each of these last 16sts you crocheted (16sc)
Fasten off
Rejoin pink yarn to round 8 in the stitch after the stitch before you made the chain 3 (hopefully the diagram below will clear things up if you're confused about where I'm talking about). Sc in this st and the next 12 sts. ch3, then make a slip stitch in the first stitch of this round (where you fastened on)
Round 10: sc in this st, the next 12 sts and the following 3 chain sts. This forms a new round (16sc)

Fasten off neatly

Rejoin with blue yarn
Rounds 11 - 13: (3 rounds) sc in each of the next 16 sts (16sc)

Fasten off

For the braces:
With grey yarn make a magic loop with 1sc. ch1, turn

Rows 1 - 10: sc in this st. ch1, turn

Row 11: sc in this st
Fasten off

With grey yarn make a magic loop with 1sc. ch1, turn

Rows 1 - 10: sc in this st. ch1, turn

Row 11: sc in this st. ch1, turn

Row 12: Sc in this st and the st of the other section you just made. ch1, turn (2sc)
Row 13: Sc2tog. ch1, turn

Row 14: sc in this st. ch1, turn

Row 15: sc in this st
Fasten off

For the fastenings: 

Get a section of wire and fold the end over by 8mm, then 4mm, then 8mm to get a rectangular section, as shown below 

Measure 8mm from the last bend in the wire, then bend it 90 degrees, measure another 8mm along, and bend it 90 degrees again, as shown below

Measure 4mm from the previous turn, then bend the wire downwards, as shown below

Fold the wire back on itself around the bottom edge of the fastening. Use wire cutters to cut the wire at the top edge of the fastening, as shown below

Thread this onto the braces, then sew the braces to the shorts

For the hat:
With grey yarn make a magic loop with 6sc
Round 1: make 2sc in each st (12sc)
Round 2: (sc, make 2sc in the next st) 6 times. Ch1, turn (18sc)
Row 3: (Bfsc2, make 2bfsc in the next st) 3 times. Ch1, turn (12sc)
Row 4: Sc in each of these 12sts. ch1, turn
Row 5: Bfsc in each st. ch1, turn
Row 6: Sc in each st. ch1, turn
Row 7: Bfsc in each st
Fasten off

Rejoin to round 3 in the 2nd st after the one you last crocheted into

Round 4: Ch2, hdc in this st, sc, slip4, sc, hdc. Ch2, turn (8sts)
Round 5: hdc, bfsc in the same st, slip6, bcsc, hdc in the same st. Ch2, turn (10sts)
Round 5: Hdc, sc in the same st, slip8, sc, hdc in the same st. Ch2, turn (12sts)
Round 6: Hdc, bfsc in the same st, slip10, bfsc, hdc in the same st, bfsc in each st of row 7 of the other section of the hat (as shown below), slip the first st of this round
Fasten off

For the cap:
With grey make a magic loop with 5sc. Ch1, turn
Row 1: make 2bfsc in each st. ch1, turn (10sc)
Rows 2: (sc, make 2sc in the next st) 5 times. ch1, turn (15sc)
Row 3: Bfsc2, make 2bfsc in the next st, slip9, make 2bfsc in the next st, bfsc2. ch1, turn (17sts)
Row 4: make 2sc in the first st, sc2, slip11, sc2, make 2sc in the last st

Fasten off

Sew the cap to the front of the hat

To finish:
If desired, use blue embroidery thread to embroider top surgery scars onto the chest, as shown below.

I hope you have enjoyed this pattern. If you have any questions about this or any of my other patterns please don't hesitate to contact me, either by leaving a comment below, or via my Ravelry or Instagram pages. My Instagram page is also a good place to follow to find out about the projects are working on and be alerted as to when I post a new pattern.

You are very welcome to sell finished products, but I do ask that you don't re-post this pattern or claim it as your own. Thank you!!!