Caterpillar in Shoes crochet pattern (free PDF)

R1with green: 6 sc in MR(6)
R2inc ×6(12)
R3(1 sc, inc) ×6(18)
R41 sc, (inc, 2 sc) ×5, inc, 1 sc(24)
R5(3 sc, inc) ×6(30)
R62 sc, (inc, 4 sc) ×5, inc, 2 sc(36)
R7(5 sc, inc) ×6(42)
R83 sc, (inc, 6 sc) ×5, inc, 3 sc(48)
R9(7 sc, inc) ×6(54)
R10–1754 sc(54)
R184 sc, (dec, 7 sc) ×5, dec, 3 sc(48)
R19(6 sc, dec) ×6(42)
R203 sc, (dec, 5 sc) ×5, dec, 2 sc(36)
R21(4 sc, dec) ×6(30)
R222 sc, (dec, 3 sc) ×5, dec, 1 sc(24)
R23(2 sc, dec) ×6(18)
R24(1 sc, dec) ×6(12)
R25dec ×6(6)
Size before assembly: about 7.5 cm at the widest, 6.1 cm long; 25 rounds.
→ Insert the safety eyes now (positions: see “Face”) and fix the backs. Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 6 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.

R1starting in the 2nd ch from hook: sc 3, 3 sc in the last ch; continue along the other side of the chain: sc 2, 2 sc in the last ch (the one you made the first sc in)(10)
R2(inc ×2, 1 sc, inc, 1 sc) ×2(16)
R31 sc, inc, 4 sc, inc, 1 sc, inc, 1 sc, inc, 2 sc, inc, 1 sc, inc(22)
R41 sc, inc, 7 sc, inc, 1 sc, inc, 1 sc, inc, 5 sc, inc, 1 sc, inc(28)
R5(BLO)28 sc(28)
R6–728 sc(28)
R8(1 sc, dec, 2 sc, dec, 3 sc, dec, 2 sc) ×2(22)
R9(1 sc, dec, 1 sc, dec, 2 sc, dec, 1 sc) ×2(16)
Size before assembly: an oval about 4 × 2.8 cm at the widest, 2.3 cm long; 9 rounds. The piece is oval: the rounds go around the chain, and on the finished toy the chain (the long side of the oval) runs front to back; the starting chain is at the bottom of the piece (on the finished toy). The round-start marker is at a turn of the oval, on the piece's centre line; R1 starts there, so no shift is needed. The increases fall on the turns.
With white: ch 5.
Change to red (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R3).
Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly, then press the piece slightly flat (oval cross-section; flattened 30 %).

Safety eyes and noses go in before the piece is stuffed and closed (see the pieces above); embroidery is easier before the piece is sewn on.

Safety eyes with a printed glint 14 mm (on the head): in round 16, 7 st apart (count along round 16: about 3.3 st each side of the centre front line).
Embroidery in dark thread (on the head), straight stitches through: (between rounds 14 and 15, 1.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's right ) → (in round 14, 1 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's right ) → (in round 14, on the centre front line ) → (in round 14, 1 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (between rounds 14 and 15, 1.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ).
Embroidery in dark thread (on the head) (2, symmetric: the toy's left side is described, the right is its mirror image), straight stitches through: (between rounds 18 and 19, 1.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (in round 19, 2.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (between rounds 18 and 19, 4 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ).