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Today is the final day of my 3rd Annual Book Inspired Craft Week. For today's book I chose a well known and well loved children's picture book- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. This is a book that I remember well from when I was a kid, and read to my kids when they were young.

I think it is fun to see things continue to reach new generations and this book came out when I was only a couple years old, but then more books were released as my younger siblings and my kids were young. You had If you Give a Moose a Muffin, or a Pig a Pancake, or a Dog a Donut. It was fun to be able to read a book from my childhood to my kids in the original form, as well as new versions. And now my little nephews enjoy watching the animated show based on the books that came out a few years ago. But I don't think any of the versions will ever beat the original.

I knew I wanted to crochet a mouse to go along with this book, and since it is a book for young kids I really wanted it to be something soft and cuddly so I wanted to make it with a soft, thick, plushy yarn. I had a hard time finding the colors I wanted in the brands that I intended to use so I ended up using blanket yarn for my mouse plushy. I worried that it wasn't exactly what I had envisioned so I wasn't sure how it would turn out, but in the end I was happy with it and I think it made a pretty soft cuddly mouse.

I also wanted the little mouse to be wearing overalls, since the mouse in the book does. I wasn't really trying to make a mouse that looked exactly like the one in the book, but I wanted it to be similar and I felt like the overalls were key to that.

This cuddly little mouse is perfect to cuddle with while reading the book. It is soft and perfect for snuggling. Plus the thick yarn and the big hook mean it works up a lot faster than this size amigurumi would normally take, which means you can have a mouse to go along with the book in no time.

How to Crochet a Cuddly Mouse in Overalls

Finished Size 14" tall

You will need:

Bernat Blanket Yarn in gray (sample made in Dark Gray)
Bernat Blanket Yarn in blue (sample made in Teal Stream)
K/6.5mm crochet hook
2- 14mm safety eyes
15 mm safety nose
yarn needle
stitch markers

Instructions:

Most pieces begin with a magic ring, when using a magic ring with a thick chenille type yarn leave a long tail and pull it to make it small after only one or two stitches, it is hard to pull with all of the stitches in the ring or with a short tail.

Body and Head

Begin with magic ring, using gray yarn

Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 8 sc (8 sc)
Round 2: 2 sc in each st (16 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (24 sc)
Round 4: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 3 sts] repeat around (30 sc)
Round 5: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 4 sts] repeat around (36 sc)
Rounds 6-11: 1 sc in each st (36 sc)

Insert safety eyes between rounds 7-8 about 6 stitches apart

Round 12: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next 4 sts] repeat around (30 sc)

Round 13: sc2tog around (15 sc)

Begin Stuffing and continue stuffing as you work

Round 14: 2 sc in each st (30 sc)

Rounds 15-23: 1 sc in each st (30 sc)
Round 24: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next 3 sts] repeat around (24 sc)
Round 25: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (18 sc)
Round 26: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (12 sc)
Round 27: sc2tog around (6 sc)

Finish off, weave around opening to close, weave in end

Nose

Begin with magic ring, using gray yarn

Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (9 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (12 sc)
Round 4: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (18 sc)
Round 5: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (24 sc)

Finish off and cut yarn leaving long tail for sewing, add safety nose to the center of the point of the nose, then stuff and sew to the face below the eyes

Ears (make 2)

Begin with magic ring, using gray yarn (each ear is made with 2 circles crocheted together, if you want you could make the first circle with pink yarn to have a pink inner ear)

Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: 2 sc in each st (12 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (18 sc)

Finish off and cut yarn, set aside and continue with the second circle

Make second circle by repeating above, but do not cut yarn, continue with Round 4

Round 4: Place the 2 circles together and work this round through both layers, [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (24 sc)

Finish off and cut yarn leaving long tail for sewing

Sew one ear to each side of the head

Arms/Legs (make 4)

Begin with magic ring, using gray yarn

Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: 2 sc in each st (12 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (18 sc)
Rounds 4-5: 1 sc in each st (18 sc)
Round 6: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (12 sc)

Add stuffing to the bottom of the arm/leg

Rounds 7-14: 1 sc in each st (12 sc)

Finish off and cut yarn leaving a long tail for sewing

Sew one arm to each side of the body at the neck and one leg to each side of the body at the bottom

Tail

Begin with ch, using gray yarn

ch 25

sl st in second ch from hook and each ch to the end

Finish off leaving tail for sewing

Sew the tail to the back of the body towards the bottom

Overalls

begin with ch, with blue yarn

ch 14

Row 1: dc in 4th ch from hook (first 3 ch count as first dc), dc in each st to the end (12 dc)

Row 2: ch 3, (counts as first dc), dc in each st to the end, ch 20, sl st to first dc to join into a circle, continue working in rounds after this point, this will be the waist of the overalls (12 dc, 20 ch)

Round 3: ch 3 (counts as dc), dc in each dc and ch from previous round, sl st to first st to join (32 dc)

Rounds 4-8: ch 3 (counts as dc), dc in each st around, sl st to first st to join (32 dc)

Round 5: this round will split the leg so you will only work in half of the sts, ch 3, dc in next 5 sts, sk next 16 sts, work a dc2tog starting in the same st as previous dc and finishing in the first dc after the skipped sts (this helps close up the gap created by joining the back and front of the pants), dc in next 9 sts, sl st to the first st to join (16 dc)

Round 6: ch 3 (counts as dc), dc in each st around, sl st in first st to join (16 dc)

Finish off and cut yarn

Make second leg

Round 1: beginning in first skipped st from round 5, ch 3, dc in next 14 sts, dc2tog working in next st and the same st as the first st from the round, sl st to join (16 dc)

Round 2: ch 3 (counts as dc), dc in each st around, sl st in first st to join (16 dc)

Finish off and cut yarn, weaving in all ends

Straps

make 2, with blue yarn

ch 17

Row 1: sc in second st from hook, and each st to the end (16 sc)

Finish off leaving tail for sewing

Sew the end of the straps to the back of the overalls

Stitch the other end straps to the front of the overalls, I used little bit of of yellow yarn to stitch the front of the straps to look kind of like buttons, you could sew on actual buttons if desired

Put the overalls on the mouse pulling the tail between two stitches in the back

Cuddly Mouse in Overalls