Crochet Milk Carton Keychain

This is a key chain size Milk Carton

Things you need 

1. A pair of 5mm or 6mm safety eyes

2. Cardboard for base and sides

3. 5ply white and coloured milk cotton yarn of your choice 

4. 4ply black yarn for mouth

5. 4ply pink yarn for cheek

6. Key ring
7. crochet hook  3.5mm
8. stuffing (available at Diaso)
9. sewing craft needle.

Steps 

1. Start with the base (coloured yarn)

Row 1: Chain 8. 

Row 2-6: single crochet (7)

2. Building the body (coloured yarn) (3 rows)

Row 1: single crochet in each stitch with 3 single crochet for each of the corner stitch. This helps to build up the squarish corners. 

Row 2-3: single crochet 

3. Changing colour to white yarn (4 rows)

Row 4-7 : single crochet 

4. Changing colour back to coloured yarn (6 rows)

Row 8-13: single crochet . Slip stitch and leave a Long tail for sewing.

5. Cut a squarish cardboard for the base. Cut a rectangular stripe for the sides of the square body. These cardboard helps to give a boxy look.

6. Fit in the cardboard . The height of the cardboard for the sides of the body should be about the height of row 8. To attach the eyes, pierce the cardboard with a sharp object and make sure the eyes pass thru the cardboard. Lock the eyes with the washer. Sew the mouth and cheeks. Stuff with fillings.

7. Using the tail of the coloured yarn, sew and seal the TOP . You need to fold the 2 sides in just like those real milk cartons.

top view

side view 

8. Using white yarn, do 2 rows of single crochet on the TOP. Cut and leave a long tail of white yarn to sew the words MILK on the front side.

9. Lastly , sew the key ring to the left side of the TOP.