Help please (whale shark)

LittleCreatures · May 9, 2024, 9:56pm

I’m making a whale shark for a friends birthday soon, and I seen this little one (picture below)

And I was wondering how I would make the mouth open like that without having to crochet in the chains like that if that makes sense. It would be in the round (magic circle) and I was wondering if I could make it up to the point where I want the mouth, then chain a number of how wide I want the mouth and go on from there fishing the body then crocheting around that whole and pushing it in so the mouth is open. Would that work?

pomandtyler · May 9, 2024, 9:59pm

i think it can work. i imagine it working like making a sweater for a plushie

FluffyYarnCreations · May 9, 2024, 10:01pm

i honestly dunno

craftycellist · May 9, 2024, 10:05pm

… That sounds like it’d work. To my brain anyways

TheCrochetingGoose · May 9, 2024, 10:07pm

It could work
Also soo cute!
is the pattern free??

LittleCreatures · May 9, 2024, 10:10pm

I seen it on YouTube, I don’t know if it is. There’s where I got the idea.

BeaniebeanOMG · May 9, 2024, 10:12pm

pretty sure i know how, you would want to make the body, and instead of closing it, you would make like a section to put your finger in and sew that to the mouth