Meet Sandy the Sea Turtle! Sandy loves spending the day surfing along the Australian shores with her friends while munching on seaweed. At night, she loves to find a quiet rock and gaze up at the beautiful night sky and twinkling stars.

Materials You Need:

-Worsted-weight yarn (4-ply) in two shades of green and two shades of brown. You’ll also need an accent color for the flower. (The U.K. equivalent is Aran, and AUS/NZ is 8 ply.) For my sea turtle, I used I Love This Yarn in the colors “Menthe”, “Mid Green”, “Dark Olive”, “Orchid”, and “Brown”. For the main shell color I used Red Heart Super Saver in the color “Warm Brown”. Unfortunately, this color has been discontinued.
-G (4 mm) crochet hook
-10.5 mm black safety eyes
-Fiberfill (or your stuffing of choice)
-Bent tip tapestry needle
-Scissors
-Stitch marker
-Straight pins
-Black embroidery floss
-Cardboard

Abbreviation Key:
Abbreviations are in U.S. terms.

sc – single crochet
st/sts – stitch(es)
sl st – slip stitch
dec – decrease (join the next 2 stitches together)
inc – increase (2 single crochet in the next stitch)
R1 – round 1
rep – repeat
** – repeat the group of instructions between the asterisks the number of times indicated.
Note: All rounds are worked continuously (that is, vs. joined rounds.)