Bottle Ring Crochet Pumpkin Eyes Pattern

I love these bottle ring eyes, because I can move them around to get different facial expressions.  Here is a picture of the eyes, but you can be pretty confident that I will move them around in the course of making this pumpkin.

Here is the pattern:

Written in American Standard Terms.

Supplies Needed:

2 plastic bottle ring- (I used ones from a regular soda bottle)
2 shank button slightly larger then the bottle ring
4py worsted yarn- (or whatever you have handy that you want to use)
F Hook-or whatever size is comfortable for you

Here we go:

(Make 2)

You will want to slip stitch your yarn onto the ring and chain 1.

Single crochet around the ring until it is covered.  ( I had 18 single crochet and the chain 1 counts as a single crochet)

Join by slip stitching into the first chain made.

Chain 1

Single crochet into the same chain 1 space.

2 half double crochet into the next stitch.

2 double crochet into the next stitch.

Repeat previous step 7 more times.

2 half double crochet into the next stitch

2 single crochet into the next stitch.

Slip stitch into the next 6 stitches.

Slip stitch into the first chain made and fasten off and sew in ends.

If you have a different number of stitches on your ring, always do the 2 single crochet, and 2 half double crochets and adjust your double crochets accordingly to cover about 2/3 of the ring.

I attached the shank buttons to the spider web and placed the shank buttons 1 1/2" apart.  This will probably change several times before I make a final decision.

Then I took the crochet bottle ring and slide it over the shank button to secure the whites of the eyes in place.

Now the really cool thing about this, is you can turn the ring to give your pumpkin different looks.  Right now I have the whites at the top, but when I get ready to do the nose, I may just position those rings so that the pumpkin is looking at his nose.  No telling what will land on this pumpkins nose, when done.

Tomorrow,  I think I will make a bottle cap insect or leaf of some type.  I am not ready to complete the face quite yet.

Enjoy,

Debra