Crude Pattern: Flail
REMINDER! THESE ARE NOTES!
It won’t be perfect and polished like my other patterns. There may be spelling errors, your tension may be different than mine, the materials you use may be a slightly different size than what I used, you may have to look up some abbreviations. This was a fun project I wanted to share with anyone willing to go through my notes and recreate it. If you have the crochet knowledge to tweak your works to make them work, then you should be able to get a cool prop out of this!
Please respect and treat these notes as if it were a published pattern. These notes are free and free for you to share, all I ask is that you credit The Mixing Pot for the design and the notes. You can sell what you make from these notes, but you can not claim these notes as your own or create your own pattern from these notes.
Wooden rod about 2.5’ long x 1.5” diameter, batting, styrofoam sphere about 6”', cosplay foam clay, 2 brown worsted weight acrylic yarn, gray worsted weight acrylic yarn, 2 1.5” D rings, 4.5mm, 4mm, and 3.5mm hook, (micro hook if you are adding a tag), stuffing.
Bean stitch: Insert your hook into the next stitch, yarn over and draw up a loop. Yarn over, insert your hook into the same stitch, yarn over and draw up a loop. Yarn over and draw through all the loops on your hook.
Tension will be firm, not too tight.
Cover sphere with foam clay to make about 6.5” wide, let dry. Cover rod in batting and let dry.
Handle:
4.5mm hook, D ring 2 browns. Double strand the yarns before working, starts by joining the first and last st with a ss for both base and top, the length of the handle will be a continuous round, no need to mark stitches.
Mc
Sc 7 into mc
7 sc inc
(Sc 1, 1sc inc) 7x
Sc 21 in BLO
Sc around until the handle is as long as the rod (work in the round now).
Ss into next st, will be joining the first ands last st with ss now
(sc 1, 1sc dec) 7x make sure to crochet around D ring to make a loop on top.
Lay hole flat and ss hole shut. Should make the ss line across the length of the D ring.
Fasten off and weave.
Caps (2x):
3.5mm hook, gray (top cap l will go around D ring, bottom cap will not)
Mc
Sc 8 into mc
8sc inc
(sc 1, 1sc inc) 8x (for cap around D ring: sc 1, 1sc inc, ch 1, 1sc inc, (sc 1, 1sc inc) 3x, ch 1, 1sc inc, (sc 1, 1sc inc) 2x cap will remain attached to the handle)
(sc 2, 1sc inc) 8x
In BLO (bean stitch, ch 1) 16x
Turn, (bean stitch, ch 1) 16x
Turn, (bean stitch, ch 1) 16x
Turn, (bean stitch, ch 1) 16x
Turn, (bean stitch, ch 1) 16x
Dc 32
Fpsc 32
Under the first fpsc and on the same dc (the bottom of the dc) fpsc 32 (on cap that has no D ring, place and crochet on tag)
Leave a long end for sewing
Sew caps down, make sure they're even and do not follow the spiral of the handle.
Ball Halves (2x):
4mm hook, foam sphere, gray, (will be a snug fit, you may distort the halves a bit)
Mc
Sc 5
4sc inc, 3-1 inc
1sc inc, sc 1, 1sc inc, sc 1, 1sc inc, sc1, 1sc inc, sc 1, 1sc inc, sc1, 1sc inc
Sc 2, 1sc inc, sc 3, 1sc inc, sc 2, 1sc inc, sc 3, 1sc inc, sc 2, 1sc inc (this row adds the D ring, replace 2 stitches with ch on opposite sides of each other only do for 1, not both)
1sc inc, sc 3, 1sc inc, sc 4, 1sc inc, sc 3, 1sc inc, sc 4, 1sc inc, sc 3
Sc 2, 1sc inc, sc 3, 1sc inc, sc 4, 1sc inc, sc 3, 1sc inc, sc 4, 1sc inc, sc 3, 1sc inc, sc 2
Sc 3, 1sc inc, sc 5, 1sc inc, sc 6, 1sc inc, sc 6, 1sc inc, sc 5, 1sc inc, sc 3
Sc 6, 1sc inc, sc 6, 1sc inc, sc 7, 1sc inc, sc 7, 1sc inc, sc 6, 1sc inc, sc 1
Sc 9, 1sc inc, sc 9, 1sc inc, sc 10, 1sc inc, sc 10, 1sc inc, sc 1
Sc 5, 1sc inc, sc 8, 1sc inc, sc 8, 1sc inc, sc 9, 1sc inc, sc 8, 1sc inc, sc 4
Sc 4, 1sc inc, sc 12, 1sc inc, sc 12, 1sc inc, sc 12, 1sc inc, sc 8
Sc 2, 1sc inc, sc 18, 1sc inc, sc 17, 1sc inc, sc 16
Sc 2, 1sc inc, sc 14, 1sc inc, sc 14, 1sc inc, sc13, 1sc inc, sc 12
Sc 15, 1sc inc, sc 20, 1sc inc, sc 20, 1sc inc, sc 5
Sc 7, 1sc inc, sc 32, 1sc inc, sc 25
Sc 19, 1sc inc, sc 22, 1sc inc, sc 22, 1sc inc, sc 2
Sc 2, 1sc inc, sc 34, 1sc inc, sc 33
1sc inc, sc 72
Sc 37, 1sc inc, sc 36
1sc inc, sc 74
Sc 76
Sc 76
Sc 76 (fasten off only one)
Put both halves on the foam ball and ss around
Spikes (8x):
3.5mm hook, gray, stuffing
Mc
Sc 6
(1sc inc, sc 2) 2x
Sc 8
(sc 3, 1sc inc) 2x
Sc 2, 1sc inc, sc 4, 1sc inc
Sc 12
(sc 5, 1sc inc) 2x
Sc 3, 1sc inc, sc 6, 1sc inc, sc 3
Sc 16
(sc 7 ,1sc inc) 2x
Sc 4, 1sc inc, sc 8, 1sc inc, sc 4
Sc 20
(sc 9, 1sc inc) 2x
Sc 5, 1sc inc, sc 10, 1sc inc, sc 5
Sc 24
Sew 4 around the top hemisphere and 4 around the bottom hemisphere.
Chains: (9x)
3.5mm hook, Gray (make chains around D chain first and then link chains as you go.
Ch 20, ss into first ch to make ring (before closing the ring, make sure to have link the chains)
Sc 20
Sc 20
Fold and ss 20, rotate chain until ss row is on the inside of the chain.
