Car Tire Pillow

With this pattern you can make the very awesome car tire pillow.

Needed materials to make this pillow:

• a 4.0mm crochet needle, if you want the car tire pillow to be the same size as pictured (approx. 24”/60cm in diameter)
• Light worsted weight yarn: black (990yd/900m), grey (120yd/110m), dark grey (220yd/200m), light grey (220yd/200m).
• Fiberfill or other filling material
• A tapestry needle.
• Optional but handy: sewing pins

Needed skills to make this pillow:

• Magic ring.
• Chain stitches
• Single crochet
• Very basic embroidery skills
• Changing colours
• Front loop only/back loop only
• Slip stitches
• Very basic sewing skills, just to put the pillow together.
• Increasing stitches and decreasing stitches.

The pattern is written in US crochet terminology and is available in English. The pattern description is written using abbreviations; there’s an extensive list included to explain all abbreviations used. There are also a lot of detailed pictures included to guide you through the pattern.