I said, "Baaaa!"

This pattern is now live on my Etsy shop, and on Ravelry at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/i-said-baa. It's listed for $2.99. I wrote this pattern up in 2011, the first year I started crocheting. Over the years, I have had it listed for free, and it has had quite a number of people making sheep since then! The pattern has been refined over these years and is now good to go!

Sheep

Notes about the sheep:

I used an F hook, but you can use whichever size you prefer. The yarn I used were of 2 kinds: my preferred one was Red Heart Baby Clouds white (bulk of 6) and the second one when I couldn’t find the Baby Clouds again was Yarn Bee (with a bulk of 5). The Bee one seemed to fray a lot more than the Baby Clouds, and the Baby Clouds was a little “fluffier,” giving it the kind of sheepy woolly kind of look I liked. So if you can find the Baby Clouds one, I’d recommend that. I also used a slightly less bulkier yarn, a Bernat baby-blanket type yarn that I thought was good too, but this pattern has been tried and tried again by me with the other 2 mentioned kinds of yarn.

Use a marker to keep track of your rounds, especially when it comes to the bulky kind. It’s very easy to lose track since it is so bulky—particularly if it is your first time to use something like this (which it was mine, when I first started working on this pattern). 

On the picture below, the sheep on the left is using the Yarn Bee type of yarn (bulk 5) and on the right is the Baby Clouds yarn (bulk of 6). The Bee is slightly off-white while the Clouds seems more "pure" white. Only a subtle difference that you could tell if they were side-by-side in front of you.