Copyright:
This pattern was designed and written by Chronically Crocheted. Please do not plagiarize, copy, redistribute, or use this pattern for free in any manner. You may sell finished items made with this pattern providing credit to me as the designer. Tag me in your social media posts! Thank you so much for choosing my pattern and supporting my small business

Pattern Notes:
This pattern is written in US terminology only.
This pattern is worked in continuous rounds unless otherwise Stated.
Use a stitch marker to mark the last stitch in each round
You may need to adjust stitches since this pattern worked in a way to create the final product without sewing.
Your stress ball should be a tight fit for the best "squeeze" but it should still fit into the project pretty seamlessly! If you have tight tension I recommend sticking with a 5.5mm hook, for average tension use a 5mm hook and for loose tension use a 4.5mm hook
Depending on tension you may need to adjust bobbles and/or details
when chaining and creating the hole for your cats squish ball be sure to keep your tension on the ch loose so the hole is big enough

Squish ball specific pattern notes:
Felt eyes are recommended, using safety eyes could
affect your squishy ball and even cause it to pop, if
safety eyes are your only option cutting off the back
with pliers or melting the back is necessary.
embroidering eyes is always a good secondary option
and won't affect your ball.
if using blanket yarn, parfait XL, or sweet snuggles
yarn you will need larger squish balls, 2.5" sized balls will work
Depending on your tension, the type of yarn you use, and the size ball you use your project may require a bit of stuffing to fill the edges in, this is optional and with
my tension, hook, and yarn it was not needed
in the light purple boxes you can find the
modification to make these patterns without stress
balls, just tiny plushies perfect for markets!!
cat note: r4 has 20 stitches and r5 has 18, these stitch
counts are correct. The (dc, ch1, dc) creates the cats
ears but also creates an increase since both are placed
in the same stitch