How to Crochet Boba Tea Amigurumi In Matcha Flavor

You can never take too many boba teas. So, learn how to crochet a boba tea amigurumi in matcha flavor with this step-by-step tutorial for beginners perfect for gifting. It is a cute velvety yarn tea cup amigurumi with facial expressions in addition and inspired by the popular type of this tea - the matcha.

You can complete it within few hours and its size should not deceive you. The use of chunky weight gives it this size while the pattern is super quick to follow.

This post will provide you with the useful insights to this project so that every crocheter may follow the video tutorial.

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Skill Level: This boba tea amigurumi has some details that the beginner crocheters may find difficult especially handling the yarn for the bottom boba detailing. So, this dessert plushie project is perfect for intermediates. One more reason is the use of complex crochet stitches.

Completion Time for Recreation: Approximately 3 hours.

Tutorial Timing: 1 hour (Repetitive steps are skipped or shown sped up)

Tools & Materials

When you become comfortable with this project and thinking to begin crocheting it, make suer to gather the following crochet supplies in hand:

Super bulky yarn in colors: black, white, green, light brown & pink. You can also use other weighs of yarn which will make the amigurumi smaller. The tutor uses Yarn Art Dolce
5mm hook
Scissors
Darning needle
Stitch marker
20mm safety eyes
Black thread
Polyfill (Stuffing)

How to Use Boba Tea Amigurumi

There are loads of ways you can utilize a crochet boba tea amigurumi some of which are as following:

Gift this amigurumi to a boba tea lover. It can serve as a great conversation starter with colleagues and friends who share your affection for amigurumi or boba tea.
Held a baba tea competition at home and make this a symbol or decor for the competition.
Place the crochet boba tea next to your computer or on your work desk.
It can be a prop to explain different foods and cultures or to simply engage in imaginative play where the boba tea serves as a character.
For those who sew, the crochet boba tea can be filled with a slightly denser stuffing and used as a decorative pincushion.

Non-Crochet Techniques: Sewing, Safety Eyes attachment and embroidery.

Abbreviations Used

Since the tutor does not mention the meanings of the symbols uses, here have listed them:

MR - Magic Ring
Sl St - Slip Stitch
Sc - Single crochet
Hdc - Half Double Crochet
Dc - Double Crochet
Inc - Increase
Dec - Decrease
BLO - Back Loop Only
FLO - Front Loop Only
Puff - Puff Stitch
* - Repeat

Crocheting the Puff Stitch

Yarn over, insert the hook into the stitch.
Yarn over, pull up a loop. Repeat it increasing loops on the hook to 7.
Yarn over, pull through all loops on the hook.
Secure with a yarn over and pull through the last loop.

Working BLO and FLO

BLO: Insert your crochet hook under the back loop only (the loop farthest from you) and complete your stitch as normal (single crochet, double crochet, etc.).
FLO: Insert your crochet hook under the front loop only (the loop closest to you) and complete your stitch in the usual way.