Learn how to crochet a plush no-sew jellyfish amigurumi with customizable colorful tentacles with a step-by-step tutorial from One Cent Crochet. This Jellyfish tutorial is designed for beginners looking for a quick amigurumi gift. It will become a perfect hanging decor for your home or garden with some preventions.
You can crochet it within just a few hours thanks to the quick guide prepared by the tutor. That complete guide for crocheting this no-sew jellyfish will be available at the end of this post.
Skills Used: This no-sew crochet jellyfish tutorial is perfect for beginners and uses essential crochet skills like creating magic rings, single crochets, increases, and decreases. It also introduces working in the front and back loops for texture and uses basic embroidery techniques for securing and finishing the tentacles.
Guide Span: 24 Minutes Only
Personalization Tips: The tutor has designed this crochet Jellyfish using pastel colors. You can also use ombre yarn for the tentacles. Add extra curls by making longer chains or using multiple colors. You can also modify the eyes by using different sizes or embroidering expressions to give the jellyfish a unique personality.
No-Sew Jellyfish Tutorial
This tutorial provides an easy-to-follow guide for crocheting a basic, squishy, soft and colorful jellyfish plushie. It focuses on no-sew techniques, ensuring a simple and seamless assembly process. The instructor demonstrates each step clearly, making it suitable for beginners. Here is a quick overview of this no-sew jellyfish guide:
- Starting with the Head: Begin with a magic ring using your primary yarn color. Round 1: Create six single crochets into the magic ring. Round 2: Work six increases to bring the stitch count to 12. Subsequent rounds involve alternating single crochets and increases to gradually expand the head to 30 stitches.
- Creating the Body Texture: For rounds 6–8, crochet single stitches around for three rows. Add texture by working in the front loops only for a decorative edge. Use half-double crochet, double crochet, and slip stitches alternately to create a ruffled effect.
- Adding Safety Eyes: Insert safety eyes between rounds 8 and 9, leaving approximately eight stitches between them. Secure them with the backing. Continue shaping the body with single crochets and decreases in subsequent rounds.
- Stuffing and Closing the Body: Stuff the jellyfish firmly but evenly before closing the head.
Final rounds involve decreases to close the top neatly. Sew the opening using a yarn needle, stitching through the front loops for a clean finish. - Crocheting the Tentacles: Attach the yarn for the tentacles at the bottom of the jellyfish. Chain 15 (or more for longer tentacles) and increase stitches into every chain to create curls. Repeat this process four to five times, using multiple colors for variety if desired. Secure the tentacles by tying knots inside the jellyfish's body and hiding loose ends.
- Final Assembly and Tips: Arrange the tentacles evenly around the bottom. Add more for extra volume or longer chains for variety. The result is a fun, colorful, and no-sew jellyfish plushie ideal for gifts or décor.
Stitches Used
Revise the fundamental crochet stitches for crocheting this no-sew jellyfish amigurumi:
- sc (Single Crochet): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over again, pull through both loops on hook.
- inc (Increase): Make two single crochets in the same stitch.
- dec (Decrease): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, insert hook into next stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through all loops on hook.
- sl st (Slip Stitch): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through stitch and loop on hook in one go.
- ch (Chain): Yarn over, pull through loop on hook.
- hdc (Half Double Crochet): Yarn over, insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through all three loops on hook.
- dc (Double Crochet): Yarn over, insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through two loops, yarn over, pull through remaining two loops.
Supplies Used
Gather these crochet supplies for recreating the no-sew jellyfish amigurumi for both beginners and experts:
- Chunky yarn (Premier Parfait or similar) in a main color and contrasting colors for tentacles
- 5 mm crochet hook
- 12 mm safety eyes
- Stuffing material
- Scissors
- Yarn needle
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