Crochet turkey will be the most cherished addition to your Thanksgiving decor. Just learn how to crochet a turkey amigurumi with this step-by-step tutorial for both beginners and experts. It is quite little turkey with every detail that makes its finish professional and adorable. Hang it as an ornament or gift to a little one, in anyway, it will be loved by everybody.
You can follow through with the guide in the end and this post will provide you with the every preliminary detail before tackling this project.
Skill Level: This bird amigurumi is very easy that even beginners can crochet it. However, if you are a very beginner crocheting it will be quite tedious as needing many yarn colors and small pieces.
Tutorial Timing: About 57 Minutes
Type: Small but much sewing is required.
Uses
- 1. Thanksgiving Table Decor: Use these turkey minis as part of your table centerpiece or place settings your Thanksgiving dinner.
- 2. Seasonal Wreath Enhancements: Attach a mini turkey amigurumi to a fall wreath for your front door.
- 3. Educational: Teachers or parents can use these as fun, tactile aids for storytelling or teaching about Thanksgiving, the fall season, or about turkeys and farm life.
Crochet Turkey Amigurumi Tutorial
This video tutorial features a detailed guide on crocheting a small turkey amigurumi with multiple parts such as body, head, beak, tail feathers, feet, and wings.
Video Notes
Materials and Colors: The instructor, Ashley, suggests various yarn colors. Like chocolate brown for the body, blue for the head, yellow for the beak and feet, and red for the waddle. She also uses white for tail feathers.
Magic Circle Technique: The tutorial emphasizes the magic circle technique for starting the crochet project, explaining its importance in creating a solid, tight base.
Step-by-Step Assembly: The video covers the construction of different parts of the turkey, including increasing and decreasing stitches to shape the body and head, and adding features like safety eyes and wings.
Customization Tips: Ashley encourages to customize their turkeys by changing the color schemes of the tail feathers and other parts.
Handy Crochet Tricks: Throughout the tutorial, tips are shared, like using hairpins as stitch markers and how to seamlessly change yarn colors.
Final Assembly: The final part involves sewing the turkey parts together and adding finishing touches like the waddle and wings.
Supplies Needed
Following are the supplies recommended by the tutor at the starting of this crochet turkey amigurumi video:
- Medium-Weight Cotton Yarn:
- Brown (e.g., Hershey’s chocolate brown for the body)
- Blue (for the head)
- Yellow (for the beak and feet)
- Red (for the wattle)
- White (for the tail feathers)
- Crochet Hook: Standard crochet hook suited to the yarn thickness may be 4mm as creator uses.
- Safety Eyes: To attach to the head, between rows 14 and 15.
- Stuffing: You can use polyester fiberfill.
- Stitch Markers: Ashley recommends large hairpins as practical stitch markers.
- Scissors
- Needle: For sewing parts together and weaving in the ends.
Techniques Needed
Following are the techniques used throughout the tutorial:
- Single Crochet (sc): Ins hook into the stitch, yo and pull up a loop. YO and pull through the two loops on the hook.
- Increase Stitches: Work two sc in the same stitch.
- Decrease Stitches: Work one sc by inserting hook into the two stitches together (invisible decrease).
- Slip Stitch: Ins hook into the stitch, yo and pull up a loop.
Double Crochet (dc): Specifically used for making the tail feathers. - Sewing: Used to attach different parts like the wings, beak, and tail to the body.
- Color Changes: Techniques for smooth transitions between different yarn colors, using slip stitches for a neat finish.
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