Autumn Pumpkin

A free Autumn Pumpkin crochet tutorial by Maria Bildyakova @marie_smthred_toys.

Using this pattern, you can crochet an amigurumi pumpkin, a symbol of the harvest season. You can use any acrylic, cotton, or cotton blend yarn for this toy, for example YarnArt Jeans or Alize Cotton Gold.

This toy can be used as fall home decor or as a decoration for Halloween.

Materials and tools

• Yellow and green cotton/acrylic yarn
• A suitable 2.0-2.5 mm crochet hook
• Toy stuffing
• A button
• Needle for sewing and sculpting
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR - magic ring
• ch - chain stitch
• sl st - slip stitch
• sc - single crochet
• dec - decrease
• inc - increase
• 3inc - triple increase (3 sc in one stitch)
• (...) x n - repeat n times

Autumn pumpkin amigurumi crochet pattern

Pumpkin base

With yellow yarn, work in a spiral:

1: 2 ch (or MR), 6 sc in the first chain (6)
2: inc x 6 (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24) in BLO of previous round
5: (2 sc, 3inc) x 8 (40)
6: 3 sc, 3inc, (4 sc, 3inc) x 7, 1 sc (56)
7: 4 sc, 3inc, (6 sc, 3inc) x 7, 2 sc (72)
8-9: 2 rounds sc (72)
10: 5 sc, inc, (8 sc, inc) x 7, 3 sc (80)
11: 1 round sc (80)
12: 6 sc, inc, (9 sc, inc) x 7, 3 sc (88)
13-23: 11 rounds (88)
24: (9 sc, dec) x 8 (80)
25-27: 3 rounds sc (80)
28: (8 sc, dec) x 8 (72)
29: 1 round sc (72)
30: (7 sc, dec) x 8 (64)
31: (6 sc, dec) x 8 (56)
32: (5 sc, dec) x 8 (48)
33: (4 sc, dec) x 8 (40)
34: (3 sc, dec) x 8 (32), stuff the pumpkin
35: (2 sc, dec) x 8 (24)
36: (1 sc, dec) x 8 (16), add more stuffing
37: dec x 8 (8)

Sl st, pull the opening closed and fasten off. Leave a long tail and pass it through the pumpkin two or three times to shape and tighten it, then tie a knot and cut the yarn.

Sculpting lines

Attach the yarn to the top of the pumpkin inside the circle formed by the front loops left unworked, and make a ch chain. The number of chains depends on how firmly you stuffed and tightened the pumpkin.

Mine came out to 28 ch, but if the tension is too tight or too loose, unravel or add chains. Secure the chain with a sl st into the last round at the pumpkin base, then use sl st to move to the next stitch and make another ch chain. Secure it in the same top circle, make another chain, and secure it again at the base. In this way, make eight chains and fasten them one by one at different points of the pumpkin.

When you secure the last chain, leave a long tail, pass it through the pumpkin to the bottom, and sew a button onto the bottom part to cover the base. Fasten off and hide the yarn tail.

Stem

With green yarn, work in a spiral:

1: 2 ch (or MR), 6 sc in the first chain (6)
2: 1 round sc in BLO (6)
3: 3 sc in BLO, 3 sc through both loops as usual (6)
4: 3 sc in FLO of previous round, 3 sc (6)
5-6: 2 rounds sc (6)
7: (2 sc, inc) x 2 (8)
8: 1 round sc (8)
9: (3 sc, inc) x 2 (10)
10: (4 sc, inc) x 2 (12)
11: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
12: 3 sc in each FLO of previous round (ruffle) (54)

Sl st, cut yarn leaving a tail for sewing, restore the edge, and move it behind the back loops of the previous round.

Now sew the stem to the pumpkin using the front loops left on both the pumpkin and the stem, tie the yarn in a knot, and hide the end.