Duckling

Free crochet duckling tutorial by Victoria Timofeeva @blue_bunny_toys.

With this pattern, you can crochet a plush duck. Any plush yarn will work for this amigurumi: Himalaya Dolphin Baby, YarnArt Dolce, Etrofil Yonca Baby, Bonbon Panda Baby, and others.

Yarn usage: about half a skein of the main color.

Finished toy size: about 20 cm.

Materials and Tools

• Plush yarn in two colors
• YarnArt Jeans yarn (black, for finishing and thread jointing)
• 4 mm crochet hook
• 7-8 mm safety eyes
• Toy stuffing
• Pins
• Stitch markers
• Needle for sewing pieces together
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR - magic ring
• ch - chain stitch
• sc - single crochet
• inc - increase
• dec - decrease
• (...) x n - repeat n times

Amigurumi Crochet Duckling Pattern

Wings (make 2)

1: 6 in MR
2-3: 6 sc
4: (1 sc, inc) x 3 (9)
5: (2 sc, inc) x 3 (12)
6: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
7: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
8: (2 sc, dec) x 3 (9)
9: (1 sc, dec) x 3 (6)

Pull the opening closed, fasten off, and hide the yarn tail inside the wing.

Legs (make 2)

1: 7 ch
2: Starting in the second chain from the hook: inc, 4 sc, 3 sc in the last ch, 5 sc along the other side of the chain (14)
3: 2 inc, 4 sc, 3 inc, 4 sc, inc (20)
4: 8 sc, (1 sc, inc) x 3, 6 sc (23)
5: 23 sc
6: 7 sc, 5 dec, 6 sc (18)
7: 7 sc, 3 dec, 5 sc (15)
8: (3 sc, dec) x 3 (12)
9-10: 12 sc
11: (dec, 4 sc) x 2 (10)
12: 10 sc
13: 5 dec

Pull the opening closed, fasten off, and hide the yarn tail inside the leg.

Beak

1: 5 ch
2: Starting in the second chain from the hook: inc, 2 sc, 3 sc in the last ch, 3 sc (10)
3: 10 sc
4: (inc, 4 sc) x 2 (12)
5: 1 sc, inc, 5 sc, inc, 4 sc (14)
6: 14 sc

Fasten off and cut the yarn.

Body and Head

1: 6 in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: 1 sc, (2 sc, inc) x 5, 1 sc (24)
5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
6: 2 sc, inc, (4 sc, inc) x 5, 2 sc (36)
7-9: 36 sc
10: 9 sc, (1 sc, dec) x 6, 9 sc (30)
11: 30 sc
12: 9 sc, 6 dec, 9 sc (24)
13: 24 sc
14: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)
15: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
16: 12 inc (24) Start crocheting the head
17: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
18: 2 sc, inc, (4 sc, inc) x 5, 2 sc (36)
19-24: 36 sc (6 rounds)

Insert the eyes between rounds 21 and 22, with 3 sc between the eye posts.

25: 2 sc, dec, (4 sc, dec) x 5, 2 sc (30)
26: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
27: 1 sc, dec, (2 sc, dec) x 5, 1 sc (18)
28: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
29: 6 dec

Pull the opening closed, fasten off, and hide the yarn tail inside the piece.

Assembly and Finishing

• Attach the wings with thread jointing at the level of rounds 2-3 from the head, through round 3 of each wing
• Attach the legs with thread jointing to the bottom of the body at rounds 6-7, through rounds 2-3 of each leg
• Sew on the beak, shape the eyes, and embroider the eyebrows
• Crochet the tuft