Crow Charles

Free Charles crochet tutorial by Nina Sukhina @nina_sukhina.

With this pattern, you can crochet Crow Charles. The bird is crocheted, while the cap is knitted. For this amigurumi project, you should have experience working with fuzzy yarn. The legs, beak, and cap are made from any cotton blend yarn: YarnArt Jeans, Alize Cotton Gold, or Gazzal Baby Cotton.

The finished toy size is about 29 cm.

Materials and Tools

• Himalaya Koala yarn (main yarn for the bird, 90 g)
• YarnArt Jeans yarn (for the beak and legs, 30 g)
• Any yarn for knitting the cap
• 2.5 mm and 3.5 mm crochet hooks
• 3 mm knitting needles
• 10 mm safety eyes
• Toy stuffing
• Plastic joints (for the legs)
• Needle for sewing parts
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR — magic ring
• sl st — slip stitch
• sc — single crochet
• inc — increase
• dec — decrease
• (...) x n — repeat n times

Amigurumi Crow Charles Crochet Pattern

Legs (upper part, 2 pieces)

Start with Koala yarn and a 3.5 mm hook.

Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Rounds 3-6: 12 sc (12), change to cotton blend yarn and use a 2.5 mm hook
Insert the joint. You can add a little stuffing.
Rounds 7-18: 12 sc (12), sl st

Lower part (cotton blend):

It will consist of 3 parts (2 side parts are identical, the middle part is larger). You will join them together while crocheting.

Middle part:

Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Rounds 3-5: 12 sc (12), sl st, cut the yarn

Side parts (2 pieces):

Round 1: 5 sc in MR (5)
Round 2: 5 inc (10)
Rounds 3-4: 10 sc (10), sl st, cut the yarn

Crochet one more the same way, but do not cut the yarn. Start joining the parts.

Round 1: On this same part, crochet 5 sc, take the middle part (the one you made first) and crochet 6 sc on it, take the remaining part and crochet all its sc, i.e. 10 sc, then again 6 sc on the middle part, and finish the round on the first part with 5 sc; you should get 32 sc in this round
Round 2: (14 sc, dec) x 2 (30)
Round 3: (13 sc, dec) x 2 (28)
Round 4: 5 sc, dec, 3 sc, dec, 7 sc, dec, 3 sc, dec, 2 sc (24)
Round 5: 24 sc (24)
Round 6: (dec, 2 sc) x 6 (18)
Round 7: 18 sc (18)
Round 8: (dec, 1 sc) x 6 (12)
Add a little stuffing.
Round 9: 12 sc (12)
Round 10: 6 dec (6), sl st

Pull the stitches tight. Crochet the second one the same way.

Body

Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
Round 4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
Round 5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
Rounds 6-11: 30 sc (30)
Attach the legs
Round 12: (dec, 3 sc) x 6 (24)
Round 13: 24 sc (24)
Round 14: (dec, 2 sc) x 6 (18)
Round 15: 18 sc (18)
Round 16: (dec, 1 sc) x 6 (12)
Round 17: 12 sc (12), sl st

Stuff.

Head

Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
Round 4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
Round 5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
Round 6: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
Rounds 7-10: 36 sc (36)
Round 11: (dec, 4 sc) x 6 (30)
Round 12: (dec, 3 sc) x 6 (24)
Start stuffing.
Round 13: (dec, 2 sc) x 6 (18)
Round 14: (dec, 1 sc) x 6 (12)
Round 15: 6 dec (6), sl st

Wing (2 pieces)

Do not stuff.

Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3: inc, 11 sc (13)
Round 4: inc, 12 sc (14)
Round 5: inc, 13 sc (15)
Round 6: inc, 14 sc (16)
Round 7: inc, 15 sc (17)
Round 8: inc, 16 sc (18)
Rounds 9-10: 18 sc (18), sl st

Tail

The tail consists of three parts, do not stuff.

Part 1 (1 piece):

Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Rounds 3-9: 12 sc (12)
Round 10: 6 dec (6), sl st

Parts 2 and 3 are crocheted the same way:

Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Rounds 3-7: 12 sc (12)
Round 8: 6 dec (6), sl st

Beak

Cotton blend yarn, 2.5 mm hook.

Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6)
Round 2: 6 sc (6)
Round 3: 6 inc (12)
Rounds 4-5: 12 sc (12)
Round 6: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
Rounds 7-8: 18 sc (18)
Round 9: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
Rounds 10-11: 24 sc (24)
Round 12: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
Rounds 13-14: 30 sc (30)
Round 15: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
Rounds 16-17: 36 sc (36)
Round 18: inc, 35 sc (37)
Round 19: inc, 36 sc (38)
Round 20: inc, 37 sc (39)
Round 21: inc, 38 sc (40)
Round 22: inc, 39 sc (41)
Round 23: inc, 40 sc (42)
Round 24: 4 inc, 15 sc, 4 dec, 15 sc (42)
Rounds 25-26: 42 sc (42)
Round 27: 2 sc, 4 inc, 15 sc, 4 dec, 13 sc (42)
Rounds 28-29: 42 sc (42)
Round 30: 24 sc, 3 dec, 12 sc (39), sl st

Cut the yarn and stuff. Sew all parts in place.

Cap

Cast on 56 stitches on knitting needles and work 6 rows in ribbing.

Then knit in stockinette: knit stitches on the right side and purl stitches on the wrong side. Change color every 6 rows. In each color stripe, make decreases at the beginning and end of rows 1 and 5. I finished when 8 stitches were left on the needle and bound them off. Sew the seam. Decorate with a pom-pom.