Small Pumpkins
Free Small Pumpkins crochet tutorial by Elena Guselnikova @ami_toys_elena.
With this pattern, you can crochet a pumpkin. This toy makes a cute fall decor piece and a symbol of Halloween. You can use any cotton or acrylic yarn for this pumpkin, along with a matching crochet hook.
Materials and tools
- Yarn in two colors
- Crochet hook
- Toy stuffing
- Needle for sewing pieces together
- Scissors
Abbreviations
- MR - magic ring
- ch - chain stitch
- sc - single crochet
- hdc - half double crochet
- BLO - back loop only
- inc - increase
- dec - decrease
- (...) x n - repeat n times
Pumpkin crochet pattern
Pumpkin
1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
6: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
7: (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
8: (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
9: (7 sc, inc) x 6 (54)
10: (8 sc, inc) x 6 (60)
11: 60 sc
12: (9 sc, inc) x 6 (66)
13-24: 66 sc (12 rounds)
25: (dec, 9 sc) x 6 (60)
26: (dec, 8 sc) x 6 (54)
27: (dec, 7 sc) x 6 (48)
28: (dec, 6 sc) x 6 (42)
29: (dec, 5 sc) x 6 (36)
30: (dec, 4 sc) x 6 (30)
31: (dec, 3 sc) x 6 (24)
32: (dec, 2 sc) x 6 (18)
33: (dec, 1 sc) x 6 (12)
34: 6 dec
Stem
Ch 12 + 2 turning chains
1: 5 hdc, 7 sc
2: 1 ch, turn, in BLO 7 sc, 5 hdc
3: 2 ch, turn, in BLO 5 hdc, 7 sc
Repeat rows 2 and 3 three times
Fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing. Sew the first row to the last one.
Toy assembly
- Stuff the pumpkin
- Stuff the stem
- Shape the pumpkin with sculpting stitches
- Sew on the stem
