How to crochet a toy - ideas for beginners step by step

Step-by-step master classes on crochet toys. Simple schemes and their description.

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This article will tell you how to crochet a toy for beginners. Here you will find clear crochet knitting schemes, their descriptions and detailed master classes with photos.

Crochet toys for beginners - kitten in a slipper

We believe that this kitten is not the lightest toy tied to crocheted. It is easier to knit a snake or firefly from our next master classes.

Crochet toy for beginners, kitten in a slipper

For work, you will need such tools and materials:

Yarn 292 meters per 100 grams. We advise you to choose an acrylic or mixture of acrylic with cotton.
The hook of the second size.
Ready -made eyes on an adhesive base or eye and a hot adhesive gun.
A piece of pink thread Iris or Muline to embroider the mouth.
Ordinary sewing accessories: needles, threads, scissors.

Kitten - how to tie the toy with crochet for beginners:

The details of the toy are knitted on the basis of standard geometric shapes: balls and tubes. Such a toy crochet for beginners will be interesting and informative, because from the same details you can then learn how to make many other toys.

Tie the head of the toy according to the following scheme:

Start knitting a ball that will be the head of a kitten, is better from an air loop amigurumi. So the beginning of your knitting will turn out to be dense, and there will be no hole at the top of the ball. And you need to make an air loop as shown in the following photos.

How to crochet a toy for beginners: the beginning of knitting

Wrap the thread three times on the index finger.
Pass the hook head under all threads, and stretch them the last third thread, forming a loop.
Perform a crop with a working thread.
Extend the hook with a thread under the hung on your finger.
Again, do the cloak and stretch the thread through the loops.
Continue knitting with crochet, until you bind them as much as indicated in your scheme. There are six of them in the scheme of our kitten.
Remove the hangers from the finger.
And carefully tighten the thread.

A synthetic winterizer can be filled with the head of the kitten, but it is better to use Hollofiber for this. An interesting option for stuffing and thick woolen threads cut by scissors.

Crochet toys for beginners: Knitting ending

Stitch another air loop. Cut the thread at a distance of a pair of centimeters from the end of the knitted canvas.
Crochet this thread through the last loop.
Tighten the loop, pulling the edge of the thread.

The paws can be filled tight, or you can weakly or not fill the upper legs at all. It depends on the degree of stuffing, what kind of kitten you have.

Ears, muzzle and tail of the kitten crochet circuit

Such shoes can be used not only for a kitten. You can put a doll in them, or plant any other crochet toy: a puppy, a mouse or a butterfly.

Try to make sure that the edges of your satin ribbons do not bloom for decorating shoes. Burn them with a lighter. Better, also hide their edge.

Now is the time to collect all the details of the kitten and the shoe together, as well as create facial facial features:

Sew to the head of a kitten tied to hook, its ears and cheeks. High the pink thread of the muline mouth of the animal.
Attach a small black bead or beads as a nose.
Glue the eyes with hot glue. It is better to buy eyes ready in a needlework store. If this is not possible, cut the white part of plastic, make holes in the middle, and sew the pupils of black beads. Eyes can also be found in children's sets with crama for modeling.
Collect the body of a kitten from crochet parts. Sew them to each other with a strong sewing thread.

We draw up a shoe for our kitten:

Make a decorative line along the upper edge of the shoe. On the last row of yellow yarn, perform a racial loops. In our example, a crumb of muffled green color was used for this.
With the same yarn with racer loops, design the border between the sides of the shoe and its sole.
Pass the thin satin ribbon in the holes of the second row. From the same ribbon, sew two bow and decorate them with the top and ass of the shoes.
The toy is crocheted for beginners is ready. The kitten can be put in a shoe!

A rabbit step is knitted like a crochet, but from left to right. A racing step is often used as a second row of strapping. The first row at the same time is knitted with crochet columns.

A snake made of mohair yarn - how to crochet a toy?

The snake from our next master class claims to the title-the lightest crochet toy.

For knitting, only crochet columns are used, which is convenient for beginner needlewomen.
The toy is liability in circular rows.
The shape of the toy is formed due to the simple addition and reduction of the loops.
Small details are knitted separately and sewn.

This toy is knitted from yarn in 2 threads. Threads are taken in our example SHCACHENMAR BRAZILIAThis is an interesting yarn with fringe. The second yarn - SHCACHENMAR Micro, ordinary smooth microfiber.

To crochet such a toy, it is not necessary to use just such a yarn. You can take, for example, acrylic for the main thread and supplement it with a moher. You still need very little red and black yarn for the tongue and eyes.

Threads in our example used quite thick. And they need a hook for them accordingly quite large.

For the body, which is knitted in two threads, you need hook No. 5.
For a head connected in one thread, you need a hook No. 3.5.

You need to start knitting the snake from the tail. First, type two air loops from different threads folded together, crocheted No. 5. Then knit according to the scheme.

Knitted toys crochet a snake trunk pattern

The head of the snake needs to be knitted already in one thread. To make it clearly visible the features of the muzzle of the snake, remove the threads with the pile. The hook also needs to be taken less. In our example, it is 3.5.

Connection of toy details

Sew the tongue to the muzzle of the snake and embroider your eyes with a black thread. The toy is ready!

Crochet toy step by step for beginners - firefly

Crochet toys for beginners in these master classes are very funny. A firefly connected by crochet has many details that you want to consider: these are wings, antennae on the head, and strips on the tummy. Svetlyachka can not only be put on the shelf, but also force to “fly”, tied to a thread.

The body and head of the firefly are knitted together in circular rows. His arms and legs are sewn to the body. This is the lightest crochet toy, knitting patterns simple. But the toy is interesting due to the unusual texture of the yarn, the study of small details, and the selection of the color of the thread.

And the devices and materials for the toy will need the following:

The yarn for our firefly is crocheting multi -colored. You will need yarn of yellow-green and white color SHCACHENMAR BRAZILIA.We cited a photograph of this yarn in the previous master class. You also need yarn SHCACHENMAR DACAPOfor the body of a brown toy and pink tree color. This yarn is not as villous as Brazilia, but also with a comb and an interesting texture.
You still need a little yellow yellow without a pile to create a spout of a firefly. Black and gray yarn are needed to make facial features.
A hook for creating such toys for beginners is suitable No. 4.
Vata or Hollofiber is suitable as filler.

Crochet toys for beginners - Svetlyachka's head and body patterns:

Crochet the firefly, we will start from the bottom of the body. Dial two air loops, then make 8 columns and knit further according to the scheme.

Crochet toys for novice knitting patterns

The body and head are knitted together with circular rows with columns without crochet. The shape of the toy is created by adding and decreasing the number of loops.

The legs and arms of the firefly are knitted and stuffed separately. After that, they need to be sewn to the body.

The wings of the firefly are knitted according to the following scheme. On it you need to tie four details, and then sew them in pairs.

To do the nose is a firefly Dial 2 air loops. Then dial 6 columns without crochet from the second loop. Cut the thread and pull the columns.

In real fireflies Authents - These are the senses, and for our toy crochet antennae is an excellent decoration. To tie them, attach the brown thread to the head of the firefly on the right. For the first Usik, dial 5 air loops plus one loop for turning. Stitch 5 b/n loops into each loop of the chain.

Then knit 2 semi -columns to pass the distance between the two antennae. Tie the left antennae in the same way as the right one. At the tops of the antennae, do Balls made of yellow yarn. Tie for this three columns with yellow yarn on each antennae.

Curious pig - tips on how to crochet

The pigs from our next master class will appeal to those who want to tie a light toy crochet. The piglet is very miniature, its height is only 6 cm. It is knitted with columns without crochet, without complex elements, therefore, in our opinion, is suitable for beginner needlewomen.

Pushen Pashka, Crochet toy for beginners

Materials and devices for this toy crochet the following:

Acrylic threads with a moher with a thickness of 500 meters per 100 grams, that is, quite thin.
Threads Iris or Muline.
A hook in size 2.5 for knitting the body and a hook in size 1.5 or 2 for knitting the legs.

Advice: When choosing threads for knitting toys crochet, do not rely on the recommendations of the manufacturer about the consumption of yarn. Toys are knitting denser than other things. Otherwise, they would have too loose structure and they would simply fall apart. Be careful with synthetic yarn in the form of "laces" where there is a core and a braid. Such yarn is strongly stretched in finished products.

Piglet - crochet knitted toy, knitting pattern and stages of work:

Below, the decoding of some abbreviations from the description of the knitting of the body of the piglet:

NK - This is the initial ring.
FC - This is the final ring.
SBN - A column without a crochet.
Vp - Air loops.

The value of symbols in the schemes in the photo is below:

Designations on schemes — Designations on the schemes, photos from the book Svetlana

Advice: In order to sew small details, use a sewing needle with a large ear and the very thread that you knitted. So the seams will be invisible.

The following photos will tell you how to properly perform the most difficult stages of crochet toy.

Horse and deer crochet - schemes for beginners

Looking at the following photos, you may notice that the torso of the horse and deer are performed the same way. It is no coincidence that they crochet just like that, these toys can stand steadily on their thin legs and even slightly change the position of the legs.

Toys related to the descriptions below are obtained medium size. The height of the horse is about 13 cm, and the height of the deer is 14 cm.

Materials and devices for knitting:

Choose yarn with a thickness of 300 meters per 100 grams. A dense, not stretching cotton will suit you. But it is better to take a microfiber beloved by many. Although such yarn is more expensive in price, it will be more obedient and pleasant to the touch.
Kryuchkov needs two. One size 2.5 for knitting the body. The second size is 1.5 or 2 for knitting the legs and small parts.

Knitted toys by crochet legs and tummy scheme

The legs and tummy of toys are interconnected by the method of partially continued knitting. Some details are knitted together, and some are sewn with each other. How to combine the legs and tummy of a deer and horses is shown in the following scheme.

Green color on it indicates the places in which the parts need to be sewn. Blue arrows are also places that need to be sewn. The thread for stitching parts can be the same, it is indicated in the diagram by different colors for clarity.
In red color, the leg is drawn from which the trunk begins to knit. The body of the animal is knitted with the same thread as the last leg in a spiral.

The trunk of our horses and deer crocheted are almost the same. We begin to knit them in a spiral with a thread from the leg by the continued knitting. The body of toys consists of 8 rows. U deer They are knitted straight, without any increase and decreases and consist of 32 columns without crochet.The horse needs to make one increase in the front of the neck in the ranks number 5 and 7.

The neck and head of the deer and the horses are knitting crocheted a little differently. The next picture is described how to knit a deer.

How to connect the details of the neck and body of the deer is shown in the next photo. In other photos you will find other tips for this master class.

How to knit the horse’s neck and head, it is written in the following instructions.

The deer must separately tie the parts of the muzzle. Crochet ears, nose and spots under the eyes. You can first tie all these small details, then apply them to the muzzle to find an expression on the face that you like. And only after that sew.

You will find a hint on working with small details in the following photos.

For a horse, the ears are knitted according to the scheme in the next picture. She also needs to sew a hole on her back with a beige thread, and make a mane from the same thread with brushes. Use beads as an eye.