Intermediate Stitches+ Pumpkin Tutorial

Magic Circle/Magic Ring

The fundamental stitch to make plushies! There are 100s of ways and strategies to create one.

This way of decreasing is not very visible and can make your projects look even nicer.

Its recommended before attempting the pumpkin plushie to understand all techniques from the videos above

📌 MATERIALS

Chunky yarn in pumpkin/gourd colours (recommended worsted acrylic yarn for beginners)

Chunky yarn in brown for stem

4-5mm crochet hook

10mm Safety Eyes

Scrap of black yarn for the mouth

Large eye needle

Stuffing

Abrreviations:

MR = Magic Ring

sc = Single Crochet

inv dec = Invisible Decrease (pick up the outside loops of the stitches - please see video)

📌🎃 WRITTEN PATTERN (Pumpkin)

1 : into MR, 6sc

2: *inc* x 6 (12)

3: *1sc, inc* x 6 (18)

4: *2sc, inc* x 6 (24)

5: *3sc, inc* x 6 (30)

6: *4sc, inc* x 6 (36)

7: *5sc, inc* x 6 (42)

8: *6sc, inc* x 6 (48)

9 - 16: *sc* around (48)

Add eyes and mouth

17: *6sc, inv dec* x 6 (42)

18: *5sc, inv dec* x 6 (36)

19: *4sc, inv dec* x 6 (30)

20: *3sc, inv dec* x 6 (24)

21: *2sc, inv dec* x 6 (18)

Stuff

22: *1sc, inv dec* x 6 (12)

23: *inv dec* x 6 (6)

📌🎃 WRITTEN PATTERN (Stem)

STEM

1/ into MR, 6sc

2 - 5 / *sc* around (6)

Sew stem to top of pumpkin