Crochet Plushie

04/05/2025 Making a Plushie the most Basic

I am not an expert of crochet by any means. I am self-taught and learn mainly from trial and error and the occasional pattern online. That being said, I make mostly plushies especially for friends having babies. It is a sweet gift that has a lot of sentimental value and, best of all, no one else has that specific plushie and no one else ever will. It’s just so special.
Anyway, I wrote up a super, super basic pattern for how I make a plushie. This pattern can be used to make most animals (just change the details).

For the Body:

1. Make a magic circle.
2. Single crochet 6 into the magic circle (6 around)
3. Increase each crochet of the circle (12 around)
4. Increase every other crochet of the circle (18 around)
5. Increase every third crochet of the circle (24 around)
6. Increase every fourth crochet of the circle (30 around)
7. Increase every fifth crochet of the circle (36 around)
8. Increase every sixth crochet of the circle (42 around)
9. Increase every seventh crochet of the circle (48 around)

Continue until your desired size is reached. I usually do six or seven rounds to make a medium size plushie.

10. Single crochet for three to five rounds depending on how tall you prefer the plushie. I usually do three rounds.
11. Single crochet for about 10 crochets, decrease one, single crochet until about 10 crochets from end of circle, decrease one, single crochet last 10 crochets.
12. Continue step 12 until the circle is about 20 crochets around.
13. Leave extra yarn for attaching to head.
14. Stuff

For the Head:

1. Make a magic circle.
2. Single crochet 6 into the magic circle (6 around)
3. Increase each crochet of the circle (12 around)
4. Increase every other crochet of the circle (18 around)
5. Increase every third crochet of the circle (24 around)
6. Increase every fourth crochet of the circle (30 around)
7. Increase every fifth crochet of the circle (36 around)
8. Increase every sixth crochet of the circle (42 around)
9. Increase every seventh crochet of the circle (48 around)

Largest part of head should match largest part of body. If you have 48 around for the body you should have 48 around for the head.

10. Decrease in the opposite pattern of the increase pattern. Decrease every seventh crochet, then every sixth, etc.
11. Continue until the circle is about 20 crochets around.
12. Leave extra string to attach to body.
13. Stuff

For the Limbs:

1. Make a magic circle.
2. Single crochet 6 into the magic circle (6 around)
3. Increase each crochet of the circle (12 around)
4. Increase every other crochet of the circle (18 around)
5. Increase every third crochet of the circle (24 around)
6. Single crochet until desired length is achieved
7. Repeat three more times to make four limbs
8. Stuff lightly, leaving room at top of limb to attach to the body and allow for movement.

For the Muzzle:
1. Make a magic circle.
2. Single crochet 6 into the magic circle (6 around)
3. Increase each crochet of the circle (12 around)
4. Increase every other crochet of the circle (18 around)
5. Increase every third crochet of the circle (24 around)
6. Single crochet three rounds
7. Leave extra yarn to attach to head.
8. Stuff

For the Ears:

For the Details:

1. Use a darning needle to embroider eyes, nose, toes, and any other details.

Now obviously this isn’t the perfect pattern. A lot of how I do this is based on how it looks and feels. This is also very customizable. For example, if you want to make a zebra then you can make the muzzle part bigger to give the plushie more of a horse like appearance. If you want to make an elephant, then you can use a similar method of the muzzle to make a trunk. There are so many options, and they are all adorable.

03/07/2025
Crocheting and knitting is a hobby that I always remember my grandma doing. When I was little, she taught me the basics of knitting and I had so much fun with it. I still have all my old yarn and knitting needles from when I first learned.

I stopped for a while as I got older and got more interested in sports and reading and other mediums of art. Now that I am in my 20's I have been needing a new hobby besides reading. A big part of my life came to an end in my early 20’s when I chose to stop playing volleyball altogether. This left a void that I filled with college and nursing school and letting myself get creative every so often with painting or drawing or reading. Well, about 2 years ago I began my career, and new that I would need something more than just reading to relax on the weekends. At the same time my sister was pregnant with her second child. Well, lightbulb .jpeg, I decided that it would be so fun to make a teddy bear for the new baby. And that threw me headfirst down a hobby that I never realized I would love so much.

I have now learned and accomplished so much with crochet that I accumulated too many crochet goodies. Thankfully, a lot of friends and family are having babies so that certainly helps keep the hobby alive and gives homes to all my little creations. Even with all of these lovely homes for my creations, I still have so many projects that don’t have homes! That is how I came up with The Knit Rabbit. Just a little Etsy shop where I can list my little friends to find new homes.