Amigurami Reindeer Pattern Medium Size – Pictures and directions make the design easy to follow. About 35 centimeters tall are my reindeer.
I’ve used about one and a half skeins (95 meters/100 grammes) of the primary color chenille yarn.
You will need:
Yarn in desired colour I have used chenille yarn (Aldi brand) and used 2no of sekin, crochet hook 4mm.
Needle Polyester fibrefill stuffing Optionally pipe cleaner for horns, Plastic nose and eyes, I have used different sizes for different thickness of the yarn, smaller one 10mm, bigger 14mm.
Observation:
- ch chain
- dec decrease
- sc single crochet
- sl st slip stitch
- st stitch
- inc increase
- BLO back loop only
Notes: Do not join at the end of each round; rounds are worked in continuous spirals or otherwise stated. Use a stitch marker to mark the beginning of each round. Move the marker up each time you start a new round.
Head
- 1: 6sc in MR (6)
- 2: (1sc, inc) x 3 (9)
- 3: (2sc, inc) x 3 (12)
- 4: (2sc, inc) x 4 (16)
- 5: (7sc, inc) x 2 (18)
- 6: (2sc, inc) x 6 (24)
- 7: (3sc, inc) x 6 (30)
- 8: (4sc, inc) x 6 (36)
- 9: 36sc
- 10: (5sc, inc) x 6 (42)
- 11: 42sc
- 12: (6sc, inc) x 6 (48) – put the nose and the eyes between 9 and 10 row in space of 8sc
- 13-14: 48sc
- 15: (6sc, dec) x 6 (42)
- 16: (5sc, dec) x 6 (36)
- 17: (4sc, dec) x 6 (30) – start to fill the head 18: 30sc
- 19: (3sc, dec) x 6 (24)
- Stuff the head, make sure you fill up the nose. 20: (2sc, dec) x 6 (18)
- 21: (1sc, dec) x 6 (12)
- 22: dec x 6 (6) f/o leaving long tail to close the hole. Make sure you firmly stuff the head.
Ears make 2
- 1: 4sc in MR (4)
- 2: inc x 4 (8)
- 3: (1sc, inc) x 4 (12)
- 4: (2sc, inc) x 4 (16)
- 5: 16sc
- 6: (2sc, dec) x 4 (12)
- 7: (1sc, dec) x 4 (8)
- 8: dec x 2 f/o leaving long tail to sew, do not stuff, sew in to the head.
Horn – make 2
put pipe cleaner at the end or slightly stuff when making.
- 1: 5sc in MR (5)
- 2-19: 5sc
- f/o leaving long tail to sew them in to the head.
Horn – smaller part, make 4
- 1: 5sc in MR (5)
- 2-6: 5sc
- f/o leaving long tail to sew them in to the longer part like on the photos
Body
- 1: Starting from the top of the neck, Make chain 14, slst to the first chain creating a ring (14)
- 2: 14sc
- 3: (6sc, inc) x 2 (16)
- 4: 7sc, inc, 8sc (17)
- 5: 8sc, inc, 7sc, inc (19)
- 6: 10 sc, chain 20, starting from the second sc from the hook, 19sc, make sc in the same space which you start the chain, 10 sc.
- 7: 10sc on the neck and 19sc on the chain, inc, 29sc in other side of the chain to the marker (60) –
- We crated one big round. 8: 60sc (60)
- 9: 29sc, inc x 3, 28sc (63)
- 10: (5sc, inc) x 10, 3sc (73)
- 11- 19: 73sc (73)
- 20: 2sc, move your maker to this place – 63sc, skip 9sc, 1sc (64) 21: 1sc, skip 9sc, 11sc, skip 15sc, 2sc, skip 15sc, 11sc (25)
- Start to staff the body, then add the filling as required. 22: dec x 2, 8sc, dec x 2, 8sc (21)
- 23: dec x 2, 7sc, dec x 2, 6sc (17)
- f/o leaving long tail to sew the hole later on. We create the holes in the bottom of the body for legs.
Front legs
- 1: staring in the front hole make 13sc (13) 2 – 9: 13sc – fill the leg as required tip: make all four legs first in main colour, then change colour and stuff after.
- That way is easier to make second leg. 10: change the colour for the desired one for the bottom of the legs, BLO 13sc, 11: dec x 6, 1sc
- f/o leaving tail and sew the hole
Back legs
- 1: starting in the back hole make 18sc (18) 2: 18sc
- 3: (7sc, dec) x 2 (16)
- 4: (6sc, dec) x 2 (14)
- 5-9: 14sc – stuff the leg as required 10: change the colour, BLO 14sc 11: dec x 6
- f/o leaving tail and sew the hole
Now add the staffing to the body as required and sew the middle hole.
Tail
- 1: 4sc in MR (4)
- 2: inc x 4 (8)
- 3: (1sc, inc) x 4 (12)
- 4: 12sc f/o leaving long tail, sew in to the body
Scarf
I make my scarf with knitting with 12sc, but you can crochet as well just make 12sc and dc with the desired length.