Crochet shrimp is an excellent project for crocheters looking to make cute, detailed creatures using simple techniques. This pattern is designed with sport-weight yarn in cream, orange, red, and white shades, a 2.5 mm crochet hook, yarn needle, safety eyes, and stuffing.
This tutorial includes instructions on how to make single crochet stitches around the edge, how to fasten off invisibly, bobble stitch, double crochet decrease, and attaching a new strand of yarn.
It can be used as a fun toy, part of a marine-themed collection, or even a keychain or decoration.
Designer: FloeCreation Crochet
Materials & Tools
- 2.5 mm crochet hook
- Sport weight yarn in colors: cream, orange, red, white
- Stuffing
- Yarn needle
- Scissors
- Safety eyes
- Stitch marker
Abbreviations
sc – single crochet
MR – magic ring
inc – increase
dec – decrease
ch – chain
dc – double crochet
hdc – half double crochet
FO – fasten off
sl st – slip stitch
dc-dec:
- Make 1 unfunished dc (leaving 2 loops on the hook)
- In the next stitch, make another unfinished dc by pulling through the first 2 loops
- Now you have 3 loops on your hook. Hook the yarn and pull through all of them
Body
Carry the yarn along and work over it for smoother color changes. Chains at the beginning of the rows do not count toward the total stitch count.
Orange in orange text
Cream in black text
Row 1: 4 ch, beginning in the 2nd ch from the hook, sc, sc, sc, turn (3)
Row 2: (ch, inc), 2 hdc, turn (4)
Row 3: (2 ch, dec), 2 hdc, inc, turn (5)
Row 4: (ch, inc), sc, 2 hdc, dc, turn (6)
Row 5: (2 ch, dc), dc, 2 hdc, sc, inc, turn (7)
Row 6: (ch, inc), sc, 2 hdc, 3 dc, turn (8)
Row 7: (2 ch, dc), 2 dc, 3 hdc, sc, inc, turn (9)
Row 8: (ch, inc), sc, 3 hdc, 4 dc, turn (10)
Row 9: (2 ch, dc-dec), 2 dc, 3 hdc, 3 sc, turn (9)
Row 10: (ch, sc), 2 sc, 3 hdc, 3 dc, turn (9)
Row 11: (2 ch, dc), 2 dc, 3 hdc, 3 sc, turn (9)
Row 12-14: (ch, dc), 8 sc, turn (9)
Row 15: (ch, dec), 5 sc, dec, turn (7)
Row 16: (ch, dec), 3 sc, dec. FO (5)
Insert safety eyes into the front piece of the body, between R13 and R14, approximately 3 stitch holes apart. Use red yarn to embroider 2 blushes under the eyes.
With cream yarn, assemble the 2 pieces of body together with sc around the edges. Make 1 sc adjacent to a sc, and make 2 sc adjacent to a hdc or dc. Stuff as you go. FO invisibly.
Tail
At the base of the shrimp body, locate 2 stitches, attach orange yarn with a ch to the first stitch, 7 ch, beginning in the 3rd ch from the hook, dc, dc, hdc, hdc, sc.
Sl st into the next stich on the shrimp’s body, 7 ch, beginning in the 3rd ch from the hook, dc, dc, hdc, hdc, sc,, sl st into the same stitch where the ch started. FO.
