Designer: Vani Crochets
Bring a touch of gentle urban charm into your home with this beautifully detailed pigeon amigurumi! Made with soft grey, blue, green, and yellow for the beak and feet.
This tutorial contains how to make a beak, wings, feet, tail, body, and then sew all parts together. It also contains how to change between colors in the body part.
Materials needed are chenille bulky yarn in dark grey, light grey, blue, green, and yellow shades, a 5 mm crochet hook, 12 mm safety eyes, stuffing, scissors, tapestry needle, and stitch markers.
You can pair it with bird or animal amigurumi collections or display on shelves or desks for a subtle decorative touch.
Materials
- 5 mm crochet hook
- Yarn in colors: dark grey, light grey, blue, green, orange
- 12 mm safety eys
- Stuffing
- Scissors,
- White felt
- Needle
- Stitch markers
- Ami-sticks
Size: 14 cm
Abbreviations
Mr – magic ring
sc – single crochet
inc – increase
dec – decrease
sl st – slip stitch
ch – chain
dc – double crochet
Beak
Use orange yarn.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in Mr (6)
Fasten off, do not slip stitch into the first stitch the beak will be directly crocheted on to the body.
Wings x2
Use light grey yarn.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in Mr (6)
Rnd 2: (1 sc, inc) x 3 (9)
Rnd 3: (2 sc, inc) x 3 (12)
Rnd 4-5: sc around (12)
Fold in half and do 6 sc along the top to close the wing. Fasten off, leave a tail for sewing.
Feet x2
Use orange yarn.
Rnd 1: 8 sc in Mr (8)
Rnd 2: (sl st in the next stitch, chain 1, dc in the next stitch, chain 1, sl st in the same stitch) x 3, sl st x 2
Fasten off, leave a tail for sewing.
Tail
Use light grey yarn.
Rnd 1: 4 sc in Mr (4)
Rnd 2: (1 sc, inc) x 2 (6)
Rnd 3: (2 sc, inc) x 2 (8)
Rnd 4: (3 sc, inc) x 2 (10)
Rnd 5: (4 sc, inc) x 2 (12)
Rnd 6: (5 sc, inc) x 2 (14)
Rnd 7: (6 sc, inc) x 2 (16)
Fasten off, leave a tail for sewing.
Body
Start in dark grey color.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in Mr (6)
Rnd 2: inc x 6 (12)
Rnd 3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
Rnd 4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
Rnd 5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
Rnd 6-7: sc around (30) (2 rounds)
Rnd 8: 14 sc, 3 sc through body and beak, 13 sc (30)
Insert your hook through the beak and the body and sc 3. The first sc should be placed into the last stitch of the beak magic ring and the next stitch of the body, the second sc should be places into the hole of the beak magic ring and the following next stitch of the body, the third sc should be placed into the first stitch of the beak magic ring and the following next stitch of the body.
Rnd 9: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
Rnd 10: sc around (36)
Add 12 mm safety eyes between R7 and R8, 2 stitches away from the beak on both sides (you can also add colorful felt with a diameter of 14 mm under the eyes)
In blue:
Rnd 11: sc around (36)
In green:
Rnd 12: sc around (36)
In light grey:
Rnd 13: (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
Rnd 14: (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
Rnd 15-20: sc around (48) (6 rounds)
Rnd 21: (6 sc, dec) x 6 (42)
Rnd 22: (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
Rnd 23: (4 sc, dec) x 6 (30)
Begin to stuff and continue throughout the next rounds.
Rnd 24: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
Rnd 25: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)
Rnd 26: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
Rnd 27: dec x 6 (6)
Fasten off, weave in the ends and close the hole.
Assembly
- Sew the wing right under R12, one stitch from the eye.
- Sew the feet between R18-R21 in line with the eyes.
- Sew the tail between R18-R21 in the middle of the back.
