This mini shrimp makes a cute decorative piece, a keychain, or an addition to a food-themed crochet collection, also it’s perfect for fans of sea creatures.
This tutorial includes how to make fresh shrimp and has a note about how to make tempura one, you can make it using some simple crochet stitches, like single crochet, slip stitch, double crochet, treble crochet, and some crochet techniques like increasing and decreasing.
This tutorial has 2 parts, The first one is how to make the body and change between colors, and the second part is how to make the tail and some assembly and details steps.
This pattern was made in a spiral, so you need to use a stitch marker or a piece of constructed yarn to mark the first stitch of each round.
Let’s start!
Disgner: Wooli Amigurumis
Materials
- 4.5 mm crochet hook
- Yarn needle
- Fiberfill stuffing
- Glue
- Scissors
- Sewing pins
- 0,6″ oval black felt or safety eyes
- Premier parpart Chunky (#6 sper bulky) in colors:
- cotton candy, coral or shell and peach
Abbreviations
mr – magic ring
sc – single crochet
dc – double crochet
tr – treble crochet
sl st – slip stitch
inc – increase
dec – decrease
rnd – rounds
If you want to make the tempura shrimp make all the body using shell and the tails using peach.
Body
Work in Cotton Candy
Rnd 1: 6 sc in a magic ring (6)
Rnd 2: 6 inc (12)
Rnd 3: (1 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (18)
Rnd 4: 1 sc, 1 inc, (2 sc, 1 inc) x 5, 1 sc (24)
Rnd 5-7: 1 sc in each stitch (24)
Cahnge color to Coral.
Rnd 8: 1 sc in each stitch (24)
Rnd 9: 5 sc, 1 dec, 10 sc, 1 dec, 5 sc (22)
Rnd 10: 1 sc in each stitch (22)
Change color to Cotton Candy.
Rnd 11: (9 sc, 1 dec) x 2 (20)
Rnd 12: 1 sc in each stitch (20)
Rnd 13: 4 sc, 1 dec, 8 sc, 1 dec, 4 sc (18)
If you are using safety eyes, place them between rnds 607, leaving approx 10 stitches between them.
Change color to Coral.
Rnd 14: 1 sc in each stitch (18)
Rnd 15: (7 sc, 1 dec) x 2 (16)
Change color to Cotton Candy.
Rnd 16: 1 sc in each stitch (16)
Rnd 17: 3 sc, 1 dec, 6 sc, 1 dec, 3 sc (14)
Start stuffing. Change color to Coral.
Rnd 18: (5 sc, 1 dec) x 2 (12)
Rnd 19: 6 dec (6)
Fasten off leaving a long tail. Stuff. Close the body passing the needle through the front loop of each of the stitches of the last round (6) and pull until closed.
Tail x2
Work in Coral.
Rnd 1: work inside a magic rng, 3 dc, 5 sc, 1 tr, 4 sc, close with 1 sl st in the second dc (18)
Fasten off leaving a long tail.
Assembly
- Sew the tails at the end of the body.
- Place the eyes in rnd 6, leaving approx 10 stitches between them.
- Embroider the blushes just below the eyes.
- Bend your shrimp to give the final shape.
