FREE AMIGURUMI PATTERN: Blue Whale

PATRÓN EN ESPAÑOL

SCHEMA IN ITALIANO

Hello again!

I hope you are having a terrific summer! I’m currently enjoying London and tomorrow I will be attending the wedding of one of my bests friends in the lovely town on Kingston. It will be my first English wedding and I’m pretty excited!

As promised, here is the second free pattern of a sea creature! This time is an uber-cute amigurumi whale that fits in the palm of your hand (it’s about 11 cm long with a 3.5 mm hook).

I designed it as an amigurumi killer whale back in 2012, but I recently revised the pattern and decided to present it as a regular whale instead. I’ve changed the tail, and it’s the part that may bear some difficulty.

I will explain how to do it: you will have to crochet one fin of the tail, cut the yarn and crochet the second part. Instead of cutting the yarn again, insert your hook on any stitch of the first piece and keep crocheting regularly all the stitches. Then crochet all the stitches of the second fin and the two pieces will be joined. You may have to do a little sewing between them. If you still have any doubts, look at the pictures or search a video on how to join amigurumi pieces.

Have you grabbed yarn and hook? Let’s begin!

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MATERIALS
– 1 yarn ball, light blue, blue or grey and 1 yarn ball white
– A 3.5mm hook, or the most fitting hook for your yarn
– 1 pair of 8 mm safety eyes
– Some red yarn to embroider the cheeks
– Stuffing
– Tapestry needle, stitch marker and ball-point pins.

ABBREVIATIONS
sc = single crochet
inc = increase
dec = decrease
sts = stitches

PATTERN
HEAD/BODY

Starting with blue or grey yarn,
R1: 6 sc in magic ring (6 sts)
R2: (1 inc)x6 (12 sts)
R3: (1 sc, 1 inc)x6 (18 sts)
R4: (2 sc, 1 inc)x6 (24 sts)
R5: (3 sc, 1 inc)x6 (30 sts)
R6: (4 sc, 1 inc)x6 (36 sts)
R7: (5 sc, 1 inc)x6 (42 sts)
R8: (6 sc, 1 inc)x6 (48 sts)
R9: (7 sc, 1 inc)x6 (54 sts)
R10-16: sc even (54 sts)
Change to white yarn
R17: sc even (54 sts)
R18: (7 sc, 1 dec)x6 (48 sts)
R19: (6 sc, 1 dec)x6 (42 sts)
Place eyes between rows 15-16 with 12 stitches of difference. Embroider the cheeks right below the eyes.

R20: (4 sc, 1 dec)x7 (35 sts). Start stuffing.
R21: (3 sc, 1 dec)x7 (28 sts)
R22: (2 sc, 1 dec)x7 (21 sts)
R23: (1 sc, 1 dec)x7 (14 sts)
R24: (1 dec)x7 (7 sts).
Finish stuffing and close. Weave in ends.

FINS (make 2)
R1: 6 sc in magic ring (6 sts)
R2: (1 inc)x6 (12 sts)
R3-6: sc even (12 sts)
Cut yarn. Don’t stuff.

TAIL
R1: 4 sc in magic ring (4 sts)
R2: (1 inc)x4 (8 sts)
R3-4: sc even (8 sts).
Cut the yarn and repeat rows 1-4. Don’t cut the yarn this time: we are joining the two pieces together.

R5: sc even (16 sts)
R6: (1 dec)x8 (8 sts)
R7: sc even (8 sts)
R8: (1 sc, 1 inc)x4 (12 sts)
R9: (2 sc, 1 inc)x4 (16 sts)
R10: (3 sc, 1 inc)x4 (20 sts)
R11: (4 sc, 1 inc)x4 (24 sts)
Stuff and cut the yarn, leaving a long tail.

ASSEMBLY

Place the fins and the tail above the white part, taking the eyes as reference, and sew each part to the body.

Ready to cuddle!

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©2018 – Designed by Belén Galán for Amigurinos – All rights reserved. This pattern is only for personal use. You cannot sell, distribute or publish this pattern or claim it as your own, partially or totally. If you want to share the pattern in any web page, blog or social media, provide a link to my blog instead of just copying it. You are not allowed to use the pictures for personal or commercial means.
You are allowed to sell the final product locally (craft fairs, family and friends, charity…); I only ask you to kindly credit me as the designer.

Thanks and happy crocheting!

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