Crochet Minion - Free Amigurumi Guide

• Material and preparation
• Instructions - Crochet Minion
  • upper body
  • Dungarees - Part 1
  • eye
  • Mouth and hair
  • glasses
  • braces
  • Dungarees - Part 2
  • poor
  • legs

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Our tutorial on crocheting a Minion uses the principle of Amigurumi. This original Japanese-made crochet technique is universal. Once you understand the basic principle of Amigurumi, you can crochet anything from carrot to swan. Our Minion requires some equipment that will be crocheted and embroidered on it. The procedure leaves a lot of creative scope, so that you will end up with a unique piece that is still "one in a minion".

Material and preparation

Material:

• Crochet thread (cotton, 50 g / 125 m) in strong yellow, blue and white
• Yarn (cotton, 50 g / 85 m) in black and light gray
• Embroidery thread in black
• 1 safety eye 6 mm
• Crochet hooks 3, 5 and 5
• Wool needle, embroidery needle

Our Minion will be just under 15 inches tall. With his chic hairstyle and one eye, he probably comes closest to Stuart or Steve in appearance.

Prior knowledge:

• thread ring
• Fixed stitches
• stitches
• Increase and decrease stitches

Instructions - Crochet Minion

upper body

The Minion body has an extremely simple form for an Amigurumi. They start with the yellow yarn and the crochet hook in size 3, 5. Make a thread ring with 6 fixed stitches. Now take 6 stitches evenly spaced over 7 rounds. This means that you double every stitch in the 1st round, every 2nd in the 2nd round, in the 3rd round every 3rd, and so on.

Tip: Use a marker or a thread to mark the beginning of each round.

After the 7 rounds, you should have 48 stitches in a round. That's the body circumference of our Minion. Now it's going on. For that you crochet over 20 rounds always a firm stitch in each stitch of the preliminary round. Then lay your body aside and take on the dungarees.

Dungarees - Part 1

The dungarees are crocheted with the blue yarn. First, make the bib. Then continue the rest of the pants as an extension to the body. Hit a chain with 14 air meshes. If you crochet a row back in a tight stitch, it should be 13 stitches.

To crochet a total of 5 rows. We need this blue rectangle twice.

Now take a bib and put it on the upper body so that the first stitch of the next row is parallel to the next to be crocheted stitch of the upper body. In this position, crochet bib and torso together. To do this, pierce each through the stitch of the bib and through the stitch from the upper body. Bring the blue thread through both stitches and crochet the whole thing like a normal tight stitch. After 13 stitches, the lower edge of the bib is completely attached.

Crochet 11 stitches with the blue yarn. At this point you have to crochet the second bib. Lay it flush on the upper body and crochet it in the same way as the first bib. After 13 other fixed stitches, each crocheted on a blue and a yellow stitch, the second bib is fixed. Crochet now a whole round with the blue yarn on. Then we interrupt the work on the pants briefly to give the Minion his hair and his typical face.

eye

For the eye, use the white yarn and the 3.5 crochet hook. Start with a thread ring with 6 fixed stitches. Double all stitches in the next two rounds. So you should get 24 stitches in a round. Cut the thread and pull it through the last stitch. Her eye background is ready.

To attach the eye, use the safety eye. Pierce this through the center of the newly crocheted disc. Also, pierce the top of the minion in the center above a bib. In terms of height, the puncture site should be between the 12th and 13th round from the top. When you are satisfied with the job press the lock on the safety eye from the inside.

Mouth and hair

The mouth is embroidered between eye and bib. Use the black embroidery thread and the embroidery needle. Take the embroidery thread twice. The mouth starts slightly to the right of the eye between the 17th and 18th round. Embroider over 2 rows diagonally down to the left to give the Minion a friendly smile. From here it goes straight across the entire width of the eye to the left. Close your mouth with an oblique line over 2 rows to the top left.

Since we have the embroidery right at hand, we'll go straight away with the hair. Our Minion carries the "mid-top-to-side-licked" variant. Mark the center part with a thread to work more closely. This can calmly start directly above the eye and should run as centrally as possible over the head to the back of the skull.

Now embroider the individual hair with a double thread from the black embroidery thread - between 4 and 5 on each side. Important is the exact symmetry, because the Minions obviously prefer this.

glasses

An accessory is still missing our Amigurumi Minion: the glasses. These crochet from the gray yarn. Start with a chain of 14 small pieces of air. Close the chain with a chain stitch to a circle. This is followed by a round with fixed stitches. Finish this round with a slit stitch in the first loop. The protruding thread is used to sew the glasses around the eye.

Turn the ring so that the chain of the air chain is pointing away from the body. It is best to bring the protruding thread just below the lower edge of the eye with the wool needle on the inside. Then pierce in several places from the inside to the outside through the outermost eye loop and from the inside of the glasses to the outside through the bottom loop of the glasses. Back on the inside of the body, it goes through the same hole through which you stung out.

The glasses are firmly fixed with a total of 6 stitches all around.

For the strap you need the black cotton yarn. Use the thick crochet hook to crochet a mesh of 26 stitches. For safety's sake, put the band around your head once to check the correct length. Now sew the ends of the ribbon to the left and right edge of the eyeglasses. In addition, fix the band with the black yarn around the head of your Minion with another 4 to 5 stitches at regular intervals.

braces

For suspenders we need 2 more chains of mesh. These are crocheted in the same blue yarn as the pants. A length of 16 stitches is ideal. Allow a good piece of thread on both sides of the mesh. Thread it into the wool needle. Then you pierce through the upper corner of a bib on the inside of the body. Fix the upper edge of the bib with 2 more stitches approximately to the middle. Tie and sew the rest of the thread on the inside.

Dungarees - Part 2

Now continue the pants. Crochet 2 more rounds first. Then come the decreases. As with the increases, 6 stitches are taken per round. This means for the first round of deduction that every 7th and 8th stitch are crocheted together. In the next round, combine every 6th and 7th, then every 5th and 6th stitch into a tight stitch.

Before the opening becomes smaller, the Minion must be filled. If you've already crocheted other Amigurumi, you may already have a favorite filler. In principle, you can use wool remnants as well as cotton wool or even new wool. In the end, the Amigurumi should be dimensionally stable, but not too hard.

Continue with the declines in the usual scheme until you have only 6 stitches in a round. Close the remaining opening and knot the thread.

poor

We crochet our arms down the shoulders of this Amigurumi. Use the yellow yarn to cast on a 6-thread mesh thread ring. Crochet 8 rounds with 6 stitches each. For the gloves change to the black yarn. Since this is a little thicker, the thickening for the hands automatically arises. There are no increases required.

The first round with the black yarn is a bit tricky as you have to pick up the thick yarn with the thin needle. For the second round you can then use the thick crochet hook. A total of 4 rounds are crocheted in black. Close the remaining opening and sew the thread.

The arms are sewn with the protruding initial thread on the side of the Minion body slightly below the level of the mouth. With a stitch you should fix the suspenders directly above the shoulder.

legs

The legs of a Minion are mainly made of shoes. We crochet them from the sole upwards. Use the black yarn to make a 5-mesh chainstitch. Crochet 4 sts in the next row. Now we have to crochet around the bend. There are 2 more fixed stitches in the side of the first air mesh, right next to the starting thread. Then crochet 4 stitches back into the bottom of the mesh. At the end come again 2 fixed stitches to get the curve. They get an oval shape. This is followed by 5 fixed stitches and again 2 stitches in a stitch. After the next 5 fixed stitches the sole is ready.

For the next round, just stab in the upper thread of each stitch. Crochet one stitch in each of the 13 stitches this way. This is followed by another round with ordinary fixed stitches. In the next round, take off a quarter of the stitches. Crochet 3 stitches at the beginning of the round. Then combine 3 stitches into 2 stitches and finish the round with 3 more stitches.

Plug the shoe well with filling material. At best, this Amigurumi shoes and legs are so stable that the Minion can stand on it. Form the shoe with your fingers and slightly press the sole flat.

Change to the blue yarn of the trousers and crochet with the smaller crochet hook. In total crochet 3 rounds with 10 stitches in blue. Then close the leg and fill up with some filler if necessary. The legs are now sewn in the middle of the underside of our Minion.