Amigurumi Mermaid Making
Materials
Kartopu Amigurumi hand knitting threads;
White (K010) color rope
Blue (K1620) color rope
Gray (K920) color rope
Red (K150) color rope
A piece of black rope
2.5 mm crochet hook
Fiber
Abbreviations
Mr: Magic ring
SC: Sc
inc: Increase
dec: Decrease
Blo: Knitting a dense needle by sinking into the back loop
Flo: Knitting a dense needle by sinking into the front loop
Ch: Chain
Dc: Double handrail
Hdc: Single handrail
Fabrication
Head
We knit with thread of white color.
1) 6sc into Mr
2) (1inc) * 6 (12sc)
3) (1sc, 1inc) * 6 (18sc)
4) (2sc, 1inc) * 6 (24sc)
5) (3sc, 1inc) * 6 (30sc)
6) (4sc, 1inc) * 6 (36sc)
7) (5sc, 1inc) * 6 (42sc)
8-14) 42sc
15) (5sc, 1dec) * 6 (36sc)
16) (4sc, 1dec) * 6 (30sc)
17) (3sc, 1dec) * 6 (24sc)
18) (2sc, 1dec) * 6 (18sc)
We fill in fiber.
We embroider your eyes with black thread.
Body
We knit with a blue thread.
1) 6sc into Mr
2) (1sc, 1inc) * 3 (9sc)
3) (2sc, 1inc) * 3 (12sc)
4) (3sc, 1inc) * 3 (15sc)
5) (4sc, 1inc) * 3 (18sc)
6) 18sc
7) (5sc, 1inc) * 3 (21sc)
8) (6sc, 1inc) * 3 (24sc)
9) 24sc
10) (7sc, 1inc) * 3 (27sc)
11) 27sc
12) (8sc, 1inc) * 3 (30sc)
13) 30sc
14) (9sc, 1inc) * 3 (33sc)
15) 33sc
16) (10sc, 1inc) * 3 (36sc)
17-25) 36sc
We knit with a gray thread.
26) 36sc
27) We pull out Blo 3ch, 5dc, 5hdc, 16sc, 5hdc, 5dc, 3ch and sink into the loop and finish.
We knit with thread of white color.
28) Flo 36sc
29-31) 36sc
32) (10sc, 1dec) * 3 (33sc)
33) 33sc
34) (9sc, 1dec) * 3 (30sc)
35) 30sc
36) (8sc, 1dec) * 3 (27sc)
37) 27sc
38) (7sc, 1dec) * 3 (24sc)
39) 24sc
40) (2sc, 1dec) * 6 (18sc)
41) 18sc
We connect the arms.
We fill in fiber.
Handles (2 Pieces)
We knit with thread of white color.
1) 5sc into Mr
2) (1inc) * 5 (10sc)
3) (1sc, 1inc) * 5 (15sc)
We knit with a gray thread.
4-7) 15sc
We knit with thread of white color.
8) 15sc
9) (3sc, 1dec) * 3 (12sc)
10-12) 12sc
13) 1dec, 5sc, 1dec, 3sc (10sc)
14-20) 10sc
We finish.
Hat
We knit with thread of red color.
1) 6sc into Mr
2) (1sc, 1inc) * 3 (9sc)
We knit with thread of white color.
3) (2sc, 1inc) * 3 (12sc)
4) (3sc, 1inc) * 3 (15sc)
We knit with thread of red color.
5) (4sc, 1inc) * 3 (18sc)
We knit with thread of white color.
6) (2sc, 1inc) * 6 (24sc)
7) 24sc
We knit with thread of red color.
8) (3sc, 1inc) * 6 (30sc)
9) 30sc
We knit with thread of white color.
10-11) 30sc
We knit with thread of red color.
12-13) 30sc
Turkish bagel
We knit with red and white threads, changing 1 color in every 5 rows.
1) 8sc into Mr
2-30) 8sc
We fill in it and sew it in a ring.
Hair
We knit with a gray thread.
1) 6sc into Mr
2) (1inc) * 6 (12sc)
3) (1sc, 1inc) * 6 (18sc)
4) (2sc, 1inc) * 6 (24sc)
5) (3sc, 1inc) * 6 (30sc)
6) (4sc, 1inc) * 6 (36sc)
7) (5sc, 1inc) * 6 (42sc)
8-11) 42sc
12) In the last row we knit a fan model and sew it to the head. So, we’re doing 1hdc, 4dc into 1sc, we’re doing a loop shift to the next sc.
Fin
We knit with a blue thread.
1) We do 12 ch, 6dc to the 4th ch, 3dc, 2hdc, 3sc to the last ch.
2) We continue on the other side of the chain. 2hdc, 3dc, and join the last loop by sliding 3dc, loop.
That’s it!
