Tiny Blue Turtle
- Difficulty
- 2/3
- Weirdness
- 1/5
- Times crocheted
- 0
A free crochet whale pattern for a round blue whale with a striped belly, a wide happy smile and a curly water spout on top. This amigurumi whale is deep blue with a sky-and-white striped belly, small flippers, a tail fluke raised behind and three aqua water curls fountaining from its head. The body is worked from the bottom up in the round in single crochet with DK yarn and a 2.5 mm hook, with color changes for the stripes, 14 mm safety eyes and sewn-on fins and spout; it is about 10.5 cm (4 in) tall and 15 cm (6 in) wide. Follow the row-by-row pattern with stitch counts and turn the interactive 3D model to check every piece.
How to crochet the Blue Whale
Beginner-friendly · 11 cm tall · about 3 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
- Crochet the 11 pieces in rounds: Body, Flipper ×2, Tail fluke ×2, Spout centre, Water spout curl ×3, Cheek ×2 (66 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 8 steps; each one lights up where it goes on the 3D model.
- Add the face: safety eyes by round and stitch, or embroider them for a child under 3.
Every round with its stitch count is in the Pattern tab below, and in the free printable PDF.
What you'll need
0 of 10 gathered
Gauge
1 sc ≈ 4 mm wide, 1 round ≈ 3.6 mm tall (10 cm ≈ 25 sc × 28 rounds); yarn about 1.9 mm thick. The gauge sets the size of the toy; crochet tightly so the stuffing does not show.
Worked in
Continuous spiral rounds. Don't join. Move a stitch marker up every round.
Parts
0 of 54 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 11.2 cm at the widest, 7.8 cm long; 34 rounds. Multi-colour rounds are listed stitch by stitch from the round-start marker; keep the round start on the piece's centre front line (as it sits on the finished toy). The order is for right-handed crocheting (right to left on the outside); left-handed: reverse it.
- Change to blue (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R20).
- → Insert the safety eyes now (positions: see “Face”) and fix the backs. Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 6 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 2.4 cm at the widest, 2.6 cm long; 8 rounds.
- → Start stuffing (lightly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Press the piece flat to about 8 mm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 65 % --> Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 12 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 2.4 cm at the widest, 2.6 cm long; 8 rounds.
- → Start stuffing (lightly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Press the piece flat to about 8 mm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 65 % --> Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 12 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 1.3 cm at the widest, 1.5 cm long; 5 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly just before sewing it on; a little less near the edge, then add a pinch when the seam is nearly done.
- Size before assembly: about 0.8 cm at the widest, 3.1 cm long; 9 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly just before sewing it on; a little less near the edge, then add a pinch when the seam is nearly done. Bend ≈ 260° around round 5<!-- the bend spreads over 2 rounds --><!-- coil 1.6 -->. The tail rolls up into a spiral (about 0.7 turns): after stuffing, roll it up from the tip (round 1) toward the side that faces forward on the finished toy; the turns lie close, each wider than the last. From the tip to round 5 tack neighbouring turns together with 2–3 stitches of matching yarn every 3–4 rounds and hide the yarn inside.
- A flat circle about 1.5 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
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