Winnie-the-Pooh with a Honey Pot
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Free crochet pigeon pattern: a Pigeon with Bread amigurumi, about 13 cm tall in DK yarn with a 2.5 mm hook. It is a plump grey pigeon with a green and purple neck band, striped wings, wide mismatched amber eyes and a small tan bread crust held crosswise at its beak. You need about 110 m of yarn: 50 m grey, 10 m dark grey, 5 m slate grey, 5 m purple, 5 m green, 5 m black, 5 m tan, 5 m pink, 5 m cream, 5 m rose, 5 m charcoal and 5 m white. Plan on roughly 4 hours. Try it as a quirky gift for bird lovers or a desk buddy; spin the 3D model and follow the pattern round by round.
How to crochet the Pigeon with Bread
Intermediate · 13 cm tall · about 4 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
- Crochet the 11 pieces in rounds: Body, Wing ×2, Tail, Beak, Cere, Foot ×2, Cheek ×2, Bread crust piece (79 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 17 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 67 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 9 cm at the widest, 12.8 cm long; 42 rounds.
- Change to green (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R24).
- Change to purple (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R25).
- Change to green (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R26).
- Change to purple (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R27).
- Change to grey (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R28).
- → 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 1.9 cm at the widest, 3.7 cm long; 11 rounds.
- Change to black (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R4).
- Change to dark grey (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R5).
- Change to black (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R7).
- Change to dark grey (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R8).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly only and press it flat to about 9 mm thick.<!-- flattened 55 % -->
- Size before assembly: about 2.4 cm at the widest, 2.9 cm long; 9 rounds.
- Change to black (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R7).
- Change to slate grey (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R8).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly only and press it flat to about 7 mm thick.<!-- flattened 70 % -->
- Size before assembly: about 0.9 cm at the widest, 0.9 cm long; 3 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.
- A flat circle about 1.3 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 1 cm at the widest, 1.2 cm long; 4 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- A flat circle about 1.5 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: an oval about 3.2 × 2 cm at the widest, 1.9 cm long; 6 rounds. The piece is oval: the rounds go around the chain, and on the finished toy the chain (the long side of the oval) runs vertically, top to bottom; the starting chain is at the back of the piece (on the finished toy). The round-start marker is at a turn of the oval, on the piece's centre line; R1 starts there, so no shift is needed. The increases fall on the turns.
- With cream: ch 5.
- Change to tan (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R3).
- → Start stuffing (lightly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Press the piece flat to about 1.6 cm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 50 % --> Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 16 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
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