Tiny Blue Turtle
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Free crochet squid keychain pattern: a Squid Keychain amigurumi, about 9 cm tall in fingering yarn with a 2 mm hook. A pink pointy hood with two small white fins, round blushing cheeks, a little smile, six short white tentacles and a silver keyring loop on top. You need about 40 m of yarn: 15 m pink, 15 m white, 5 m silver and 5 m dark pink. Plan on roughly 1 hour. Clip it to a bag, a zipper or a set of keys, or hang it on a tree as a sea-themed ornament. It is a quick, beginner-friendly make: spin the 3D model and follow the round-by-round pattern.
How to crochet the Squid Keychain
Beginner-friendly · 9 cm tall · about 2 h · fingering yarn · 2 mm hook
- Crochet the 12 pieces in rounds: Hood body, Fin ×2, Tentacle ×6, Cheek ×2, Key ring loop (44 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 5 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 9 gathered
Gauge
1 sc ≈ 3 mm wide, 1 round ≈ 2.7 mm tall (10 cm ≈ 33 sc × 37 rounds); yarn about 1.4 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 31 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 3.8 cm at the widest, 6.3 cm long; 25 rounds.
- → 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 1.2 cm at the widest, 1.6 cm long; 6 rounds.
- → This piece is not stuffed.
- Press the piece flat to about 3 mm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 90 % --> Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 10 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 0.7 cm at the widest, 2.3 cm long; 9 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff. Bend ≈ 80° around round 4<!-- the bend spreads over 6 rounds -->. Bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces forward on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 4, 0.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left <!-- st 0.64 left -->). On the inner side draw rounds 3 and 5 together (2 rounds go into the fold): with the needle and matching yarn make 3–4 stitches through the loops of both rounds over about 2 st, pull to the angle and hide the end inside.
- A flat circle about 1.2 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 1.5 cm at the widest (lies flat); 2 rounds. Each piece is two circles (front and back): make 2 circles — 1 as below and 1 plain in silver (same rounds, no colour changes).
- Fasten off. Hold a front and a plain circle wrong sides together and sc around through both layers: 16 sc. Do not stuff. Leave a long tail (~30 cm) for sewing.
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