Yarn pumpkins are all the rage! You can use your crochet skills to create this fun crocheted pumpkin decoration as a gift or to liven up your home with this step-by-step video tutorial.
This video tutorial below uses the 3rd Loop Half Double Crochet to create the “striping” on the pumpkin and it is one of my favorite stitches to add texture and stripes to a project.
I have included the written instructions below the video.
Let’s dig right in. Grab your hook and yarn and let’s stitch!
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Directions:
- Row 1 of the base: Create a magic circle with 12 sc. Tighten the magic circle to the size of a finger. Join with a sl st, ch 1
- Row 2 of the base: 2 sc in each stitch around, join with a sl st Body of the pumpkin:
- Chain 25
- SC into the 2nd stitch from the hook
- HDC into each stitch to the 2nd to the last stitch
- SC into the last stitch
- Sl st into the starting stitch on the circle
- Sl st into the next stitch of the circle
- Ch 1, turn.
- * SC into the SC stitch from the previous row (not into the sl st)
- 3rd Loop HDC (3LHDC) into each stitch to the last stitch
- SC into the last stitch
- Ch 1, turn. -SC into the 1st st,
- 3LHDC into each st to the last st
- SC into the last st
- Sl st into the starting st
- Sl st into the next st of the circle
- Ch 1, turn
- Repeat from * until you have used every stitch in the circle –
- After you have slip stitched into the last stitch of the circle, finish one last row to the top of the pumpkin.
- Fasten off, leaving a yard of yarn
- Use a yarn needle to sew the two ends of the pumpkin body together
- Feed the tail through the circle to the opening (leave the tail sticking out)
- Use poly-fil to stuff the pumpkin
- Using the yarn tail and needle, feed the yarn around the opening and cinch the opening shut.
- Using the yarn and needle, feed the yarn back and forth from bottom to top and top to bottom, catching each stitch around the circle, and pulling the top and bottom of the pumpkin towards each other.
- Fasten off the yarn, ensuring it is secured
- Hot glue a cinnamon stick into the center of the circle
- Decorate
Now you have your very own crocheted pumpkin!!
This pumpkin can be made with a variety of stitches including the Herringbone Stitch. The key is to find a stitch that creates the lines you would see on a pumpkin to make it more “realistic”.
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🧶 Happy Stitching!
xo — Lavena
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