Mini Big Head Turtle Crochet Along - Part One

Here we go! Part one of the Mini Big Head Turtle Crochet-Along! 

Mini Big Head Turtle

By Elaine Okupski of

Penguin Place Crafts

 

Uses .7 ounce of worsted weight yarn and an F hook.

 

Abbreviations:

Dec: decrease

HDC: half double crochet

Inc: Increase

MR: Magic Ring

Sc: Single crochet

Sl st: slip stitch

TLO: Third loop only

 

Body:

Round 1: 6 sc in MR. (6)

Round 2: inc x 6. (12)

Round 3: (sc, inc) x 6. (18)

Round 4: (2 sc, inc) x 6. (24)

Rounds 5-7: 24 sc. (24)

Round 8 is worked in HDC rather than SC. Then Round 9 is worked in the third loop, giving a nice edge to the bottom of the shell.

 

Round 8: 24 hdc, sl st into third loop of next st. Chain 4, sl st in 2^nd ch, sc, hdc (tail made)

Round 9: TLO, beginning in same stitch as sl st of Round 7: (sc x 4, dec) x 4 (20) Stuff body.

To help your turtle with balance, you can cut a small circle of plastic (I save my lids from plastic containers such as sour cream and cottage cheese for this purpose) and place it at the bottom of your turtle

Round 10: (dec, 5-dc bobble, 2 sc) x 4. (16)

Round 11: (sc x 2, dec) x 4. (12)

Round 12: dec x 6. (6)

Finish off. Use yarn tail to close.

 Since this turtle uses less than an ounce of yarn, it’s a great stash buster. You can use even smaller amount of yarn by doing stripes or spikes.

For this Spike shell, I alternated dark and light colors, starting with dark for Round 1. For Round 3, I put 4 spike stitches evenly around the row (reaching down to the previous dark row). For the next two dark rows, I put centered the spikes between Round 3’s spikes. Likewise, the spikes on Round 7 were centered between those of Round 5. I also changed to the lighter color for Round 10 to make the underbelly and legs.

 

This cutie is alternating rows of red and a variegated yarn where the red is a pretty close match.

 

 

 

 

You can also embroider a block pattern on the shell with a contrasting color.