How to make an amigurumi deer?
The amigurumi technique allows you to create cute knitted toys that have not only an attractive appearance, but also a unique character. For example, using this type of needlework, you can knit a wonderful gift for the New Year - a Christmas deer.
Peculiarities
Christmas amigurumi deer created in a special Japanese knitting technique that requires the use of either a crochet hook or knitting needles. As a rule, this type of needlework is used to create cute little animals, men, or inanimate objects endowed with human properties. The latter most often include bags, hats, cacti, cups, hamburgers, and other common household items. They are characterized by the presence of a large head in the form of a ball, a small cylindrical body and miniature limbs. The popularity of amigurumi has been growing especially rapidly lately. Products in this technique, including a deer, are created from yarn, and the knitting is in a spiral, and the circles are not connected.
The fabric must be free of gaps and gaps, so the thickness of the hook should be significantly less than the thickness of the thread used. Otherwise, the stuffing material will start to break through the holes. Amigurumi toys are created in parts, which are then connected to each other.
For stuffing the body, it is customary to use fiber filler, and fragments of plastic can be added to the inside of the limbs for weight.
Tools and materials
The yarn for knitting a Christmas deer can be absolutely any, for example, brand "Iris"receiving good reviews. Usually about five colors are required - for example, red, white, green, beige and dark brown. To work, you need a hook at number 14 and a filler - synthetic winterizer, or cotton wool... A pair of black beads will act as the eyes of a deer, and a decorative button can decorate his sweater.
I must say that the thicker the material used, the larger the deer will turn out, which means that the figurine made of plush yarn will be much larger than the ten-centimeter sitting toy from Iris.
Knitting technology
As mentioned above, a master class for knitting toys using the amigurumi technique involves the creation of individual components and their subsequent connection into a single whole. The work usually begins with the design of the fawn's head, which will require white yarn. It is better to borrow the exact knitting pattern from a specialized edition for needlewomen, since its description is understandable only to people who understand this subject. However, if the beginner nevertheless decided to tie the animal using the amigurumi technique on his own, he must recognize the main elements of needlework - increase, decrease, single crochet (sbn) and amigurumi ring.
Only when you are familiar with these concepts can you get down to work.
The deer head is first knitted with white yarn... To create the first row, 2 air loops are typed, 6 single crochet stitches are knitted into the second loop from the hook. As a result, 6 loops should form in a row. In the second row, an increase is knitted six times to get 12 loops. In the third row, it is necessary to repeat the increase six times and one single crochet - you should get 18 loops. The fourth row requires a six-fold repetition of the increase and 2 single crochet, in the fifth row - the same, but 3 sb, and so on until the ninth row. In it, the increase and 7 single crochets are repeated 6 times, resulting in 54 loops.
Rows ten through sixteen contain only 54 single crochets. In the seventeenth row, the decrease and 7 sb are repeated 6 times, and the 18th row consists of only 48 sb. Having changed the white yarn to beige, you need to fill in the next two rows, 48 sbn each. In the twenty-first row, the decrease and 6 sb are repeated 6 times, and the 22nd row consists of only 42 sb. In the 23rd row, a six-fold repetition of the decrease and 5 sb is used, and the 24-27 rows are filled with 36 sb each. In the 28th row, a decrease and 4 sb is repeated 6 times, and the next two rows contain only 30 sb each. In row 31, a decrease and 3 sb are repeated 6 times, in the next row the same happens with a decrease and 2 sb.
At this stage, the head can be filled with padding polyester. In row 33, the decrease and sb are repeated 6 times, and row 34 is filled with decreases until the hole is completely closed. On the basis of knitting the head, the rest of the details of the deer are also created. Collecting a deer you must first sew all the small details on the head, and then connect it to the body... By the way, the deer's nose should be located just below the middle of the muzzle, and the specks on the forehead should be embroidered with white thread. Thus, all the ends of the threads can be hidden, making the toy neat and visually finished. The tail is sewn last, and in this way, so that the deer can sit steadily and not fall.
For information on how to make an amigur deer, see the video.
