Today I’ll be showing you how to crochet a duck for beginners with this cute and adorable Free Crochet Duck Pattern! The crochet duck pattern makes a little duck friend that is perfect size for sitting on your bookshelf.
This free crochet duck pattern is an easy and fast project, making it perfectly suitable for beginners. As long as you know the basic crochet stitches this pattern is pretty easy to follow along. Patterns for a crochet bird can be quite simple, and others can be a bit more complicated. I’ve seen patterns where the birds are decorated by individual feathers which are very advanced! I prefer simple crochet shapes so anyone beginners and advanced crocheters can take part without intimidation.
So let's begin making the crochet bird pattern!
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✏️ Things To Note:
- I used acrylic yarn for this free easy crochet duck pattern. Any type of yarn would work for this crochet duck pattern- cotton, chunky etc.
- My stitches are very tight when I crochet stuffed animals, if your tension is a bit loose I hear that yarning under instead of over can make the stitches tighter and more close together, so try that if you would like! Or use a smaller hook!
- By using a 5mm hook, or H hook, the crochet duck's final size is roughly 4 inches high and 6 inches across.
🪡 Materials Needed
- Yarn colors: 1 skein of white, small ball of orange
- Polyfill
- Safety eyes
- H hook (5mm)
- Tapestry needle for weaving in the ends and sewing pieces together
💭 Abbreviations to Remember (US Terms)
- Magic ring (MR)
- Single crochet (sc)
- Increase (inc) - 2 stitches in the same stitch
- Chains (ch)
- Decrease (dec) - 1 stitch in 2 stitches
For this pattern we will mostly be working in rounds.
🧋 Variations
If you want a large duck try using a larger hook and some chunky yarn!
🍵 Instructions
For this pattern we will mostly be working in rounds.
Round 1: Using white yarn, make a MR and make sc x6 in the circle. If you find it difficult making a magic ring you can chain 2 and then crochet sc x6 in the second chain from the hook. (6)
Round 2: Inc in every sc. (12)
Round 3: Inc, sc, inc, sc and repeat until end of round (18)
Round 4: Inc, sc x2, inc, sc x2 and repeat until end of round (24)
Round 5: Inc, sc x3, inc, sc x3 and repeat until end of round (30)
Round 6: Inc, sc x4, inc, sc x4 and repeat until end of round (36)
Round 7: Inc, sc x5, inc, sc x5 and repeat until end of round (42)
Round 8: Inc, sc x6, inc, sc x6 and repeat until end of round (48)
Round 9: Inc, sc x15, repeat for the rest of the round (51)
Round 10: Sc in every stitch (51)
Round 11: Inc, sc x16, repeat the rest of the round (54)
Round 12: Sc in every stitch (54)
Round 13: Inc, sc x17, repeat the rest of the round (57)
Round 14-15: Sc in every stitch (57)
Round 16: Inc, sc x18, repeat the rest of the round (60)
Round 17-18: Sc in every stitch (60)
Round 19: Inc, sc x19, repeat the rest of the round (63)
Round 20-21: Sc in every stitch (63)
Round 22: Inc, sc x22, repeat the rest of the round (66)
Round 23: Sc in every stitch (66)
Round 24: Dec, sc x31, repeat (64)
Round 25: Dec, sc x6, repeat for the entire round (56)
Round 26: Dec, sc x5, repeat for the entire round (48)
Round 27: Dec, sc x4, repeat for the entire round (40) [START TO STUFF THE BODY + Add eyes if you haven’t already]
Round 28: Dec, sc x3, repeat for the entire round (32)
Round 29: Dec, sc x2, repeat for the entire round (24)
Round 30: Dec, sc, repeat for the entire round (16)
Round 31: Dec, repeat for the entire round (8)
Slip stitch, fasten off and sew shut.
Arms x2:
Round 1: Using white yarn, make a MR and make sc x4 in the circle. If you find it difficult making a magic ring you can chain 2 and then crochet sc x4 in the second chain from the hook. (4)
Round 2: Inc in every stitch (8)
Round 3: Sc x8 (8)
Round 4: Inc, sc repeat for entire round (12)
Round 5-8: Sc x12 (12). Fasten off and leave the tail for sewing.
Beak:
With orange yarn:
Round 1: Ch 4, skip 1st ch and make a sc, sc in the next 2 chs. Flip to the other side of ch. Sc x3.
Round 2: Sc x6. (6) Fasten off the yarn and leave a tail for sewing.
Feet x2:
With orange yarn:
Round 1: Ch 6, skip 1st ch and make a sc in the next chain. Continue to make a sc in each ch for the next 4 chs. When you get to the last ch make sc x3 in the corner. This allows you to turn to the otherside of the ch. Flip the chain over and start in the following ch sc x3. In the last ch in the row make it an increase by doing 2 scs. (12) ch12sc
Round 2-7: Sc x12 (12). Fasten off and leave a tail for sewing.
Sewing:
Sew the arms to each side of the duck. Adjust the placement until you are happy with their locations.
Sew beak to face, beak can be either directly between the eyes or slightly below the eyes (or anywhere in between).
Sew feet on the front side of the body at slight diagonals facing out so it looks like he's sitting with legs right out in front of him.
And now you have an adorable crochet duck made from my free crochet duck pattern!
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Free Crochet Duck Pattern
Materials
- 1 skein white yarn
- Small ball of orange yarn
- Polyfill
- 5mm crochet hook
- Safety eyes
- Tapestry needle
Abbreviations (US terms)
- mr = Magic ring
- sc = Single crochet
- inc = Increase (2 stitches in the same stitch)
- ch = Chain
- dec = Decrease (1 stitch in 2 stitches)
Instructions
- For this pattern we will mostly be working in rounds.
- Round 1: Using white yarn, make a MR and make sc x6 in the circle. If you find it difficult making a magic ring you can chain 2 and then crochet sc x6 in the second chain from the hook. (6)
- Round 2: Inc in every sc. (12)
- Round 3: Inc, sc, inc, sc and repeat until end of round (18)
- Round 4: Inc, sc x2, inc, sc x2 and repeat until end of round (24)
- Round 5: Inc, sc x3, inc, sc x3 and repeat until end of round (30)
- Round 6: Inc, sc x4, inc, sc x4 and repeat until end of round (36)
- Round 7: Inc, sc x5, inc, sc x5 and repeat until end of round (42)
- Round 8: Inc, sc x6, inc, sc x6 and repeat until end of round (48)
- Round 9: Inc, sc x15, repeat for the rest of the round (51)
- Round 10: Sc in every stitch (51)
- Round 11: Inc, sc x16, repeat the rest of the round (54)
- Round 12: Sc in every stitch (54)
- Round 13: Inc, sc x17, repeat the rest of the round (57)
- Round 14-15: Sc in every stitch (57)
- Round 16: Inc, sc x18, repeat the rest of the round (60)
- Round 17-18: Sc in every stitch (60)
- Round 19: Inc, sc x19, repeat the rest of the round (63)
- Round 20-21: Sc in every stitch (63)
- Round 22: Inc, sc x22, repeat the rest of the round (66)
- Round 23: Sc in every stitch (66)
- Round 24: Dec, sc x31, repeat (64)
- Round 25: Dec, sc x6, repeat for the entire round (56)
- Round 26: Dec, sc x5, repeat for the entire round (48)
- Round 27: Dec, sc x4, repeat for the entire round (40) [START TO STUFF THE BODY + Add eyes if you haven’t already]
- Round 28: Dec, sc x3, repeat for the entire round (32)
- Round 29: Dec, sc x2, repeat for the entire round (24)
- Round 30: Dec, sc, repeat for the entire round (16)
- Round 31: Dec, repeat for the entire round (8)
- Slip stitch, fasten off and sew shut.
Beak:
- With orange yarn:
- Round 1: Ch 4, skip 1st ch and make a sc, sc in the next 2 chs. Flip to the other side of ch. Sc x3.
- Round 2: Sc x6. (6) Fasten off the yarn and leave a tail for sewing.
Feet x2:
- With orange yarn:
- Round 1: Ch 6, skip 1st ch and make a sc in the next chain. Continue to make a sc in each ch for the next 4 chs. When you get to the last ch make sc x3 in the corner. This allows you to turn to the otherside of the ch. Flip the chain over and starting in the following ch sc x3. In the last ch in the row make it an increase by doing 2 scs. (12) ch12sc
- Round 2-7: Sc x12 (12). Fasten off and leave a tail for sewing.
Arms x2:
- Round 1: Using white yarn, make a MR and make sc x4 in the circle. If you find it difficult making a magic ring you can chain 2 and then crochet sc x4 in the second chain from the hook. (4)
- Round 2: Inc in every stitch (8)
- Round 3: Sc x8 (8)
- Round 4: Inc, sc repeat for entire round (12)
- Round 5-8: Sc x12 (12). Fasten off and leave the tail for sewing.
Sewing:
- Sew the arms to each side of the duck. Adjust the placement until you are happy with their locations.
- Sew beak to face, beak can be either directly between the eyes or slightly below the eyes (or anywhere in between).
- Sew feet on the front side of the body at slight diagonals facing out so it looks like he's sitting with legs right out in front of him.
- And now you have an adorable crochet duck made from my free crochet duck pattern!
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