5 Little Monsters: Mama and Baby Duck Crocheted Plushies

Mama and Baby Duck Crocheted Plushies

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Today is technically Day 3 of the Book Inspired Craft Week, but I actually missed getting yesterday's pattern up so it is actually only Day 2. I had some other stuff come up yesterday that took longer than anticipated and used up the time I planned to finish up editing a video I needed to go along with the project. So I will push that off to another day, normally my Book Inspired Craft Week runs Monday-Friday, but we might be adding a project on Saturday to make up for the skipped one, I will find some time to get it posted. But for now let's take a look at today's book and project. 


The book that I chose for today is a children's classic that I am sure everyone knows, it is Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey. It is a story of a little duck family so I decided to make some soft and cuddly crocheted ducks. 


The ducks I made don't look anything like the ducks in the book's illustrations because those are much more realistic style ducks and mine are crochet plushie style, but I still thought it would be a fun project to go along with the book. 


I made a Mama Duck and a Baby Duck, they are made in the same style, but the Mama is just bigger than the Baby. The ducks in the book were a family of mallards so I made the Mama Duck out of a brown fuzzy yarn that had 2 shades of brown and I thought it worked well for the mottled brown of a female mallard. For the baby I used the same fuzzy yarn but in yellow. I used the same yellow plus an orangey color for the bills and feet. The yarn I used was Big Twist Fluffy and I got it from Michaels, you could use a different plush yarn but it may change the size and you may need to adjust your hook size. I only picked out yarn colors for the ducks I made but if you wanted to make the dad duck they do have a green you could used for the head, but not a white for the ring around the neck, so you would need to find a comparable size of yarn in white for that. 


When I started designing the pattern I started with the baby and as I was working on it I realized that it was very similar to the Mini Amigurumi Duck pattern from my Farm Animal Mini Amigurumi Crochet Along. So I ended up deciding that instead of rewriting the pattern I would just use that one, so this little baby duck is exactly the same as that one, except that it is made of jumbo yarn with a larger hook so it turned out a lot bigger. Then I used that as the base for the mama duck pattern but added a few rounds to make it bigger. 


How to Crochet Mama and Baby Duck Plushies


Finished Size: Baby about 6.5" tall, Mama about 11" tall

You will need:



Instructions:


The body and head are made in one piece, the other pieces are made separately and sewn on. You can begin with a magic ring if you prefer, I personally don't like using a magic ring with really thick, fluffy yarns like this, they can be very hard to tighten and the tail can pull apart. If you do use a magic ring tighten it most of the way after only one or two stitches so that you don't have to pull it a lot at the end. In this pattern I chose instead to chain 2 to start and work all of my first round stitches into the first chain and pulled the tail to tighten it up when I was done. This works in basically the same way as a magic ring and either way will work, I just found this to be a little easier method with this yarn. Also, I wanted my ducks to be soft and squishable so I did not stuff them as firmly as I do when making amigurumi out of worsted weight yarn. You want enough that they will hold their shape well, but not super packed in. 


Baby Duck


Body

Make 1 with yellow yarn

ch 2
Round 1: in first ch, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: 2 sc in each st (12 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (18 sc)
Rounds 4-8: 1 sc in each st (18 sc)

Begin stuffing and continue stuffing as you work

Round 9: sc2tog around (9 sc)
Round 10: 2 sc in each st (18 sc)
Round 11: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (24 sc)
Round 12-15: 1 sc in each st (24 sc)
Round 16: [sc2tog, sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (18 sc)

Insert safety eyes between rounds 13 and 14 about 3 stitches apart

Round 17: [sc2tog, sc in next st] repeat around (12 sc)
Round 18: sc2tog around (6 sc)

Finish off, weave in ends

Wings

Make 2 with yellow yarn

ch 2
Round 1: in first ch, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (9 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (12 sc)
Round 4: sc2tog around (6 sc)

Finish off and cut yarn leaving long tail for sewing

Flatten the wing and sew one to each side of the body

Tail

Make 1 with yellow yarn

ch 2
Round 1: in first ch, 4 sc (4 sc)
Round 2: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (6 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (9 sc)
Round 4: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (12 sc)

Finish off and cut yarn, leaving long tail for sewing

Add stuffing to the tail and sew on the bottom back of the body

Bill

Make 1 with orange yarn

ch 2
Round 1: in first ch, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (9 sc)
Round 3: 1 sc in each st (9 sc)

Finish off and cut yarn leaving a long tail for sewing

Flatten and sew the bill below the eyes on the head


Feet

Make 2 with orange yarn

ch 2
Round 1: in first ch, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: 1 sc in each st (6 sc)
Round 3: flatten the edge and working through two layer work 3 sc across the top edge closing up the open edge (3 sc)

Finish off and cut yarn leaving long tail for sewing

Sew the feet to the bottom of the body with the flat edge sticking out


Mama Duck


Body

Make 1 with brown yarn

ch 2
Round 1: in first ch, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: 2 sc in each st (12 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (18 sc)
Round 4: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (24 sc)
Round 5: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 3 sts] repeat around (30 sc)
Rounds 6-11: 1 sc in each st (30 sc)
Round 12: [sc2tog, sc in next 3 sts] repeat around (24 sc)
Rounds 13-14: 1 sc in each st (24 sc)

Begin stuffing and continue stuffing as you work

Round 15: sc2tog around (12 sc)
Round 16: 2 sc in each st (24 sc)
Round 17: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 3 sts] repeat around (30 sc)
Round 18: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 4 sts] repeat around (36 sc)
Rounds 19-24: 1 sc in each st (36 sc)
Round 25: [sc2tog, sc in next 4 sts] repeat around (30 sc)

Insert safety eyes between rounds 21 and 22 about 6-7 stitches apart

Round 26: [sc2tog, sc in next 3 sts] repeat around (24 sc)
Round 27: [sc2tog, sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (18 sc)
Round 28: [sc2tog, sc in next st] repeat around (12 sc)
Round 29: sc2tog around (6 sc)

Finish off, weave in ends

Wings

Make 2 with brown yarn

ch 2
Round 1: in first ch, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (9 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (12 sc)
Round 4: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 3 sts] repeat around (15 sc)
Round 5: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 4 sts] repeat around (18 sc)
Round 6: sc2tog around (9 sc)

Finish off and cut yarn leaving long tail for sewing

Flatten the wing and sew one to each side of the body

Tail

Make 1 with brown yarn

ch 2
Round 1: in first ch, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (9 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (12 sc)
Round 4: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 3 sts] repeat around (15 sc)
Round 5: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 4 sts] repeat around (18 sc)
Round 6: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 5 sts] repeat around (21 sc)

Finish off and cut yarn, leaving long tail for sewing

Add stuffing to the tail and sew on the bottom back of the body

Bill

Make 1 with yellow yarn

ch 2
Round 1: in first ch, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: 2 sc in each st (12 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 3 sts] repeat around (15 sc)
Round 4: 1 sc in each st (15 sc)

Finish off and cut yarn leaving a long tail for sewing

Flatten and sew the bill below the eyes on the head

Feet

Make 2 with yellow yarn

ch 2
Round 1: in first ch, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: 2 sc in each st (12 sc)
Rounds 3-4: 1 sc in each st (12 sc)
Round 5: flatten the edge and working through two layer work 6 sc across the top edge closing up the open edge (6 sc)

Finish off and cut yarn leaving long tail for sewing

Sew the feet to the bottom of the body with the flat edge sticking out




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