If you are a beginner needlewoman and are looking for a new way for you to create designer gifts, pay attention to the crochet technique. To make a voluminous souvenir, you will need only one tool and multi-colored yarn. Follow the instructions below to make a cute knitted snowman. The hook allows you to create original volumetric toys quickly and easily. Choose your favorite method, remember the principle of work and create your own exclusive gifts and souvenirs.
Volume crochet
If you have already been interested in this needlework technique, you most likely saw both patterns and finished products. Many are fond of making napkins and clothing items, but crochet voluminous things turn out to be no less spectacular. This method makes both flat products with a relief surface, and fully three-dimensional objects. Ornaments from volumetric colors, textured scarves and home decor look original. Soft toys, beads and other accessories and souvenirs look very cute and unusual. A worthy place in your house will definitely be taken by a cute winter character - a knitted snowman. A hook and several multi-colored skeins of yarn - that's all you need to complete it, and, of course, a bit of free time. Explore several options for making a souvenir and tie your own unique character according to your chosen technique.
What is required
You need to prepare the following to get a beautiful knitted snowman:
- hook;
- white yarn;
- threads of a different shade, which is necessary to create decor elements (orange for a carrot nose, blue for a scarf and hat, black for sticks and eyes);
- filler (synthetic winterizer, holofiber, foam rubber, cotton wool);
- a needle with a large eye for stitching items.
It should be borne in mind that the thickness (number) of the working tool must correspond to the yarn. For small items, they should be thin. Face details - for example, eyes - are easy to embroider, but ready-made plastic ones can be glued. Especially good options with secure mounting on the puck. They are installed before filling the toys. An “ring” is fixed on the inside of the plastic leg, which cannot be removed anymore. Thus, for example, a baby playing with your product will no longer be able to tear his eye or nose away.
Manufacturing methods
So you need a knitted snowman. The hook allows you to create such a character in two ways:
- The whole product.
- Separate elements with their subsequent stitching.
It is, of course, about creating directly the body of the character. By the way, your hero may look different too. The traditional option is from three balls going from the larger to the smaller from the bottom up. A good souvenir will turn out from two parts. In addition, snowmen are also made from elongated "sausages". Such a detail can be used as a head. This option will look unusual and fun.
Execution sequence
Whatever knitting method you choose, you need to work on making a souvenir toy like this:
- Link the required number of white balls (individually or as a whole body) to the unfinished upper part.
- Fill the parts with padding polyester or other prepared material.
- Reduce the loops and complete your white spheres.
- Embroider or fasten already prepared eyes, nose, buttons.
- Tie additional snowman details (handles, legs) and decor (hat, scarf).
- Combine all the elements into a single whole.
The souvenir is ready. If necessary, attach a pendant to the product so that it can be used as a key ring or hung on a Christmas tree.
How to crochet a snowman (option 1)
In the first case, a method for manufacturing a figure from two elements in one piece is considered. The sequence of work is as follows:
- Pick up two white loop yarn stitches.
- Knit 6 single crochet stitches in the second air loop.
- Run the connecting column.
- In the second row, make six increases, that is, in each loop of the previous row, you need to knit two single crochet columns. As a result, you get 12 columns.
- The third row is performed according to the principle of the previous one, when two columns are knitted into each loop. You get 24 columns.
- In the fourth row, make 6 additions, that is, knit 4 columns, then increase (two columns in one loop of the previous row), again 4 columns and then to the end of the series in the same sequence.
- Knit three rows (30 columns each) without adding.
- In the next row, you need to perform 6 decreases according to the principle of step No. 6, only instead of knitting an additional column in one loop, you need to skip the loop of the previous row. The result is again 24 columns in a row.
- Perform also 6 decreases in the next row to 18.
- Fill the received element with a synthetic winterizer and continue work.
- Add 6 columns (there will be 24).
- Add 6 more bars (up to 30).
- Knit three rows of 30 columns.
- In each of the following rows, perform 6 decreases.
- Do not forget to fill the ball with synthetic winterizer.
- When there are 6 stitches left, just pull them and fasten the thread.
So, you have learned how to crochet a snowman with a single thread when the subsequent stitching of white balls is not required. If you want to make a souvenir of three parts, just don’t finish the second sphere, and continue to work by first adding several loops in a row, then knitting several rows, reduce the same number of loops and complete the product, remember to pre-fill with padding polyester . If you want the balls to be the same, use the same number of loops as in the previous two. If you want to get a small head, respectively, add fewer loops and make fewer rows.
Knitting a snowman: method 2
Volume crochet can be performed not from one thread, but by creating individual elements and their subsequent stitching. In the case of our character, the scheme of work will be similar to the previous one, with the only difference being that after step No. 10 (filling with syntepon), it is necessary to carry out not an increase, but again a decrease until the ball is completed. The second and third balls can easily be connected in the same way (all three parts will be the same size), and then sew them into a snowman. Similarly knit balls of different diameters.
Amigurumi
If you want to make miniature crochet snowmen, the patterns will be slightly different. A thin hook and yarn will be required here, and increases and decreases will be slower. And there can be more loops and rows. If you compare with the diagram above, then when you have 12 columns in a row, the next increase is up to 18, then up to 24, then up to 30, 36, 42. Next, do 8 rows of 42 columns. Decrease occurs according to the same scheme.
How to link additional details
When we crochet a snowman, it’s worth remembering that it’s not just a lifeless thing that’s being created, but a toy, a character who needs to convey some emotions, create a cheerful mood. This is possible thanks to the used decorations and trim elements.
Volumetric handles can be knitted according to this scheme:
- Pick up 2 air loops.
- Do 6 single crochet in the second loop.
- Close the connecting column.
- In the second row, you make two increases (you get 8 loops).
- Knit 7 rows.
If you want to get pens in mittens, start with a yarn of contrasting color, and after completing two rows of 8 loops, change the thread to white and knit another five rows already. The second handle fits in the same way. It is easy to make a carrot-nose according to the same scheme, with the only difference being that at step No. 4 not four increases are made, but four.
The scarf easily knits from a chain of air loops and one row of double crochets. The length is determined at your discretion. The hat can be made with double crochet, starting with a ring of 25 or 30 stitches, with knitting of the first row and a gradual decrease in each subsequent row of 4 columns.
As you can see, a snowman crocheting for beginners is not such an impossible task. It fits very simply. It is enough to master the simplest loops and understand the principle of creating a form by increasing and decreasing. Having studied elementary techniques, you can make a beautiful souvenir of any complexity.