How to Crochet an Avocado (Easy Amigurumi, Step by Step)

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   Step 1: Slip Knot and Foundation Chain

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   Everything starts in your light-green flesh yarn. Make a slip knot, slide it onto the hook, and chain seven. This little chain is the spine that the flesh grows around, so it sets the length of the finished avocado.

   Keep the chain loops even and relaxed. If you pull them tight, the oval fights you later and wants to curl instead of lying flat. Loose and tidy beats fast and tight here.

   Tip:

   Watch this step A 2.5mm or 3mm hook with cotton yarn keeps the stitches tight so no stuffing peeks through the finished flesh.

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   Used in this steplight-green milk cotton yarn3.5mm crochet hook

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   Step 2: Work the First Row of Flesh

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   Turn and work Round 1 back along the chain, following the stitch pattern on screen: increases, single crochet, half double, then doubles through the middle, and back down to shorter stitches at the far end. Those taller center stitches are doing the shaping.

   Do not worry about the shape looking odd yet. It will read as lumpy until you have a full round on. Keep a stitch marker in the first stitch so you always know where the round begins.

   Tip:

   Watch this step Pause the video on each caption and count your stitches before moving on. The counts in brackets are the running total for that round.

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   Used in this steplight-green milk cotton yarnlocking stitch markers

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   Step 3: Build Up the Flesh Oval

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   Carry on with the next couple of rounds, working the increases where the notes point them out. Round 2 and Round 3 widen the oval and give the flesh a fuller, more rounded outline. The whole piece stays flat like a wafer.

   By the end of these rounds you should have a solid light-green teardrop. Lay it on the table and check the outline against the finished avocado before you change to the skin color.

   Tip:

   Watch this step If one end looks pointier than the other, that is correct. An avocado half is wider at the base and narrower toward the stem end.

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   Used in this steplight-green milk cotton yarn3.5mm crochet hook

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   Step 4: Add the Dark-Green Skin

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   Now join the dark-green skin yarn at the edge of the flesh and crochet a border round all the way around the oval. This green rim is the avocado skin, and it frames the pale flesh the way a real cut avocado does.

   Work the skin stitches snug against the light-green edge so the color change stays crisp. A tidy line here is what sells the halved-avocado look, so take it slowly around the curves.

   Tip:

   Watch this step Carry the flesh-color tail along the top of the row and crochet over it. That saves you weaving in one more end at the finish.

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   Used in this stepdark-green milk cotton yarn3.5mm crochet hook

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   Step 5: Sew the Halves and Stuff

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   Make a second green piece the same size for the back, then hold the two halves together with the flesh facing out. Thread a tapestry needle and whip stitch around the edge to join them.

   Before you close the last few stitches, tuck small pinches of fiberfill inside. Do not overstuff. You want the avocado soft and a little plump, not stretched tight, so the front stays flat enough to show off the flesh.

   Tip:

   Watch this step Push the stuffing in with the blunt end of a hook or a chopstick to reach the narrow stem end evenly.

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   Used in this stepdark-green milk cotton yarnpolyester fiberfill stuffingtapestry needle

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   Step 6: Make and Set the Pit

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   The pit is a small brown circle. Start it in a magic ring, work a couple of rounds of increases, and stop once you have a firm little disc about the size of a coin.

   Place the pit low and slightly off-center on the flesh, the way a real avocado stone sits. Once you are happy with the spot, fix it down. That brown center is the detail that turns a green blob into an avocado.

   Tip:

   Watch this step Sewing the pit on with a running stitch around the edge holds up to handling better than glue if this plush is for a child.

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   Used in this stepbrown milk cotton yarnpolyester fiberfill stuffing

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   Step 7: Add the Face and Finish

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   Last touch is the face. Thread a length of black yarn and stitch two small eyes near the top of the flesh, then run a short curved line underneath for a little smile. Keep the stitches tiny so the face stays cute rather than busy.

   Weave in every loose tail so nothing works its way out later. Give the whole avocado a gentle squish to settle the stuffing, and your plush is done.

   Tip:

   Watch this step Mark the eye spots with two pins first and step back to check them. Even spacing is what gives the face its friendly look.

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   Used in this stepblack milk cotton yarntapestry needle

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