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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.