Difficulty: Beginner ✦✧✧✧✧
Here is a free crochet pattern for a cute little mushroom.
This tutorial shows you how to expand upon the semicircle to create different shapes with simple increases and decreases. It also introduces two new techniques: crocheting in the back loops only (to create a ridge for texture or a sharp corner in the pattern like we have here to create the gills on the mushroom cap) and the magic ring (to create a closed loop of single crochet to begin our pattern).
My final mushroom is about 3 inches tall and 2 inches wide,
made with cotton yarn and a 3mm hook.
Head/Cap:in dark pink.
Row 1: 6 single crochet (sc) in a magic circle.
How to stitch a magic circle. Left: Wrap yarn around finger and pull yarn through the loop and chain 2. Middle: Single crochet in the circle. Right: After 6 sc in the circle, pull the string to tighten the circle.
Row 2: 2 (sc) in each sc of the round. (12 stitches.)
Row 3: [1 sc in first sc, 2 sc in next sc] repeat around. (18 stitches.)
Row 4: [1 sc in first 2 sc, 2 sc in next sc] repeat around. (24 stitches.)
Row 5: [1 sc in first 3 sc, 2 sc in next sc] repeat around. (30 stitches.)
Row 6: [1 sc in first 4 sc, 2 sc in next sc] repeat around. (36 stitches.)
Rows 7-12: 1 sc in each sc of the round. (36 stitches)
Row 13: [sc in the first 4 sc, sc2tog] repeat around. (30 stitches.)
Row 14: 1 sc in each sc of the round. (30 stitches.)
Tie off.
Add white spots by tying French Knots over stitches randomly around (fixed with a square or surgeon’s knot on the inside), concentrating more around the base and diffusing upwards.
Gills:
in light pink.
Row 15: in back loops only, 1 sc in each sc of the round. (30 stitches.)
Crochet in the Back Loops Only (BLO). Left: Insert hook through the inside loop of the stitch only. Middle: Pull a loop through the back loop and complete a sc like normal. Right: Crocheting in the BLO creates a ridge in the round that can be used for texture or to create a sharp corner.
Row 16: [sc in the first sc, sc2tog] repeat around. (20 stitches.)
Row 17: sc2tog around. (10 stitches.)
Tie off.
Stalk:
in cream.
Row 18: in back loops only, [1 sc in first sc, 2 sc in next sc] repeat around. (15 stitches.) Row 19: 1 sc in each sc of the round. (15 stitches.) Row 20: [1 sc in first sc, 2 sc in next sc] repeat around. (20 stitches.) Row 21: 1 sc in each sc of the round. (20 stitches.) Rows 22-23: [1 sc in first 7 sc, 2 sc in next sc] repeat for 2 rounds. (24 stitches.)
*Note: This round will not end at [2 sc in next sc]*
Row 24: 1 sc in each sc of the round. (24 stitches.)
Row 25: in back loops only, [1 sc in first sc, sc2tog] repeat around. (18 stitches.)
Stuff the mushroom. You can add a couple beans in the base of the stem to weight the mushroom down for stability.
Row 26: [sc2tog] around until 5 sc remain. Slip stitch in next sc.
Tie off. Tuck strings inside.
Admire your cute little mushroom.
