Step-by-Step Instructions to Crochet Luna

A slipknot makes a loop you can pull bigger or smaller. It’s the first loop you’ll put on your hook. Let’s make one together!

A slipknot makes a loop you can pull bigger or smaller. It’s the first loop you’ll put on your hook. Let’s make one together!

Learn how to hold your yarn so it can slide through your fingers without getting too loose or too tight. Try a few simple tricks to keep your fingers relaxed.

🪝 More help holding your yarn and hook

Learn how to hold your yarn so it can slide through your fingers without getting too loose or too tight. Try a few simple tricks to keep your fingers relaxed.

🪝 More help holding your yarn and hook

Get to know the parts of your crochet hook, then try holding it like a knife or a pencil. Choose the hold that feels comfortable in your hand.

🪝 More help holding your yarn and hook

Get to know the parts of your crochet hook, then try holding it like a knife or a pencil. Choose the hold that feels comfortable in your hand.

🪝 More help holding your yarn and hook

Learn to make a chain stitch, then make two chains to create a chain-2 start for your plushie’s first round. Keep these two chains, or make extras for practice—the next lesson shows how to undo the extras.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Foundation: Chain-2 Start

🪝 Alternative: a magic ring is an adjustable starting loop you can pull closed to avoid a hole in the center.

Learn to make a chain stitch, then make two chains to create a chain-2 start for your plushie’s first round. Keep these two chains, or make extras for practice—the next lesson shows how to undo the extras.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Foundation: Chain-2 Start

🪝 Alternative: a magic ring is an adjustable starting loop you can pull closed to avoid a hole in the center.

Learn to undo stitches, called frogging, so you can fix mistakes. If you made extra practice chains, undo the extras and keep your first two for the first round.

Learn to undo stitches, called frogging, so you can fix mistakes. If you made extra practice chains, undo the extras and keep your first two for the first round.

Learn to make a single crochet stitch and find the little V at its top to count your stitches. Use six single crochets to make your first round.

🧶 Written pattern:
Round 1: 6 sc (6)

🧶 Found a knot or need to join a new yarn strand?

Learn to make a single crochet stitch and find the little V at its top to count your stitches. Use six single crochets to make your first round.

🧶 Written pattern:
Round 1: 6 sc (6)

🧶 Found a knot or need to join a new yarn strand?

Learn to make an increase (inc): two single crochet stitches in the same stitch. Each increase adds one stitch to your round, helping your plushie grow wider.

Learn to make an increase (inc): two single crochet stitches in the same stitch. Each increase adds one stitch to your round, helping your plushie grow wider.

Use increases and single crochet to widen Luna’s body, following the rounds below.

🧶 Written pattern:
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3: [sc, inc] x 6 (18)
Round 4: [2 sc, inc] x 6 (24)
Round 5: [3 sc, inc] x 6 (30)
Round 6: [4 sc, inc] x 6 (36)
Round 7: [5 sc, inc] x 6 (42)
Round 8-11: 42 sc (42)

Use increases and single crochet to widen Luna’s body, following the rounds below.

🧶 Written pattern:
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3: [sc, inc] x 6 (18)
Round 4: [2 sc, inc] x 6 (24)
Round 5: [3 sc, inc] x 6 (30)
Round 6: [4 sc, inc] x 6 (36)
Round 7: [5 sc, inc] x 6 (42)
Round 8-11: 42 sc (42)

Learn to make a decrease (dec), turning two stitches into one. Each decrease removes one stitch from your round, making your crochet narrower.

Learn to make a decrease (dec), turning two stitches into one. Each decrease removes one stitch from your round, making your crochet narrower.

Use decreases in Round 12 of Luna’s body. The opening stays open so you can attach the belly later.

🧶 Written pattern:
Round 12: [5 sc, dec] × 6 (36)
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 6-inch tail.
- Invisible Fasten Off

Use decreases in Round 12 of Luna’s body. The opening stays open so you can attach the belly later.

🧶 Written pattern:
Round 12: [5 sc, dec] × 6 (36)
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 6-inch tail.
- Invisible Fasten Off

Learn where to place Luna’s eyes and how to secure them while the inside of the body is still accessible.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Insert the eyes between rounds 7 and 8, 6 stitches apart.

Learn where to place Luna’s eyes and how to secure them while the inside of the body is still accessible.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Insert the eyes between rounds 7 and 8, 6 stitches apart.

Learn to finish with a sewn stitch that blends into the surrounding stitches. Gently adjust your new V until it matches the size of the others.

Learn to finish with a sewn stitch that blends into the surrounding stitches. Gently adjust your new V until it matches the size of the others.

Use single crochet and increases to make a separate belly piece. It will be sewn to the open edge of Luna’s body during assembly.

🧶 Written pattern:
Belly
- Chain-2 Start or Magic Ring
Round 1: 6 sc (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3: [sc, inc] x 6 (18)
Round 4: [2 sc, inc] x 6 (24)
Round 5: [3 sc, inc] x 6 (30)
Round 6: [4 sc, inc] x 6 (36)
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 15-inch tail.
- Invisible Fasten Off

🪝 Help starting this part
Chain-2 start
Magic ring alternative

Use single crochet and increases to make a separate belly piece. It will be sewn to the open edge of Luna’s body during assembly.

🧶 Written pattern:
Belly
- Chain-2 Start or Magic Ring
Round 1: 6 sc (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3: [sc, inc] x 6 (18)
Round 4: [2 sc, inc] x 6 (24)
Round 5: [3 sc, inc] x 6 (30)
Round 6: [4 sc, inc] x 6 (36)
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 15-inch tail.
- Invisible Fasten Off

🪝 Help starting this part
Chain-2 start
Magic ring alternative

Use chain stitches and single crochet in short rows to make the three pieces of Luna’s fountain.

🧶 Written pattern:
Fountain x 3
- Start with a Slipknot
Row 1: 6 ch (6)
Row 2: turn the chain, 5 sc (5)
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 4-inch tail for sewing

🪝 Chain-stitch refresher

Use chain stitches and single crochet in short rows to make the three pieces of Luna’s fountain.

🧶 Written pattern:
Fountain x 3
- Start with a Slipknot
Row 1: 6 ch (6)
Row 2: turn the chain, 5 sc (5)
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 4-inch tail for sewing

🪝 Chain-stitch refresher

Make two fins and a tail with two halves. Learn how to join the tail halves while crocheting.

🧶 Written pattern:
Fins x 2
- Chain-2 Start or Magic Ring
Round 1: 6 sc (6)
Round 2: [sc, inc] x 3 (9)
Round 3: 9 sc (9)
- Fold in half, crochet 2 sc through both sides.
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 6-inch tail for sewing.
Tail
- Make 2 identical halves
- Chain-2 Start or Magic Ring
Round 1: 6 sc (6)
Round 2: [sc, inc] x 3 (9)
Round 3: 9 sc (9)
- Cut yarn on first half, invisible fasten off. Do not cut yarn on second half. Join to first half, by crocheting Round 4 around both rims.
Round 4: [sc, dec] x 6 (12)
Round 5: [2 sc, dec] x 3 (9)
- Fold in half, crochet 3 sc through both sides.
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 6-inch tail for sewing.

🪝 Help starting this part
Chain-2 start
Magic ring alternative

Make two fins and a tail with two halves. Learn how to join the tail halves while crocheting.

🧶 Written pattern:
Fins x 2
- Chain-2 Start or Magic Ring
Round 1: 6 sc (6)
Round 2: [sc, inc] x 3 (9)
Round 3: 9 sc (9)
- Fold in half, crochet 2 sc through both sides.
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 6-inch tail for sewing.
Tail
- Make 2 identical halves
- Chain-2 Start or Magic Ring
Round 1: 6 sc (6)
Round 2: [sc, inc] x 3 (9)
Round 3: 9 sc (9)
- Cut yarn on first half, invisible fasten off. Do not cut yarn on second half. Join to first half, by crocheting Round 4 around both rims.
Round 4: [sc, dec] x 6 (12)
Round 5: [2 sc, dec] x 3 (9)
- Fold in half, crochet 3 sc through both sides.
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 6-inch tail for sewing.

🪝 Help starting this part
Chain-2 start
Magic ring alternative

Learn how to sew the belly to the body, add stuffing and attach the fins, tail and fountain.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Sew belly to body, matching rims stitch to stitch. Add stuffing before the opening becomes too small.
- Attach fins between rounds 8–11
- Place tail on the back between rounds 10–11
- To attach the fountains, guide one yarn tail under a stitch, then tie both tails together twice. Trim the ends and push the knot inside the body.
- Repeat for all 3 fountain pieces.

Learn how to sew the belly to the body, add stuffing and attach the fins, tail and fountain.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Sew belly to body, matching rims stitch to stitch. Add stuffing before the opening becomes too small.
- Attach fins between rounds 8–11
- Place tail on the back between rounds 10–11
- To attach the fountains, guide one yarn tail under a stitch, then tie both tails together twice. Trim the ends and push the knot inside the body.
- Repeat for all 3 fountain pieces.

Learn how to use a strand of yarn and a needle to sew Luna’s smile onto the face.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Using a 4-inch piece of yarn, insert the needle at the point where the smile should begin and bring it out at the point where the smile should end.
- Pull both yarn tails, tie a knot close to one exit point, then using the needle push the knot inside to finish the smile.

Luna, made by you. A finished plushie, and new skills to take into your next project.

Learn how to use a strand of yarn and a needle to sew Luna’s smile onto the face.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Using a 4-inch piece of yarn, insert the needle at the point where the smile should begin and bring it out at the point where the smile should end.
- Pull both yarn tails, tie a knot close to one exit point, then using the needle push the knot inside to finish the smile.

Luna, made by you. A finished plushie, and new skills to take into your next project.