Knit your own toy crab with this easy-to-follow pattern!
 
Skill level = Intermediate
 
The pattern includes:
List of materials, list of skills (with links to tutorials), detailed write-up of every step, images and notes to help with reading.
 
Skills required:
Knit stitch
Knitting in the round
Increasing stitches
Decreasing stitches (K2tog, S1k1 psso)
 
This crab pattern is an update on the original with some adjustments based on feedback along the way, along with a few additional details that make him a bit more accurate:
 
Yarn weight and standardised size: The original version recommended a bulky weight but also said you can use whatever (as the size of a toy isn’t too important!) Now that I am designing more crustacean clothes, the size does matter. So this is written with an aran weight and adjusted stitch count to help standardise the size.
Updated instructions: I have edited to be a bit more succinct, clearer on the increases and introduced new step-by-step photography.
 
My love of both knitting and crustaceans runs deep. My grandmother once reared her own sheep and knit pretty much everything the family wore, while my poppy was a lobsterman in the shores of Placentia Bay. During summers spent in Arnold’s Cove I remember going down to the wharf and looking down at the crab boats coming in. The fisherman let me hold them and often gave us a few – a ritual I repeated with my son when he was young.