farmyard pigs crochet pattern
I’ve seen a lot of cartoony amigurumi pigs but I thought it was about time we saw a more realistic-looking pig design, so here’s what I’ve come up with:
I named this design Farmyard Pigs to denote that it’s a realistic pig pattern. Then I realised that the word farmyard is British English, and wasn’t sure if my US-based audience would understand it (the US equivalent is barnyard) so I did a quick poll on Twitter to check. The results were varied, but overall it seems that, although most Americans wouldn’t use the word farmyard, they would understand it well enough for my purpose. So, phew! The pattern name stands 🙂
I’ve created the pattern with two variants: the simple pink colourway, and as a black saddleback pig with a pale coloured band (the ‘saddle’ of the name – you could make it in pink, white or beige) and forelegs. The pattern includes full instructions for both versions – including positioning instructions for the single-coloured pig’s forelegs, where you don’t have the visual cue of the band to guide you!
It’s a really quick and easy pattern to work up, as the head, body and snout are all worked in one piece, but there’s some clever shaping around the face (which I hope you can see in these photos) that gives the piggies their personality!
One thing: I’d just like to clarify that, although my saddleback pig is smaller than my pink pig, both versions of the pattern make the same sized pig; the size difference between my samples arises because the pink yarn I used was slightly thicker than the other shade!
If you’d like to make your own piggies, you can find the Farmyard Pigs crochet pattern in my shop!
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Diane said
Hi, I just came upon your site as a beginner, I love it. I am wondering about this pig pattern. I’d love to make it, but could you tell me what size his eyes are? The smallest I have is 6mm. Thank you, and thank you for all of the info on your site, I’m learning so much.
June said
Hi Diane, Farmyard Pigs take 9mm eyes. For future reference, the shop page for each pattern gives all the specs: yarn weight, hook size, finished amigurumi size, eye size, and any other details you may need to know 🙂
Marie Rowley said
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Marie
le chat qui coud said
how sweet!
Jessica said
These piggies are perfect – I’ve been on the hunt for a new piggie pattern to make up for my Mum and I think I’m going to have to have a try at making one of these!
Cora Shaw said
I love them. I have to say looks very realistic much like knit toy designer Alan Darts pigs (www.alandart.co.uk/products/product/70). Incidentally he calls them farmyard animals as well 🙂
Cora
Vicki said
I love this pig pattern! It is so awesome! I hope you do a chicken. I’m a chicken lover and own some myself so a crocheted chicken made by you would be super neat!!
Robyn said
Love the piggies! How about a Cow or Horse next?
Steph said
I am so glad theres finally a realistic farm animal! Any chance of a farmyard series??
June said
Definitely! Any requests?
becky said
cows, chicken, turkey, horse ouh a goat would be cool 🙂 I love goats
becky said
This is sooo cute. How do you come up with all these amazing ideas?
Once again a wonderful pattern.
June said
Aww, thanks, Becky! The black and tan pig started out as a 5 second sketch in my notebook about a year ago – I was considering a ‘farm’ series and thought that more realistic animals instead of cartoony ones would be cute. Since then I haven’t even thought about it until last week, when it suddenly popped back into my head, and I knew exactly what I wanted it to look like! Sometimes my ideas need a while in the back of my brain before they surface – I think I did all the design work for this one subconsciously 😀
Bonnie Thomas said
For Easter last year, I started making farmyard animals for my granddaughter but the patterns were awful; therefore, I created my own.
JJ said
Nice finishing touch with the cute curly tail.
Kjirsten said
No Way!!!!! My daughter loves pigs!!!
Too cute!
Great job!
Kjirsten
T said
Adorable!
kris said
the shaping really shows up well in the black pig surprisingly enough! great job on your pigs.