How to Knit a Minion
Hi, Guys, I’m Kristen and Welcome to Studio Knit!
It’s Knitting Lesson Monday, the Minion Movie is here, so let’s have some fun by
knitting up these mini Minions.
The Materials we will use are Double Pointed Knitting Needles – I’m using size 6US,
but any size will do for your yarn type.
Scissors, a Tapestry Needle.
Yarn in colors yellow, blue, black, and grey.
Some googl-y eyes, a glue gun and glue.
Detailed Lessons on all the Knitting Techniques we use, along with a link to written pattern,
are in the description below.
We will begin our knitting by casting on six stitches in our yellow color.
Now, we are going to increase using Knit Front and Back, that's written KFB, When we're done
with Row one, our six stitches are now twelve stitches.
Here on row two, it's a Purl Row, so all twelve stitches will simply be purled.
Now Row Three is another increase row.
This time we knit one and then knit front and back.
So, here we have eighteen stitches.
So on Rows four through ten, it's the Stockinette Stitch.
So, that's a purl row, followed by a knit row.
So this, right here, row four was our purl row, and next, row five, is a knit row all
the way down.
And, we just keep knitting in stockinette stitch until we are at row ten.
We knit and purl, knit and purl.
To make the taller Minion Kevin, go ahead and knit six more rows in Stockinette Stitch.
Now it's time for our suspenders, so we are going to add the color blue.
So, here on row eleven, it's knitting three stitches in blue, and then switch back to
the yellow and you're going to knit three stitches in yellow, followed by three stitches
in blue.
Now, when we are finished with this series of blue yellow blue, repeat it so you'll start
again with the blue knitting three stitches.
Go all the way down you're row.
Here's what it's looking like, shaping up super cute!
Now, on this purl row, the colors will be opposite, we're going to purl yellow for three
stitches, and you'll see on our wrong side of the work, we have some carry-overs, not
a problem.
Here on row thirteen, we're just going to be knitting the yellow three and three stitches
in blue and carry it down and there we are so cute our little suspenders have been made.
We are done with Yellow, so we can cut that off.
And now we are going to just be knitting only in the blue color, so again, it's stockinette
stitch for rows fourteen through eighteen.
Beginning with a purl row.
And then we'll just go knit, purl, knit purl, until you get to the end of right here is
how it's shaping up so cute.
Now, row nineteen, is knit one and knit two together.
That's a decrease.
We're almost done.
Row twenty is simply purling all the way down the row.
And now on row twenty one, we are going to decrease by knitting two stitches together
all the way down.
When we are done, we just draw that tail all the way through, no need to even bind off.
And then with the right sides touching, and the wrong sides out, we'll just use our tapestry
needle and go ahead and seam our little minion up.
About two thirds of the way.
Then turn him inside out.
And stuff him with some stuffing or you can just use bits of yarn, too.
So small and cute.
Either stuffing our yarn, totally works.
Now we'll just stitch up the top of his head, So cute.
Okay, our minion body is done.
Now we are going to make little arms.
By casting on three stitches.
Just knit a row and then we're going to do the I-Cord for our yellow arms for rows two
through five so that's four rows, and then we are just going to draw the tail through
and stitch our arms directly onto our little minion body.
So cute.
Ah, the personality's already beginning.
Now, with the legs or the feet, we are going to be doing the I-cord again just in the black
yarn with three stitches, and then just fold the foot around, make a little circle, stitch
him on.
Now, I like to stitch the band of the little goggles all the way around the head using
my tapestry needle and some black yarn.
And then you can go ahead and add some black hair, too.
I just like making little loops, cutting them off, fluffing them out, and for the eyes,
my little googl-y eyes just go ahead and use your glue gun and for the goggles, this is
an extra little touch, Iike to just take the grey yarn and with my glue gun just sort of
wrap the yarn around cut it off and there we go!
Our little minion is done and I hope you're inspired to knit up some mini minions of your
own.
And, if you do, I would love to see them!
Links to my social media accounts are in the description below.
And here we have all three characters from the Minion Movie, Stuart, Bob, and Kevin!
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