We added some more detailing to his overalls by adding front and side pockets, also embroidering them with yellow yarn. Next came the minion’s boots! I decreased unevenly around the oval to create the front foot part and then switched to blue yarn for his pant legs. Ryan used yellow yarn to add stitching to the edges □ in a circle) to create the front and back parts of the overalls. I started off as though I was crocheting a blue body (same pattern when making yellow body/head). His goggles are looking pretty intricate! Then I attached a long black crocheted strap.Īnd added some side detailing to the goggles as well! This ensured that the thickness of the goggles was consistent throughout (if we had just sewn two regular circles together, the junction would have been twice the thickness). Then, we sewed the two circles together, with the junction being where the flat ends were sewn together. We bent the tubes to form a circle by sewing the flat ends together. We were left with these tubes with flat ends on either side: I crocheted a long strip (longer on the bottom and shorter on the top) and sewed the ends together lengthwise to form a tube. It took us a while to get the right size, but in the end we figured it out. This turned out to be quite the ordeal as we tried to figure out how to make them look realistic and more three-dimensional. I really like this series of pictures that shows us adding the eyelids, one by one! So, we crocheted some narrow strips to add above and below the eyes! Ryan noticed that in many pictures, the minion’s upper and lower eyelids are visible under the goggles they wear. Ryan cut out circular pieces of white, brown and black felt for the eyes… Next we stuffed him and closed up his body. To prevent the ends from fraying and to ensure that each hair was more defined, we rubbed each strand with white glue. We trimmed the strands to our desired length, and it felt like we were giving him a hair cut! We threaded the yarn from underneath so the ends stuck out. It looked like I was crocheting a giant yellow pill!īefore closing him up, we added hair by cutting strands of black yarn and tying knots on one end. I started off by crocheting his head/body. Warning: this is a very picture-heavy post, but bear with me if you want to see the detailed step-by-step making of one of Gru’s minions! ![]() We decided to make our own pattern and to make him quite large so that we could include plenty of detail. It’s wonderful to see that everyone has a different take on these little guys. Ryan and I searched on-line for pictures and patterns of crocheted minions and found numerous ones as they are indeed very popular (see Wolfdreamer’s version here and Sweet N’ Cute Creation’s version here). ![]() I took on the challenge as it was somewhat of a departure for me: I was so used to making my teddy bears and bunnies, and the only other major “character” that I had previously made was Link. We found ourselves laughing out loud all throughout, usually because of the antics of the hilarious minions.įast forward more than a year later, some good friends asked if I could crochet a minion for them. ![]() We didn’t really know what to expect going in to see it, but we were delightfully surprised with how heart-warming and thoughtful the movie turned out to be. When we first saw “Despicable Me” back in July 2010, we absolutely fell in love with the movie.
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