Turkey amigurumi range from a cuddly 8-inch version up to an 11.5-inch advanced build with layered tail feathers — and all of them are multi-piece builds, assembled at the end rather than worked in one continuous piece, so budget more time than you would for a simple amigurumi.
Fiberfill and safety eyes cover the shared basics; the tail feathers on each are worked separately, so scrap colors work fine there.
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Items you’ll need:
- Crochet hooks
- Cotton yarn
- Safety eyes
- Polyester fiberfill stuffing
- Tapestry needles and stitch markers
- Embroidery scissors
Turkey patterns to explore
1. Tutt the Turkey
Craft Passion’s Tutt the Turkey is the largest and most detailed turkey on this list, at about 11.5 inches tall in DK acrylic yarn on a 3 mm hook (with a 3.5 mm hook for other parts), with a layered two-piece tail using shell and bobble stitches in three colors. The designer rates it intermediate to advanced, and the body alone takes 44 rounds. She points out that amigurumi size depends on yarn weight and hook size, so bulkier yarn with a bigger hook makes a bigger turkey.
2. Timmy the Turkey
Made with a Twist keeps this one cuddle-sized in worsted weight, with a striped shell-stitch tail and a full snood, beak, wings, and feet built as separate pieces. The designer also sells an upgraded PDF with matching Pilgrim hat and headdress patterns if you want to dress it up further.
3. Free Crochet Turkey
Grace and Yarn works the head and body as one continuous piece at 8 inches tall in worsted weight, then adds four unstuffed fanned feathers, a beak, wattle, and wings separately. It’s a middle-ground size between Timmy above and Tutt further up the list, with clearer step-by-step photos for each individual piece.
4. Hand Turkey
Brenna Eaves’ Hand Turkey, published on FurlsCrochet, uses four crocheted hands with individual fingers as the tail feathers, like the classic kids’ hand-tracing turkey craft. The supplies are worsted weight yarn in red, orange, yellow, burgundy, gold and brown, a 5 mm Furls Streamline metal hook, stuffing, a tapestry needle, and black fabric paint or tiny snap-in eyes (6 mm or smaller). The head and body start with 7 single crochets in red, and you use a stitch marker to mark rounds.
5. Cooked Turkey
StringyDingDing’s Cooked Turkey crochets the roasted centerpiece instead of the live bird. The body is worked in continuous rounds, with decreases from round 23 to round 32, and the arms and legs (drumsticks) are made in brown starting from a magic ring, two of each. It is worked in medium weight yarn in brown and white and finishes at about 6 inches. Stuff after each round, as the pattern says, so the shape stays even.
6. Turkey Amigurumi
StringyDingDing’s live turkey stands 6 to 7 inches tall, worked as a single head-and-body piece in brown, with 9 mm safety eyes and stuffing. The feathers are made separately (2 red, 2 yellow and 1 orange), and the page has a tip: if you want them thicker and sturdier, crochet a second set and join each matching pair. The tail and feet are added last. It is worked in medium weight yarn.
7. Turkey Coasters
Craft Passion scales things way down for a flat 6.5 by 5.5-inch coaster or ornament, worked in baby acrylic with a fine 3mm hook and a radiating multicolor tail made from shells and chain spaces. Front and back pieces are joined with an outlined edge, and a hanging loop turns it into an ornament instead of a coaster.
8. Thanksgiving Turkey
Petals to Picots’ turkey builds the tail from five separate granny squares in a layered color sequence, not crocheted feathers. It is made in worsted weight yarn in brown, yellow, tan and orange (or four colors of your choice) with a 4 mm hook, fiberfill or yarn scraps for stuffing, and the finished size is about 5 inches tall by 7 inches wide. She says to fill the body without overstuffing. It suits you if you would rather practice granny squares than shape feathers.
9. Turkey Squish
Tamara Kelly’s Turkey Squish is part of her series of big round crochet softies called the Squishes, each about 10 inches across, made in Bernat Blanket yarn (materials were provided by Yarnspirations). It is built from two stuffed halves sewn together with dimensional tail feathers, and she says assembling a 3D object at this large scale is easier than doing it small. It is a video-supported free pattern, with an ad-free PDF available.
10. Turkey Gnome
Winding Road Crochet’s Turkey Gnome is designed to be simple and charming: a basic gnome with a few turkey details such as tail feathers and a snood. You can customize the colors of his outfit, the skin tone and the beard, or add braids instead of a beard for a female turkey gnome. The page has the complete pattern and instructional photos, and it is one of many gnome patterns from the same designer.
11. Turkey Hat
Lovable Loops’ turkey hat is beginner-friendly and comes in six sizes, from 0 to 3 months through adult. The main hat is worked from the top down in joined rounds with worsted weight (#4) yarn and an I-9 (5.5 mm) hook. Earflaps and braided ties are added to the hat, and the turkey face and colorful corkscrew feathers are crocheted separately and attached. There is a video, and the description suggests matching Thanksgiving hats for family photos.
12. Wacky Waddles Turkey Hat
Tonya Bush’s Wacky Waddles Turkey Hat is a free pattern adapted from her snowman hat, and she says her grandkids love it. For the feathers she chose something simple: a small chevron piece made as one piece and sewn onto the back of the hat at round 15, instead of making and sewing on several feathers. She has a complete video tutorial for the chevron feather, and the page suggests the pattern would be popular if kids wear the hat to school.
