Crochet Bottle Cap Turkey Pattern

Ready for Thanksgiving?  

Here is a pattern for a crochet bottle cap turkey.  

I'm going to run a fuzzy stick along the back and use them as napkin rings.  They would look cute as a brooch, or fridge magnet.  If you get to frustrated making the tail, use a silk autumn maple leaf, that would be cute as well.  Use small googly eyes instead of beads.

Supplies Needed:

1 bottle cap - I used a regular soda pop bottle cap
4 ply yarn - I used a variegated scrap yarn for covering the bottle cap and scraps of yellow, red, orange and brown for the feathers and legs, 
F/5 3.75mm Hook

The pattern I am giving is basic and you will need to modify the rounds based on the size of the cap.  The cap I am using is a standard soda bottle cap.

This is in American Standard Terms.

Ch = Chain
Rnd = Round
Sc = single crochet
YO = yarn over



Here we go:

Body:

Ch 2
Rnd 1:   Sc in the second chain from hook (5 times), do not join (5 sc)
Rnd 2:   2 sc in each sc from the previous round (5 times), do not join (10 sc)
Rnd 3:   2 sc in each sc from the previous round (10 times), do not join (20 sc)
Rnd 4:   1 sc in each sc from the previous round (20 times), do not join (20 sc)
Rnd 5:   1 sc in each sc from the previous round (20 times), do not join (20 sc)

At this point, test and make sure that the crochet rounds you have made cover the outside of the bottle cap.  Place the cap inside the crochet rounds you have made. You should see only the opening to the bottle cap.  If you are using a smaller bottle cap, you may need to only do one round of 20 single crochet.  If you are using a larger bottle cap you may need to do another round or two of 20 single crochets.  Just make sure that when you place the bottle cap inside of your crochet rounds that the last round you completed goes up to the top rim or just a little over the rim on the cap. 

Now to decrease:

Rnd 6:   Place the hook through the next sc, yo, pull through, place your hook through the next sc, yo and pull through, you should have three stitches on your hook, now yo and pull through all three stitches. You will need to do this 9 more times for a total of 10 sc decreases. 

At this point, when looking at your work, you are starting to form a ball, go ahead and place your cap into this ball with the rim at the top of your last crocheted round. 

Rnd 7:   Once you have the cap inside the ball that you have made, with or without the yarn scarps, you will continue to decrease until closed. Fasten off and weave in ends.  

Tail Feathers:

These are made with picots:  I put mine in the order of yellow, red, orange and brown.  This is personal preference, maybe you want to use completely different colors, or you don't want to have as many layers. 

On the side of the cap, there is usually about 2 rounds of post.  

You will want to put your hook through one of the post on the side of the cap, and slip stitch, then chain 3, and slip stitch back into where you made your first slip stitch.  Then just work along the side to the next post and repeat until you have the width of the tail that pleases you.  I completed 7.  Fasten off and weave in ends.  

You will continue to do this with each color, working behind the previous color on the post, but increase your chains, (for the red I did 5, for the orange I did 9 and for the brown I did 12).  My last two colors were worked more on the back of the bottle cap, if you find this happening to you, then just stay in line with your very first row made.  

You might find that you want to fan the tail out more and make the 2 back rows wider or you just want the feathers to be taller, all personal preference.  

This would also look cute by make the tail using a loop stitch, something to consider!!!

Beck:

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With yellow leave a little bit of a tail for for sewing the beck onto the bottle cap and chain 3, sc in second ch from hook, and sc in next ch, ch 1 and turn, sc into the sc, fasten off and leave a tail long enough for sewing into the bottom of the cap.  

Wattle:

Attach the red yarn with a sl  underneath the beck on one of the side post and ch 4, second chain from the hook you will sl, ch 3, and sl back into where you made your first sl.  Repeat this with the next 2 ch.  Sl into where you made your sl into the side underneath the beck, fasten off and weave in ends.  

Eyes:

Attach two beads or wiggly eyes.  

Legs: (make 2)

Using yellow yarn attach with a slip stitch to the bottom back of the bottle cap.  Chain 13, sl into the 4th chain from hook, ch 3, sl into the same sl as previous sl, ch 3, sl into the same sl as previous sl, fasten off and weave in ends.    

Enjoy,

Debra