Tinker Bell is the fiercely loyal (and occasionally jealous) pint-size pixie sidekick to Peter Pan in the 1953 film adapted from J. M. Barrie’s classic play. Bold, clever, and fashionable, Tinker Bell has a lot of personality and a taste for adventure that matches Peter’s own. With the ability to offer flight to anyone sprinkled with her pixie dust, Tink speaks in jingles that sound like a tinkling bell, a language only those from Never Land can understand. Animator Marc Davis, one of Walt’s Nine Old Men, referenced live-action models, including actress Margaret Kerry, when designing the fairy, giving Tinker Bell a bright green dress, blonde hair in a bun, an exaggerated hourglass figure, and a trail of pixie dust that follows wherever she flies. Based on the fairy from the original play, Tinker Bell has proved to be an enduringly popular character, eventually inspiring her own series of books, TV shows, movies, and more.

Sprinkle some fairy dust on your needles! This adorable amigurumi Tinker Bell is worked in the round in one piece from the bottom up as a tube, with simple sewing added to define her arms and legs postknitting. Her skirt is added by picking up and knitting easy lace along the waist, while her bodice is duplicate stitched on after stuffing. Her wings are knit flat and attached, and her eyes are added using basic embroidery. Make one and keep her as a sidekick like Peter Pan did, or create a whole fairy colony!