This tiny strawberry is very quick to make and takes no time to finish, it can give a wonderful theme for decorations and gifts you crochet.
You can display these mini strawberries in a bowl as home decor, use them as decorative elements for clothes, hats, and fashion accessories or hang them up as part of a garland.
You can use leftover yarn to make this small strawberry because it only takes a small amount of yarn.
You can use bulkier/ finer yarn with a suitable crochet hook if you need to make bigger/ smaller strawberries.
Let’s get started!
Pattern by: Frauskau Crochet
Materials
- Cotton yarn 8/4 (in this pattern used Sheepjes Catona (409) and Scheepjes Catoma Scarlet (192)
- Crochet hook 2.5 mm
- Fiberfill
- Yarn needle
- Scissors
Abbreviations
Mr – magic ring
Sc – single crochet
Ch – chain
Sl st – slip stitch
Hdc – half double crochet
Inc – increase
Dec – decrease
Strawberry
Round 1: 6 sc in Mr (6)
Round 2: (1 sc, inc) * 3 (9)
Round 3: (2 sc, inc) * 3 (12)
Round 4: 1 sc, inc, (3 sc, inc) * 2, 2 sc (15)
Round 5: (4 sc, inc) * 3 (18)
Round 6: 18 sc (18)
Round 7: (2 sc, inc) * 6 (24)
Round 8: 24 sc (24)
Round 9: 1 sc, inc, (3 sc, inc) * 5, 2 sc (30)
Round 10-12: (3 sc, dec) * 6 (24)
Round 14: 24 sc (24)
Round 15: (2 sc, dec) * 6 (18)
Round 16: (1 sc, dec) * 6 (12)
Stuff the strawberry.
Round 17: (dec) * 6 (6)
Cut the yarn leaving a tail.
Use your yarn needle to weave the tail through the front loops of the 6 sts of round 17. Then pull the yarn gently to close the ring and weave in the tail.
Stem
The stem is made with a long tail foundation chain,
Make a loop with a starting tail of approx. 15 cm. Hold this tail with your thumb and the other thread with your index finger.
Yarn over with the tail around your thumb from front to back. You now have 2 loop in your hook.
Now yarn over from back to front with the other thread and complete the st by pulling this thread through the 2 loops on the hook.
Make 7 sts like this. Cut the yarn leaving a long tail for assembly and making of the dots.
If you would like the stem to be a loop, make 15 sts and ,ake sure to start off with a longer starting tail.
Strawberry Top
Round 1: 9 sc in Mr (9)
Do not close the ring completely. Make sure there is room for the stem.
Round 2: (1 sl st, ch 5, turn, skip 1 st, 1 sl st, 1 sc, 2 hdc) * 9, sl st in next st
Cut the yarn leaving a long tail for assembly. Weave the tail through to the backside of the strawberry top.
Assembly
Sew the stem to the finishing circle of the strawberry and embroider the dots with the remaining yarn tail.
Then pull the strawberry top down over the stem and sew between rounds 1 and 2.
Fasten 2-3 of the leaves, leaving the rest to curl up.
