This amigurumi can be used for different purposes. you can use it primarily for decoration or it can help you as a beautiful figure in your child’s room or you can use it as a keychain.
Materials needed to finish this pattern are sport weight yarn with (red, white, green, yellow, and blue) shades, a 2.5mm crochet hook, 5mm black eyes, a string for hanging, and fiber for stuffing.
This tutorial is very easy to make and uses simple crochet stitches like single crochet stitch and slip stitch, also you need to know how to switch between colors.
This tutorial is made in one piece and then make some stitches around the face of the toy (you will find photos and steps about how to make that)
Let’s get started!
Pattern by: Crafty Emmi
Materials
- 2.5 mm crochet hook
- Sport weight yarn in 7 colors
- A: cold green
- B: warm yellow
- C: creme
- D: old pink
- E: orange red
- F: night blue
- G: rose
- 5 mm black eyes
- Soft stuffing / polyester fiberfill
- String for hanging
- Embroider needle
Abbreviations
St – stitch
Sl st – slip stitch
Sc – single crochet
Sc2tog – 2 st together with sc (decrease)
BLO – back loop only
st + st – several stitches on same stitch
Color change
Change the yarn while working the last stitch in the initial color. That is: Insert hook into indicated stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop. Then wrap the new color around the hook and complete the stitch as usual by pulling the yarn through both loops on the hook. The next stitch is the first in the new color.
Matryoshka
Start with color A.
Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring (6)
Round 2: (2 sc in next sc) *6 (12)
Round 3: (2 sc in next sc, 1 sc) *6 (18)
Round 4: (2 sc in next sc, 2 sc) *6 (24)
Round 5: (2 sc in next sc, 3 sc) *6 (30)
Round 6: (2 sc in next sc, 4 sc) *6 (36)
Use color A for instructions in black font and color B for yellow.
Round 7: (1 sc, 1 sc) *18
Round 8: 1 sc + 1 sc in next sc, 5 sc, (2 sc in next sc, 5 sc) *5 (42)
Use color B for instructions in yellow font and color C for black.
Round 9: 1 sc + 1 sc in next sc, 6 sc, (2 sc in next sc, 6 sc) * 5 (48)
Use color C for instructions in black font and color D for pink.
Round 10: 3 sc, (1 sc, 5 sc) *7, 1 sc, 2 sc
Round 11: 2 sc, (3 sc, 3 sc) *7, 3 sc, 1 sc
Round 12: 2 sc, (1 sc, 1 sc, 1 sc, 3 sc) *7, 1 sc, 1 sc, 1 sc, 1 sc
Continue with color C.
Round 13: (sc2tog, 6 sc) *6 (42)
Use color A for instructions in black font and color B for yellow.
Round 14: (1 sc, 1 sc) * 21
Change to color A.
Round 15: (sc2tog, 5 sc) *6 (36)
Round 16: 36 sc
Change to color E.
Round 17: 36 sl st
Change to color F.
Round 18: 36 sc BLO
Use color F for instructions in black font and color G for red.
Round 19: 14 sc, 10 sc, 12 sc
Round 20: 14 sc, 11 sc, 11 sc
Round 21: 14 sc. 11 sc. 11 sc
Round 22: 15 sc, 10 sc, 11 sc
Round 23: 16 sc, 8 sc, 12 sc
Round 24: 17 sc, 7 sc, 12 sc
Place the eyes between rnd 21 and 22, 5 st apart (counted in rnd 21), and start stuffing.
Continue with color F.
Round 25: (sc2tog, 4 sc) *6 (30)
Round 26: (sc2tog. 3 sc) *6 (24)
Round 27: 24 sc
Round 28: (sc2tog, 2 sc) *6 (18)
Round 29: (sc2tog, 1 sc) *6 (12)
Round 30: (sc2tog) *6 (6)
Fasten off and close the remaining hole.
Finishing
Make a border of slip stitches in color E around the face. You can crochet or embroider it.
