Here you can find a free crochet pattern for this sweet little cat amigurumi. The cat parts are crocheted separately and then stuffed with fiberfill before being stitched together to create the final cat toy. When crocheting from the recommended yarn, the amigurumi cat turns out to be 9 cm (3.5″) tall.
Designer: @balisa.dm
You will need:
- YarnArt Jeans yarn (55% cotton, 45% acrylic, 50 g/160 m)
- 2.0 mm crochet hook
- 8 mm safety eyes
- Black embroidery or sewing thread
- Sewing needle
- Scissors
- Tailors pins
- Fiberfill
Free amigurumi cat pattern
Abbreviations:
R – row
ch – chain
st – stitch
sl st – slip stitch
sc – single crochet
hdc – half double crochet
dc – double crochet
inc – increase (2 single crochet in 1 stitch)
dec – decrease
bobble st – bobble stitch (5 unfinished double crochet stitches clustered together)
BLO – back loop only
[…] – number of stitches you should have at the end of the row
(…) – repeat whatever is between the brackets the given number of times
Ears (make 2)
With main color:
R 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
R 2: (inc, 2 sc) repeat 2 times [8]
R 3: (inc, 3 sc) repeat 2 times [10]
R 4: (inc, 4 sc) repeat 2 times [12]
R 5: 12 sc
Sl st, fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.
Muzzle
With white color:
Make 4 ch. Make an oval, starting from the 2nd ch from hook, work on both sides of the chain.
R 1: from the 2nd ch from hook: 3 sc in one st, sl st, 6 sc in one st, turn and work on the opposite side of chain: sl st, 3 sc in one st, sl st.
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.
Head
Start with main color:
R 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
R 2: (inc) repeat 6 times [12]
R 3: (1 sc, inc) repeat 6 times [18]
R 4: 1 sc, inc, (2 sc, inc) repeat 5 times, 1 sc [24]
R 5: (3 sc, inc) repeat 6 times [30]
R 6: 4 sc, (1 sc, inc) repeat 3 times, 9 sc, (1 sc, inc) repeat 3 times, 5 sc [36]
R 7: 3 sc, (2 sc, inc) repeat 3 times, 10 sc, (2 sc, inc) repeat 3 times, 5 sc [42]
R 8-10: 42 sc (3 rows)
R 11: 6 sc, change to black color: 9 sc, change to main color: 12 sc, change to black color: 9 sc, change to main color: 6 sc
R 12: 42 sc
R 13: 5 sc, change to black color: 11 sc, change to main color: 10 sc, change to black color: 11 sc, change to main color: 5 sc
R 14-15: 42 sc (2 rows)
Insert safety eyes between R 11 and R 12 at the distance of 6 stitches from each other (at the same distance from the strips).
R 16: (5 sc, dec) repeat 6 times [36]
R 7: (4 sc, dec) repeat 6 times [30]
R 18: (3 sc, dec) repeat 6 times [24]
R 19: (2 sc, dec) repeat 6 times [18]
Sl st, fasten off.
Arms (make 2)
Start with main color:
R 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
R 2: (inc, 2 sc) repeat 2 times [8]
R 3-4: 8 sc (2 rows)
Change to black color:
R 5: 8 sc
Change to main color:
R 6-7: 8 sc (2 rows)
Fold the top opening flat and 4 sc through both sides.
Tail
Start with black color:
R 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
R 2: (inc, 2 sc) repeat 2 times [8]
R 3: 8 sc
Change to main color:
R 4: 8 sc
Change to black color:
R 5: 8 sc
Change to main color:
R 6: 8 sc
Change to black color:
R 7: 8 sc
Change to main color:
R 8: 8 sc
Change to black color:
R 9: 8 sc
Change to main color:
R 10: 8 sc
Fold the top opening flat and 4 sc through both sides.
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.
Body
Start with main color:
R 1: 8 sc in magic ring [8]
R 2: (inc) repeat 8 times [16]
R 3: (1 sc, inc) repeat 8 times [24]
R 4: BLO: (3 sc, inc) repeat 6 times [30]
In the next row we will start to crochet the legs on:
R 5: 10 sc, 5 hdc in one st, 8 sc, 5 hdc in one st, 10 sc
R 6: 10 sc, bobble st (5 dc bobble stitch), 8 sc, bobble st (5 dc bobble stitch), 10 sc
Change to black color:
R 7: (4 sc, inc) repeat 6 times [36]
Change to main color:
R 8-9: 36 sc (2 rows)
Change to black color:
R 10: (4 sc, dec) repeat 6 times [30]
In the next row we will crochet the arms into the body.
Change to main color:
R 11: 11 sc, 4 sc together with sc of the 1st arm, 4 sc together with sc of the 2nd arm, 11 sc
R 12: (1 sc, dec) repeat 3 times, 12 sc, (1 sc, dec) repeat 3 times [24]
R 13: (2 sc, dec) repeat 6 times [18]
R 14: 18 sc
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.
Assembly
- Sew the muzzle under the eyes.
- Sew the ears on the head.
- Using a pink yarn, embroider a nose in 2 sc width (3 horizontal stitches) and a stripe on the muzzle.
- Embroider whiskers using a black thread.
- Sew the tail to the back side of the body (in the picture below, the red line indicates the sewing location).
- Fix the tail to the body on one side with one sewing stitch.
- Sew the head to the body.
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