Winnie-the-Pooh with a Honey Pot
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This free crochet deer pattern makes a baby fawn amigurumi resting with its legs folded, big soft ears and gentle lashed eyes. The amigurumi deer is warm tan with white spots along its back, a cream muzzle and belly, pink cheeks, dark little hooves and a tiny white-tipped tail. It is worked in the round in single crochet with DK yarn and a 2.5 mm hook and ends up about 12 cm (4.5 in) tall, with 12 mm safety eyes, a safety nose and embroidered spots and lashes. Follow it row by row with stitch counts and turn the interactive 3D model to see where the ears, legs and spots go; a sweet gift for a spring baby shower.
How to crochet the Baby Deer
Advanced · 12 cm tall · about 4 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
- Crochet the 14 pieces in rounds: Body, Head, Muzzle, Ear ×2, Cheek ×2, Front leg ×2, Haunch (applique) ×2, Hind leg ×2, Tail (105 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 9 steps; each one lights up where it goes on the 3D model.
- Add the face: safety eyes by round and stitch, or embroider them for a child under 3.
Every round with its stitch count is in the Pattern tab below, and in the free printable PDF.
What you'll need
0 of 10 gathered
Gauge
1 sc ≈ 4 mm wide, 1 round ≈ 3.6 mm tall (10 cm ≈ 25 sc × 28 rounds); yarn about 1.9 mm thick. The gauge sets the size of the toy; crochet tightly so the stuffing does not show.
Worked in
Continuous spiral rounds. Don't join. Move a stitch marker up every round.
Parts
0 of 78 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 6.8 cm at the widest, 8.2 cm long; 29 rounds. Multi-colour rounds are listed stitch by stitch from the round-start marker; keep the round start on the piece's centre top line (as it sits on the finished toy). The order is for right-handed crocheting (right to left on the outside); left-handed: reverse it.
- → Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Press the piece flat to about 5.4 cm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 20 % --> Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 6 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 8.3 cm at the widest, 7.1 cm long; 27 rounds.
- → Insert the safety eyes now (positions: see “Face”) and fix the backs. Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 12 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: an oval about 3.8 × 2.2 cm at the widest, 1.8 cm long; 6 rounds. The piece is oval: the rounds go around the chain, and on the finished toy the chain (the long side of the oval) runs side to side; the starting chain is at the front of the piece (on the finished toy). The round-start marker is in the middle of a long side (the piece's centre line), while R1 starts at a turn: after R1 shift the round start — sc 2 more (not counted in any round) and place the marker there. The increases fall on the turns.
- With cream: ch 6.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Insert the safety nose/eyes now, while the piece is open (positions: see “Face”). Stuff lightly just before sewing it on; a little less near the edge, then add a pinch when the seam is nearly done.
- Size before assembly: about 3.6 cm at the widest, 4.7 cm long; 14 rounds. Multi-colour rounds are listed stitch by stitch from the round-start marker; keep the round start on the piece's centre front line (as it sits on the finished toy). The order is for right-handed crocheting (right to left on the outside); left-handed: reverse it.
- Change to tan (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R13).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff it lightly — a thin layer, just enough to hold the walls apart: the ear about 10.8 mm thick, with thick rounded edges. Then shape it into a spoon: push the front wall toward the back wall — a concave spoon about 4.1 mm deep in front, a rounded back; about 36 mm wide. Keep the opening a curve, hollow side forward, not a straight line.<!-- (spoon 55 %) -->
- A flat circle about 1.5 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 1.6 cm at the widest, 2.9 cm long; 9 rounds.
- Change to tan (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R3).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff moderately just before sewing it on; a little less near the edge, then add a pinch when the seam is nearly done.
- A flat circle about 3.8 cm across; 5 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 1.6 cm at the widest, 2.2 cm long; 7 rounds.
- Change to tan (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R3).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff moderately just before sewing it on; a little less near the edge, then add a pinch when the seam is nearly done.
- Size before assembly: about 1.3 cm at the widest, 2 cm long; 6 rounds.
- Change to tan (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R2).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly just before sewing it on; a little less near the edge, then add a pinch when the seam is nearly done.
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