Winnie-the-Pooh with a Honey Pot
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A free crochet reindeer pattern for a sitting brown baby reindeer with branched cream antlers, a red ball nose and a striped scarf. This amigurumi reindeer has a cream muzzle, big cream-lined ears, rosy cheeks, dark hoof pads and a red-and-white scarf with one end hanging down the front. It is worked in the round in single crochet with DK yarn and a 2.5 mm hook, ends up about 15 cm (5.8 in) tall, and has 11 mm safety eyes (embroider them for small children); the antlers, ears and nose ball are sewn on. Follow it row by row with stitch counts and turn the interactive 3D model to see where every piece goes, a cosy Christmas gift.
How to crochet the Baby Reindeer
Advanced · 15 cm tall · about 4 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
- Crochet the 21 pieces in rounds: Body, Head, Muzzle, Ear ×2, Arm ×2, Leg ×2, Hoof ×2, Tail, Antler ×2, Antler tine ×4, Red nose ball, Scarf, Scarf end (125 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 14 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 11 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 90 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 6.7 cm at the widest, 4.9 cm long; 17 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.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff firmly 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 8.4 cm at the widest, 6.9 cm long; 28 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 6 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: an oval about 3 × 2.2 cm at the widest, 1.4 cm long; 5 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 1 more (not counted in any round) and place the marker there. The increases fall on the turns.
- With cream: ch 4.
- 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.
- Size before assembly: about 3 cm at the widest, 3.6 cm long; 11 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.
- 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 2.9 mm deep in front, a rounded back; about 30 mm wide. Keep the opening a curve, hollow side forward, not a straight line.<!-- (spoon 45 %) -->
- Size before assembly: about 2 cm at the widest, 3.6 cm long; 11 rounds.
- 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.
- Size before assembly: about 3.3 cm at the widest, 3.4 cm long; 11 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff firmly 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 2.3 cm across; 3 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 1.5 cm at the widest, 1.2 cm long; 4 rounds.
- 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.
- Size before assembly: about 1.2 cm at the widest, 4.2 cm long; 12 rounds.
- 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. Bend ≈ 25° around round 6<!-- the bend spreads over 6 rounds -->. After stuffing, bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces forward on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 6, on the centre front line). It is a slight bend: tilt the piece as you sew it on; optionally tack the inner side with 1–2 stitches drawing rounds 6 and 7 together. Bend the second piece as a mirror image.
- Of these: no. 1 — 2 (left and right); low — 2 (left and right). Size before assembly: about 0.9 cm at the widest, 2.4 cm long; 7 rounds.
- 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.
- Size before assembly: about 1.2 cm at the widest, 1.3 cm long; 4 rounds.
- → 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 5 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 5.9 cm at the widest, 1.8 cm long; 3 rounds.
- Change to white (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R1).
- Change to red (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R2).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: an oval about 1.7 × 0.5 cm at the widest, 3.2 cm long; 9 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 white: ch 5.
- Change to red (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R2).
- Change to white (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R4).
- Change to red (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R6).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff. Press the piece flat (the opening becomes a straight line), front and back walls together.<!-- flattened 90 % --> Bend ≈ 75° around round 6<!-- the bend spreads over 3 rounds -->. Bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces down on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 6, on the centre bottom line). It is a slight bend: tilt the piece as you sew it on; optionally tack the inner side with 1–2 stitches drawing rounds 6 and 7 together.
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