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Free crochet bee pattern: a Chubby Bee Keychain amigurumi, about 7 cm tall in fingering yarn with a 2.0 mm hook. A tiny round yellow bee with two black stripes, light blue wings, black antennae, a sweet smile and a silver loop on top for a key ring. You need about 35 m of yarn: 15 m yellow, 10 m black, 5 m light blue and 5 m silver. Plan on roughly 1 hour. A quick make for a bag charm, a small thank-you gift or a bee lover's key ring. Turn the 3D model around and crochet it round by round.
How to crochet the Chubby Bee Keychain
Beginner-friendly · 7 cm tall · about 2 h · fingering yarn · 2 mm hook
- Crochet the 9 pieces in rounds: Bee body, Wing ×2, Antenna ×2, Antenna ball ×2, Stinger, Key ring loop (53 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 6 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 9 gathered
Gauge
1 sc ≈ 3 mm wide, 1 round ≈ 2.7 mm tall (10 cm ≈ 33 sc × 37 rounds); yarn about 1.4 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 37 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 5.7 cm at the widest, 4.9 cm long; 26 rounds.
- Change to black (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R4).
- Change to yellow (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R7).
- Change to black (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R9).
- Change to yellow (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R12).
- → 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: about 1.1 cm at the widest, 2.5 cm long; 10 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly only and press it flat to about 3 mm thick.<!-- flattened 80 % -->
- Size before assembly: about 0.4 cm at the widest, 1.5 cm long; 6 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 ≈ 40° around round 3<!-- the bend spreads over 3 rounds -->. After stuffing, bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces forward on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 3, 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 2 and 3 together. Bend the second piece as a mirror image.
- Size before assembly: about 0.7 cm at the widest, 1 cm long; 4 rounds.
- → Start stuffing (lightly) 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 0.6 cm at the widest, 0.9 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 1.5 cm at the widest, 0.8 cm long; 3 rounds. Each piece is two circles (front and back): make 2 circles — 1 as below and 1 plain in silver (same rounds, no colour changes).
- Fasten off. Hold a front and a plain circle wrong sides together and sc around through both layers: 16 sc. Do not stuff. Leave a long tail (~30 cm) for sewing.
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