Winnie-the-Pooh with a Honey Pot
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A free Christmas cat crochet pattern for a sitting ginger kitten in a red Santa hat with a fluffy white brim and pom-pom. This amigurumi cat has green eyes with a glint, a pink nose, rosy cheeks, tabby stripes on its back and a cozy green ribbed scarf with a hanging end. Head, body, legs and tail are worked in the round in single crochet with DK yarn and a 2.5 mm hook, the hat is crocheted from the tip down with popcorn stitches for the brim, and the kitty is about 14 cm (5.5 in) tall. Follow the row-by-row pattern with stitch counts and turn the interactive 3D model to see every piece - a sweet handmade holiday gift.
How to crochet the Christmas Cat in a Santa Hat
Advanced · 14 cm tall · about 4 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
- Crochet the 14 pieces in rounds: Body, Head, Ear ×2, Santa hat, Pompom, Scarf, Arm ×2, Foot ×2, Tail, Cheek ×2 (113 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 11 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 13 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 96 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 6.4 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.
- Change to ginger (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R13).
- 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 8.3 cm at the widest, 7 cm long; 28 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.
- → 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 3.2 cm at the widest, 2.1 cm long; 7 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 3.7 mm deep in front, a rounded back; about 32 mm wide. Keep the opening a curve, hollow side forward, not a straight line.<!-- (spoon 55 %) -->
- Size before assembly: about 6.4 cm at the widest, 6.6 cm long; 21 rounds.
- Change to snow (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R18).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff. Bend ≈ 115° around round 9<!-- the bend spreads over 5 rounds -->. Bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces toward the toy's right on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 9, 3.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's right <!-- st 3.55 right -->). It is a gradual bend: with the needle and matching yarn run a line of stitches along the inner side from round 7 to round 11, one stitch in every round along one column, then pull the yarn until the piece bends to the angle (the inner side gathers by about 4 rounds) and fasten off inside.
- Size before assembly: about 2.3 cm at the widest, 1.9 cm long; 7 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 6 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 6.2 cm at the widest, 1.5 cm long; 3 rounds.
- 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: about 1.3 cm at the widest, 2 cm long; 6 rounds.
- Change to ginger (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.
- Size before assembly: about 2 cm at the widest, 1.9 cm long; 6 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.
- Size before assembly: about 1.2 cm at the widest, 5.7 cm long; 16 rounds.
- Change to stripe (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R2).
- Change to ginger (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R4).
- Change to stripe (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R7).
- Change to ginger (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R9).
- Change to stripe (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R12).
- Change to ginger (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R14).
- 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 ≈ 90° around round 7<!-- the bend spreads over 5 rounds -->. After stuffing, bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces up on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 7, 0.5 st from the centre top line, toward the toy's left <!-- st 0.26 left -->). On the inner side draw rounds 6 and 9 together (3 rounds go into the fold): with the needle and matching yarn make 3–4 stitches through the loops of both rounds over about 2 st, pull to the angle and hide the end inside.
- A flat circle about 1.5 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
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