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Free crochet ghost keychain pattern: a Sleepy Ghost Keychain amigurumi, about 8 cm tall in fingering yarn with a 2 mm hook. A tiny white ghost with closed sleepy eyes, pink cheeks and a striped lavender nightcap, with a small pompom and a ring loop on top for a key ring. You need about 40 m of yarn: 20 m white, 5 m lavender, 5 m cream, 5 m silver and 5 m blush pink. Plan on roughly 1 hour. Hang it on keys or a bag, or tie it to a tree as a small ornament. You can spin the 3D model and follow the round-by-round pattern.
How to crochet the Sleepy Ghost Keychain
Beginner-friendly · 8 cm tall · about 2 h · fingering yarn · 2 mm hook
- Crochet the 9 pieces in rounds: Ghost, Hem, Arm ×2, Cheek ×2, Nightcap, Pompom, Key ring loop (53 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 7 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 ≈ 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 45 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 3.8 cm at the widest, 3.8 cm long; 19 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 3.9 cm at the widest, 0.8 cm long; 3 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 0.8 cm at the widest, 1 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.
- A flat circle about 1 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 2.4 cm at the widest, 4.7 cm long; 17 rounds.
- Change to cream (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R3).
- Change to lavender (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R5).
- Change to cream (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R8).
- Change to lavender (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R10).
- Change to cream (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R13).
- Change to lavender (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R15).
- 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 ≈ 110° around round 6<!-- the bend spreads over 6 rounds -->. After stuffing, bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces toward the toy's left on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 6, 2.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left <!-- st 2.41 left -->). On the inner side draw rounds 4 and 7 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.
- Size before assembly: about 1.2 cm at the widest, 1.2 cm long; 5 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 1.3 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: 14 sc. Do not stuff. Leave a long tail (~30 cm) for sewing.
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