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Guinea Pig crochet pattern

  • Mathematically BalancedChecked by script: in all 52 rounds the increases and decreases add up to the stitch count.

by the pattern engineAnimals

Difficulty
1/3
Time
~3 h
Size
7.5 cm
Weirdness
1/5
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A4 PDF: materials, every round with a tick box, assembly and face

A free crochet guinea pig pattern for a chubby, round amigurumi cavy in a cream, ginger and black tricolor coat. This guinea pig plushie has little ginger ears, a tiny pink nose, shiny black eyes, rosy cheeks, four stubby pink feet and a small carrot with green leaves held at its belly. It is worked in the round in single crochet with DK yarn and a 2.5 mm hook, and ends up about 7.5 cm (3 in) tall and 13.7 cm (5.4 in) long; the body is one piece, and the ears, cheeks, nose, feet and carrot are sewn on. Follow it row by row with stitch counts and turn the interactive 3D model to see where every piece goes.

How to crochet the Guinea Pig

Beginner-friendly · 8 cm tall · about 3 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook

  1. Crochet the 14 pieces in rounds: Body with face, Ear ×2, Cheek ×2, Nose, Foot ×4, Carrot, Carrot top ×3 (53 rounds in all).
  2. Stuff and put it together in 9 steps; each one lights up where it goes on the 3D model.
  3. 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

Tick things off as you gather them.

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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

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0 of 49 rounds done

  28. Size before assembly: an oval about 10.6 × 7.4 cm at the widest, 7.3 cm long; 27 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 front to back; the starting chain is at the bottom of the piece (on the finished toy). The round-start marker is at a turn of the oval, on the piece's centre line; R1 starts there, so no shift is needed. The increases fall on the turns. 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.
  29. With cream: ch 10.
  30. → Insert the safety eyes now (positions: see “Face”) and fix the backs. Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
  31. Change to cream (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R26).
  32. Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 14 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.

  5. Size before assembly: about 2.5 cm at the widest, 1.9 cm long; 6 rounds.
  6. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff. Shape it into a dish: rounds 1–2 are the front of the piece, the magic ring its centre. Push the centre in so the front is concave (about 2.5 mm at the centre) and turn rounds 3–6 to the back: they make a thick rounded rim (about 8 mm thick) and lie behind as a second layer; the piece is about 25 mm across.<!-- (dish 60 %) -->

  3. A flat circle about 1.5 cm across; 2 rounds.
  4. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.

  3. A flat circle about 1.4 cm across; 2 rounds.
  4. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.

  5. Of these: front — 2 (left and right); back — 2 (left and right). Size before assembly: about 1.4 cm at the widest, 1.2 cm long; 4 rounds.
  6. → Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
  7. 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.

  10. Size before assembly: about 1.9 cm at the widest, 3.8 cm long; 11 rounds.
  11. → Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
  12. 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.

  2. Of these: mid — 1; side — 2 (left and right). Flat motif — leaf (pointed leaf, worked in rounds, one layer of fabric), about 2.1 × 1.1 cm; 1 row.
  3. Fasten off leaving a long tail (~30 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff. Weave in the starting tail, pin the motif out to shape on a soft surface and steam it lightly.

Safety eyes and noses go in before the piece is stuffed and closed (see the pieces above); embroidery is easier before the piece is sewn on.

  • Safety eyes with a printed glint 9 mm (on the Body with face): in round 21, 10 st apart (count along round 21: about 5.1 st each side of the centre front line).
  • Satin stitch (on the Body with face): in rose thread, a triangle about 7 mm wide and 4.5 mm tall, horizontal stitches; centred between rounds 20 and 21, on the centre front line.
  • Embroidery in brown thread (on the Body with face), straight stitches through: (between rounds 19 and 20, on the centre front line ) → (in round 19, on the centre front line).
  • Embroidery in brown thread (on the Body with face) (2, symmetric: the toy's left side is described, the right is its mirror image), straight stitches through: (in round 19, on the centre front line) → (between rounds 18 and 19, 1 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (in round 19, 2 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ).

Abbreviations

MR
magic ring
sc
single crochet
inc
2 sc in the same stitch
dec
single crochet two stitches together (invisible decrease recommended)
BLO
work the round in back loops only
FLO
work the round in front loops only
ch
chain
sl st
slip stitch
st
stitch
R5
round 5; R7–14 = rounds 7 to 14 are the same
(…) ×6
repeat 6 times
(24)
stitches in the round when it is done

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