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Free crochet onigiri pattern: an Onigiri Keychain amigurumi, about 7 cm tall in fingering yarn with a 2 mm hook. It is a white triangular rice ball with a dark green nori band, worried brows, a wobbly mouth, a light blue sweat drop and a tan loop on top for a key ring. You need about 30 m of yarn: 15 m white, 5 m dark green, 5 m tan and 5 m pink. Plan on roughly 1 hour. Clip it to keys, a backpack or a lunch bag, or make a few as gifts for anime and Japanese food fans. Rotate the 3D model to see the nori from the back and follow the pattern round by round.
How to crochet the Onigiri Keychain
Beginner-friendly · 7 cm tall · about 2 h · fingering yarn · 2 mm hook
- Crochet the 4 pieces in rounds: Rice ball, Key ring loop, Cheek ×2 (30 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 3 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
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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
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- Size before assembly: about 5.2 cm at the widest, 5.7 cm long; 26 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.
- Press the piece flat to about 3.1 cm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 40 % --> 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 (lies flat); 2 rounds. Each piece is two circles (front and back): make 2 circles — 1 as below and 1 plain in tan (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.
- A flat circle about 1 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
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