Winnie-the-Pooh with a Honey Pot
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A free crochet Christmas ornament pattern for a small round penguin in a red Santa hat with a hanging loop on the pompom. This amigurumi penguin has a white heart-shaped face, an orange beak and feet, pink cheeks, a tiny green scarf and a hat with a bobbly white brim. It is worked in the round in single crochet with fingering yarn and a 2 mm hook and stands about 9 cm (3.4 in) tall including the loop; it has small safety eyes, and the flippers, feet, scarf, hat and pompom are sewn on. Follow it row by row with stitch counts and turn the interactive 3D model to see where every piece goes, then hang the penguin on the tree for the holidays.
How to crochet the Penguin in a Santa Hat Ornament
Intermediate · 9 cm tall · about 2 h · fingering yarn · 2 mm hook
- Crochet the 14 pieces in rounds: Ball body, White belly, White heart face, Beak, Flipper ×2, Foot ×2, Cheek ×2, Santa hat, Pompom, Hanging loop, Scarf (66 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 12 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 12 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 59 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 4.2 cm at the widest, 4.9 cm long; 23 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.
- A flat oval about 2.8 × 2.2 cm; 4 rounds. Worked around a chain, so it is an oval: sew it on with its long side (along the chain) running side to side. The round-start marker is in the middle of a long side (the piece's centre line), while R1 starts at a turn: after R1 shift the round start — sc 1 more (not counted in any round) and place the marker there. The increases fall on the turns.
- With snow white: ch 4.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Flat motif — heart (worked in rounds, one layer of fabric), about 3.1 × 3.2 cm; 4 rows.
- 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.
- Size before assembly: about 0.6 cm at the widest, 0.7 cm long; 3 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly, then press the piece slightly flat (oval cross-section; flattened 40 %).
- Size before assembly: about 0.9 cm at the widest, 1.5 cm long; 6 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly only and press it flat to about 4 mm thick.<!-- flattened 60 % -->
- Size before assembly: about 0.8 cm at the widest, 0.7 cm long; 3 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly only and press it flat to about 4 mm thick.<!-- flattened 50 % -->
- A flat circle about 1.2 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 3 cm at the widest, 2.2 cm long; 10 rounds.
- Change to snow white (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R7).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff. Bend ≈ 30° around round 5<!-- the bend spreads over 3 rounds -->. Bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces backward on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 5, on the centre back line). On the inner side draw rounds 4 and 6 together (2 rounds go into the fold): with the needle and matching yarn make 3–4 stitches through the loops of both rounds over about 6 st, pull to the angle and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 1.4 cm at the widest, 1.7 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 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 soft gold (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.
- Size before assembly: about 3.1 cm at the widest, 0.8 cm long; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
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