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Free crochet pickle pattern: a Pickle in Love amigurumi, about 10 cm tall in DK yarn with a 2.5 mm hook. A chunky green pickle with light bumps and a tiny stem has big red heart eyes, a puckered kiss and a red heart held to its tummy. You need about 50 m of yarn: 25 m green, 10 m light green, 5 m red, 5 m pink and 5 m dark green. Plan on roughly 2 hours. Give it to a pickle lover on Valentine's Day, hang it above a desk or keep it as a pocket-sized love note. It is a quick, beginner-friendly make: you can spin the 3D model and follow the round-by-round pattern.
How to crochet the Pickle in Love
Beginner-friendly · 10 cm tall · about 2 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
- Crochet the 20 pieces in rounds: Pickle, Heart, Arm ×2, Cheek ×2, Bump ×11, Stem, Heart eye ×2 (41 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 ≈ 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 27 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 5 cm at the widest, 8.9 cm long; 28 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. Bend ≈ 26° around round 10<!-- the bend spreads over 14 rounds -->. After stuffing, bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces forward on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 10, on the centre front line). On the inner side draw rounds 8 and 11 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 9 st, pull to the angle and hide the end inside.
- Flat motif — heart (worked in rounds, one layer of fabric), about 2.1 × 2 cm; 1 row.
- 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 1.1 cm at the widest, 1.4 cm long; 4 rounds.
- → Start stuffing (lightly) 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 circle about 1.5 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Of these: no. 6 — 1; no. 7 — 1; no. 8 — 1; no. 9 — 1; no. 10 — 1; no. 11 — 1; left — 1; no. 13 — 1; no. 14 — 1; no. 15 — 1; no. 16 — 1. A flat circle about 0.8 cm across; 1 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 0.9 cm at the widest, 1.5 cm long; 4 rounds.
- → Start stuffing (lightly) 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 7 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Flat motif — heart (worked in rounds, one layer of fabric), about 2.1 × 2 cm; 1 row.
- 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.
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