Winnie-the-Pooh with a Honey Pot
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A free crochet bee pattern for a pocket-size honey bee that hugs a big pink heart, a sweet bee happy gift. This amigurumi bee has a round head with pink cheeks and curly antennae, a striped yellow and brown body, small white wings and little brown paws wrapped around the heart. It is worked in the round in single crochet with DK yarn and a 2.5 mm hook and stands about 9 cm (3.5 in) tall, with 7 mm safety eyes and an embroidered smile. The head, wings, antennae, paws and heart 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 Pocket Hug Bee
Beginner-friendly · 9 cm tall · about 2 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
- Crochet the 12 pieces in rounds: Body, Head, Wing ×2, Stinger, Cheek ×2, Foot ×2, Heart, Arm ×2 (63 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 9 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 52 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 5.9 cm at the widest, 4.7 cm long; 16 rounds.
- Change to dark brown (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R4).
- Change to honey yellow (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R6).
- Change to dark brown (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R9).
- Change to honey yellow (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R11).
- Change to dark brown (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R14).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff firmly just before sewing it on; a little less near the edge, then add a pinch when the seam is nearly done.
- Size before assembly: about 6.2 cm at the widest, 4.3 cm long; 19 rounds.
- → Insert the safety eyes now (positions: see “Face”) and fix the backs. 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 1.4 cm at the widest, 3.4 cm long; 10 rounds.
- → Start stuffing (lightly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Press the piece flat to about 3 mm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 80 % --> Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 5 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 0.8 cm at the widest, 0.9 cm long; 3 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 1.5 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 1.2 cm at the widest, 1.4 cm long; 4 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.
- Flat motif — heart (worked in rounds, one layer of fabric), about 4.1 × 4.2 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 1.2 cm at the widest, 1.7 cm long; 5 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.
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