Winnie-the-Pooh with a Honey Pot
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- Weirdness
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- Times crocheted
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A free crochet squirrel pattern for a sitting red-orange squirrel hugging a little acorn in both paws. This amigurumi squirrel has a cream belly and cheeks, pointed ears with dark tufts and a big fluffy tail that rises up the back and ends in a light peach tip. It is worked in the round in single crochet with DK yarn and a 2.5 mm hook and stands about 13 cm (5 in) tall, with 12 mm safety eyes, a separate head, and an acorn made of a caramel nut and a chestnut cap. Follow it row by row with stitch counts and turn the interactive 3D model to see where the tail, ears and acorn go, a cozy autumn gift to make.
How to crochet the Squirrel with an Acorn
Advanced · 13 cm tall · about 4 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
- Crochet the 14 pieces in rounds: Body, Head, Snout, Ear ×2, Foot ×2, Tail, Cheek ×2, Acorn nut, Acorn cap, Arm ×2 (125 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 11 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 ≈ 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 100 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 6.7 cm at the widest, 5.7 cm long; 19 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.
- 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 8 cm at the widest, 5.8 cm long; 25 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.
- Change to orange (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R21).
- 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 2.4 cm at the widest, 1.8 cm long; 6 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Insert the safety nose/eyes now, while the piece is open (positions: see “Face”). Stuff lightly 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 2.5 cm at the widest, 3.3 cm long; 10 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.
- Change to orange (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R3).
- Change to orange (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R9).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff it lightly — a thin layer, just enough to hold the walls apart: the ear about 10.8 mm thick, with thick rounded edges. Then shape it into a spoon: push the front wall toward the back wall — a concave spoon about 2.4 mm deep in front, a rounded back; about 25 mm wide. Keep the opening a curve, hollow side forward, not a straight line.<!-- (spoon 45 %) -->
- Size before assembly: an oval about 2.4 × 1.6 cm at the widest, 1.9 cm long; 6 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 side to side; the starting chain is at the front of the piece (on the finished toy). 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 brown: ch 4.
- Change to orange (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R2).
- 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.
- Size before assembly: about 5.3 cm at the widest, 11.1 cm long; 32 rounds.
- Change to orange (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R5).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff moderately just before sewing it on; a little less near the edge, then add a pinch when the seam is nearly done. Bend ≈ 50° around round 19<!-- the bend spreads over 10 rounds -->. After stuffing, bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces forward on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 19, on the centre front line). It is a gradual bend: with the needle and matching yarn run a line of stitches along the inner side from round 16 to round 22, one stitch in every round along one column, then pull the yarn until the piece bends to the angle (the inner side gathers by about 6 rounds) and fasten off 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.
- Size before assembly: about 2.4 cm at the widest, 2.2 cm long; 8 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 3.3 cm at the widest, 1.8 cm long; 9 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.
- Size before assembly: about 1.3 cm at the widest, 2.7 cm long; 8 rounds.
- Change to orange (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R2).
- 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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