Winnie-the-Pooh with a Honey Pot
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Tigger from The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne (1928), a classic character now in the public domain, as a cute crochet amigurumi: the bouncy orange tiger of the book with black stripes and a curly striped tail. About 12 cm tall in DK yarn with a 2.5 mm hook. A free pattern with every round counted, a 3D model to turn around and a printable PDF.
How to crochet the Tigger the Bouncy Tiger
Intermediate · 12 cm tall · about 3 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
- Crochet the 10 pieces in rounds: Body, Head, Muzzle, Ear ×2, Leg ×2, Arm ×2, Springy tail (90 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 8 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 77 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 7.5 cm at the widest, 5.1 cm long; 18 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 R17).
- 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 8.4 cm at the widest, 6.9 cm long; 28 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.
- 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: an oval about 4.3 × 2.3 cm at the widest, 1.4 cm long; 5 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 2 more (not counted in any round) and place the marker there. The increases fall on the turns.
- With cream: ch 7.
- 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 2.5 cm at the widest, 1.2 cm long; 4 rounds.
- Change to orange (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R1).
- → This piece is not stuffed.
- 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. Do not stuff. Shape it into a dish: rounds 1–2 are the front of the piece, the magic ring its centre. Push the centre in so the front is concave (about 2.1 mm at the centre) and turn rounds 3–4 to the back: they make a thick rounded rim (about 8 mm thick) and lie behind as a second layer; the piece is about 25 mm across.<!-- (dish 50 %) -->
- Size before assembly: about 2 cm at the widest, 2.2 cm long; 7 rounds. Multi-colour rounds are listed stitch by stitch from the round-start marker; keep the round start on the piece's centre top 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 R2).
- 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 1.6 cm at the widest, 2.6 cm long; 8 rounds.
- Change to stripe (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R4).
- 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 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 1.2 cm at the widest, 7.2 cm long; 20 rounds.
- Change to stripe (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R3).
- Change to orange (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R4).
- Change to stripe (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R7).
- Change to orange (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R8).
- Change to stripe (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R11).
- Change to orange (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R12).
- Change to stripe (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R15).
- Change to orange (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R16).
- 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. Bend ≈ 300° around round 12<!-- the bend spreads over 8 rounds --><!-- coil 2 -->. The piece rolls up into a spiral (about 0.8 turns) from round 12 to its tip: after stuffing, roll it up starting from the tip (round 1) toward the side that faces up on the finished toy; the turns lie close, each wider than the last. From the tip to round 12 tack neighbouring turns together with 2–3 stitches of matching yarn every 3–4 rounds and hide the yarn inside.
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