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Free crochet whale ornament pattern: a Whale in a Beanie Ornament amigurumi, about 8 cm tall in fingering yarn with a 2 mm hook. It is a round blue whale with a white belly, a happy smile, pink cheeks, little flippers and a red bobble beanie with a hanging loop. You need about 50 m of yarn: 25 m blue, 10 m white, 10 m red and 5 m pink. Plan on roughly 2 hours. A cheerful tree ornament, and a quick make for beginners. Gift it to a sea lover and use the 3D model to spin it while you follow the round-by-round pattern.
How to crochet the Whale in a Beanie Ornament
Beginner-friendly · 8 cm tall · about 2 h · fingering yarn · 2 mm hook
- Crochet the 10 pieces in rounds: Body ball, Flipper ×2, Tail fluke ×2, Cheek ×2, Beanie, Pompom, Hanging loop (59 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 9 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 55 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 6 cm at the widest, 4.4 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.
- Change to blue (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R16).
- → 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 cm at the widest, 1.4 cm long; 5 rounds.
- → Start stuffing (lightly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Press the piece flat to about 4 mm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 65 % --> Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 8 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 1.5 cm at the widest, 1.7 cm long; 7 rounds.
- → Start stuffing (lightly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Press the piece flat to about 7 mm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 55 % --> Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 8 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- A flat circle about 1 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 3.2 cm at the widest, 2.8 cm long; 11 rounds.
- Change to white (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R7).
- Change to red (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R10).
- 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 ≈ 30° around round 4<!-- the bend spreads over 4 rounds -->. After stuffing, bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces toward the toy's left on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 4, 6 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left <!-- st 5.92 left -->). On the inner side draw rounds 3 and 5 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 1.6 cm at the widest, 1.2 cm long; 6 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, 0.8 cm long; 3 rounds. Each piece is two circles (front and back): make 2 circles — 1 as below and 1 plain in red (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.
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