What does amigurumi means?
The word Amigurumi comes from Japanese. The Japanese call handicrafts knitted with crochet and needle as Ami. The Japanese call the toys that are filled with objects such as fibers or cotton as Nuigurumi. The word Amigurumi is derived as a combination of these two words.
Amigurumi knitting techniques are very easy. You can find many handcrafts prepared with these techniques on my site. What is Amigurumi for beginners in Amigurumi handwork? How to knit amigurumi? In this blog, where you can find the answers to the questions with pictures, you will be able to learn about Amigurumi in all details.
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Also I’m sharing new amigurumi free patterns every day.
Todays daily new amigurumi free crochet pattern is Cow Amigurumi Free Crochet Pattern
I want to give you some informations about this pattern ;
Zoya the cow looks great and amazing in claret dress. It will be a fun project to make and a wonderful gift for a friend or for a kid. The size of finished toy is approximately 11 cm (4.3″) without horns.
Materials:
- Yarn: Gazzal Baby Cotton color #3445 (main), #3442 for dress, pink #3411 for muzzle, brown #3455 for horns, YarnArt Etamin white #421 for collar and dress bottom
- Hook size: 2.2 mm
- Black embroidery floss
- Sewing needle and scissors
- Fiberfill
Abbreviations:
R = row
mc = magic circle
ch = chain
st = stitch
sc = single crochet
inc = 2 sc in the next stitch
dec = single crochet 2 stitches together
F.o. = finish off
(12) = number of stitches you should have at the end of the round/row
(…)*6 = repeat whatever is between the brackets the number of times stated
Arms (make 2)
With beige yarn:
R 1: 6 sc in mc (6)
R 2: (1 sc, inc)*3 (9)
R 3-4: 9 sc (2 rows)
Change to dress color yarn:
R 5-13: 9 sc (9 rows)
Don’t stuff with fiberfill.
Fold top of arm flat and 4 sc through both sides across.
F.o.
Legs (make 2)
With brown yarn:
R 1: 6 sc in mc (6)
R 2: (inc)*6 (12)
R 3. 12 sc
Change to beige yarn:
R 4-7. 12 sc (4 rows)
F.o.
Don’t cut the yarn when you will finish the second leg!
From second leg: 5 ch, join to the first leg.
Continue crocheting the body in the round:
Stuff as you go.
R 1: 12 sc on the first leg, 5 sc in 5 ch, 12 sc on the second leg, 5 sc in 5 ch (opposite side) (34)
R 2: (inc, 16 sc)*2 (36)
R 3: (5 sc, inc)*6 (42)
R 4: (6 sc, inc)*6 (48)
R 5: (7 sc, inc)*6 (54)
Change to dress color yarn:
R 6: 54 sc
R 7: 54 sc into the front loops only of R 6
R 8: 54 sc into the back loops only of R 6
R 9-12: 54 sc (4 rows)
R 13: (7 sc, dec)*6 (48)
R 14: 48 sc
R 15: (6 sc, dec)*6 (42)
R 16: 42 sc
R 17: (5 sc, dec)*6 (36)
R 18: 36 sc
R 19: (4 sc, dec)*6 (30)
R 20: 30 sc
R 21: (3 sc, dec)*6 (24)
R 22: (2 sc, dec)*6 (18)
In the next row we will attach arms:
R 23: 4 sc together with sc of the 1st arm, 5 sc, 4 sc together with sc of the 2nd arm, 5 sc (18)
Start crocheting the collar
Change to YarnArt Etamin yarn (white):
R 24: 18 sc (18)
R 25: (3 ch, 1 sc)*18
F.o. and leave a long tail for sewing.
Sew the collar to the dress with a couple of stitches using white thread and needle.
Dress bottom
With YarnArt Etamin yarn:
R 1: 54 sc
R 2: (3 ch, 1 sc)*54
F.o.
Head
R 1: 6 sc in mc (6)
R 2: (1 sc, inc)*3 (9)
R 3: (inc)*9 (18)
R 4: (2 sc, inc)*6 (24)
R 5: (3 sc, inc)*6 (30)
R 6: (4 sc, inc)*6 (36)
R 7: (5 sc, inc)*6 (42)
R 8: (6 sc, inc)*6 (48)
R 9-15: 48 sc (7 rows)
R 16: (6 sc, dec)*6 (42)
R 17: (5 sc, dec)*6 (36)
R 18: (4 sc, dec)*6 (30)
R 19: (3 sc, dec)*6 (24)
R 20: (2 sc, dec)*6 (18)
F.o. and leave a long tail for sewing.
Ears (make 2)
R 1: 6 sc in mc (6)
R 2: (inc)*6 (12)
R 3-5: 12 sc (3 rows)
Fold ear in half. Fold one time more and 3 sc through both sides across.
F.o. and leave a long tail for sewing.
Horns (make 2)
R 1: 6 sc in mc (6)
R 2-5: 6 sc (4 rows)
F.o. and leave a long tail for sewing.
Muzzle
With pink yarn:
Make 6 ch.
Make an oval starting from the 2nd ch from hook, work on both sides of the chain.
R 1: From the 2nd ch from hook: inc, 3 sc, 3 sc in last st, turn and crochet on the opposite side of the chain: 3 sc, inc (13)
R 2: 1 sc, inc, 3 sc, inc, 1 sc, inc, 4 sc, inc (17)
R 3: 2 inc, 5 sc, 3 inc, 6 sc, inc (23)
R 4: 23 sc
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