Amigurumi Kittens
These cute amigurumi kittens are perfect for any cat lover! Made with soft yarn and stuffed to the brim, they're great for playtime or as a decorative piece. Let's bring these adorable little felines to life with simple crochet techniques!
Amigurumi Kittens
Materials:
- Yarn: Worsted weight yarn (Category 4), approximately 100g each of gray, pink, green, purple, and yellow.
- Hook: 5mm (H) crochet hook.
- Stuffing: Polyester fiberfill.
- Safety Eyes: 10mm safety eyes (three pairs).
- Yarn Needle: For sewing pieces together.
- Scissors: For cutting yarn.
Gauge: 4 inches = 12 stitches in single crochet (sc) using 5mm hook. To check gauge, crochet a small swatch measuring 4 inches x 4 inches in sc. Adjust your hook size as necessary to achieve the correct gauge.
Abbreviations:
- ch: chain
- sc: single crochet
- inc: increase (2 sc in the same stitch)
- dec: decrease (2 sc together)
- sl st: slip stitch
- FO: finish off
Instructions:
The body is worked in rounds, starting from the bottom to the top.
Body:
- With gray yarn, create a magic ring.
- Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring (6).
- Round 2: Inc in each stitch around (12).
- Round 3: *1 sc, inc* repeat around (18).
- Rounds 4-10: sc in each stitch around (18 stitches for 7 rounds).
- Round 11: *1 sc, dec* repeat around (12).
- Round 12: *dec* around (6).
- Stuff the body firmly with polyester fiberfill.
- FO and leave a long tail for sewing.
Head:
- With gray yarn, create a magic ring.
- Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring (6).
- Round 2: Inc in each stitch around (12).
- Round 3: *1 sc, inc* repeat around (18).
- Rounds 4-8: sc in each stitch around (18 stitches for 5 rounds).
- Round 9: *1 sc, dec* repeat around (12).
- Round 10: *dec* around (6).
- Stuff the head firmly with polyester fiberfill.
- FO and leave a long tail for sewing.
To make the ears, use pink yarn:
- With pink yarn, ch 5.
- Row 1: sc in 2nd ch from hook, inc, sc in remaining stitches (7).
- Row 2: Turn, ch 1, dec, sc in last (5).
- Row 3: Turn, ch 1, dec (3). FO, leave a tail.
- Make 2 ears.
Assembly:
- Sew the head to the body using the yarn tail from the head.
- Sew the ears onto the top of the head.
- Attach safety eyes between rounds 4 and 5 of the head.
- Use black yarn or embroidery thread to create a nose and whiskers.
Finishing:
Weave in all yarn ends using a yarn needle. You may want to lightly block your kittens to shape them. For extra variation, feel free to change the colors or add stripes!
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