Crochet Bear – free amigurumi pattern

Would you like to crochet this basic little bear in a sweater? He is fairly easy to make, his body and head are all one piece. The Free Crochet Bear Pattern is very detailed and perfect for beginners and new crocheters.

Materials

• Yarn in brown, red, green and black colors calling for a 3,5 mm hook.
• Size 2.5 mm crochet hook
• Poly-Fil Fiberfill stuffing
• 10 mm black safety eyes
• Yarn needle, stitch marker, pins and scissors

What did I use?

Schachenmayr Catania, 100% Cotton, 1.76 ounces = 137 yards/50 grams = 125 meters. Colors: 00438 (brown for body), 00115 (red for sweater), 00189 (green for scarf and sweater), 00110 (black for embroidery)

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Gauge and Measurements

Work 10 sts and 10 rows in sc measure 3,5 x 3,5 cm (1,37 x 1,37 inches).

Made from listed yarn on a 2.50 mm crochet hook, the finished toy measures 5.51 inches (14 cm) tall.

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Abbreviations (US terms)

Here are the crochet abbreviations used in this Free Crochet Bear Pattern. Note that instructions are written in US terms.

BLO – through back loop only

Ch – chain stitch

Hdc – half double crochet stitch

Inc – single crochet increase (Sc in indicated stitch 2 times)

InvDec – invisible decrease (single crochet two stitches together front loop only)

Rnd – round

Sc – single crochet stitch (i.e. 3 Sc means to crochet Sc in next 3 sts)

St(s) – stitch(es)

Slst – slip stitch

[…] x n – repeat instructions in brackets n times

(…) – total number of stitches made in current rnd

The resource you may find helpful in following this pattern: Crochet Abbreviations.

PDF Pattern

The PDF crochet pattern is a great solution for those who want to print the instructions and work offline, or just want to support my work. You can find the PDF pattern in my shop.

Arms

Use brown yarn. Crochet in a continuous spiral with a stitch marker

R1: start 6 Sc in a magic ring (6)

R2: 1 Inc in all st (12)

R3: [3 Sc, 1 Inc] x 3 (15)

R4-5: 1 Sc in all st (15)

R6: 5 InvDec, 5 Sc (10)

R7: 6 Sc, change color to red in the last step of the last sc (photo 1 and 2), continue with red yarn: 4 Sc (10). Fasten off brown yarn.

R8-15 (8 rows): 1 Sc in all st (10)

Remove marker and stuff bottom part of the arm. Turn the detail so that the invisible decreases made in round 6 are facing you. Press both sides of the arm’s open end together as shown on photo 3. Before your start Round 16 crochet 2 Sc more to the outer side stitch.

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R16. Ch1, insert the hook through the corresponding stitches on both sides of the arm’s open end to crochet them together with 5 Sc (photo 4). Break the yarn and weave in ends. 

Crochet the second arm in the same way (photo 5 and 6).

Legs

Use brown yarn. Crochet in a continuous spiral with a stitch marker.

R1: start 6 Sc in a magic ring (6)

R2: 1 Inc in all st (12)

R3: [1 Sc, 1 Inc] x 6 (18)

R4: 1 Sc, 1 InvDec, 7 Sc, 1 Inc, 6 Sc, remove marker, 1 InvDec (17)

R5: 1 InvDec (place marker), 7 Sc, 2 Inc, 6 Sc (18)

R6: 1 Sc in all st (18)

R7: 1 InvDec, 8 Sc, 1 Inc, 7 Sc (18)

R8: 1 Sc in all st (18)

Enlarge the loop and break the yarn. Crochet the 2nd leg, but do not break the yarn this time.

Body

Stuff while you go. Go ahead on the 2nd leg to connect both legs into a body.

R1: 1 Sc, Ch 4 (= Ch4-chain), take the 1st leg (photo 1), place enlarged loop back on your hook and tighten (photo 2), 

insert the hook into the next st on the 1st leg (photo 3), yarn over, pull up a loop (3 loops on the hook), yarn over and pull the yarn through all loops on the hook (photo 4), 

then 17 Sc over the remaining sts on the 1st leg, 4 Sc along the ch4-chain, 18 Sc around the 2nd leg, 4 Sc into the loops on the other side of the ch4-chain (44, photo 5 and 6). Next stitch will be a new beginning of the following rounds.

R2: 1 Sc (this st is hard to crochet therefore use a smaller hook for convenience, place marker), 17 Sc; in the middle: 1 Inc, 2 Sc, 1 Inc; on the other leg: 12 Sc, 1 Inc, 5 Sc; in the middle: 1 Inc, 2 Sc, 1 Inc (49)

R3: 5 Sc, 1 Inc, 43 Sc (50)

R4: 1 Sc in 49 st, 1 Slst, remove marker and fasten off invisibly (50)

To do so, cut yarn, pull the end of yarn through the last stitch completely and thread it onto needle. Skip one stitch then insert needle into the next stitch in the same way as you would your crochet hook (photo 7). Insert needle back into the same stitch that the yarn end is coming from but into the back loop only (photo 8). 

Tighten it just enough so that the join looks like a regular stitch (photo 9 and 10). Weave tail into wrong side before trimming. 

R5: Find centre stich at the back side of the toy (where we have just finished the round invisibly), insert the hook in this stitch, red yarn over (photo 11), Ch 1 and 1 Sc in this stitch (photo 12), 3 Sc, 1 Inc, 16 Sc, 1 Inc, 6 Sc, 1 Inc, 16 Sc, 1 Inc, 3 Sc, 1 Hdc (54)

R6: 1 Sc in all st (54), remove marker, change color to green in the last step of the next sc

Next round will be crocheted as closed round which means you will start round with one initial chain stitch to get the right height for the following stitches and close round with a slip stitch into the first stitch of the round.

R7: Ch 1, 1 Sc in all st (54), 1 Slst into the 1st sc of the round with red yarn (photo 13 and 14). Fasten off green yarn.

Next round will be started with one initial chain stitch, but will not be closed with a slip stich, we just continue to crochet in rounds as usual, with red yarn.

R8: Ch 1, 1 Sc in the same st (where we have just crocheted the last slst), 1 Sc in 53 sts (54, photo 15)

Continue crocheting in rounds with a stitch marker (in a continuous spiral).

R9: [7 Sc, 1 InvDec] x 6 (48)

R10-11: 1 Sc in all st (48)

R12: 3 Sc, 1 InvDec, [6 Sc, 1 InvDec] x 5, 3 Sc (42)

R13: 1 Sc in all st (42)

R14: [5 Sc, 1 InvDec] x 6 (36)

R15: 1 Sc in all st (36)

R16: 2 Sc, 1 InvDec, [4 Sc, 1 InvDec] x 5, 2 Sc (30)

R17-18: 1 Sc in all st (30), stuff

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Arms connection

For the following round, take care to attach arms symmetrically.

R19: Remove marker, find centre stich at the back side of the toy, crochet sc forward to this stitch and 1 Sc in this centre stitch too, place marker (this is the beginning of the round, photo 16), 5 Sc, join the 1st arm: 5 Sc (work hooking through both sts of the body and the arm, photo 17); front: 10 Sc; join the 2nd arm: 5 Sc; 4 Sc (30, photo 18 and 19).

R20: [1 InvDec, 1 Sc] x 10 (20), change color to brown in the last step of the last sc

R21: 1 Sc in all st BLO (20), continue crocheting the head without cutting the yarn.

Head

R1: [1 Inc, 1 Sc] x 10 (30)

R2: [1 Sc, 1 Inc] x 15 (45)

R3: 1 Sc in every st (45)

R4: [4 Sc, 1 Inc) x 9 (54)

R5: [8 Sc, 1 Inc] x 6 (60)

R6-R17: 1 Sc in all st (12 rnds)

Mark eyes with pins between round 11 and 12 with a distance of 11 stitches between pins (photo 1). Insert safety eyes. Make sure you are happy with the placement before proceeding because once the washer is fixed to the rod of the eye, it cannot be removed.

R18: 4 Sc, 1 InvDec, [8 Sc, 1 InvDec] x 5, 4 Sc (54)

R19: [1 InvDec, 7 Sc] x 6 (48)

R20: 3 Sc, 1 InvDec, [6 Sc, 1 InvDec] x 5, 3 Sc (42), start stuffing

R21: [1 InvDec, 5 Sc) x 6 (36)

R22: 2 Sc, 1 InvDec, [4 Sc, 1 InvDec] x 5, 2 Sc (30)

R23: [1 InvDec, 3 Sc] x 6 (24)

R24: 1 Sc, 1 InvDec, [2 Sc, 1 InvDec] x 5, 1 Sc (18)

R25: [1 InvDec, 1 Sc] x 6 (12), stuff firmly

R26: 2 InvDec, remove marker and close remaining stitches through the front loops as shown in the video.  

Cut and pull the yarn through the last stitch completely, thread it onto yarn needle. Guide the yarn into front loops only of each remaining stitch from outside to inside (photo 3 and 4). 

Fasten off the hole and hide the end of yarn inside the head (photo 5 and 6).

Muzzle

Use brown yarn. Crochet in a continuous spiral.

R1: start 6 Sc in a magic ring (6)

R2: 1 Inc in all st (12)

R3: [1 Sc, 1 Inc] x 6 (18)

R4: 1 Sc, 1 Inc, [2 Sc, 1 Inc] x 5, 1 Sc (24)

R5: 1 Sc in all st (20, photo 1), 1 Slst, cut the yarn, leaving a long end for sewing.

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Ears

Use brown yarn. Crochet in a continuous spiral.

R1: start 8 Sc in a magic ring (8)

R2: 1 Inc in all st (16)

R3: [7 Sc, 1 Inc] x 2 (18)

R4: [8 Sc, 1 Inc] x 2 (20)

R5: 1 Sc in every st (20), cut the yarn, leaving a long end for sewing. Crochet the second ear in the same way (photo 2).

Assembly

Embroider nose using black yarn as shown on photo 1, 2 and 3. Place the muzzle on front of the head and fasten it with pins (photo 4), 

sew with the end of yarn that we left before as shown on photo 5 and 6. 

Stuff before finishing (photo 7). Fasten and cut the yarn, hiding the ends inside the head.

Place the ears symmetrically on the top of the head between round 13 and 22, and fasten them with pins as shown on photo 9, 10 and 11. 

Sew the ears with the ends of brown yarn that we left before (photo 12 and 13). Break the yarn, fasten off and hide the yarn tail inside the head. 

Embroider eyebrows between round 14 and 15 using black yarn as shown on photo 14.

Scarf

Use green yarn. Make a foundation chain of Ch 4. Work in turns.

R1: Start in 2nd chain from the hook: 3 Sc, Ch 1, turn

R2-R33: 3 Sc BLO, Ch 1, turn

R34: 3 Sc BLO, break the yarn, leave a long end for sewing, thread it into a needle and sew on the bear.

Congratulations! Your little bear is ready! I hope you have fun. I’d love to see your toys, be sure to tag me @gorbunova.dolls on Instagram. If you are on Facebook join my group Crochet patterns by GorbunovaDolls and share a photo! If you enjoyed this Free Crochet Bear Pattern, subscribe for more!

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