Difficulty Level: Medium

This free crochet pattern for a Little Cat by @tokki.crochet. You can crochet this small cat using any cotton or cotton-blend yarn and a suitable hook. The toy can be used as a keychain for a backpack or bag.

Materials and Tools:

• Yarn: white, mint, gray
• Embroidery thread for the face
• Crochet hook
• 5 mm safety eyes
• Toy stuffing
• Dry pastel or blush
• Needle for sewing parts together
• Scissors

Abbreviations:

• MR — magic ring
• ch — chain
• sl st — slip stitch
• sc — single crochet
• hdc — half double crochet
• inc — increase
• dec — decrease
• (…) x n — repeat instructions n times

Crochet Instructions for Little Cat:

Ears (Make 2)

Use white and gray yarn for each ear.

1. 4 sc in MR (4)
2. 4 inc (8)
3. (3 sc, inc) x 2 (10)
4. (4 sc, inc) x 2 (12)
5. (5 sc, inc) x 2 (14)

Fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing to the head. When attaching the ears to the head, they should be slightly indented inward (sew along a curve, not a straight line).

Face (Make 2)

Use white yarn.

1. 4 sc in MR, sl st (4)

Fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing to the head.

Head

Work with white and gray yarn. Gray yarn in bold.

1. 4 sc in MR, 4 sc (8)
2. 4 inc, 4 inc (16)
3. (inc, sc) x 4, (inc, sc) x 4 (24)
4. (inc, 3 sc) x 3, (inc, 3 sc) x 3 (30)
5. (2 sc, inc, 2 sc) x 3, (2 sc, inc, 2 sc) x 3 (36)
6. 18 sc, 13 sc, 5 sc (36)
7. (inc, 5 sc) x 3, (inc, 5 sc) x 3 (42)
8. 21 sc, 21 sc (42)
9. sc, 19 sc, 22 sc (42)
10. 2 sc, 17 sc, 23 sc (42)
    11-12. 3 sc, 15 sc, 24 sc (42)
11. 4 sc, 7 sc, 6 inc, 8 sc, 6 inc, 11 sc (54)
12. 5 sc, 16 sc, 33 sc (54)
    15-16. 6 sc, 14 sc, 34 sc (54)
13. 11 sc, 6 dec, 8 sc, 6 dec, 11 sc (42)
14. (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
15. (4 sc, dec) x 6 (30)

Head Assembly

Insert the safety eyes between rounds 12-13, spaced 6 sc apart.
Sew the face between rounds 13-15.
Embroider the nose between rounds 12-13 using pink embroidery thread.
Embroider whiskers and eyebrows with black embroidery thread.
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing to the body.

Front Paws (Make 2)

Start with white, then switch to gray.

1. 6 sc in MR (6)
   Switch to gray.
2. (2 sc, inc) x 2 (8)
3. 8 sc (8)
4. (3 sc, inc) x 2 (10)

Fold the paw in half and join both sides with 5 sc. Fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing to the body.

Tail

Start with gray yarn, then alternate with white.

1. 5 sc in MR (5)
   2-10. 5 sc (5)
   Switch to white.
   11-15. 5 sc (5)
   Switch to gray.
   16-18. 5 sc (5)
   Switch to white.
   19-22. 5 sc (5)
   Switch to gray.
2. 5 sc (5)

Insert aluminum wire into the tail. Fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing to the body.

Back Paws (Make 2)

Start with white yarn for the right paw.

1. 6 sc in MR (6)
2. (sc, inc) x 3 (9)
   Switch to gray.
3. 9 sc (9)

Fasten off.

Body

Continue from the left back paw. Bold text indicates white yarn.

From the left paw, crochet 6 ch and join with the right paw.

4. 9 sc (right paw), 6 sc (on ch), 9 sc (left paw), 6 sc (on ch) (30)
5. 4 sc, inc, 4 sc, inc, 4 sc, inc, (4 sc, inc) x 3 (36)
6. sc, inc, 7 sc, 10 sc, 7 sc, (inc, sc) x 5 (42)
   7-8. 10 sc, 11 sc, 21 sc (42)
7. 3 sc, inc, 6 sc, inc, 6 sc, inc, 3 sc, (3 sc, inc, 3 sc) x 3 (48)
   10-12. 11 sc, 13 sc, 24 sc (48)
8. 3 sc, dec, 6 sc, dec, 6 sc, dec, 3 sc, (3 sc, dec, 3 sc) x 3 (42)
9. 11 sc, 9 sc, 22 sc (42)
10. (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
11. 36 sc (36)
    Switch to mint.
12. (4 sc, dec) x 6 (30)
13. sc in back loop only, 30 sc (30)
    Switch to gray.
14. 30 sc (30)

Fasten off. Using mint yarn, crochet a collar in round 18 in the back loops: 1 ch, (3 hdc) x 30. Fasten off.

Assembly

Sew all the parts together to complete your little cat.

Author: @tokki.crochet / translated by onrecip
Enjoy!