Difficulty Level: Easy

With this description, you can crochet a small bear cub with pink cheeks using the amigurumi technique. You will need YarnArt Jeans yarn (or any similar yarn). The body and head are crocheted as one piece. The ears, arms, and legs are sewn on. The face is decorated with a crocheted muzzle, an embroidered nose, plastic eyes, and blush on the cheeks.

Materials and Tools

• YarnArt Jeans yarn: bear color, muzzle color, scarf color
• 2 mm crochet hook
• 6 mm safety eyes
• Stuffing for toys
• Stitch markers
• Pins
• Dry pastel or blush
• Needle for sewing parts together
• Scissors

Abbreviations

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

Instructions for crocheting the amigurumi bear cub from cotton yarn

Head
The eyes are placed between rows 13 and 14 (with 8 stitches between them).

1. 8 sc in MR (8)
2. 8 inc (16)
3. (1 sc, 1 inc) x 8 (24)
4. (2 sc, 1 inc) x 8 (32)
5. 1 sc, 1 inc, (3 sc, 1 inc) x 7, 2 sc (40)
6. (4 sc, 1 inc) x 8 (48)
   7-18. 48 sc (12 rounds) (48)
7. (6 sc, 1 dec) x 6 (42)
8. (5 sc, 1 dec) x 6 (36)
9. (4 sc, 1 dec) x 6 (30)
10. (3 sc, 1 dec) x 6 (24)
11. In back loops only: (2 sc, 1 dec) x 6 (18)
12. (1 sc, 1 dec) x 6 (12)
13. 6 dec (6)

Fasten off the yarn and cut it.

Nose

1. 3 ch, 1 inc, 4 inc in the last stitch, 1 inc (8)
2. 1 inc, 2 sc, 2 inc, 2 sc, 1 inc (12)

Fasten off the yarn, leaving a tail for sewing.

Arms (make 2)

1. 6 sc in MR (6)
2. (1 sc, 1 inc) x 3 (9)
   3-10. 9 sc (8 rounds) (9)

Fasten off the yarn, leaving a tail for sewing.

Legs (make 2)

1. 8 sc in MR (8)
2. 8 inc (16)
   3-4. 16 sc (2 rounds) (16)
3. 5 sc, 3 dec, 5 sc (13)
4. 5 sc, 1 dec, 6 sc (12)
   7-11. 12 sc (5 rounds) (12)
5. 6 dec (6)

Fasten off the yarn, leaving a tail for sewing.

Ears (make 2)

1. 6 sc in MR (6)
2. Turn the work, ch 1, 6 sc (6)

Fasten off the yarn, leaving a tail for sewing.

Scarf
51 ch, 1 sc, 48 hdc, 1 sc (50)

Fasten off the yarn.

Body
Attach to the 23rd row of the head, using the back loops.

1. 24 sc (24)
2. (3 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (30)
3. 30 sc (30)
4. (4 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (36)
   5-7. 36 sc (3 rounds) (36)
5. (6 sc, 1 dec) x 4, 4 sc (32)
   9-11. 32 sc (3 rounds) (32)
6. (2 sc, 1 dec) x 8 (24)
7. (1 sc, 1 dec) x 8 (16)
8. 8 dec (8)

Fasten off the yarn and cut it.

Assembly

Sew all parts together. Embroider the face as shown in the main photo or according to your preference.

Your crocheted bear cub is finished! Please tag the author on social media – @beary_bearnita_.

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