Materials
• Cotton yarn
Yarn Art Jeans 50 g / 160 m (60% cotton, 40% acrylic) the main colors are yellow and brown for the bee for details (wings, antennae, cheeks), take any color to your taste
• Strong yarn for sewing eyes and y foarnr attaching legs
• Buttons for fastening legs 8-10 mm
• Fine yarn for sewing on cheeks
• Thin black yarn for embroidering nose and eyelashes
• Sew-on eyes 6-7 mm
• Hook 2 mm
• Filler for toys
• Needle for stitching parts
• Scissors
• Marker for marking the beginning of a row
• Tailor’s pins
• Fine needle
Size of the finished bee without antennae ~ 14 cm
Abbreviations
MR: Amigurumi Magic ring
sc: Single Crochet
inc: Increase
dec: Decrease
tr: Triple Crochet/ Treble Crochet
st: Stitch
dc: Double Crochet
hdc: Half Double Crochet
slst: Slip Stitch
ch: Chain
..in: make increase into same stitch as many as the number which is given in front of “inc” abbreviation (exp; 3inc, 4inc..).
FLO: Crochet into front loops only
BLO: Crochet into back loops only
Head – Body
R1) 6sc in MR [6]
R2) 6 inc [12]
R3) (sc,inc)*6 [18]
R4) (2sc,inc)*6 [24]
R5) (3sc,inc)*6 [30]
R6) (4sc,inc)*6 [36]
R7) (5sc,inc)*6 [42]
R8) sc in each st [42]
R9) (6sc,inc)*6 [48]
R10) sc in each st [48]
R11) (7sc,inc)*6 [54]
R12-16) 5 turns [54]
R17) (8sc,inc)*6 [60]
R18-22) 5 turns [60]
R23) (4sc,dec)*10 [50]
R24) (3sc,dec)*10 [40]
R25) (2sc,dec)*1O [30]
R26) (sc,dec)*10 [20]
R27) (2sc,dec)*5 [15]
We go with the body
R28)15 inc [30]
R29-31) 3 turns [30]
R32) (4sc,inc)*6 (36), at the end of the row change the color brown.
R33) 36 sc, at the end of the row change to yellow.
R34) sc in each st (36)
R35) (5sc,inc)*6 (42), at the end of the row change the color brown.
R36) 42sc, at the end of the row change to yellow. Cut the brown yarn and hide it in the fabric, then we crochet all the rows in yellow.
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