Baby Acorn

Free Baby Acorn crochet tutorial by Liliya Bashirova @lilya.navyazala.

With this pattern, you can crochet a baby acorn with a scarf. Any cotton blend yarn works for this amigurumi: Alize Cotton Gold, YarnArt Jeans, Vita Cotton Coco, and others.

Materials and tools

• Alize Cotton Gold yarn: beige, brown (for the acorn)
• Alize Cotton Gold yarn: green, mustard (for the leaves)
• Alize Cotton Gold yarn: any color for the scarf
• Thread for embroidering eyebrows
• 1.75-2 mm crochet hook
• 10 mm safety eyes
• Toy stuffing
• Needle for sewing parts
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR — magic ring
• ch — chain stitch
• sl st — slip stitch
• sc — single crochet
• dc — double crochet
• tr — treble crochet
• hdc — half double crochet
• puff st — puff stitch
• inc — increase
• dec — decrease
• BLO — back loop only
• FLO — front loop only
• (...) x n — repeat n times

Baby acorn amigurumi crochet pattern

Legs (2 pieces)

Start with brown yarn. Finish each round on the legs with sl st and a turning ch.

1. 6 sc in MR
2. 6 inc (12)
3. 12 sc (42)
4. 5 sc, 2 inc, 5 sc (14)
5. 14 sc (14)
6. 6 sc, 2 inc, 6 sc (16)
7. 16 sc
8. 8 sc, inc, 7 sc (17)

Cut and fasten off the yarn on the first leg. On the second leg, crochet 4 ch and join the first leg symmetrically. Place a marker at the beginning of the round. Continue crocheting in a spiral.

Body

9. 17 sc on the first leg, 4 sc along the chain, 17 sc on the second leg, 4 sc along the chain (42)
10. 17 sc, inc, 2 sc, inc, 17 sc, inc, 2 sc, inc (46)
11. 17 sc, inc, 4 sc, inc, 17 sc, inc, 4 sc, inc (50)
12. 8 sc, inc, 8 sc, inc, 6 sc, inc, 8 sc, inc, 8 sc, inc, 6 sc, inc (56)

Crochet 1 offset stitch and move the marker.

13. 18 sc, inc, 8 sc, inc, 18 sc, inc, 8 sc, inc (60)
14-17. 60 sc (4 rounds)
18. (9 sc, inc) x 6 (66)
19-22. 66 sc (4 rounds)
23. (9 sc, dec) x 6 (60)
24. 4 sc, dec, (8 sc, dec) x 5, 4 sc (54)
25. 54 sc
26. (7 sc, dec) x 6 (48)
27. 3 sc, dec, (6 sc, dec) x 5, 3 sc (42)
28. 42 sc
29. (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
30. 34 sc, dec (35)

Head

Start crocheting the head. Stuff the piece firmly, especially the belly area.

31. (4 sc, inc) x 7 in FLO (42)
32. (5 sc, inc) x 7 (49)
33. 3 sc, inc, (6 sc, inc) x 6, 3 sc (56)
34. (7 sc, inc) x 7 (63)
35. 4 sc, inc, (8 sc, inc) x 6, 4 sc (70)
36-47. 70 sc (12 rounds)
48. 69 sc, sl st (70)
Now crochet one more round with beige yarn. It will be used later for the cap. Work this round in BLO of round 48. This is round 48.1.
48.1. (9 sc, inc) x 7 (77)

Cut and fasten off the beige yarn. Start crocheting the acorn cap. Join brown yarn to the last stitch of round 48 and work into the remaining front loops of that round.

49. (9 sc, inc) x 7 (77)
50-51. 77 sc

At this stage, insert the eyes if you are using safety eyes. Place them between rounds 41 and 42, with 13 stitches between them.

52. (10 sc, inc) x 7, crocheting through stitches of rounds 51 and 48.1 together. This forms the cap brim (84)
53. (11 sc, inc) x 7 (91)
54-56. 91 sc (3 rounds)
57. (11 sc, dec) x 7 (84)
58. 5 sc, dec, (10 sc, dec) x 6, 5 sc (77)
59. (5 sc, dec) x 11 (66)
60. 2 sc, dec, (4 sc, dec) x 9, 8 sc (56)
61. 3 sc, dec, (6 sc, dec) x 6, 3 sc (49)
62. (5 sc, dec) x 7 (42)
63. 42 sc
64. (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
65. 2 sc, dec, (4 sc, dec) x 5, 2 sc (30)
66. 30 sc

At this stage, stuff the head firmly and shape the face. Bring the thread through the top of the head, embroider, and bring it back out through the top. Tie the thread ends in two knots. With beige thread, embroider a small nose (about 5-6 stitches is enough). With white thread, embroider the whites of the eyes.

Using thin dark brown thread, embroider the eyebrows and the nose outline. Hide all thread ends inside the head.

Head and stem

Continue crocheting the head and the stem (twig).

67. (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
68. 1 sc, dec, (2 sc, dec) x 5, 1 sc (18)
69. (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
70. (2 sc, dec) x 3 (9)
71-73. 9 sc

In round 72, crochet in the leaves by working stitches of the round and stitches of the leaf together. Or you can simply sew them on later.

74. 4 sc, inc, 4 sc (10)
75. 5 sc, inc, 4 sc (11)
76. 5 sc, inc, 5 sc (12)
77. 12 sc
Add stuffing and stuff the twig firmly.
78. 5 dec (8)

Cut the yarn, leave a short tail, close the opening, and bring the yarn through the center, pulling slightly to make the cut of the twig flat.

Leaves (2 pieces)

With green yarn, chain 19, then follow the chart. The arrows show the crochet direction.

Arms (2 pieces)

With beige yarn. Add stuffing only to the palm and stuff lightly.

1. 6 sc in MR
2. 6 inc (12)
3. (5 sc, inc) x 2 (14)
4. 14 sc
5. 1 sc, puff st, 12 sc (14)
6. 14 sc
7. (dec, 5 sc) x 2 (12)
8-14. 12 sc (7 rounds)
15. 6 dec (6)

Cut the yarn, close the opening, and hide the tail inside.

Toy assembly

• Leaves. Mark placement with pins. Sew them on. Hide the ends inside.
• Arms. Mark symmetrical spots for the arms. Sew them on using thread jointing.

Scarf

Crochet the scarf in any chosen color in turning rows to the desired length; mine has 50 rows.

1. 7 ch
2. From the 4th chain, 4 dc (5)
3-50. 2 ch, 4 dc (5)

Cut and fasten off the yarn.