Bee

Free Bee crochet tutorial by Yuliya Rossamakhina @uliyaross.

With this pattern, you can crochet a bee. For this amigurumi project, you can use any cotton or cotton blend yarn: YarnArt Jeans, Alize Cotton Gold, and others.

Finished toy size is 14 cm (excluding antennae).

Materials and Tools

• YarnArt Jeans yarn (or equivalent)
• Suitable crochet hook
• Strong thread for thread-jointing the legs
• Buttons for leg attachment, 8-10 mm
• Safety eyes
• Toy stuffing
• Needle
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR - magic ring
• ch - chain stitch
• sl st - slip stitch
• sc - single crochet
• dc - double crochet
• inc - increase
• dec - decrease
• (...) x n - repeat n times

Amigurumi Bee Crochet Pattern

Head-Body

Stuff as you crochet. Yellow yarn:

1: 6 MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
6: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
7: (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
8: 42 sc
9: (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
10: 48 sc
11: (7 sc, inc) x 6 (54)
12-16: 5 rounds of 54 sc
17: (8 sc, inc) x 6 (60)
18-22: 5 rounds of 60 sc
23: (4 sc, dec) x 10 (50)
24: (3 sc, dec) x 10 (40)
25: (2 sc, dec) x 10 (30)
26: (1 sc, dec) x 10 (20)
27: (2 sc, dec) x 5 (15)

Body

Move on to the body.

28: (inc) x 15 (30)
29-31: 3 rounds of 30 sc
32: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36), change to brown at the end of the round
33: with brown yarn, 36 sc, change to yellow at the end of the round
34: 36 sc
35: (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42), change to brown at the end of the round
36: with brown yarn, 42 sc, change to yellow at the end of the round

Cut and fasten off the brown yarn. Continue crocheting all rounds in yellow:

37: 42 sc
38: (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
39-41: 3 rounds of 48 sc
42: (6 sc, dec) x 6 (42)
43: (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
44: (4 sc, dec) x 6 (30)
45: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
46: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)
47: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
48: (dec) x 6 (6)

Cut yarn and close the opening.

Arms (2 pieces)

Do not stuff.

1: 6 MR
2: (1 sc, inc) x 3 (9)
3-12: 10 rounds of 9 sc

Fold in half, crochet through both layers, cut yarn, leaving a long tail for sewing.

Legs (2 pieces)

Stuff the lower part of each leg.

1: 6 MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4-5: 2 rounds of 18 sc
6: 5 sc, (dec) x 4, 5 sc (14)
7: 3 sc, (dec) x 4, 3 sc (10)
8-11: 4 rounds of 10 sc
12: 9 sc through both loops, cut and fasten yarn

Cheeks (2 pieces)

Make an MR. Into the MR crochet 2 ch and 12 dc. Pull the MR tight, fasten yarn, make a sl st into the first dc, cut yarn, secure, and weave in.

Wings (2 pieces)

Crochet in any color (wings and antennae should be the same color).

1: 6 MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
5: 24 sc
6: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)
7: 18 sc
8: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
9: 12 sc
10: (1 sc, dec) x 4 (8)
11: 8 sc

Fold in half, crochet through both layers, cut yarn, leaving a long tail for sewing.

Antennae (2 pieces)

1: 6 MR
2: (1 sc, inc) x 3 (9)
3: 9 sc
4: (1 sc, dec) x 3 (6)
Lightly stuff the tip of the antenna
5-9: 5 rounds of 6 sc

Fold in half, crochet through both layers, cut yarn, leaving a long tail for sewing.

Finishing and Assembly

• Embroider the nose with thin black thread in round 17 in one of the increase stitches.
• Bring the thread out between rounds 20-21 and embroider a smile.
• Insert the eyes between rounds 16-17, spacing them 11-12 sc apart.
• Embroider eyelashes with thin thread.
• Sew the antennae between rounds 8-9, spacing them 8-10 sc apart.
• Sew on the cheeks with thin thread.
• Sew the wings between rounds 30-31, spacing them 1-2 sc apart.
• Sew the arms to the body between rounds 29-30, spacing them 8-10 sc apart.
• Attach the legs with thread joints or button joints between rounds 40-41, spacing them 24-26 sc apart.