Car Keychain

A free crochet tutorial for a car by Oksana Podobed @oksana.podobed.

With this pattern, you can crochet a car. For this amigurumi project, any acrylic yarn, cotton yarn, or cotton blend yarn and a matching crochet hook will work. For the wheels, you can use small buttons. The windows, headlights, and front grille are embroidered; you can use the same yarn or embroidery floss.

Materials and tools

• Yarn: main car color (I used red), window color (I used black)
• Embroidery thread: white (for front headlights), black (for the front grille), orange (for rear headlights)
• Crochet hook
• Toy stuffing
• 4 buttons
• A small piece of cardboard
• Needle for sewing parts
• Scissors

Abbreviations

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

Crochet amigurumi car pattern

Body

Start with the main color yarn. Make 6 ch. Starting in the second chain from the hook, work in turning rows:

1-5: 5 sc, 1 ch, turn
6: 5 sc
Work around the rectangle you made
7: 6 sc along the first side of the rectangle (arrow 1); 5 sc along the second side of the rectangle (arrow 2); 6 sc along the third side of the rectangle (arrow 3); 5 sc along the fourth side of the rectangle (arrow 4); (22)
On the last stitch of Round 7, change yarn color to the window color.
Continue crocheting in the round.
8: 1 inc, 5 sc, 1 inc, 4 sc, 1 inc, 5 sc, 1 inc, 4 sc (26)
9: 26 sc (26)
10: 1 inc, 7 sc, 1 inc, 4 sc, 1 inc, 7 sc, 1 inc, 4 sc (30)

(*If you want your car to be a little taller, add one more round of 30 sc.) Add 1 or 2 offset stitches so you reach the corner of the cab. On the last offset stitch, change yarn color back to the main color.

11: (3 sc in 1), 7 sc, (3 sc in 1), 6 sc, (3 sc in 1), 7 sc, (3 sc in 1), 6 sc (38)
Work 1 sc into the next stitch, make 1 ch, and turn
Then work in turning rows:
12-14: 8 sc, 1 ch, turn
Work around the car:
15: 8 sc along the front of the hood (arrow 1), 3 sc along the side of the hood (arrow 2), 30 sc around the body outline (arrow 3), 3 sc along the side of the hood (arrow 4) (44)
Continue crocheting in the round:
16-18: 44 sc (44)

Add 1 sl st, fasten off, cut the yarn, and hide the yarn tail inside the body. The body is done.

Bottom

Using the main color yarn. Make 7 ch. Starting in the second chain from the hook, work in turning rows:

1-14: 6 sc, ch, turn
Work around the rectangle you made:
15: 6 sc along the first side of the rectangle (arrow 1), 1 inc, 12 sc, 1 inc along the second side of the rectangle (arrow 2), 6 sc along the third side of the rectangle (arrow 3), 1 inc, 12 sc, 1 inc along the fourth side of the rectangle (arrow 4) (44)

Add 1 sl st, fasten off, and cut the yarn. The bottom is done.

Assembly and finishing

• You can glue a small piece of cardboard to the inside of the bottom so it does not bend.
• Stuff the car body.
• Join the body and the bottom with slip stitches.
• (*Or you can sew the bottom to the body with main-color yarn, stitching each of the 44 body loops to each of the 44 bottom loops.)
• Embroider the windows and doors with the main-color yarn.
• Embroider the front headlights with white thread.
• Embroider the front grille with black thread.
• Embroider the rear headlights with orange thread.
• Sew on the buttons as wheels.
• Your little car is ready.