Cherry Brothers

Author: Ksenia Krupskaya
Difficulty Level: medium

Amigurumi Cherry Brothers crochet

Free Cherry Brothers crochet tutorial by Ksenia Krupskaya @kru.toys.

With this pattern, you can crochet a pair of cherries. Any acrylic, cotton, or cotton blend yarn and a suitable crochet hook will work for this amigurumi project. You will need 0.45 mm floral wire to make the arms.

Materials and Tools

  • Yarn: red, green, white, pink
  • Crochet hook
  • Safety eyes
  • Toy stuffing
  • 0.45 mm wire
  • Needle for sewing pieces
  • Scissors

Abbreviations

  • MR - magic ring
  • ch - chain stitch
  • sl st - slip stitch
  • sc - single crochet
  • dc - double crochet
  • tr - treble crochet
  • popcorn - popcorn stitch (4 half double crochets with a shared top)
  • inc - increase
  • dec - decrease
  • BLO - back loop only
  • (...) x n - repeat n times

Amigurumi Cherry Brothers Crochet Pattern

Eyes (make 4)

1. 8 sc in MR
2. 8 inc (16)

Leave a long tail for sewing.

Cheeks (make 4)

1. 6 sc in MR

Leave a long tail for sewing.

Arms (make 4)

1. 6 sc in MR
2. (sc, inc) x 3 (9)
3. (2 sc, inc) x 3 (12)
4. 12 sc
5. popcorn, 11 sc (12)
6. (sc, dec) x 4 (8)
7. (2 sc, dec) x 2 (6)

Leave a long tail for wrapping the wire.

Small Stem

1. 6 sc in MR
2. (sc, inc) x 3 (9)
3. BLO - 9 sc
4-8. 9 sc (3 rounds)
9. 2 sc, 3 sl st, 4 sc (9)
10-12. 9 sc
13. (sc, dec) x 3 (6)
14-16. 6 sc (3 rounds)

Connecting Stem

6 ch, sl st into the 1st stitch of the small stem:

1-32. 6 sc (32 rounds to the second small stem)

Leaf (make 2)

15 ch, starting in the 2nd ch from the hook: 14 sl st, turn, sc, 3 dc, 5 tr, 3 dc, sc, sl st + ch + sl st in the last stitch, turn, sc, 3 dc, 5 tr, 3 dc, sc, sl st

Body (make 2)

1. 8 sc in MR
2. 8 inc (16)
3. (1 sc, inc) x 8 (24)
4. (2 sc, inc) x 8 (32)
5. (3 sc, inc) x 8 (40)
6-7. 40 sc
8. (4 sc, inc) x 8 (48)
9. (5 sc, inc) x 8 (56)
10-13. 56 sc (4 rounds)
14. (13 sc, inc) x 4 (60)
15-16. 60 sc (2 rounds)
17. (9 sc, inc) x 6 (66)
18-20. 66 sc (3 rounds)
21. (10 sc, inc) x 6 (72)
22-23. 72 sc (2 rounds)

Insert the eyes between rounds 17 and 18 and insert the arms. Secure the wire from the inside.

24. (7 sc, dec) x 8 (64)
25. (6 sc, dec) x 8 (56)
26. (5 sc, dec) x 8 (48)
27. (4 sc, dec) x 8 (40)
28. (3 sc, dec) x 8 (32)
29. (2 sc, dec) x 8 (24)
30. (1 sc, dec) x 8 (16)
31. 8 dec

Close the opening through the front loops.

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