Sweetheart Couple

Free Sweetheart Couple crochet pattern by Svetlana Bozhko @knitting_house_sveta.

With these instructions, you can crochet a sweetheart couple. Any acrylic, cotton, or cotton blend yarn and a matching crochet hook will work for the amigurumi boy and girl.

Materials and Tools

• YarnArt Jeans yarn: light peach and light pink (body), brown and yellow (hair), red (heart)
• 2 mm crochet hook
• 8 mm safety eyes (2 pairs)
• Fiberfill
• Pins
• Soft pastels or blush
• Sewing needle
• Scissors

Abbreviations

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

Sweetheart Couple Amigurumi Crochet Pattern

Head

The boy's and girl's heads are made the same way. Crochet with the skin-tone yarn. Stuff as you go. The stitch marker runs along the back of the head.

1: 6 sc in 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)
8-12: 42 sc (5 rounds)
13: 15 sc, 3 inc, 6 sc, 3 inc, 15 sc (48)
14: 15 sc, (1 sc, inc) x 3, 6 sc, (1 inc, 1 sc) x 3, 15 sc (54)
15-19: 54 sc (5 rounds)
20: 13 sc, (1 dec, 3 sc) x 5, 1 dec, 14 sc (48)
21: 11 sc, (1 dec, 3 sc) x 5, 1 dec, 10 sc (42)
22: 7 sc, (1 dec, 3 sc) x 5, 1 dec, 8 sc (36)
23: 5 sc, (1 dec, 3 sc) x 5, 1 dec, 4 sc (30)
24: 4 sc, (1 dec, 2 sc) x 5, 1 dec, 4 sc (24)
25: 4 sc, (1 dec, 1 sc) x 5, 1 dec, 3 sc (18)
26: 18 sc (18)

Cut and fasten off the yarn. Weave in the end.

Nose (make 2)

1: 6 sc in MR
2: (1 inc, 1 sc) x 3 (9)
3: 9 sc
4: (1 sc, dec) x 3 (6)

Fasten off and cut the yarn, leaving a tail for sewing. Stuff the nose lightly and flatten it slightly.

Ears (make 4)

Work 6 sc into an MR, but do not join the stitches.

Pull the ring closed. Cut the yarn, leaving a tail for sewing.

Girl's Hair

Crochet with yellow yarn:

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: BLO (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: 18 sc, (ch 6, sl st in the back loop) x 6, 18 sc (42)

Fasten off and cut the yarn, leaving a tail for sewing.

Join the yarn near round 2 and work into the front loops: (ch 30, sl st) x 12. Use the yarn end to tie the hair into a ponytail, then fasten off and weave in the end.

Boy's Hair

Crochet with dark-colored yarn. Follow the same instructions as for the girl's hair, but without the ponytail (work round 3 through both loops).

Girl's Body

Stuff the piece as you go.

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: 12 inc (24)
4: 24 sc
5: (1 inc, 1 sc) x 12 (36)
6: (5 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (42)
7-8: 42 sc (2 rounds)
9: BLO 42 sc
10-11: 42 sc (2 rounds)
12: BLO 42 sc
13-14: 42 sc (2 rounds)
15: (12 sc, dec) x 3 (39)
16: 39 sc
17: (11 sc, dec) x 3 (36)
18: 36 sc
19: (10 sc, 1 dec) x 3 (33)
20: 33 sc
21: (9 sc, dec) x 3 (30)
22: 30 sc
23: (8 sc, 1 dec) x 3 (27)
24: 27 sc
25: (7 sc, 1 dec) x 3 (24)
26: 24 sc
27: (6 sc, 1 dec) x 3 (21)
28: 21 sc
29: (5 sc, 1 dec) x 3 (18)
30: 18 sc

Fasten off and cut the yarn, leaving a tail for sewing the body to the head. Work into the unworked loops of rounds 8 and 11:

8: work 3 tr in each stitch
11: work 3 dc in each stitch

Boy's Body

Follow the same instructions as for the girl's body, but work rounds 9 and 12 through both loops.

Heart

Do not stuff the piece. Begin with the top lobe.

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4-6: 18 sc (3 rounds)

Cut the yarn and weave in the end. Make a second identical piece, but do not cut the yarn. Place the first piece against the second and work 3 sc through the stitches of both pieces.

7: 15 sc around one piece, 15 sc around the other piece (30)
8: 1 dec, 11 sc, 2 dec, 11 sc, 1 dec (26)
9: 1 dec, 9 sc, 2 dec, 9 sc, 1 dec (22)
10: 1 dec, 7 sc, 2 dec, 7 sc, 1 dec (18)
11: 1 dec, 5 sc, 2 dec, 5 sc, 1 dec (14)
12: 1 dec, 3 sc, 2 dec, 3 sc, 1 dec (10)
13: 1 dec, 1 sc, 2 dec, 1 sc, 1 dec (6)

Cut the yarn, pull the remaining stitches closed, and weave in the end.

Assembly and Finishing

• Place pins to mark the facial shaping points: points 1 and 2 between rounds 12 and 13, 2 stitches apart; points 3 and 4 between rounds 18 and 19, 14 stitches apart; and point 5 between rounds 23 and 24.
• Shape the cheeks. Insert the needle at point 1 and bring it out at point 3. Move 1 stitch to the left of point 3, insert the needle, and bring it out at point 1. Pull tight. Insert the needle at point 2 and bring it out at point 4. Move 1 stitch to the right of point 4, insert the needle, and bring it out at point 2. Pull tight. Tie the yarn ends together and hide them inside the head.
• Shape the nose area: insert the needle at point 5 and bring it out at point 1. Insert it at point 2 and bring it out at point 5. Pull tight, tie the yarn ends together, and hide them inside the head.
• Sew the nose between shaping points 1 and 2.
• Sew on the hair, then sew on the ears.
• Embroider the whites of the eyes, the mouth, and the eyebrows.
• Add blush to the cheeks.
• Sew the head to the body.
• Sew the bodies together along their sides.
• Sew on the heart.
• Bend the bodies into curved shapes by kneading and redistributing the stuffing with your hands.