Fruit Slice

Difficulty Level: easy

Crocheted fruit slice keychain

Free Fruit Slice crochet tutorial by Anastasia Budaeva @anastasiya_budaeva.

With this pattern, you can crochet a fruit slice keychain: watermelon, lemon, or orange. For this amigurumi project, you can use any plush yarn in matching colors. Even leftover yarn will work.

Materials and Tools

  • Plush yarn: Himalaya Dolphin Baby or YarnArt Dolce
  • Suitable crochet hook
  • 10 mm safety eyes
  • Thin black thread for embroidering the mouth (Coco or Iris)
  • Black thread for embroidering the seeds (YarnArt Jeans)
  • Keychain hardware
  • Needle
  • Scissors

Abbreviations

  • MR - magic ring
  • sc - single crochet
  • inc - increase
  • dec - decrease
  • (...) x n - repeat n times

Amigurumi Fruit Slice Crochet Pattern

Slice

Start with red or pink yarn:

1: 8 sc in MR
2: 8 inc (16)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 8 (24)
4: 1 sc, inc, (2 sc, inc) x 7, 1 sc (32)
5: (3 sc, inc) x 8 (40)
Change to white yarn:
6: 2 sc, inc, (4 sc, inc) x 7, 2 sc (48)
Change to green yarn:
7: (5 sc, inc) x 8 (56)

Assembly

  • Insert the eyes between rounds 3 and 4, leaving 4 sc between them
  • Embroider the mouth between rounds 4 and 5
  • Fold the piece in half and crochet 27 sc through both sides
  • For an orange or lemon slice, embroider the segment lines
  • Embroider the seeds on the back side

Your fruit keychain is ready!

Fruit slice crochet pattern