Mr. Gingy

Difficulty Level: medium

Gingerbread crochet pattern

A free crochet tutorial for Gingy by Oksana @niyazova_toys.

Using this pattern, you can crochet a gingerbread man with colorful icing and a hat. This cute little gingerbread doll can become a lovely decoration or an original New Year's gift. For this amigurumi project, any acrylic yarn, cotton yarn, or cotton blend yarn and a matching crochet hook will work.

The finished toy measures about 10 cm (not including the hat).

Materials and tools

Any yarn in brown, cream, red, and green
Matching crochet hook
Black thread for embroidering the eyebrows and smile
6 mm safety eyes
Toy stuffing
Thread for sewing the pieces together
Needle
Scissors

Abbreviations

MR - magic ring
ch - chain stitch
sl st - slip stitch
sc - single crochet
dc - double crochet
tr - treble crochet
dec - decrease
inc - increase
BLO - back loop only
FLO - front loop only
(...) x n - repeat n times

Amigurumi Gingy crochet

Crochet amigurumi Gingy pattern

Legs

1: 6 sc in MR (start the right leg with cream yarn)
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (3 sc, inc) x 3 (15)
4: 15 sc (change to brown yarn for the right leg)
5-10: 15 sc (for the left leg, change to cream yarn in round 6, then change back to brown yarn in round 7)

Stuff with fiberfill.

Body

Stuff as you go.

11: 2 ch, join the second leg and crochet 15 sc around it, 2 sc along the ch bridge (34)
12: 34 sc
13: 7 sc, inc, 16 sc, inc, 9 sc (36)
14: (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
15: 42 sc (change yarn color)
16: 42 sc
17-18: 42 sc (change yarn color in round 17)
19: (12 sc, dec) x 3 (39)
20: (11 sc, dec) x 3 (36)
21: (10 sc, dec) x 3 (33)
22: (9 sc, dec) x 3 (30)
23: (8 sc, dec) x 3 (27)
24: (7 sc, dec) x 3 (24)
25: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)
27: 18 sc, sl st, fasten off and leave a tail for sewing.

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: (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
9: (7 sc, inc) x 6 (54)
10-17: 54 sc
18: (7 sc, dec) x 6 (48)
19: (6 sc, dec) x 6 (42) (insert the eyes between rounds 16 and 17 with 11 stitches between them)
20: (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
21: (4 sc, dec) x 6 (30)
22: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
21: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18) (stuff with fiberfill)
22: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
23: 6 dec

Pull the opening closed and hide the yarn tail. Stuff firmly.

Arms

1: 6 sc in MR (start with cream yarn)
2: 6 inc (12)
3-5: 12 sc (change to brown yarn in round 4)
6: (4 sc, dec) x 2 (10) (stuff only up to this point; do not stuff further)
7-8: 10 sc
9: (3 sc, dec) x 2 (8)
10-11: 8 sc
12: Fold the arm in half and crochet 4 sc through both layers. Fasten off and leave a tail for sewing. You can also crochet the arms into the body in round 25.

Stuff with fiberfill.

Hat

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: 30 BLO
7-8: 30 sc (to help the hat bottom keep its shape, you can cut out a circle of the needed size and insert it into the base)
9: (8 sc, dec) x 3 (27)
10: (7 sc, dec) x 3 (24)
11-17: 24 sc (work rounds 11-17 in FLO)

Finish with a sl st, fasten off, and leave a tail for sewing. Add a red trim with slip stitches between rounds 14 and 15.

Icing

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: (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
sc, 3 dc in one stitch, sc
2 sc, 2 dc increases, sc
2 sc, dc increase, tr increase, dc increase, sc
2 sc, 2 dc increases, sc
2 sc, 3 dc in one stitch, sc
2 sc, 2 dc increases, sc
2 sc, dc increase, tr increase, dc increase, sc
2 sc, 2 dc increases, sc
2 sc, 3 dc in one stitch, sc
sc, 2 dc increases, sl st, fasten off and leave a tail for sewing.