Penguin Brooch

Free Penguin Brooch crochet tutorial by Lilya Sharipova @moi_prelesti.

With this pattern, you can crochet a penguin brooch wearing a little hat. For this accessory, you can use any yarn and a matching crochet hook.

The finished brooch size is about 3 cm.

Materials and tools

• Yarn: black, white, yellow, and red
• Crochet hook
• Orange embroidery floss for the beak
• Toy stuffing
• 3 mm eyes or beads
• Soft pastels for cheek tinting
• 2 cm brooch base
• Tailor's pins
• Sewing needle for joining parts
• Scissors

Abbreviations

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

Amigurumi penguin crochet pattern

Body

With black yarn. In joined rounds:

1. 6 sc in MR
2. 6 inc (12)
3. (2 inc, 4 sc) x 2 (16)
4. 1 sc, 2 inc, 6 sc, 2 inc, 5 sc (20)
5-7. 20 sc
8. 4 sc, 2 inc, 8 sc, 2 inc, 4 sc (24)
9. 5 sc

Chain 5, from the second chain from the hook:
sl st, 1 sc, 2 hdc

Continue around the main circle:
1 sc in FLO, 11 sc, chain 5, from the second chain from the hook:
sl st, 1 sc, 2 hdc

Continue around the main circle:
1 sc in FLO, 6 sc
10. 24 sc, with the sixth and 18th sc worked in BLO
11-14. 24 sc
15. 3 sc, 3 dec, 6 sc, 3 dec, 3 sc (18)

Chest

With white yarn:

1. 6 sc in MR
2. 6 inc (12)
3. (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4. 1 sc, inc, (2 sc, inc) x 5, 1 sc (24)
5. In 1 stitch: (1 sc, 4 dc, 1 sc), 2 sl st, in 1 stitch: (1 sc, 4 dc, 1 sc), 2 sl st

Sew it on with the wrong side facing out.

Feet

Hat

With red yarn:

1. 6 sc in MR
2. 6 inc (12)
3. (2 inc, 4 sc) x 2 (16)
4. 1 sc, 2 inc, 6 sc, 2 inc, 5 sc (20)
5-6. 20 sc
7. 4 sc, 6 ch, from the second chain: 5 sl st, 10 sc around the main circle, 6 ch, from the second chain from the hook: 5 sl st, 6 sc around the main circle

With white yarn (pompom):

1. 6 sc in MR
2. 6 sc
3. 1 sc, dec, 1 sc, dec (4)

Toy assembly

• Sew or glue on the eyes
• Embroider the beak
• Tint the cheeks
• Make tassels
• Sew on the pompom