Surprised Bear in Shorts

Crochet tutorial for Surprised Bear in Shorts by Liliya Sharipova @moi_prelesti.

With this pattern, you can crochet a small teddy bear in pants. For amigurumi, any acrylic yarn, cotton yarn, or cotton blend yarn with a matching hook will work. The author recommends Pekhorka Uspeshnaya yarn. The toy's pants are removable.

Materials and Tools

• Acrylic yarn
• Black embroidery floss for embroidering the muzzle
• 1.3 mm crochet hook
• Safety eyes
• Synthetic poly filling
• Button for shorts
• 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

Crochet Bear in Shorts Amigurumi Pattern

Legs (2 pieces)

1. 6 sc in MR
2. 6 inc (12)
3. 12 sc
4. 4 dec, 4 sc (8)
5. 6 sc, inc, 1 sc (9)
6. 7 sc, inc, 1 sc (10)
7. 4 inc, 6 sc (14)
8. 11 sc, inc, 2 sc (15)
9. 5 sc, inc, 6 sc, inc, 2 sc (17)
10. 5 sc, sl st, cut the yarn, crochet the second leg.
11. Start joining the legs. I do it this way: join with sc, then 16 sc, join with sc, 16 sc (34)

This is more convenient for me, so I do not get confused. There is a small hole left, and I sew it up when assembling the toy. Or do it your own way, however you prefer. In the end, you should have 34 stitches.

Body

Continue crocheting the body:

12. 8 sc, inc, 16 sc, inc, 8 sc (36)
13. 9 sc, inc, 16 sc, inc, 9 sc (38)
14. 38 sc
15. 38 sc
16. 10 sc, inc, 17 sc, inc, 9 sc (40)
17-19. 40 sc. Start stuffing gradually.
20. 10 sc, dec, 17 sc, dec, 9 sc (38)
21. 9 sc, dec, 16 sc, dec, 9 sc (36)
22. 9 sc, dec, 16 sc, dec, 7 sc (34)
23. 9 sc, dec, 15 sc, dec, 6 sc (32)
24. 8 sc, dec, 15 sc, dec, 5 sc (30)
25. 8 sc, dec, 14 sc, dec, 4 sc (28)
26. 8 sc, dec, 12 sc, dec, 4 sc (26)
27. 8 sc, dec, 11 sc, dec, 3 sc (24)
28. 7 sc, dec, 10 sc, dec, 3 sc (22)
29. 7 sc, dec, 9 sc, dec, 2 sc (20)
30. 7 sc, dec, 8 sc, dec, 1 sc (18)

Sl st, cut the yarn. Stuff firmly.

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. 24 sc
6. (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
7. 30 sc
8. (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
9.-13. 36 sc
14. (3 sc, dec) x 6 (30)
15. 30 sc
16. (2 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
17. 24 sc
18. (1 sc, dec) x 6 (18)

Sl st, leave a yarn tail for sewing.

Ears (2 pieces)

1. 6 sc in MR
2. 6 inc (12)
3. 12 sc

Sl st, leave a yarn tail for sewing.

Arms (2 pieces)

1. 6 sc in MR
2-3. 6 sc
4. 2 dec, 2 sc (4)
5. 2 inc, 2 sc (6)
6. 1 inc, 6 sc (7)
7. 1 inc, 7 sc (8)
8. 1 inc, 8 sc (9)
9. 1 inc, 9 sc (10)
10. 1 inc, 10 sc (11)
11. 1 inc, 11 sc (12)
12. 1 inc, 12 sc (13)
13. 1 inc, 13 sc (14)
14. 1 inc, 14 sc (15)

You can skip 1-2 rounds, and the arms will be a little shorter (like on the gray bear).

15. (3 sc, dec) x 3 (12)
16. 6 dec (6)

Pull the opening closed, leave a tail for sewing. I attached the arms with thread joints at the shoulders. Sew the parts in place.

Muzzle Details

Crochet the white eye background with white yarn. Ch 6, from the second chain from hook work 5 sc, turn.

Right away, from the second chain from hook work 4 sc (do NOT make a turning chain or anything else, just make the first sc a bit loose),
Turn, from the second chain from hook 3 sc,
Turn,
From the second chain 2 sc,
Turn,
In the second chain from hook 1 sc.

Pull through the yarn, leave a tail for sewing, cut. You should get a trapezoid-like shape.

Then embroider the nose and mouth. Leave the thread for now. Sew on the white base, split it into 2 with black embroidery floss, and embroider eyebrows. Then sew on bead eyes.

Shorts

Crochet the shorts (use yarn about the same thickness as the main yarn):

1. 21 ch, join with sl st to the first chain, 20 sc
2-3. 20 sc
Sl st, cut the yarn. Crochet the second part.
4. Join parts: 1 ch, join with sc, then 41 sc around (42)
5-6. 42 sc
7. 10 sc, inc, 19 sc, inc, 11 sc (44)
8-14. 44 sc
15. 8 sc, chain 38, from the 30th chain work sl st back in the opposite direction

Sl st, cut the yarn. Sew on a button.