Tiger Cubs

Free crochet tutorial for Tiger Cubs by Natalia @nat__knits.

With this pattern you can crochet a tiger cub in a sweater. Any cotton blend yarn will work well for this amigurumi toy: YarnArt Jeans, Alize Cotton Gold, Gazzal Baby Cotton, and others.

The finished toy is about 18 cm tall.

Materials and Tools

• YarnArt Jeans yarn: black, white, orange, and a sweater color
• 2 mm crochet hook
• 8 mm safety eyes
• Toy stuffing
• Needle for sewing pieces together
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR - magic ring
• ch - chain stitch
• sc - single crochet
• hdc - half double crochet
• inc - increase
• dec - decrease
• BLO - back loop only
• (...) x n - repeat n times

Crochet Amigurumi Tiger Cub Pattern

Head

Place the eyes between rounds 12 and 13, 7 sc apart.

1. 6 sc in MR
2. 6 inc (12)
3. (sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4. (sc, inc) x 9 (27)
5. 27 sc
6. (2 sc, inc) x 9 (36)
7-9. 36 sc
10. (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
11. 9 sc, in black - 24 sc, in orange - 9 sc (42)
12. 42 sc
13. (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
14. 9 sc, in black - 31 sc, in orange - 8 sc (48)
15. 48 sc
16. (7 sc, inc) x 6 (54)
17. 9 sc, in black 38 sc, in orange - 7 sc (54)
18. (7 sc, dec) x 6 (48)
19. (6 sc, dec) x 6 (42)
20. 5 sc, dec, in black - (5 sc, dec) x 4, 3 sc, in orange - 2 sc, dec (36)
21. (2 sc, dec) x 9 (27)
22. (sc, dec) x 9 (18)

Legs (2 pieces)

With white yarn:

1. 6 sc in MR
2. 6 inc (12)
3. (3 sc, 3 inc) x 2 (18)
4. In BLO 18 sc
5. 18 sc
6. (sc, dec) x 6 (12)
Change to the main color
7. (2 sc, dec) x 3 (9)
8-9. 9 sc
10. in black (2 sc, inc) x 3 (12)
11-12. in orange 12 sc
13. in black (3 sc, inc) x 3 (15)
14-15. in orange 15 sc

On the second leg, crochet 5 additional sc.

Body

3 ch
1. (15 sc, 3 sc) x 2 (36)
2. (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
3-6. 42 sc
7. (12 sc, dec) x 3 (39)
Change to the sweater color
8. 39 sc
9. (11 sc, dec) x 3 (36)
10-11. 36 sc
12. (4 sc, dec) x 6 (30)
13-14. 30 sc
15. (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
16-17. 24 sc
18. (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)

Arms (2 pieces)

With white yarn:

1. 6 sc in MR
2. 6 inc (12)
3. 12 sc
4. (sc, dec) x 4 (8)
5. in orange 8 sc
6-16. with the sweater color 8 sc

Fold the piece in half and crochet 4 sc through both layers.

Ears (2 pieces)

1. 6 sc in MR
2. 6 inc (12)
3. in black (2 sc, inc) x 3 (15)

Muzzle

With white yarn:

1. 6 sc in MR
2. 6 inc (12)
3. (3 sc, 3 inc) x 2 (18)
4. (5 sc, inc) x 3 (21)
5. 21 sc

Tail

With white yarn:

1. 6 sc in MR
2. 6 inc (12)
3-4. 12 sc
5. (sc, dec) x 4 (8)
6-7. orange 8 sc
8. black 8 sc
9-10. orange 8 sc
11. black 8 sc
12-13. orange 8 sc
14. black 8 sc
15-16. orange 8 sc
17. black 8 sc
18. orange 8 sc

Fold the piece in half and crochet 4 sc through both layers.

Cowl

Chain 7
1. In the 3rd stitch: 5 hdc + 2 ch
2. In the 3rd stitch, in the back loop only: 5 hdc + 2 ch
3-19. Repeat as in round 2

Toy Assembly

Shape the muzzle, sew on all the pieces, and your tiger cub is ready!