Tiger Keychain

Free Tiger Keychain crochet tutorial by Irina Baeva @vyju_ot_dushi.

With this pattern, you can crochet a tiger-shaped keychain. Any cotton blend yarn and a matching crochet hook will work for this amigurumi project. The author recommends YarnArt Jeans and Alize Cotton Gold.

The finished toy measures about 3.5 cm wide and 2.5 cm long.

Materials and Tools

• YarnArt Jeans or Alize Cotton Gold yarn: white, orange, and brown (for the stripes)
• Black Iris yarn
• 1.5 mm crochet hook
• Safety eyes or 4 mm beads
• Synthetic poly filling
• Keychain hardware
• Glue
• Needle for sewing the pieces together
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR - magic ring
• ch - chain stitch
• sl st - slip stitch
• sc - single crochet
• inc - increase
• (...) x n - repeat n times

Tiger Slice Amigurumi Crochet Keychain Pattern

Work in the round. Stuff firmly, shaping the piece flat.

Using white yarn:

1: 6 sc in MR, sl st
2: ch, 6 inc, sl st (12)
3: ch, (1 sc, inc) x 6, sl st (18)
Switch to orange yarn
4: ch, (2 sc, inc) x 6, sl st (24)
5: ch, (3 sc, inc) x 6, sl st (30)
6: ch, (4 sc, inc) x 6, sl st (36)

Fold the piece in half and crochet 18 sc through both layers. Leave a long yarn tail for making the ears.

Count 6 stitches in from the edge. Using a needle, bring the yarn out through the 7th stitch: turning chain, 6 sc into the 7th base stitch.

Fasten off the ear, bring the yarn out where the second ear should be, and crochet it the same way.

Assembly

• Glue on the eyes and embroider the white highlights
• Embroider the stripes with brown yarn and edge the ears
• Embroider the nose and eyebrows with black Iris yarn
• Attach the keychain hardware