Crochet Tiger Amigurumi Free Pattern

I’m thrilled to keep sharing this special collection with you: the Safari crochet animals! This collection holds a dear place in my heart as it was crafted especially for my baby girl, with a bit of help from all you amigurumi lovers at Little Crochet Farm. Remember when I asked for your input on what collection to create for her? Well, the overwhelming response was for Safari crochet Animals, and here we are! One more member of this collection is out today, the Tiger. The Amigurumi Safari Animals features 12 adorable crochet stuffed animals that will gradually make their way online. And when I say “gradually,” I really mean it!

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Crochet Tiger Amigurumi Free Pattern

Materials:

• 2mm crochet hook 
• Schachenmayr Catania Sports Yarn weight. Or, any sports weight yarn colors black, white, orange, and brown of your choice!
• Black thread for embroidering the eyes. 
• Stuffing material
• Scissors
• Sewing needle.
• Or, you can use safety eyes! The position is at the end of this post.

Finish size

The finished Crochet Tiger amigurumi measures approximately 7″ (about 18 cm) tall. However, the final size may vary depending on your stitch tension and the materials used.

Gauge

Gauge is not crucial for this pattern, so feel free to use a hook size that matches your chosen yarn. I always recommend using a slightly smaller hook to keep the stitches tight and prevent the stuffing from showing through. If needed, adjust your hook size for a neater finish.

However, if you’d like to know the gauge for my chosen yarn and materials, here it is:
With sport-weight yarn and a 2mm crochet hook, the gauge for 5 rounds (increasing to 30 stitches) measures approximately 1.6″ (4.5 cm).

Terms and abbreviations (US terms):

Single crochet (sc): insert the hook into the stitch, pull up a loop yarn over the needle, you will have two loops on the hook, yarn over the needle, and pull it through the two loops.

Back Loop Single crochet (blsc): insert the hook into the back loop of the stitch, pull up a loop yarn over the needle, you will have two loops on the hook, yarn over the needle, and pull it through the two loops.

Increase (inc): make two single crochet inside the same stitch.

Decrease (dec): Insert hook into front loop only of next two stitches, yarn under, pull through, you will have two loops on the hook. Yarn under and pull through both loops on the hook.

Back loop Slip stitch (blsl): Insert hook into the back loop only of the stitch, yarn under, pull through both stitch and loop on hook.

Crochet Tiger Amigurumi Pattern Instruction

Head

With orange yarn start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

3 rnd  (1sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 18sts

4 rnd  (2sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 24sts

5 rnd  (3sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 30sts

6 rnd  (4sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 36sts

7 rnd  (5sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 42sts

8 rnd  (6sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 48sts

9 to 11 rnd  48sc

• Add the dark brown and continue working with both colors

12 rnd  3sc orange, 10sc brown, 14sc orange, 10sc   brown, 11sc orange

13 and 14 rnd  48sc orange

15 rnd  3sc orange, 10sc brown, 14sc orange, 10sc   brown, 11sc orange

• From here on, continue working only with orange.

16 and 17 rnd  48sc

18 rnd  (6sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 42sts

19 rnd  (5sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 36sts

20 rnd  (4sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 30sts

21 rnd  (3sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 24sts

• Cut the yarn, fasten it off and leave a tail for sewing it later.
• Add stuffing material.

Body

With orange yarn start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

3 rnd  (1sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 18sts

4 rnd  (2sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 24sts

5 rnd  (3sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 30sts

6 rnd  (4sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 36sts

7 rnd  (5sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 42sts

8 rnd  (6sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 48sts

9 to 12 rnd  48sc

13 rnd  (6sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 42sts

14 to 17 rnd  42sc

18 rnd  (5sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 36sts

19  to 22 rnd  36sc

23 rnd  (4sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 30sts

24 to 26 rnd  30sc

27 rnd  (3sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 24sts

28 to 30 rnd  24sc

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.
• Add stuffing material.

Paws

With white start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

3 rnd  (1sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 18sts

4 and 5 rnd  18sc

6 rnd  (1sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 12sts

• Change to orange

7 and 8 rnd  12sc

• Change to dark brown

9 rnd  12sc

• Change back to orange

10 and 11 rnd  12sc

• Change to dark brown

12 rnd  12sc

• Change back to orange,

13 to 15 rnd  12sc

• Add stuffing material

16 rnd  6sc crocheting the sides together, closing the paw.

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.
• Make another four in total following the same instructions.
• Leave a small tail for sewing it.

Ears

With orange color yarn start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

3 to 5 rnd  12sc

6 rnd  6sc crocheting the sides together, closing the ear.

• Cut the yarn, fasten off and leave a tail for sewing.
• Make another one.

With white, make 4 sc inside a magic ring, chain one and turn, make (1s and 1inc), and repeat two times. Cut the yarn and sew the piece in the finished ear.

Tail

With orange start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 and 3 rnd  6sc

• Change to brown,

4 rnd  6sc

• Change back to orange,

5 to 7 rnd  6sc 

• Repeat rounds 4 to 7 two times.
• Change back to orange

16 rnd  3sc crocheting the sides together, closing the tail.

• Cut the yarn, fasten it off and leave a tail for sewing it.

Snout

With white start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

3 rnd  (3inc, 3sc) repeat 2 timesTotal 18sts

*3inc means 1 inc following by another increase. Two single crochet in the same stitch in the next 3 stitches.

4 and 5 rnd  24sc

• Cut the yarn, fasten off and leave a tail for sewing it.

Assembly

1. Introduce two rounds of the body inside the head. Sew the head taking the second round (counting from top to bottom) of the body.
2. Sew the top paws in the first round of the body, leaving 6 stitches between one to another.
3. Sew the down paws in round 10 of the body, leaving 14 stitches between one to another.
4. Sew the muzzle between the two brown lines, taking rounds 12 and 18 of the head.
5. Sew the ears between rounds 5 and 10 of the head.
6. With an embroidering needle, embroider the eyes in round 11 of the head, leaving 6 stitches between them.
7. With the same thread, embroider the eyebrow two rounds above the eye, with a length of 2 stitches.
8. With the black sports weight yarn, embroider a triangle on its muzzle, leaving two rounds distance between the face in orange and the muzzle in white.
9. With brown sports weight yarn, embroider three lines between the ears and on top of its head.
10. Sew the tail in the central part of his back on round 12 of the body.

Congratulations!!!

Your Tiger crochet animal is ready!

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Love,

Ana

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