Crochet Easter Lamb free amigurumi pattern

Today we begin the Easter Collection with this adorable Crochet Easter Lamb! It’s soft, small, and perfect for tucking inside a surprise Easter egg. This tiny lamb is quick to make, beginner-friendly, and brings a gentle charm to your handmade spring gifts or decorations.

A Mini Amigurumi Lamb to Pair with Other Easter Favorites

This crochet Easter lamb is one of four mini patterns created to fit inside the Crochet Easter Egg. To complete the collection, don’t miss the Chick, Angel, and Bunny. All the patterns come with step-by-step video tutorials and are perfect for quick, heartfelt makes.

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Easter Lamb amigurumi

Materials:

• 2mm crochet hook 
• Two colors of yarn for the lam, and two for the egg. I used 100% cotton, lightweight, 4ply.
• 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 piece is about 2.3 inches (6 cm) for the lamb and 3.6 inches (9 cm) for the Easter egg. 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.

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

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

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

Back loop single crochet (blsc): Insert hook into the back loop only 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.

Crochet Lamb Pattern Instructions

Body

With color B (contrast color) 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  18bpsc

• Change to color A (main color)

 5–10 rnd  18sc

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.

Head

With color B 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

6–10 rnd  30sc

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

12 rnd  (2sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 18sts

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

Ears

With color B start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

• Change to color A,

2 rnd  2inc, 2inc dc, 2inc

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

Arms

With color B yarn chain 3. Skip the first chain and start,

1 row  2sc

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

Fur

Attach the color A on top of the sheep’s head and start crocheting the hair by:

• Chain 3, skip one st, join with a sl.

Repeat this process all over the head. Leaving 7 rounds with 12 stitches free on the front part to embroider the face later.

Lamb Assembly

1. Embroider the eyes in round 9 of the lamb, leaving 3 stitches between them.
2. Sew the ears 3 rounds above the eye.
3. Sew the little paws in round 7 of the body, leaving 8 stitches between them.

Eggshell

Bottom shell

With the color of your preference 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  (17sc, 1inc) repeat 2 times Total 38sts

• Change color

8 rnd  38sc

9 rnd  9sc, 1inc, 18sc, 1inc, 9sc Total 40sts

10 rnd  40sc

• Change the color back

11 rnd  (19sc, 1inc) repeat 2 times Total 42sts

12 rnd  42sc

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.

Top shell

With the color of your preference 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  24sc

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

7 rnd  30sc

• Add the second color of the shell and start working with both colors,

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

• Change color

9 rnd  36sc

10 rnd  (17sc, 1inc) repeat 2 times Total 38sts

• Change color

11 rnd  9sc, 1inc, 18sc, 1inc, 9sc Total 40sts

12 rnd  (19sc, 1inc) repeat 2 times Total 42sts

13 rnd  42sc

• Change color

14-15 rnd  42sc

• Change color

16 rnd  42sc

• Change color

17-18 rnd  42sc

• Don’t cut the yarn, instead, crochet together with the bottom part following:

Here, you will grab only the back loop of one stitch of the finished bottom part of the egg and the back loop of the top part of the shell, which is the one you are currently working with.

• 8blsc crocheting together the top shell with the bottom.

NOTE: pay attention here that the back loop of the stitch from the bottom part of the shell is facing you (making it look like the “front loop“. But it’s just because of the position of the shell. The back loop should be facing inside the shell.

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.
• Now, you have two options. Either add little buttons to be the opening and closing of the egg or, as I did, crochet the buttons by doing 7sc inside a magic ring, and joining with an sl.
• Sew the buttons on round 9 of the bottom of the shell leaving 6 stitches between them.
• Attach two pieces of yarn to close the shell in round 16 of the top shell.

Congratulations!!!

Your Little Easter Lamb amigurumi is ready!

I hope you enjoy this pattern! If you have any questions or comments, leave them in the comment box below.

See you next time!

Love,

Ana