Gingerbread man amigurumi free pattern

Welcome to the second edition of amigurumi Christmas Ornaments! This year, once again the collection has four characters! Mrs. Claus, the Nutcracker soldier, Gingerbread man, and chubby penguin.

If you don’t know the first edition yet, I invite you to meet the Happy Grinch, Mini Santa Claus, Little Elf, and chubby reindeer! All of these patterns are available for free here on the website and also there is a low-cost and ad-free printable version for purchase on Etsy and Ravelry.

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Gingerbread man amigurumi free pattern

Materials:

• 2mm crochet hook 
• White, brown, red, green and yellow. I used 100% cotton, fingering, 3ply.
• 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: 11cm or (about) 4,3 inches

For a low cost, ad-free and printable pattern, you can find it in Ravelry here!

And on Etsy here!

Other members of the amigurumi Christmas Ornaments collection

BODY

With brown yarn start

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

3 rnd  12sc

• Change to white,

4 rnd  12sc

• Change back to brown,

5 rnd  12sc

• Cut the yarn and fasten off.

• Make another one following the same instructions.

• Don’t fasten off the second leg, chain 3. Connect the two legs by inserting the loop of the needle inside one stitch of the first leg, following,

6 rnd  30sc

7 and 8 rnd  30sc

• Change to white,

9 rnd  30sc

• Change back to brown,

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10 to 16 rnd  30sc

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

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

19 rnd   18blsl

• For the next round, you will work only in the remaining front loop of the round 18.

20 rnd  FL(1sc, 1inc) repeat 9 times Total 27sts

21 rnd  (2sc, 1inc) repeat 9 times Total 36sts

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

23 to 30 rnd  42sc

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

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

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

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

• Stop here for finish stuffing the Gingerbread man.

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

• Cut the yarn, fasten it off, and hide the remaining tail inside the toy.

ARMS

With brown yarn start,

1 rnd  5sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  5inc Total 10sts

3 and 4 rnd  10sc

• Change to white color yarn,

5 rnd  10sc

• Change back to brown,

6 to 9 rnd  10sc

• Stop here for adding a little bit of stuffing material,

10 rnd  5sc crocheting the sides together, closing the arm

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

TOP OF THE HEAD

With red yarn start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

3 rnd  12sc

4 rnd  6dec Total 6sts

• Change to white color yarn.

• For the next round you will work only in the front loop of the stitches.

5 rnd  FL 6inc Total 12sts

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

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

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

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

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

11 rnd  (skip 1, 3dc in the same stitch, sl) repeat 14 times

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.

• Leave a long tail for sewing it.

CHEST FLOWERS

With green color start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring, join with a slip stitch.

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off. Leave a small tail for sewing it.

• Make another one in red following the same instructions.

ASSEMBLY

1. Sew the arms between rounds 18 and 19.
2. Sew the flowers in the center of the chest.
3. Place the top on its head and sew it around. Here, you don’t need to sew every stitch to the head. You can sew just the spikes, taking the middle double crochet.
4. With yellow color, embroider a couple of sprinkles.
5. Embroider the eyes in round 24 of the Gingerbread man leaving 4 stitches between them. Add the eyebrow two rounds above the eye, going down to rounds and one stitch beside the eye.
6. With red embroider the mouth starting from round 22, to between rounds 21 and 22. Taking 4 stitches length.

Congratulations!!!

Your Gingerbread man amigurumi Christmas ornament is ready!

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

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See you next time!

Love,

Ana

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