The second pattern of the year comes full of love! This adorable chubby Love Bee is one of five patterns for the Valentines. Check out the first one, the Love Cat!
You can also take a look at the Chubby Love Bear, Romeo, and Juliet, and Yin & Yang heart free amigurumi patterns here on the website. They are lovely!
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Chubby Valentine Bee free amigurumi pattern
Materials:
- 2mm crochet hook
- Yellow, black and white fingering cotton yarn for the bee. And red for the heart.
- 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: 9cm / 3,5 inches with the antennas
For a low cost, ad-free and printable pattern, you can find it in Ravelry here!
And on Etsy here!
HEART
With brown color yarn start,
1 rnd 6sc in a magic ring
2 rnd 6inc Total 12sts
3 rnd 12sc
• Cut the yarn and fasten off.
• Make another one following the same instructions.
• Don’t cut the yarn of the second detail. Instead, crochet together with the previously finished detail.
4 rnd 24sc (12 from one finished detail plus 12 of the one you were working on it)
5 rnd 24sc
6 rnd (10sc, 1dec) repeat 2 times Total 22sts
7 rnd (9sc, 1dec) repeat 2 times Total 20sts
8 rnd (8sc, 1dec) repeat 2 times Total 18sts
9 rnd (7sc, 1dec) repeat 2 times Total 16sts
10 rnd (6sc, 1dec) repeat 2 times Total 14sts
• Stop here for stuffing the heart,
11 rnd (5sc, 1dec) repeat 2 times Total 12sts
12 rnd 6dec Total 6sts
• Cut the yarn, fasten it off and hide the remaining tail inside the heart.
BEE BODY
With yellow 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
• Change to black and start working with both colors,
12 to 14 rnd 48sc
• Change back to yellow,
15 to 17 rnd 48sc
• Change to black,
18 to 20 rnd 48sc
• Change back to yellow. From here on, work only with the yellow.
21 rnd 48sc
22 rnd (6sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 42sts
23 rnd (5sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 36sts
24 rnd (4sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 30sts
25 rnd (3sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 24sts
26 rnd (2sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 18sts
• Stop here for stuffing the bee,
27 rnd (1sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 12sts
• Cut the yarn, fasten it off and hide the remaining tail inside the bee.
WINGS
With white color 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 to 9 rnd 30sc
10 rnd (8sc, 1dec) repeat 3 times Total 27sts
11 and 12 rnd 27sc
13 rnd (7sc, 1dec) repeat 3 times Total 24sts
14 and 15 rnd 24sc
16 rnd (4sc, 1dec) repeat 4 times Total 20sts
17 and 18 rnd 20sc
19 rnd 10sc crocheting the sides together, closing the wings.
• Cut the yarn and fasten it off. Leave a small tail for sewing.
• Make another one following the same instructions.
ANTENNAS
With yellow color start,
1 rnd 6sc in a magic ring
2 rnd 6inc Total 12sts
3 rnd 4 rnd 12sc
5 rnd 6dec Total 6sts
• Change to black yarn,
6 to 11 rnd 6sc
• Cut the yarn, fasten it off and leave a tail for sewing.
• Make another one.
LEGS
With black yarn start,
1 rnd 6sc in a magic ring
2 to 9 rnd 6sc
10 rnd 3sc crocheting the sides together, closing the leg.
• Cut the yarn and fasten if off.
• Leave a small tail for sewing later.
• Make 6 legs in total.
ASSEMBLY
- Fasten the legs on the bee’s body. Three legs on one side, and three on the other side. Sew the first leg between rounds 8 and 10. Sew the second leg between rounds 15 to 17 and the third leg right below the second one.
- Leave around 18 stitches distance between the legs from one side to another. Or, fasten the heart in the central part of the bee to calculate better where you should sew the legs.
- Sew the antennas between rounds 2 to 4 of the top part.
- Sew the wings on the back side of the bee, between rounds 14 to 19.
- Embroider the eyes on round 8, leaving 3 stitches between them.
Congratulations!!!
Your Chubby Valentines Bee amigurumi 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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