Although the crochet gingerbread man seems to be made easily, it is among the tiny toys that you can make using a lot of crochet. In other words, if you do not know crochet techniques at a sufficient level, making this toy will take a lot of your time. However, since you will be able to learn many techniques in this work, I think you can make this toy.
Gingerbread Man Keychain Pattern Step by Step
The size of the Amigurumi gingerbread man is quite small and has a chubby design. Therefore, this toy seems very suitable for use as a keychain. You can make the toy using a 4.5mm crochet hook and chunky yarn.
Designer: fluffy.stuffies.wyo
Materials I used:
• 4.5mm hook
• Parfait chunky or Sweet Snuggles lite
• Stitch Markers
• 12mm Safety eyes or Felt eyes
• Stuffing
• Yarn colors – Mustard, White, (any color for the gumdrops) Yellow, Pink, Light Blue, Lime Green, Iris (Purple)
Abbreviations
(Fluffy Stuffies Wyo).
• R#: the round number
• dec – invisible decrease
• inc – increase
• mr – magic ring
• sc – single crochet
• (4sc, inc) x # – repeat the pattern between parentheses # times
• (##) – number of stitches in a round after finishing the round.
• f/o – fasten off
• sl st – slip stitch
• st – stitch
• trbo – treble bobble stitch
• YO – yarn over
• cc – color change. ex: cc white means the next stitches are in that color until the next cc.
• puff – puff stitch
Skills required
Magic ring, single crochet stitch, treble bobble stitch, increasing and decreasing, and color changing.
I like to put my stitch marker in the first SC of every round.
Treble Bobble Stitch (TRBO).
These are kind of like double crochets, but in the form of a bobble. YO X2, (Insert your hook into the ST, YO, pull up a loop, YO, pull through 2 loops, YO, pull through next 2 loops, YO X2), repeat () until you have 5 loops on your hook, YO and pull through all loops. This creates a bigger bobble.
If you don’t want to do the TRBO, just do regular bobbles. BO- bobble stitch (yarn over, insert hook into stitch, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through first two loops on hook) x 5 for a total of 6 loops on your hook, yarn over and pull through all 6 loops.
Puff direction
Yarn over and insert your hook into the next stitch/space. Yarn over again and pull up. (Yarn over and insert your hook into the same stitch/space. Yarn over again and pull up a long loop) three more times. Yarn over and pull through all 9 loops on your hook. Do not chain 1 like an original puff
Puff
Gum drops
Any color you choose. There will be 6 puffs and I like to do them all different colors as these are suppose to be gum drops. But you can do what ever you want!
Drip Down
The drip down is 3 stitches. So in the pattern when it says drip down, you will be working in the next 3 stitches. Do these loosely so it doesnt creat a curl in the head.
sc in st below, sc in 2 st below, sc in st below
Body/head Starting in brown
R1: 8sc in mr (8)
R2: inc x8 (16)
R3: (sc, inc) x8 (24)
R4: 7sc, trbo, 7sc, trbo, 8sc (24)
R5: 11sc, puff, 12sc (24)
R6-R7: sc (24) ~2 rounds
R8: 8sc, trbo, 3sc, puff, 3sc, trbo, 7sc (24)
R9: (sc, dec) x8 (16)
R10: (sc, inc) x8 (24)
R11: (2sc, inc) x8 (32)
R12-R15: sc (32) ~4 rounds
cc white
R16: drip down, 4sc, drip down, 4sc, drip down, 4sc, drip down, 3sc, drip down, 2sc (32)
R17: sc (32)
R18: 2sc, dec, sc, puff, dec, 2sc, dec, sc, puff, dec, 2sc, dec, sc, puff, dec, 2sc, dec, sc, puff, dec (24)
If using safety eyes place them between rounds 13&14 about 4 stitches apart. Place right next to the 2 drips in the front of the face.
R19: (sc, dec) x8 (16)
Stuff body and head.
R20: dec x8 (8)
fo and close
Embroider the Smile
Optional hanging string.
sl st into top of head, chain 15, sl st back into head and fo. I like to tie the 2 tails together and weave in ends.
