Bumble Bee — Free Amigurumi Pattern
A free crochet amigurumi bumble bee pattern with round-by-round instructions, stitch counts and assembly. Worsted weight, 3.5 mm hook, about 8 cm tall.
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Yarn weight
- worsted
- Hook
- 3.5 mm
- Finished size
- 8 cm
A bee is a single striped ball with two little wings, which makes it a good way to practise clean colour changes. Two stripes are enough; more and it starts to read as a wasp.
Before you start
Work in a continuous spiral without joining rounds, and move a stitch marker up
as you go. Every dec is an invisible decrease.
Numbers in brackets are the stitch count at the end of the round.
Abbreviations: MR magic ring · sc single crochet · inc two sc in one stitch · dec invisible decrease · st stitch.
Gauge is not critical, but the fabric must be dense enough that stuffing does not show through. If it does, drop a hook size.
Body
- Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
- Round 2: inc in each st around [12]
- Round 3: [sc 1, inc] 6 times [18]
- Round 4: [sc 2, inc] 6 times [24]
- Round 5: [sc 3, inc] 6 times [30]
- Round 6: [sc 4, inc] 6 times [36]
- Rounds 7–14: sc in each st around [36]
- Round 15: [sc 4, dec] 6 times [30]
- Round 16: [sc 3, dec] 6 times [24]
- Round 17: [sc 2, dec] 6 times [18]
- Round 18: [sc 1, dec] 6 times [12]
- Round 19: dec around [6]
Work rounds 1 to 7 in yellow, rounds 8 and 9 in black, rounds 10 and 11 in yellow, rounds 12 and 13 in black, then yellow to the end. Place the eyes between rounds 5 and 6. Stuff firmly.
Wings — make 2
- Round 1: 5 sc in magic ring [5]
- Round 2: inc in each st around [10]
- Rounds 3–5: sc in each st around [10]
In white. Do not stuff. Flatten and close.
Stinger
- Round 1: 3 sc in magic ring [3]
- Rounds 2–3: sc in each st around [3]
In black. Do not stuff.
Assembly
- Sew the wings to the top of the body across the first black stripe, angled out like a V.
- Sew the stinger to the centre of the last round.
- Embroider two antennae in black from the top of the head, each with a French knot at the tip.
Making it a different size
Every stitch count here scales together. To make this 8 cm bumble bee larger or smaller, scale the magic ring and each round by the same factor — the pattern resizer does the arithmetic and rewrites the increase rounds. To keep the size but use a different yarn, the yarn weight converter shows what changes.