Sitting Cat — Free Amigurumi Pattern

A sitting cat needs a body that is wider at the base than the top, so it stays upright without a weighted bottom. The tail curls around the base and does most of the balancing.

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.

Head

• 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]
• Rounds 6–9: sc in each st around [30]
• Round 10: [sc 3, dec] 6 times [24]
• Round 11: [sc 2, dec] 6 times [18]
• Round 12: [sc 1, dec] 6 times [12]
• Round 13: dec around [6]

Place the safety eyes between rounds 7 and 8, five stitches apart. A cat reads best with the eyes set closer than on a bear.

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]
• Rounds 6–12: sc in each st around [30]
• Round 13: [sc 3, dec] 6 times [24]
• Round 14: [sc 2, dec] 6 times [18]
• Round 15: [sc 1, dec] 6 times [12]

Work the front eight stitches of rounds 8 to 14 in cream for the chest. Stuff firmly, keeping the base wide.

Ears — make 2

• Round 1: 4 sc in magic ring [4]
• Round 2: inc in each st around [8]
• Round 3: sc in each st around [8]

Do not stuff. Flatten into a triangle before sewing.

Front legs — make 2

• Round 1: 5 sc in magic ring [5]
• Rounds 2–6: sc in each st around [5]

Work the first two rounds in cream for the paws. Stuff lightly.

Tail

• Round 1: 5 sc in magic ring [5]
• Rounds 2–15: sc in each st around [5]

Stuff very lightly so the tail curls.

Assembly

1. Sew the head to the top of the body, tilted slightly to one side.
2. Attach the ears to rounds 2 and 3 of the head, six stitches apart, pointing up and slightly out.
3. Sew the front legs to the front of the body at round 14, hanging straight down.
4. Curl the tail around one side of the base and sew along its length so it stays put.
5. Embroider a small triangular nose and two short lines for the mouth, and three whisker stitches on each cheek if you want them.

Making it a different size

Every stitch count here scales together. To make this 12 cm sitting cat 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.