I will share with you today a free cow amigurumi keychain pattern that you can rarely find. The use of blue color in the crochet cow designed by lucy_rose_toys is a matter of preference. You can choose different colors if you wish. The dimensions of the toy in the examples made with different materials are shared with you in detail below.
Blue Cow Keychain Crochet Free Pattern
The designer recommends using Drops Alpaca, YarnArt Jeans and Drops Safran brand yarns when making the toy. The crochet hook size you will use when making the toy is 1.5mm and 1.75mm. Now if you are ready, let’s take a look at the other details.
The size of the finished toys made of Drops Alpaca – 7 cm (2,8 inches), YarnArt Jeans or Drops Safran – 9 cm (3.5 inches), Drops Lima – 9.5 cm (3.7 inches).
Designer: lucy_rose_toys
Materials and tools
1. Yarn of 3 colours on your choice. I used Drops Nord and Drops Alpaca (brown cow) YarnArt Jeans (blue cow), Drops Lima (yellow cow). I also recommend 100% cotton such as Drops Safran
2. Crochet hook according to your yarn, I used 1,5 mm and 1,75 mm.
3. Yarn needle, sewing needle.
4. Small amount of white cotton yarn for eyes (for example, Drops Safran, YarnArt Ideal).
5. Toy eyes size 5 mm, sewing thread of black colour to sew the eyes.
6. Polyester fiberfill.
7. A piece of velcro tape if you use a fluffy yarn.
Abbreviations
MR- magic ring
ch – chain stitch
slst – slip stitch
sc- single crochet
inc- increase (2 sc in the same st)
dec – decrease (crochet 2 st together)
BLO – back loops only
Ears (make two)
Round 1: 6 sc in Magic Ring
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3: (1 inc, 1 sc) repeat 6 times (18)
Fasten off leaving a long tail for sewing.
Fold the detail, join the sides with some stitches. See picture below.
Horns (make two)
Round 1: 4 sc in Magic Ring
Round 2: 1 inc, 3 Sc (5)
Round 3: 5 SC
Round 4: 1 inc, 4 SC (6)
Fasten off leaving a long tail for sewing.
Muzzle
Round 1: 6 ch, start in the second chain from the hook: 1 inc, 3 SC, 3 sc in the last chain, turn, 4 sc on the other side of the chain (12)
Now crochet in spiral.
Round 2: 2 inc, 3 sc, 3 inc, 3 sc, 1 inc (18)
Round 3: BLO 18 sc
Round 4: 18 sc, slst
Fasten off leaving a long tail for sewing.
Tail
Leave a long tail of yarn in the beginning for sewing.
Ch 10, fasten off, cut the yarn leaving a piece of thread about 1 cm long (to form a tail tassel).
Arms (make two)
Start with colour of the hooves.
Round 1: 6 sc in Magic Ring
Round 2: 6 sc
Change for colour of the arms.
Round 3-9 : 6 sc
Don’t stuff the arms.
Fold the detail and crochet 3 sc joining both sides together. Fasten off, cut the yarn leaving a long tail for sewing.
Legs (make two)
Start with colour of the hooves.
Round 1: 6 sc in Magic Ring
Round 2: (1 inc, 2 sc) repeat 2 times (8)
Round 3: 8 sc
Change for colour of the legs.
Round 4-13: 8 SC
I usually don’t stuff the legs, I put inside a piece of pipe cleaner (chenille wire). In such case you need to bend the ends and secure them with some plaster.
Or you may slightly stuff only the half of the legs.
Fold the detail and crochet 4 sc joining both sides together. Fasten off, cut the yarn leaving a long tail for sewing.
Body
Round 1: 9 ch, start in the second chain from the hook: 1 inc, 6 sc, 3 sc in the last st, turn and continue on the other side of the chain, 7 sc (18)
Continue crocheting in spiral.
Round 2: 18 sc
Round 3: 2 inc, 6 sc, 3 inc, 6 sc, 1 inc (24)
Round 4: (1 sc, 1 inc) repeat 2 times, 6 sc, (1 sc, 1 inc) repeat 3 times. 7 sc, 1 inc (30)
Round 5: 30 sc
Round 6: (2 sc, 1 inc) repeat 2 times, 6 sc, (2 sc, 1 inc) repeat 3 times. 8 SC, 1 inc (36)
Round 7-8: 36 sc
Round 9: (3 sc, 1 inc) repeat 2 times, 6 sc, (3 sc, 1 inc) repeat 3 times. 9 sc, 1 inc (42)
Round 10-11: 42 sc
Round 12: 4 SC, 1 inc, 20 sc, 1 inc, 16 sc (44)
Round 13: 44 sc
Round 14: 5 sc, 1 inc, 21 sc, 1 inc, 16 sc (46)
Round 15: 46 sc
Round 16: 6 sc, 1 inc, 22 sc, 1 inc, 16 sc (48)
Round 17: 48 sc
Round 18: 7 sc, 1 inc, 23 sc, 1 inc, 16 sc (50)
Round 19 – 21: 50 sc
Round 22: 7 sc, 1 dec, 23 sc, 1 dec, 16 sc (48)
Round 23-24: 48 sc
Round 25: 7 sc, 1 dec, 22 sc, 1 dec, 15 sc (46)
Round 26: 46 sc
Round 27: 2 sc, (1 dec, 3 sc) repeat 3 times. 8 sc, (1 dec, 3 Sc) repeat 3 times, 6 SC (40)
Round 28-29: 40 sc
Round 30: (3 sc, 1 dec) x8 (32)
Round 31: (2 sc, 1 dec) x8 (24)
Round 32: (1 sc, 1 dec) X8 (16)
Stuff the body tightly, but it must not be too round (see the photo below).
33: 8 dec (8)
Add some fiberfill if you need to.
Cut the yarn leaving a long tail. Close the remaining hole using a yarn needle: weave in the yarn through the front loops of all 8 stitches and pull tightly.
Hide the remaining yarn tail inside the detail.
Assembling
First sew on the horns. Sew the ears on rows 4-5. Sew the muzzle below round 8 (rows 9-13). Stuff it while sewing it on.
The arms are sewn on rows 15-16. Sew the legs on both sides on rows 26-28. Sew the tail to the back bottom.
Embroider the nostrils (I use the same colour of yarn as for the hooves).
Sew the eyes between rows 8 and 9. on both sides of the muzzle. The distance between the eyes is 6 stitches. Embroider the whites of the eyes.
If you crocheted with some fluffy yarn, use the velcro tape to comb the toy and make it fluffier.
You may add some shadows around the eyes, on nostrils and inside the ears using some dry pastel.
Little Cow is ready!
