Hi everyone,
Today I shared the cute little cat amigurumi on the pumpkin. There is very little time left for Halloween. You can make a difference by making the most beautiful amigurmi toy. You can add the newest model to your Amigurumi cat patterns. You can use it as a halloween amigurumi home decoration. You can knit this wonderful amigurumi cat pattern for your children and loved ones. After checking your bill of materials, let’s start knitting step by step right away.
Making the Salem amigurumi pattern on a pumpkin may take some patience. The pattern of the amigurumi toy is slightly detailed. But you will love it when it is complete. I have shared all the details of the Amigurumi toy and the miniatures that show how to make the pieces. You can easily do it. I loved the amigurumi cat pattern. Don’t forget to add this wonderful amigurumi cat pattern to your favorites list and make any color of this pattern for your loved ones for Halloween.
PDF Crochet Cat in the Pumpkin Amigurumi Free Pattern
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Materials needed:
– Cotton (Sheepjes Catona, YarnArt Jeans)
– Velvet fine wool
– Chenille wool for the pumpkin (optional)
– safety eyes 8mm or 10mm (cotton)
– safety eyes 12mm (Velvet fine)
– white/black/yellow cotton scraps for the eyes, pink for the cheeks and nose
– crochet hook 2.5mm, 3mm, 4mm
– scissors
– blunt needle
– stitch marker, fixing pins
– fiberfill
Abbreviations:
NS – Needle Size
MR – Magic Ring
Rd – Round
sc – single crochet
ch – chain
sl st – slip stitch
inc – increase
dec – decrease
FLO – front loop only
hdc – half double crochet
Let’s start crocheting the pumbkin amigurumi pattern step by step. 🙂
We start by making the head parts of the amigurumi cats.
Head (Cotton):
Rd1: 6sc in MR (6)
Rd2: inc x6 (12)
Rd3: (1sc, inc) x6 (18)
Rd4: (2sc, inc) x6 (24)
Rd5: (3sc, inc) x6 (30)
Rd6: 30sc (30)
Rd7: (4sc, inc) x6 (36)
Rd8-9: 36sc (2 rounds) (36)
Rd10: (5sc, inc) x6 (42)
Rd11-12: 42sc (2 rounds) (42)
Rd13: (5sc, dec) x6 (36)
Rd14: (4sc, dec) x6 (30)
Rd15: (3sc, dec) x6 (24)
Rd16: dec x12 (12)
Rd17: 12sc (12)
Insert the safety eyes between round 10 and 11, with a distance of 7 visible stitches. Fasten off leaving a long tail for sewing.
Stuff the head firmly with fiberfill. I prefer to stuff the sides of the head a little bit more to form cheeks. Try to shape the head while stuffing.
Head (Velvet fine):
Rd1: 6sc in MR (6)
Rd2: inc x6 (12)
Rd3: (1sc, inc) x6 (18)
Rd4: (2sc, inc) x6 (24)
Rd5: (3sc, inc) x6 (30)
Rd6: 30sc (30)
Rd7: (4sc, inc) x6 (36)
Rd8-9: 36sc (2 rounds) (36)
Rd10: (5sc, inc) x6 (42)
Rd11: 42sc (42)
Rd12: (6sc, inc) x6 (48)
Rd13-14: 48sc (2 rounds) (48)
Rd15: (6sc, dec) x6 (42)
Rd16: (5sc, dec) x6 (36)
Rd17: (4sc, dec) x6 (30)
Rd18: (3sc, dec) x6 (24)
Rd19: dec x12 (12)
Rd20: 12sc (12)
Insert the safety eyes between round 11 and 12, with a distance of 8 visible stitches. Fasten off leaving a long tail for sewing.
Stuff the head firmly with fiberfill. I prefer to stuff the sides of the head a little bit more to form cheeks. Try to shape the head while stuffing.
After completing the head parts of the amigurumi pattern, let’s crochet the ears and arms. We will do this for both amigurumi cats. 🙂
Ears x 2
Rd1: 6sc in MR (6)
Rd2: (1sc, inc) x3 (9)
Rd3: 9sc (9)
Rd4: (2sc, inc) x3 (12)
Rd5: 12sc. (12)
Rd6: (3sc, inc) x3 (15)
*for Velvet fine additionally:
Rd7: 15sc (15)
Rd8: (4sc, inc) x3 (18)
Fasten off leaving a long tail for sewing. Don‘t stuff the ears.
Brazos x 2
Rd1: 6sc in MR (6)
Rd2: inc x6 (12)
Rd3-5: 12sc (3 rounds) (12)
Rd6: (2sc, dec) x3 (9)
Rd7-9: 9sc (3 rounds) (9)
*Velvet fine (crochet 4 additional rounds)
Fasten off leaving a long tail for sewing. Don‘t stuff the arms.
We are going to crochet the hat part of the amigurumi cat pattern. In this part we will weave the hats of both cats. 🙂
Tail
Rd1: 6sc in MR (6)
Rd2: (1sc, inc) x3 (9)
Rd3-20: 9sc (18 rounds) (9)
Fasten off leaving a long tail for sewing. Don‘t stuff the tail. I used a piece of wire to bend the tail later.
Hat
Start with lilac or black
Rd1: 6sc in MR (6)
Rd2: 6sc (6)
Rd3: (1sc, inc) x3 (9)
Rd4: 9sc (9)
Rd5: (2sc, inc) x3 (12)
Rd6-7: 12sc (2 rounds) (12)
Rd8: (3sc, inc) x3 (15)
Rd9: 15sc (15)
Rd10: (4sc, inc) x3 (18)
Rd11: 18sc (18)
Rd12: (5sc, inc) x3 (21)
Rd13: 21sc (21)
Rd14: (6sc, inc) x3 (24)
Rd15: 24sc (24)
Rd16: (7sc, inc) x3 (27)
color change to orange or yellow
Rd17: 27sc (27)
Rd18: (8sc, inc) x3 (30)
color change to lilac or black
Rd19: 30sc (30)
Rd20: (1sc, inc) x15 FLO (45)
Rd21 (14sc, inc) x3 (48)
Rd22: 48sc (48)
*last Rd only for the hat when doing the Velvet fine
head
Rd23: 48 hdc (48)
Fasten off leaving a long tail for sewing.
Pumpkin Cotton
Rd1: 6sc in MR (6)
Rd2: inc x6 (12)
Rd3: (1sc, inc) x6 (18)
Rd4: (2sc, inc) x6 (24)
Rd5: (3sc, inc) x6 (30)
Rd6: (4sc, inc) x6 (36)
Rd7: (5sc, inc) x6 (42)
Rd8: (6sc, inc) x6 (48)
Rd9: (7sc, inc) x6 (54)
Rd10: (8sc, inc) x6 (60)
Rd11: (9sc, inc) x6 (66)
Rd12-20: 66sc (9 rounds) (66)
Rd21: (9sc, dec) x6 (60)
Rd22: (8sc, dec) x6 (54)
Rd23: (7sc, dec) x6 (48)
Rd24: (6sc, dec) x6 (42)
Rd25: (5sc, dec) x6 (36)
Rd26: (4sc, dec) x6 (30)
Rd27: (3sc, dec) x6 (24)
start stuffing the pumpkin
Rd28: (2sc, dec) x6 (18)
Rd29: (1sc, dec) x6 (12)
Cut the thread, pull it through the 12 remaining stitches to close the hole and sew it. Do not stuff the pumpkin too tightly.
Tendril:
Ch18, starting from the 2nd ch and crochet 2sc into each stitch. When you reach the end, chain 13 and again crochet 2sc back into each stitch. End with sl st and cut thread long enough to sew it.
*However, you are free to choose how many ch you make here, then the tendril will be shorter or longer.
Chenille pumpkin (optional):
Rd1: 6sc in MR (6)
Rd2: inc x6 (12)
Rd3: (1sc, inc) x6 (18)
Rd4: (2sc, inc) x6 (24)
Rd5: (3sc, inc) x6 (30)
Rd6: (4sc, inc) x6 (36)
Rd7: (5sc, inc) x6 (42)
Rd8-12: 42sc (5 rounds) (42)
Rd13: (5sc, dec) x6 (36)
Rd14: (4sc, dec) x6 (30)
Rd15: (3sc, dec) x6 (24)
start filling the pumpkin
Rd16: (2sc, dec) x6 (18)
Rd17: (1sc, dec) x6 (12)
Cut the thread, pull it through the 12 remaining stitches to close the hole and sew it. Do not stuff the pumpkin too tightly.
IMPORTANT: Please note the chenille pumpkin works well for the cotton head, but not for the Velvet fine head – then you would have to crochet a bigger pumpkin.
Tendril:
Ch29, starting from the 2nd ch and crochet 2sc into each stitch. When you reach the end, chain 16 and again crochet 2sc back into each stitch. End with sl st and cut thread long enough to sew it.
*However, you are free to choose how many ch you make here, then the tendril will be shorter or longer.
Completion of the Cot on head:
Instead of white, I used a yellow cotton thread for the eye details.
Embroider the nose with a pink cotton thread after round 10 with a distance of 3 visible sc.
Embroider the eyebrows with a black cotton thread with a distance of 4 visible sc in round 5-6. If you like, you can also embroider little cheeks also in pink under the eyes.
Completion of the Velvet fine head:
Here I used yellow and white cotton threads for the eye details.
Embroider the nose with a black cotton thread with a distance of 3 visible sc after round 13. Embroider the eyebrows also in black with a distance of 7 visible sc after round 7.
Same procedure for both heads: Sew the ears on the sides of the head starting on round 3.
Completion of Salem:
Take a long strand of yarn (approx. 60cm) and poke the needle through the center of your pumpkin, starting from the bottom. Coming out of the top place the thread around the outside and back to the bottom. Poke through the center again and pull the yarn tight. Use the “increase lines” as a guide and repeat 5 times. Your ball should now be devided into 6 sections and resemble the shape of a pumpkin. Make a few knots with the beginning and end part of the yarn. Shape the pumpkin a little.
Sew the head to the top of the pumpkin.
However, since this is a pin cushion and not a toy, you can also take the end thread from the bottom of the pumpkin, poke through the pumpkin and head from bottom to top, and knot the thread at the top. Repeat the step with the end thread of the head, through the pumpkin center down and knot. The head will hold quite well, but is not meant to be pulled too tightly. You can even turn the head this way. (small cheat variant for sewing lazy) 😀
Sew the paws on the left and right side of the head on the pumpkin.
Sew the tendril to the left side of the pumpkin close to the head to avoid problems when positioning the hat.
Sew the hat to the head with a few stitches on the right side. Bend it a little so that it gets the typical shape of a witch’s hat.
Sew the tail to the back center of the pumpkin (the exact position is up to you).
Congratulations Salem In The Pumpkin Amigurumi is Ready. 🙂
Cuteeeee