Crochet the sweet AMIGURUMI MOUSE with soft chenille.
🧶 Used yarn and accessories
- Amigurumi Chenille ICE YARNS 100% polyester Super fine (1) (50 gr/ 250 m)
- Cotton yarn Super fine (1) (50 gr /200 m)
- Crochet hook US 0-3
- tapestry needle
- stitch marker
- stuffing
👎 Negative note: it breaks easily if you pull it too much; it is difficult to see the worked stitches.
👉 I suggest you to start with a CHAIN JOIN IN RING, so there is no risk of breaking the thread.
👍Positive note: the final work is very soft and for this reason, it deserves a bit of effort!
With 1 ball of Amigurumi Chenille (50 gr), I maked 2 mice and I still have some thread left over.
It has a wide color’s variety and are similar of the animal’s fur colors, perfect to make amigurumi animals.
I used black and white cotton yarn to embroider the details (mustache, eyes and teeth).
To make hands, feet and internal ears, as well as the nose, I opted for cotton yarn; I like the contrast between the two yarns!
The final size of the little mouse amigurumi is 12 cm tall, with the indicated yarn.
The difficulty is not for crochet work but for kind of yarn that is very fragile.
📗 Abbreviations & meanings (us terms)
- CH = chain
- SC = single crochet
- SLST = slip stitch
- INC = Increase, 2 SC in the same stitch
- DEC = Decrease, 2 SC together
- REP * = repeat from * to * until the end of the row
🌸 STEP 1 – Mouse’s head
| ROUND | INSTRUCTIONS | TOT |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 CHs, 6 SC in the 2nd CH from hook | 6 |
| 2-3 | 1 SC in each stitches around | 6 x 2 |
Turn over the work, so you have made the tip of the nose.
⭐ if you want a longer nose, you have to add more rounds without increases.
| 4 | 6 INC | 12 |
| 5 | 1 SC in each stitches around | 12 |
| 6 | * 1SC, INC *; REP * 6 times | 18 |
| 7 | 1 SC in each stitches around | 18 |
| 8 | 1 SC, INC, * 2 SC, INC *; REP * 5 times, 1 SC | 24 |
| 9 | 1 SC in each stitches around | 24 |
| 10 | * 3 SC, INC *; REP * 6 times | 30 |
| 11-14 | 1 SC in each stitches around | 30 x 4 |
| 15 | * 3SC, DEC *; REP * 6 times | 24 |
| 16 | 1 SC, DEC, * 2 SC, DEC *; REP * 5 times, 1 SC | 18 |
| 17-18 | 1 SC in each stitches around | 18 X 2 |
| 19 | * 1SC, DEC *; REP * 6 times | 12 |
| 20 | 6 DEC | 6 |
Cut the yarn and leave a long tail to sew the head on the body.
📌 do not close completely the hole. After sewing the ears, hide the yarn inside the head of the mouse.
🧵 assembly of the mouse’s ears
Use pink cotton yarn to make the nose.
Pass the thread over the tip of the head.
Otherwise, you can crochet a circle of 6 SC inside a magic ring and sew it on the tip of the head.
Embroider with black yarn two horizontal lines on the side of the nose, to make the mustaches (photo 1-2).
After embroidering, start stuffing and continue to close the head.
Use black cotton yarn and work two circles with 6 SC inside the magic ring to make the eyes.
Otherwise, you can embroider them (see the picture below 👇)
🌸 STEP 2 – mouse’s teeth
Use white acrylic or cotton yarn to make the tooth and a crochet hook size 2 mm.
| ROW | INSTRUCTIONS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Make 4 CHs and work 1 SC in the 2nd CH from hook and in the next until reach the last one, make 3 SC in the same stitch, 1 CH and turn. |
| 2 | 1 SL ST in each stitches of the row |
Fasten off, cut the yarn and leave a long tail. Use it to sew the teeth under the mouse’s nose.
Pass the thread over the 2nd SC, in order to make a line between the 1st and 3rd SC (see photo below 👇)
🌸 STEP 3 – Mouse’s ear (make 4)
Start with gray chenille yarn to make two circles.
The next two circles start crocheting with pink yarn till the 5th round, then change colour with grey chenille yarn.
| ROUND | INSTRUCTIONS | TOT |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 CHs, 6 SC in the 2nd CH from hook | 6 |
| 2 | 6 INC | 12 |
| 3 | * 1 SC, INC *; REP * 6 times | 18 |
| 4 | 1 SC, INC, *2 SC, INC *; REP * 5 times, 1SC | 24 |
| 5 | * 3 SC, INC *; REP * 6 times | 30 |
| 6 | 2 SC, INC, * 4 SC, INC *; REP * 5 times , 2 SC | 36 |
| 7 | * 5 SC, INC*; REP * 6 times | 42 |
| 8 | 3 SC, INC, *6 SC, INC *; REP * 5 times, 3 SC | 48 |
| 9 | * 7 SC, INC *; REP * 6 times | 54 |
| 10 | 1 SC in each stitches around | 54 |
The next instructions are to work in row and not in round.
| ROW | INSTRUCTIONS |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1 SC in the first 5 stitches, 1 turning CH |
| 2 | skip 1 stitch and make 1 SC in the next 4 stitches, 1 turning CH |
| 3 | 1 SC in the next 4 stitches |
Fasten off, cut the yarn and leave a long tait; use it to sew the ears on the mouse head.
Sew together the two parts: in front the circle with pink in the center and in the back the grey circle.
Then sew the ears behind the head near the hole and fix it in the desired position, upward or downward.
🌸 STEP 4 – Arms and hands (make 2)
| ROUND | INSTRUCTIONS | TOT |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 CH, 6 SC in the 2nd CH from hook | 6 |
| 2-3 | 1 SC in each stitches around | 6 x 2 |
Turn over the work, and you have done the arms.
| 4 | 6 INC | 12 |
| 5-8 | 1 SC in each stitches around | 12 x 4 |
⭐ If you want longer arms, continue working without increases until reaching the desired length.
Fasten off, cut the yarn and leave a long tail, use it to sew the arms on the side of the mouse body.
Before sewing, make the hands.
Use pink cotton yarn and a crochet hook of 2 mm
| PALM OF THE HAND | MR, 6 SC inside the ring. Close the round with 1 SL ST in the 1st SC. |
| SHORT FINGER | 3 CHs, make 1 SC in the 2nd CH from hook and in the next CH, make 1 SL ST until reaching the palm of the hand to finish the 1st finger. |
| MIDDLE FINGER | 4 CHs, 1 SC in the 2nd CH from hook and in the next 2 CHs. Make 1 SL ST in the palm of the hand and you finish the 2 nd finger. |
Repeat the steps above to make the MIDDLE FINGER (3rd finger) and the SHORT FINGER (4th finger).
Fasten off and cut the yarn, leaving a long tail. Insert it inside the arms and fix it.
Stuff a bit in the arm and fix it on the body.
🌸 STEP 5 – mouse’s body
| ROUND | INSTRUCTIONS | TOT |
|---|---|---|
| 1-8 | follow the pattern of the ears from 1st to 8th round | 48 SC in 8th round |
| 9-12 | 1 SC in each stitches around | 48 x 4 |
| 13 | 3 SC, DEC, *6 SC, DEC *; REP * 5 times, 3 SC | 42 |
| 14 | * 5 SC, DEC *; REP * 6 times | 36 |
| 15 | 2 SC, DEC * 4 SC, DEC *; REP * 5 times, 2 SC | 30 |
| 16-18 | 1 SC in each stitches around | 30 X 3 |
| 19 | * 3 SC, DEC *; REP * 6 times | 24 |
| 20 | 1 SC, DEC *2 SC, DEC *; REP * 5 times, 1 SC | 18 |
| 21 | * 1 SC, DEC *; REP * 6 times | 12 |
| 22 | 6 DEC | 6 |
Fasten off and cut the yarn. Sew the head on the body.
🌸 STEP 6 – Mouse’s feet (make 2)
Follow the steps to make the hand, instead of 4 fingers make only 3: SHOR FINGER, MIDDLE FINGER AND SHORT FINGER again.
Work SL ST not on palm of the hand but inside the ring.
Sew the feet on the bottom of the body.
🌸 STEP 7 – Mouse’s tail
Work in row in and return with grey chenille yarn and a crochet hook 3 mm.
Make a foundation CH of 32 and work:
1 DC in the 3rd CH from hook and in the next 9 CHs, 1 HDC in the next 3 CHs, 1 SC in the next 15 CHs, 1 SL ST in the last CH.
Repeat to make a second strip.
Sew together the two strips, but leave the last 4/5 stitches on the larger part of the tail. Sew the tail on the mouse’s bottom
