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Make a chubby little panda in about 20 minutes with this beginner-friendly, no-sew amigurumi crochet tutorial. Follow the step-by-step instructions to shape the head and body, add the ears, arms and legs, and finish your panda with safety eyes and optional embroidered details.
The project uses super bulky yarn, a 5 mm crochet hook, fiberfill and a yarn needle; you can also add a key ring to turn your panda into a cute crochet charm. Find the free written pattern here: https://www.sweetsofties.com/2024/02/20-minute-panda-bear.html. A quick crochet project for beginners, handmade gift ideas and anyone searching for an easy no-sew amigurumi animal pattern.
The project uses super bulky yarn, a 5 mm crochet hook, fiberfill and a yarn needle; you can also add a key ring to turn your panda into a cute crochet charm. Find the free written pattern here: https://www.sweetsofties.com/2024/02/20-minute-panda-bear.html. A quick crochet project for beginners, handmade gift ideas and anyone searching for an easy no-sew amigurumi animal pattern.
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00:08Hi friends! Today we're going to crochet these adorable little pandas. They are so quick to
00:14work up and they're completely no-sew, meaning you don't have to do any sewing at all, except
00:19for a bit of embroidery if you'd like to, or if you'd like to attach the key rings on them.
00:25It is a very quick and easy project as you can see and let's jump into it. For the materials,
00:34you need some super bulky weight yarn. I'm using a very velvety and plush yarn here. This is Honey
00:40Bunny by Hobby. With that, I'm using a 5 millimeter crochet hook and a pair of scissors, a yarn needle
00:49for embroidering details and for adding things like the keychain. So you can get a keyring if you
00:56would like to, but that's optional. You'll also need some fiber-filled stuffing and some plastic
01:02safety eyes for your doll. The ones I have here are 6 millimeter eyes. I think 6, 7, or 8
01:09millimeter
01:09eyes would go really well with this project. Let's go ahead and get started.
01:17To begin, you're going to start with round 1. For round 1, you're going to chain 2, 1 and 2,
01:24and in that second chain from your hook, you're going to insert 8 single crochets. So that's 1, 2, 3,
01:364,
01:435, 6, 7, and 8. Now moving on to round 2. In round 2, you're just going to increase all
01:58the way around. So in
01:59that first stitch, I'm going to increase by putting 2 single crochets in the same stitch and repeating that
02:06all the way around for a total of 16 stitches. So here's working my second increase, my third increase,
02:25fourth, and you want to go all the way around.
02:46After you go all the way around for round 2, you're going to start on round 3. For round 3,
02:51you can go ahead and add a stitch marker if you'd like to keep track of your rounds. But basically,
02:57for round 3 to round 5, you're just going to single crochet around. No increasing, no decreasing. Just
03:04going by putting a single crochet into each stitch around. And we'll meet back at the end of round 5.
03:20Over here, I have round 5 complete. As you can see, you have more of a round shape now. And
03:28you can go
03:28ahead and attach the plastic safety eyes at this point. I'm putting my eyes between rounds 4 and
03:34rounds 5. And if you, excuse me, if you want to do it like this one here, I put in
03:416 millimeter eyes,
03:42which are quite small. And I put them 3 stitches apart. Here, I have them as 8 millimeter eyes, and
03:50they are 4
03:51stitches apart. So you can decide how you would like your panda's face to look. You can either put the
03:59eyes
03:59closer together or farther apart. Whatever you like. And when you're satisfied with the placement, you can go ahead and
04:07attach the backings onto the eyes. You know, the more I look at it, I think I, the more I
04:14want the eyes
04:15closer together. Alright, so let me try this out. Um, and if you are needing some help getting those
04:24backings into your eyes, I recommend using these, uh, CraftEasy tools for getting those backings in. I'll link it in
04:32the description box below, but I find it really quick and easy to just help secure the eyes on my
04:39Amigurumi.
04:51After you finish putting the eyes in, it's time to work on round 6. For round 6, all you're going
04:56to do is
04:57decrease all the way around. So we're going to decrease by putting one single crochet over
05:032 stitches. You're going to end up with 6, um, stitches here. So here's my 2nd decrease. Here's my 3rd
05:13decrease.
05:184th decrease. 5th decrease and the 6th decrease. Oh, I'm so sorry. I said 6 decreases. It's supposed
05:40to be 8 decreases. My bad. Um, miscounted here. Okay.
05:49All right. 8 decreases will be, bring you all the way around to the end of the round.
05:54And there we have it. You should have a plush little head for your doll now. And we can go
06:00ahead
06:01and work on the next round, round number 7. In round 7, you're going to grab your, um, secondary
06:07color yarn. I'm using gray for my panda here. And you are going to attach yarn and basically single
06:16crochet and increase all the way around, but work in the front loops only. So I'm only going to go
06:24into the, here, let me show you. Here are both loops like you would normally go into, but the front
06:32loop is the loop that's up in front and closer to you. So work only in those front loops.
06:42All right. So going into just the front loop, I am going to single crochet
06:49crochet. And increase in that next stitch. Let's do that all the way around. Single crochet.
07:06Single crochet. And then increase. Single crochet. And increase.
07:40All right. And after this round, round number 7, um, you are going to work in regular loops again.
07:48You don't have to worry about working just in those front loops. And I'm going to actually go
07:54around and single crochet one more round in gray. You can opt to do, um, if you want a shorter
08:03gray area, you can do just round 7 in gray and do round 8 in white. But I'm going to
08:11try it with one
08:12more round of gray here. So round 7, you're just going to single crochet around normally. That's putting
08:20one single crochet in each stitch. And for, um, your stitch count, you should end up with 12 stitches.
08:27So that's 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
08:489, 10, 11, and 12 at the very end.
09:06And after you do this round, you're going to do round 8. Um, excuse me. That was round 8.
09:14You're going to do round 9. Um, with the same instructions. You're just single crocheting around
09:20and I'm switching color for round number 9. So I'm going back to using white here
09:25and I'm just going to single crochet around and I'm just going to single crochet around without increasing or decreasing.
09:54All right. And for that very last round, you're just going to decrease around.
10:00That's round number 10. Before you do that, it would be a good idea to kind of stuff your doll's
10:05head
10:05and body. Um, so I like to get some stuffing and push it in with the back of a larger
10:14crochet hook.
10:15And I'm just going to go ahead and snip the gray yarn off because I no longer need that.
10:21The last round is just going to be in white.
10:26All right. So let's go ahead and push all that stuffing in there.
10:44All right. So I'm going to now do round number 10, decreasing all the way around.
10:53And you should end up with six stitches this time because you're going from 12, um, and decreasing to six.
11:01So here's my second decrease, my third decrease,
11:09fourth,
11:14fifth,
11:18and six.
11:22And after that, you can go ahead and fasten off with a long yarn tail.
11:29And this long yarn tail is going to be used for sewing the hole shut.
11:33And I also use it for sewing the key ring onto the head later.
11:38If you now that you've got the head in the body done, it's time to add the ears and the
11:48arms and
11:49the legs to the body. So let's go ahead and start with the ears. You're going to put your hook
11:55under
11:55a stitch in round two. Here's round one and here's round two. So I'm just going to push my hook
12:02over here
12:03under a stitch and you'll want to be on the side where you would like your ear to be placed.
12:10For the ear, you're just going to attach the gray yarn first, like so. Have a bit of a yarn
12:17tail
12:18because you're going to pull that in later. Yarn over, insert your hook into the same stitch,
12:25yarn over and pull through a loop. You should have three loops on your hook.
12:31Yarn over and go through all three loops. Then you're going to fasten off with a bit of a tail.
12:38And that tail is going to be pulled right in to that same stitch in round two.
12:47We're going to hide it in the body. So let's pull that in.
12:53And as you can see, that makes a cute little ear on your doll's head.
13:00Let's go ahead and pull that starting yarn tail in as well. We don't want that hanging out.
13:09And look at that little ear complete. Let's go ahead and repeat those instructions on the other side
13:21for the second ear. And remember, you're still going under a stitch in round two.
13:27Pull through your yarn. Yarn over, insert your hook into the same stitch.
13:32Yarn over, pull through a loop. Yarn over, go through all three loops.
13:39Fast enough. And we're going to pull these yarn tails into the head.
13:58And I've got some excess fluff going on here.
14:01Sorry about that. All right. And for the arms and the legs, it's pretty simple.
14:10For the arms, you're going to insert your hook into a stitch in round seven.
14:14So counting down from the top, that's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
14:19Seven is that first color change. So where you have that gray, I'm just going to insert my hook in
14:26here.
14:29And if it's hard to go from bottom up, you can also start from the other direction from top down.
14:42All right. And for the arms and legs, they're actually done the same way, just in different
14:48parts of different rounds of the body. For the arms, they're done in round seven.
14:56And for the legs, they're in that last round, round 10.
15:00So you're going to pull yarn through, make a chain to start, yarn over, insert your hook into the same
15:08stitch, yarn over, pull through a loop. And we're going to repeat that a total of two times. So that
15:14was the first repetition. We're going to do it one more time. So yarn over, insert your hook into that
15:20stitch, yarn over, pull through a loop. And you should have five loops on your hook now.
15:26Yarn over, go through all five loops, and chain. That chain will secure that larger puff.
15:35And just fasten off with a longer yarn tail to pull into your panda's body.
15:47And you'll want to pull that starting yarn tail in as well. When you're all done,
15:52you should have this cute puffy little arm that is bigger than the ears.
15:58So let's go ahead and repeat that on the other side.
16:04And let me make sure you have it around here. Okay.
16:18All right. Start with a chain here. Yarn over, insert your hook into that same stitch.
16:25Yarn over, pull through. Yarn over, go back into the same stitch.
16:29Yarn over, pull through. Yarn over, go through all five loops.
16:38Chain. And then fasten off with a bit of a tail.
16:44That is going to get pulled in along with the starting yarn tail.
16:53And you now have two little puffy arms.
16:58All right. Once you finish that, it's time to go ahead and do the tail. Oh, not tail. Sorry.
17:05What am I saying? The legs. The legs are just in round 10. And you're going to,
17:11um, again, do the same instructions that you did for the arms.
17:16So here I'm going into the last stitch of the body, which is round 10.
17:23And
17:27let's go ahead and repeat those instructions for the arms.
17:45Your, um, panda is going to be stuffed with a lot of yarn tails, as you can see.
17:54So they work as a nice stuffing though. You don't have to use as much fiber fill.
18:01All right.
18:05So there was my first leg. I'm going to do my second leg on the other side.
18:10All right. Let's go ahead and attach that second leg.
18:18Okay.
18:35And we're going to leave in those ends.
18:49And this last part is, um, just going to involve stuffing your panda's body to make sure it's nice
18:56and, um, firm and well stuffed before you close up the opening at the bottom.
19:05Let me go ahead and stuff just a little bit more.
19:13When you're all done with that, you can go ahead and grab your yarn needle and thread that through.
19:23And I like to just close up my amigurumi's openings by going into the front loops only.
19:31And I'm putting a running stitch through. So going in one front loop and going out the other front loop.
19:38In one and out one.
19:41And when I finish going all the way around, I'm going to pull that yarn tightly.
19:46And you can see it cinch up into this nice, um, uh, closed hole.
19:54All right. And now I'm going to insert my hook, uh, not hook, my needle into, um, that opening.
20:01And out the other opening because I'm going to add the key rings.
20:08All right.
20:11Here's my cute little panda's body so far.
20:16Let's go ahead and grab, um, a key ring.
20:24All right. Here's my key ring.
20:26And this part's quite simple.
20:28Um, once you have the yarn going from the bottom to the top,
20:32you can just string it through that bottom ring.
20:37And I'm going to go back into that same place I came out of, the same stitch I came out
20:43of.
20:44And I'm going all the way back to the bottom.
20:47This will make it pretty secure.
20:50You want to make sure your, um, ring doesn't hide too far into the body though.
20:56All right.
20:57And I'm going to repeat this a few times going out the same spot.
21:05So that I can make sure my ring is very
21:10securely in or securely sewn on.
21:23And then I can start going out other places in my pandas, I mean, uh, pandas body like the head.
21:45And I'll kind of weave in the ends from here.
21:57All right, so I'm going to just snip off that end.
22:03And you can see now that your little panda is all done, uh, with a K ring attached if you
22:11decided to do that.
22:14And I love how chubby his little body turned out.
22:20If you'd like to, you can even add a smile or a little nose and mouth on your panda's face.
22:28Um, if not, you can leave it like this as well.
22:32It's plenty cute.
22:34Let me grab those fluffs away, sorry.
22:37And here is what the first panda I made looked like with a little, um, nose and a mouth.
22:43I just did a simple X, um, for that.
22:49All right.
22:50Hope you guys enjoyed this project.
22:52Thanks for tuning in and happy crocheting.
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