Amigirumi Gingerbread Man Free Crochet Pattern

Let’s meet the delightful crochet gingerbread man amigurumi pattern! It’s easy to crochet and allows you to create your holiday treat.

This free pattern starts with making the arms, legs, body, and head, then adding frosting, bow tie, and white buttons.

Materials needed to finish this pattern are any sport-weight yarn, black embroidery floss, two safety eyes, two white buttons, 2mm crochet hook, and stuffing.

All you need to finish this pattern is to know how to make single crochet stitches, and how to increase/ decrease, also you need to know how to switch between colors while making legs and arms.

It’s a perfect gift or festive décor piece to cherish every year.

Designer: Marizzatoys

Matrials & Tools

Sport yarn: beige (Alize Cotton Gold 446), Red (Alize Cotton Gold 56), White (Alize Cotton Gold 55)
Black thread to embroider the eyebrows and the moyth
7 mm safety eyes
Two white buttongs
2 mm crochet hook
Polyseter fiber fill

Size: 15-16 cm tall

Abbreviations

Mr – magic ring
sc – single crochet
inc – increase
dec – decrease
ch – chain
hdc – half double crochet

Arms x2

Start crocheting with beige yarn.

Stuff only 2/3 of the arms.

Rnd 1: 6 sc in a Mr (6)
Rnd 2: 6 inc (12)
Rnd 3-4: 12 sc (12)

Change the yarn to red color:

Rnd 5: 12 sc (12)

Change the yarn to white color:

Rnd 6: 12 sc (12)

Change the yarn to beige color:

Rnd 7-13: 12 sc (12)
Rnd 14: (4 sc, dec) x 2 (10)
Rnd 15: 10 sc (10)

Fasten off and cut the yatn, leaving a tail for sewing. Sew the arms to the body in round 17.

Legs x2

Start crocheting with the beige yarn. Stuff as you go.

Rnd 1: 6 sc in a Mr (6)
Rnd 2: 6 inc (12)
Rnd 3: (1 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (18)
Rnd 4: (5 sc, 1 inc) x 3 (21)
Rnd 5: 21 sc (21)

Change the yarn to red color:

Rnd 6: 21 sc (21)

Change the yarn to white color:

Rnd 7: 21 sc (21)

Change the yatn to beige color:

Rnd 8-12: 21 sc (21)

For the left leg: faste off and cut the yarn.

For the right leg: don’t cut the yarn, we will continue with the body.

Body

Rnd 1: crochet 6 sc more on the right leg, join the left leg and crochet 21 sc on it. Crochet 21 sc on the right leg and place the marker here (42) (the marker is in the back)
Rnd 2: (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
Rnd 3-8: 48 sc (48)
Rnd 9: 3 sc, dec, (6 sc, dec) x 5, 3 sc (42)
Rnd 10-11: 42 sc (42)
Rnd 12: (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
Rnd 13-14: 36 sc (36)
Rnd 15: 2 sc, dec, (4 sc, dec) x 5, 2 sc (30)
Rnd 16-17: 30 sc (30)
Rnd 18: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
Rnd 19: 24 sc (24)

Stuff the body frimly, especially in the neck.

Don’t cut the yarn, we will continue with the head.

Head

Continue crocheting with the beige color. Stuff as you go.

Rnd 1: sc, inc, (2 sc, inc) x 7, sc (32)
Rnd 2: (3 sc, inc) x 8 (40)
Rnd 3: 2 sc, inc, (4 sc, inc) x 7, 2 sc (48)
Rnd 4: (5 sc, inc) x 8 (56)
Rnd 5-12: 56 sc (56)
Rnd 13: (5 sc, dec) x 8 (48)
Rnd 14-15: 48 sc (48)

Insert the safety eyes between rounds 8 and 9 with 8 sc apart. There must be 6 sc visible.

Rnd 16: 3 sc, dec, (6 sc, dec) x 5, 3 sc (42)
Rnd 17: (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
Rnd 18: 2 sc, dec, (4 sc, dec) x 5, 2 sc (30)
Rnd 19: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
Rnd 20: sc, dec, (2 sc, dec) x 5, sc (18)
Rnd 21: (sc, dec) x 6 (12)
Rnd 22: 6 dec (6)

Stuff head fir,ly. Close the opening and hide the yarn inside.

Using black thread, embroider the eyebrows in round 12. They are 2 st long, with 9 sc between them. Embeoider the mouth in round 6.

Using the red yarn, embroider the cheeks between rounds 6 and 7.

Frosting

Crochet with the white yarn.

Rnd 1: 8 sc in a Mr (8)
Rnd 2: 8 inc (16)
Rnd 3: (1 sc, 1 inc) x 8 (24)
Rnd 4: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
Rnd 5: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
Rnd 6: 36 sc (36)
Rnd 7: (5 sc, 4 hdc in one stitch) x 6

Make a sl st, fasten off and cut the yarn, leaving a long tail for sewing.

Sew the frosting tot the top of the head.