Designer: Lil Bean Stitches
Baby cow is an adorable crochet character designed with a sweet expression, tiny ears, and a soft, rounded body. Its gentle features and balanced proportions create a lovable amigurumi with a warm, playful personality.
This tutorial includes how to make a head, arms, body, ears, horns, legs, and nose, and it uses some simple crochet stitches like the single crochet stitch, bobble stitch, and some techniques like increasing and decreasing, and working in the back loop only and front loop only.
Materials needed to make this cute baby cow are chenille yarn, a 4.5mm crochet hook, 16 mm safety eyes, stuffing, a tapestry needle, stitch markers, and scissors.
You can display it in farmhouse, nursery, or country-themed décor. Add to a collection of farm animal amigurumi.
Materials
- Yarnsmith Chenille yarn
- 4.5 mm crochet hook
- 15-16 mm safety eyes
- Stuffing
- Yarn needle
- Scissors
- Stitch marker
Abbreviations
Mr – magic ring
sc – single crochet
FLO – front loops only
BLO – back loops only
inc – increase
dec – decrease
BOB – booble stitch
BTL – back third loop
BTL – just locate the back thirs loop – this is the space behind the “V” of your single crochet and crochet into this loop to form a 3D shape.
Ears x2
Rnd 1: 6 sc in Mr (6)
Rnd 2: 6 inc (12)
Rnd 3: (2 sc, inc) x 4 (16)
Sl st to frist stitch.
Fasten off with short tail if you’d like pointed ears, do not cut yor magic circle tail, instead use to pinch and sew the edge of the ear to a point.
Legs x4
In hoof color.
Rnd 1: 8 sc in Mr (8)
Rnd 2: 8 hdc inc (16)
Rnd 3: working in the BTL sc around (16)
Rnd 4: 4 sc, 4 dec, 4 sc (12)
Color change to body color.
Rnd 5-7: 12 sc (2 rounds)
Fasten off, leaving a short tail.
Tail
Begin in brown.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in Mr (6)
Rnd 2: (2 sc, inc) x 2 (8)
Rnd 3: 8 sc (8)
Color change to white.
Rnd 4: 4 dec (4)
Rnd 5-6: 4 sc (2 rounds)
Fasten off with a short tail. Do not stuff.
Tall Horns x 2 (Optional)
Rnd 1: 4 sc in Mr (4)
Rnd 2: (sc, inc) x 2 (6)
Rnd 3: (sc, dec) x 2 (4)
Sl st to first stitch.
Fasten off with short tail.
Body
(Make last, only make this once you’ve completed all legs and tail).
Rnd 1: 9 sc in Mr (9)
Rnd 2: 9 inc (18)
Do not fasten off.
The stitches which are through the leg and into the body, are highlighted in blue. When attaching the leg, insert your hook inside the leg, then the belly.
Rnd 1: 2 sc, 4 sc, 2 sc, sc, 2 sc, 4 sc, 2 sc, sc (18)
The next row you will be ignoring the 2 sc we used to attach the legs and crocheting around the remaining leg stitches. The purple indicates spot colour changes.
Rnd 2: 3 sc, 3 sc, 22 sc, 2 sc, 20 sc (50)
Rnd 3: 2 sc, 5 sc, 8 sc, 3 sc, 9 sc, 3 sc, 19 sc (50)
Rnd 4: 3 sc, 4 sc, 8 sc, 4 sc, 8 sc, 4 sc, 19 sc (50)
Rnd 5: 4 sc, 2 sc, 10 sc, 3 sc, 4 sc, dec, 2 sc, 3 sc, 10 sc, 3 sc, 5 sc, dec (48)
Rnd 6: (6 sc, dec) x 2, 2 sc, 4 sc, dec, 6 sc, dec, 5 sc, sc, dec, 2 sc, 4 sc, dec (42)
Rnd 7: (5 sc, dec) x 4, 5 sc, dec, 2 sc, 3 sc, dec (36)
Rnd 8: (4 sc, dec) x 3, holding the tail to the body, place 2sc through 2 of the tail stitches and the body, 2 sc, dec, 4 sc, dec, 2 sc, 2 sc, dec (30)
Rnd 9: (3 sc, dec) x 3, 2 sc through remaining tail stitches and body, sc, dec (3 sc, dec) x 2 (24)
Rnd 10: (sc, dec) x 8 (16)
Rnd 11: 8 dec (8)
Fasten off and close with a long tail.
*Recommended stitches to place each leg:
1st – 3/2
2nd – 6/5
3rd – 9/8
4th – 10/11
Head 3d Horns
Begin in pink.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in Mr (6)
Rnd 2: 6 inc (12)
Rnd 3: (sc, inc) x 6 (18)
Change color to white.
Rnd 4: 18 sc (18)
Color change to brown is highlighted.
Rnd 5: 7 sc, 3 inc, inc, sc, 6 sc (22)
Rnd 6: 7 sc, (sc, inc) x 2, sc, (inc, sc) x 2, 6 sc (26)
Rnd 7: 7 sc, (2 sc, inc) x 2, 2 sc, inc, 2 sc, inc, 7 sc (30)
Rnd 8: 18 sc, 4 sc, 8 sc (30)
Rnd 9: 11 sc, (sc through 1st ear fold), 2 sc attaching horns/head, 4 sc, 2 sc attaching hors/head, (sc through 1st), 9 sc (30)
Rnd 10: 11 sc, sc through 2nd ear fold, 6 sc, sc through 2nd ear fold, 9 sc (30)
Rnd 11: 30 sc (30)
Place eyes between rows 6-7 with 8 visible stitches between.
Rnd 12: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
Begin to stuff.
Rnd 13: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)
Rnd 14: (sc, dec) x 6 (12)
Rnd 15: 6 dec (6)
Fasten off and close.
Face Shaping
Insert yarn needle from underneath on the opposite side to bottom/side of intended eye.
Reinsert needle a couple stitches over, still on the bottom of the eye and pull out where you initially inserted. Pull on the tails at the bottom of the head and you will achieve the “sunken” eye look.
Head Bobble Horns
Begin in pink.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in Mr (6)
Rnd 2: 6 inc (12)
Rnd 3: (sc, inc) x 6 (18)
Change color to white.
Rnd 4: 18 sc (18)
Color change to brown is highlighted.
Rnd 5: 7 sc, 3 inc, inc, sc, 6 sc (22)
Rnd 6: 7 sc, (sc, inc) x 2, sc, (inc, sc) x 2, 6 sc (26)
Rnd 7: 7 sc, (2 sc, inc) x 2, 2 sc, inc, 2 sc, inc, 7 sc (30)
Rnd 8: 18 sc, 4 sc, 8 sc (30)
Bobble stitches are done in choice of horn color.
Rnd 9: 11 sc, (sc through 1st ear fold), BOB, 5 sc, BOB, (sc through 1st), 8 sc (30)
Rnd 10: 11 sc, (sc through 2nd ear fold), 7 sc, (sc through 2nd), 8 sc (30)
Rnd 11: 30 sc (30)
Place eyes between rows 6-7 with 8 visible stitches betwewen.
Rnd 12: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
Begin to stuff.
Rnd 13: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)
Rnd 14: (sc, dec) x 6 (12)
Rnd 15: 6 dec (6)
Fasnte off and close off.
Face Shaping
Insert yarn needle from underneath on the opposite side to the bottom/side of the intended eye.
Reinsert needle a couple stitches over, still on the bottom of the eye and pull out where you initially inserted. Pull on the tails at the bottom of the head and you will achieve the ‘sunken’ eye look.
Assembly
- Sew the head to the body piece.
- Done!
