Cute Koala Amigurumi Crochet Pattern

This Koala is made using cotton thread yarn, a 1.5mm crochet hook, 5 mm safety eyes, fiberfill, embroidery threads, stitch marker.

All you need to make this cute koala is to know some basic crochet stitches like single crochet stitches, half double crochet stitches, double crochet stitches, some crochet techniques like increase, decrease, front loop only, back loop only, and how to change colors.

You can customize this pattern by changing the colors of the body or by adding some details to the face, body to give it different looks.

Let’s get started!

Designer: Danidiro Handmade

Materials & Tools

1.5 mm crochet hook
Yarn in colors: Lead, yellow, brown, garnet, pink, black
Cotton thread
5 mm safety eyes
Stitch marker
Fiberfilling
Emboidery thread
Scissors

Abbreviations

rnd – round
R – row
sc – single crochet
sl st – slip stitch
hdc – half double crochet
dc – double crochet
ch – chain
inc – increase
dec – decrease
BLO – back loops only
FLO – front loops only

Head

Start working with lead:

Rnd 1: start 8 sc in a magic ring
Rnd 2: 8 inc (16)
Rnd 3: (2 inc, 2 sc) x 4 (24)
Rnd 4: 1 sc, 2 inc, (4 sc, 2 inc) x 3, 3 sc (32)
Rnd 5: 2 sc, 2 inc, (6 sc, 2 inc) x 3, 4 sc (40)
Rnd 6: 3 sc, 2 inc, (8 sc, 2 inc) x 3, 5 sc (48)
Rnd 7: 4 sc, 2 inc, (10 sc, 2 inc) x 3, 6 sc (56)
Rnd 8: 5 sc, 2 inc, (12 sc, 2 inc) x 3, 7 sc (64)
Rnd 9: 6 sc, 2 inc, (14 sc, 2 inc) x 3, 8 sc (72)
Rnd 10-24: (72 sc) 15 rounds

Place the safety eyes between rounds 15 and 16 with a separation of 9 sc.

Rnd 25: 8 sc, 2 dec, (14 sc, 2 dec) x 3, 6 sc (64)
Rnd 26: 7 sc, 2 dec, (12 sc, 2 dec) x 3, 5 sc (56)
Rnd 27: 6 sc, 2 dec, (10 sc, 2 dec) x 3, 4 sc (48)
Rnd 28: 5 sc, 2 dec, (8 sc, 2 dec) x 3, 3 sc (40)
Rnd 29: 4 sc, 2 dec, (6 sc, 2 dec) x 3, 2 sc (32)
Rnd 30: 3 sc, 2 dec, (4 sc, 2 dec) x 3, 1 sc (24)

Legs & Body

Start working with the color brown:

Make 6 chain.

Rnd 1: 4 sc, 3 sc in the last chain, on the other side of the chain we will 3 sc, 3 sc together in the last chain (13)
Rnd 2: 4 sc, 3 inc, 3 sc, 3 inc (19)
Rnd 3: 6 sc, 3 inc, 7 sc, 3 inc (25)
Rnd 4: BLO: 25 sc
Rnd 5-6: 25 sc (2 rounds)
Rnd 7: 4 sc, 6 dec, 9 sc (19)
Rnd 8: 3 sc, 4 dec, 8 sc (15)

Change to maroon color.

Rnd 9-15: 15 sc (7 rounds)

We will do the second leg and work until round 15 and do 2 sc.

Rnd 16: 15 sc, 2 sc, 15 sc, 2 sc (34)
Rnd 17: 15 sc, 2 inc, 15 sc, 2 inc (38)
Rnd 18: 13 sc, (2 sc, 1 inc) x 2, 19 sc (40)
Rnd 19: (4 sc, 1 inc) x 8 (48)
Rnd 20-21: 48 sc (2 rounds)

Change to yellow color.

Rnd 22-23: 48 sc (2 rounds)
Rnd 24: (4 sc, 1 dec) x 8 (40)
Rnd 25-28: 40 sc (4 rounds)
Rnd 29: (3 sc, 1 dec) x 8 (32)
Rnd 30-33: 32 sc (4 rounds)
Rnd 34: (2 sc, 1 dec) x 8 (24)
Rnd 35: (1 sc, 1 dec) x 8 (16)

Close and finish yarn and leave yarn long to sew,

Arms x2

Start working with the lead color.

Rnd 1: start 6 sc in a magic ring
Rnd 2: 6 inc (12)
Rnd 3-5: 12 sc (3 rounds)
Rnd 6: 1 dec, 10 sc (11)
Rnd 7-9: 11 sc (3 rounds)
Rnd 10: 1 dec, 9 sc (10)
Rnd 11-12: 10 sc (2 rounds)

Change to yellow color.

Rnd 13-15: 10 sc (3 rounds)

Close with 5 sc, fasten off and leave thread to sew.

Nose

Start working with the color black.

Make 5 chain.

Rnd 1: 1 inc, 2 sc, 4 sc in the last chain, on the other side do 2 sc, 1 inc (12)
Rnd 2: 2 inc, 2 sc, 4 inc, 2 sc, 2 inc (20)

Ears x2

Working with lead color.

Rnd 1: start 6 sc in a magic ring
Rnd 2: 6 inc (12)
Rnd 3: (1 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (18)
Rnd 4: (2 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (24)
Rnd 5: (3 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (30)
Rnd 6: (4 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (36)
Rnd 7: (5 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (42)
Rnd 8: (6 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (48)