Designer: Moonbug Crochet
What do we have today? Today it’s a basket of cute cat-shaped nuggets together with french fries, all served in a lovely basket with ketchup. It’s amazing what kind of crochet patterns people can come up with. This is the project nobody knew they needed and now can’t live without.
Acrylic yarn in two colors, a 3.25 mm crochet hook, stuffing, small 4 mm safety eyes, pink yarn scraps, and an embroidery needle are all you need to make these kitten nuggets.
This pattern is beginner-friendly, we will not use any difficult stitches, only simple single crochet and a few others. First, we crochet the nugget ears, then the body, after that the tail and small details. The fries are made separately, but they are also very simple.
These kitten nuggets can be gifted as a whole basket to a friend who loves cats, used as decor, or simply for emotional support. It will be hard to stop making them.
Materials
- Chicken nugget color yarn (Bug twist acrylic in color Mustard)
- French fry color yarn (Red heart acrylic in color bright yellow)
- Small amount of pink for blush
- 3.25 mm crochet hook
- Polyfil stuffing
- Stitch marker
- Scissors
- Embroidery needle
- Black embroidery floss
- 4 mm safety eyes (Optional)
Abbreviations
Mr – magic ring
ch – chain
sc – single crochet
inc – increase
dec – decrease
hdc – half double crochet
Bob – bobble stitch (4 loops only)
FLO – front loop only
Ears x2
Using nugget color:
1st Ear:
Rnd 1: 4 sc in a Mr (4)
Sc into next st on 1st Leave the rest of the round unworked. Fasten off. Leave a smalltail for sewing.
2nd Ear:
Rnd 1: 4 sc into Mr (4)
Do not fasten iff. We will continue from here to make the body.
Body
Continue from 2nd ear:
Ch 2, working onto 1st ear:
Rnd 2: (sc, inc) x 2, 2 sc onto ch 2, working back onto the 2nd ear: (sc, inc) x 2, 2 sc onto other side of ch 2 (16)
Rnd 3-6: sc around (16) (4 rounds)
Rnd 7: 5 sc, bob, 4 sc, bob, 5 sc (16)
Rnd 8-9: sc around (16) (2 rounds)
Embroider eyes/add safety eyes between rnds 4-5 about 4 st apart. Use black embroidery floss to embroider mouth. Add any other facial details such as embroider blush with pink yarn, cut cutcles out of pink felt for blush, etc.
Rnd 10: 7 sc, bob, 2 sc, bob, 5 sc (16)
Rnd 11: dec x 8 (8)
Lightly stuff. Fasten off. Leave a long tail for sewing. From here we are going to close up the body. Using the yarn tail and your darning needle, pass the tail through each FLO of rnad 11.
Pull tight to cinch hole shit. Insert the remaining tail into body from finishing point and exit out of the center of the bottom, just above rnd 9. From here we will create the tail.
Tail
Using the remainder of the yarn tail from the body, insert hook into one st over from where you exited the yarn tail and grab the yarn with your hook to chain. Ch 5. Fasten off and trim end close to the last ch.
Face Options
French Fries
Using yellow yarn, ch 17, starting in the 2nd ch from the hook:
Rnd 1: hdc across (16)
Rnd 2: ch 1, turn, hdc across in FLO (16)
Fasten off. Leave a long tail for sewing. Fold the piece in half and use the tail to sew the two sides together along the outer edges. It should take place of a french fry once folded in half.
