crochet LOW-SEW cat potat 🐱 | 1-hour beginner friendly amigurumi tutorial | Lala Crochet Boutique

Summary

Lala from Lala Crochet Boutique demonstrates how to make a beginner-friendly, low-sew cat amigurumi. The cat is crocheted in joined rounds, with shaping for the ears and four legs. Its facial details are embroidered, and a separately crocheted tail is sewn on at the end.

Materials

• Yarn and crochet hook
• Stitch marker
• Safety eyes
• Darning needle and scissors
• Pink or black yarn for the nose and whiskers
• Polyfill or scrap yarn for stuffing

Process and Techniques

• Make the body: Begin with a magic ring and six single crochets. Shape the body with increases, plain rounds, and decreases. Join each round with a slip stitch and begin the next with a chain.
• Form the ears: Work into the front loops of selected stitches to create two small ears, then crochet behind each ear to help it stand up.
• Create the legs: Use puff stitches at spaced points in a later round to form four legs.
• Add the face: Place safety eyes between rounds three and four. Embroider the nose and whiskers with a darning needle, then gently tie the yarn ends inside the body.
• Stuff and close: Firmly fill the body with polyfill or scrap yarn. Decrease to close the base, sew the remaining small opening closed, and hide the yarn tail.
• Crochet and attach the tail: Make the tail separately using increases, plain rounds, and decreases. Leave a long yarn end, position the tail at the back of the cat, and sew it in place.

The tutorial covers several useful amigurumi skills, including making a magic ring, single crochet, increases, invisible decreases worked through the front loops, puff stitches, embroidery, stuffing, and weaving in ends. A stitch marker is recommended to track the start of each round and keep count of the stitches.

Creator: Lala, Lala Crochet Boutique.