This Crochet Cherries & Strawberry keychain Pattern is a fun project where you make cute little fruits out of yarn. First, you use red yarn to make sweet strawberries and cherries that look almost good enough to eat. For the strawberry, after making the red part, you add tiny white stitches to look like seeds and a green top to make it look real.
Crochet Cherries Keychain Pattern
The cherries are made by crocheting two red balls and attaching them together with a green stem and leaf. You need some basic tools like a crochet hook, yarn in red, green, and white, and a little bit of stuffing material to make them plump.
This project is great because you can turn these crocheted fruits into keychains, decorate bags, or even make a lovely mobile for a room. It's a fun way to be creative and make something that brings a bit of handmade charm to your everyday items.
Materials Needed:
- Yarn: Red for strawberry, green for leaf, and white for seeds.
- Crochet hook: 3.5 mm.
- Stuffing material or scrap yarns.
- Yarn needle.
- Stitch marker.
- Keychain ring, ribbon (optional).
Instructions:
Body:
- Magic Ring: Make a magic ring.
- Round 1: 6 single crochets (sc) in the ring. Pull the tail to close the ring.
- Round 2: 1 sc, then increase in the next stitch; repeat [1 sc, increase] around (9 stitches).
- Round 3: 1 sc in the next 2 stitches, then increase in the next stitch; repeat [1 sc in the next 2, increase] around (12 stitches).
- Round 4: 1 sc in the next 3 stitches, then increase in the next stitch; repeat [1 sc in the next 3, increase] around (15 stitches).
- Round 5: 1 sc in the next 4 stitches, then increase in the next stitch; repeat [1 sc in the next 4, increase] around (18 stitches).
- Round 6: 1 sc in the next 5 stitches, then increase in the next stitch; repeat [1 sc in the next 5, increase] around (21 stitches).
- Round 7: 1 sc in the next 2 stitches, then increase in the next stitch; repeat [1 sc in the next 2, increase] around until you get 28 stitches.
- Rounds 8-9: 1 sc in each stitch around (28 stitches each round).
- Round 10: 1 sc in the next 2 stitches, then make a decrease; repeat [1 sc in the next 2, decrease] around (21 stitches total).
- Round 11: 1 sc, then decrease; repeat [1 sc, decrease] around (14 stitches). Before closing, stuff the strawberry.
- Round 12 (Final): Decrease 7 times. Chain 1, cut the yarn leaving a long tail for sewing.
Seeds:
- With white yarn, sew seeds vertically.
Leaf:
- Magic Ring.
- 5 sc in the ring, pull to close, and make a slip stitch.
- Chain 4, skip the first chain, slip stitch into the second, make a single crochet in the next two chains.
- Slip stitch on the ring base, and repeat steps 2-3 to form a star shape.
- Sew to the top of the strawberry.
Cherry Keychain Pattern:
Cherries (Make 2):
- Magic Ring.
- Round 1: 8 single crochets (sc) in the ring.
- Round 2: Increase in each stitch around (16 stitches).
- Rounds 3-5: 1 sc in each stitch around (16 stitches each round).
- Round 6: 2 sc, then decrease; repeat [2 sc, decrease] around (12 stitches).
- Final Round: Decrease 6 times. Leave a long tail for sewing.
Stalk:
- With green yarn, chain 15, then follow a pattern of [slip stitch, single crochet, half double crochet, 2 double crochets, half double crochet, single crochet, slip stitch] to form one half of the leaf. Repeat the pattern in reverse on the other side of the chain to complete the leaf.
- Chain 60 for the connections between the cherries and leaf, and to attach to the keychain ring.
Assembly:
- Fill cherries with stuffing before closing.
- Sew the openings of the cherries closed and attach to the stalk.
- Optionally, sew a leaf to each cherry.
- Attach the keychain ring.
Finishing:
- Sew details as needed and attach any optional accessories, such as ribbons or bows.
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