Let's start and create your own cuddly little crochet monkey friend with this super simple, fun pattern. If you love making cute things, this pattern will also be easier! I'll walk you through it step by step. This monkey isn't big – it's tiny and can easily sit in your hand! And guess what? It's made with cozy yarn in pretty colors like black, white, grey, and orange. You can even make a fluffy beard for it to look extra adorable. Plus, there's a neat twist: the monkey is sitting on a banana in the picture, and you can also copy it.
Crochet Monkey Pattern
Materials and tools
Yarn:
Yarnart Jeans, Colors:
- Black (53),
- light grey (46),
- dark grey (28),
- orange (85),
- white (03),
- yellow (88).
A small quantity of thin white fluffy yarn (mohair, angora).
Size of the toy made with this yarn is about 18 cm.
- Crochet hook according to your yarn (I used Clover 1,75).
- Yarn needle, sewing needle.
- Brown thread for embroidering nose and eyebrows.
- The diameter of the button eyes is 5 mm, and a sewing thread of black colour is used to sew the eyes.
- Polyester fiberfill.
- Button eyes
Abbreviations
- MR magic ring
- ch chain stitch
- st(s) stitch(es)
- slst - slip stitch
- Sc-single crochet
- hdc - half double crochet
- inc - increase (2 sc in the same st)
- dec - decrease (crochet 2 sts together)
- (...) x n - repeat the instructions in the brackets n times (n) - amount of sts in row
- rnd(s) - round(s)
Work in continuous rounds unless otherwise instructed.
Body
Start with light grey.
- 1 rnd: 6 sc in MR
- 2 rnd: 6 inc (12)
- 3 rnd: (1 SC, 1 inc) x 6 (18)
- 4 rnd: (2 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (24)
- 5 rnd: (3 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (30)
- 6 rnd: (4 SC, 1 inc) x 6 (36)
- 7-12 rnds: 36 sc (6 rnds)
- 13 rnd: (7 SC, 1 dec) x 4 (32)
- 14 rnd: 32 SC
- 15 rnd: (6 sc, 1 dec) x 4 (28)
- 16 rnd: 28 sc
- Change to dark grey colour.
- 17 rnd: 28 sc
- 18 rnd: (5 SC, 1 dec) x 4 (24)
- 19 rnd: 11 SC, join orange yarn (don't cut dark grey): 2 sc, change to dark grey: 11 Sc
Change to orange colour. Cut dark grey yarn.
- 20 rnd: 24 SC
- 21 rnd: (4 SC, 1 dec) x 4 (20)
Fasten off, stuff the detail, and hide the yarn end inside.
Head
Crochet in dark grey.
- 1 rnd: 6 sc in MR
- 2 rnd: 6 inc (12)
- 3 rnd: (1 SC, 1 inc) x 6 (18)
- 4 rnd: (2 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (24)
- 5 rnd: (3 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (30)
- 6 rnd: (4 SC, 1 inc) x 6 (36)
- 7 rnd: (5 SC, 1 inc) x 6 (42)
- 8-9 rnds: 42 sc (2 rnds)
- 10 rnd: (6 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (48)
- 11-18 rnds: 48 sc (8 rnds)
- 19 rnd: (6 sc, 1 dec) x 6 (42)
- 20 rnd: (5 SC, 1 dec) x 6 (36)
- 21 rnd: (4 SC, 1 dec) x 6 (30)
- 22 rnd: (3 SC, 1 dec) x 6 (24)
- 23 rnd: (4 SC, 1 dec) x 4 (20)
Fasten off and cut the yarn, leaving a long tail for sewing.
Stuff the detail.
Arms (make two)
Start with black color.
- 1 rnd: 6 sc in MR
- 2 rnd: (2 SC, 1 inc) x 2 (8)
- 3-5 rnds: 8 sc (3 rnds) Change to white colour.
- 6-12 rnds: 8 sc (7 rnds) Change to dark grey.
- 13-21 rnds: 8 sc (9 rnds)
Stuff only the tips of the arms.
Fold the detail and crochet 4 sc, joining both sides together.
Fasten off and cut the yarn, leaving a long tail for sewing.
Legs (make two)
Start with black color.
1 rnd: 6 sc in MR
2 rnd: (1 SC, 1 inc) x 3 (9)
3-5 rnds: 9 sc (3 rnds) Change to orange colour.
6-16 rnds: 9 sc (11 rnds) Change to dark grey colour.
17-27 rnds: 9 sc (11 rnds)
Stuff only the tips of the legs.
Fold the detail and crochet 4 sc, joining both sides together.
Fasten off and cut the yarn, leaving a long tail for sewing.
Face
Crochet in yellow.
- 1 rnd: 6 sc in MR
- 2 rnd: 6 inc (12)
- 3 rnd: (1 SC, 1 inc) x 6 (18)
- 4 rnd: (2 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (24)
- 5 rnd: (3 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (30)
- 6 rnd: (4 SC, 1 inc) x 6 (36), slst
Fasten off and cut the yarn, leaving a long tail for sewing.
Muzzle
Crochet in yellow.
- 1 rnd: 5 ch, start in the second chain from the hook: 1 inc, 2 sc, 3 sc in the last st, turn and continue on the other side of the chain, 3 sc (10)
Continue crocheting in a spiral.
- 2 rnd: 2 inc, 2 sc, 3 inc, 2 sc, 1 inc (16)
- 3 rnd: (1 sc, 1 inc) x 2, 2 SC, (1 sc, 1 inc) x 3, 3 SC, 1 inc (22)
- 4 rnd: (2 sc, 1 inc) x 2, 2 sc, (2 sc, 1 inc) x 3, 4 SC, 1 inc (28)
- 5-6 rnds: 28 sc (2 rnds), slst
Fasten off cut the yarn leaving a long tail for sewing.
Ears (make two)
Crochet in orange.
- 1 rnd: 6 sc in MR
- 2 rnd: 6 inc (12)
- 3 rnd: (1 sc, 1 inc) x 6 (18)
Fasten off and cut the yarn, leaving a long tail for sewing.
Tail
Start with white colour.
- 1 rnd: 6 sc in MR
- 2-7 rnds: 6 sc (6 rnds)
Change to light grey.
- 8-35 rnds: 6 sc (28 rnds)
Don't stuff.
Fasten off and cut the yarn, leaving a long tail for sewing.
Assembling
Sew the head to the body.
Add some fiberfill to the neck while sewing.
Sew the arms on round 20 of the body.
Sew the legs on round 11.
Put the face on the head below round 9 of the head; fix pins around it to mark the border of the face.
Take the face away.
Free crochet pattern by @lucy_rose_toys
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