These little snowpeople will help you smile through the holidays. Made with any yarn of your choice, they can be as traditional or as wild as you’d like. Make tiny ones as ornaments or tall ones to sit on a table…either way, they’re bound to add a cheerful touch to the festivities.
Materials:
Yarn of your choice, including scraps of yarn or thread for a scarf or other decoration. A crochet hook in size needed for you to produce a tight, stuffable fabric in single crochet (I’d suggest a size F (3.75 mm) for worsted weight yarn). Polyester fiberfill or other stuffing material sufficient to stuff snowperson firmly. Tapestry needle for joining, embroidery, and weaving ends.
Abbreviations (U.S. notation):
ch…chain stitch
sc…single crochet
yo…yarn over
Special stitches:
sc2tog: Insert hook through both loops of next sc, yo and pull through, insert hook through both loops of next sc, yo and pull through, yo and pull through all 3 loops on the hook: 1 sc2tog (counts as 1 sc).
Notes:
The snowperson benefits from being stuffed a little more loosely than I would normally stuff an amigurumi, since it makes it possible to get each section nice and round and to flatten the bottom against whatever surface he’ll be sitting on. If the bottom is stuffed too firmly, he’ll have a tendency to fall over. I also like to stuff each section as I finish it, as I find this seems to make the stuffing more even. Decorate your snowperson however you’d like! For these, I made simple braided scarves. I embroidered one face and used buttons for the other. Be creative!
The Pattern:
Head and Body:
Beginning at top of head: ch 2.
Round 1: 6 sc in 2nd ch from hook: 6 sc. Do not join.
Round 2: 2 sc in each sc around: 12 sc.
Round 3: [2 sc in next sc, sc in next sc] around: 18 sc.
Round 4: [2 sc in next sc, sc in next 2 sc] around: 24 sc.
Round 5-8: Sc in each sc around: 24 sc. (Total of 4 rounds worked even.)
Round 9: [sc2tog over next 2 sc, sc in next 2 sc] around: 18 sc.
Round 10: [sc2tog over next 2 sc, sc in next sc] around: 12 sc
(end head)
Round 11: [2 sc in next sc, sc in next sc] around: 18 sc.
Round 12: [2 sc in next sc, sc in next 2 sc] around: 24 sc.
Round 13: [2 sc in next sc, sc in next 3 sc] around: 30 sc.
Round 14-19: Sc in each sc around: 30 sc. (Total of 6 rounds worked even.)
Round 20: [sc2tog over next 2 sc, sc in next 3 sc] around: 24 sc.
Round 21: [sc2tog over next 2 sc, sc in next 2 sc] around: 18 sc.
(end midsection)
Round 22: [2 sc in next sc, sc in next 2 sc] around: 24 sc.
Round 23: [2 sc in next sc, sc in next 3 sc] around: 30 sc.
Round 24: [2 sc in next sc, sc in next 4 sc] around: 36 sc.
Round 25: [2 sc in next sc, sc in next 5 sc] around: 42 sc.
Round 26-33: Sc in each sc around: 42 sc. (Total of 8 rounds worked even.)
Round 34: [sc2tog over next 2 sc, sc in next 5 sc] around: 36 sc.
Round 35: [sc2tog over next 2 sc, sc in next 4 sc] around: 30 sc.
Round 36: [sc2tog over next 2 sc, sc in next 3 sc] around: 24 sc.
Round 37: [sc2tog over next 2 sc, sc in next 2 sc] around: 18 sc.
(finish stuffing)
Round 38: [sc2tog over next 2 sc, sc in next sc] around: 12 sc.
Round 39: Sc2tog around: 6 sc.
Round 40: Sc2tog around as needed to close remaining gap and finish off. Weave in end.
Enjoy your snowpeople!
Snowpeople crochet pattern is Copyright 2009 by
Deborah Ellis. Please do not reproduce this pattern
in whole or in part. Please feel free, however, to sell
any items that you make from this pattern. If you
have any questions at all, please contact the author
at neatlytangled@gmail.com. Thank you.
Sale of finished items is allowed.