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Amigurumi basics apply here: fiberfill for stuffing, safety eyes if you want a face rather than embroidered ones, and a smaller hook than you’d use for a garment.
7 Free Crochet Lemon Patterns
1. Lemon Crochet Coaster
Anastasia at Crochet With Cookie starts this coaster with 15 dc into a chain 4 loop, using 100% cotton yarn (acrylic can melt under a hot mug) with a 4 mm hook. Starting from 15 double crochet in a chain 4 loop keeps the center flat rather than domed, which matters for a coaster meant to sit level.
2. Lemon Amigurumi Keychain
Mariska Vos-Bolman at DIY Fluffies embroiders the eyes between rounds 7 to 8 and 12 to 13, in cotton yarn with a 2.5 mm hook for a 2 inch keychain, or chenille with a 5 mm hook for a 6 inch plush. Having both a tiny keychain scale and a larger plush scale in one pattern means you don’t need a second source to make a bigger lemon.
3. Lemon Amigurumi
MJ Carlos at Hello Yellow Yarn works this lemon in continuous spiral rounds from a magic ring, in 8 ply DK yarn with 2.5 mm and 3 mm hooks. Working in continuous spiral rounds from the start keeps the whole lemon seamless, similar to the featured pattern above.
4. Lemonade Lemon Bunting
Heather Boyer at My Creative Blog works double treble stitches into the front loop of round 1 for a dimensional, textured lemon, in worsted weight yarn with a 4 mm hook. Double treble stitches worked into the front loop create noticeably more raised texture than the plain single crochet lemons elsewhere on this list.
5. Mini Crochet Lemon Keychain
Rachel at Desert Blossom Crafts holds two strands of size 10 crochet thread together for a thicker fabric at fine gauge, with an F hook and a picot point border. Holding two strands of fine thread together is a different way to build fabric density than switching to a thicker single strand yarn.
6. Lemon Keychain Amigurumi
Ljubomir Kostin at Kostin Designs finishes about 5 centimeters, or 2 inches, in 100% mercerized cotton (about 20g) on a 2.2mm hook, with no safety eyes or wires needed, plus an optional leaf piece and chain loop.
7. Lemon Amigurumi Keychain with Face
Amivui Studio works this one on a 3 to 4mm hook, distinguished by black crocheted arms and legs with finger like details and pink pouty lips, a more character styled face than the plainer lemons above.
Seven lemons, sorted by what they’re for
- A coaster: Crochet With Cookie (#1), in 100% cotton because the pattern warns acrylic can melt under a hot mug.
- A keychain: Kostin Designs (#6), about 2 inches in mercerized cotton with no safety eyes or wires, or DIY Fluffies (#2), which is 2 inches in cotton or 6 inches in chenille.
- A face and limbs: Amivui Studio (#7), with black crocheted arms and legs.
- Texture: Heather Boyer’s bunting lemon (#4) works double trebles into the front loop, and Desert Blossom Crafts (#5) holds two strands of size 10 thread together.