Step-by-Step Instructions to Crochet Mr. Ribbit

A slipknot makes a loop you can pull bigger or smaller. It’s the first loop you’ll put on your hook. Let’s make one together!

A slipknot makes a loop you can pull bigger or smaller. It’s the first loop you’ll put on your hook. Let’s make one together!

Learn how to hold your yarn so it can slide through your fingers without getting too loose or too tight. Try a few simple tricks to keep your fingers relaxed.

🪝 More help holding your yarn and hook

Learn how to hold your yarn so it can slide through your fingers without getting too loose or too tight. Try a few simple tricks to keep your fingers relaxed.

🪝 More help holding your yarn and hook

Get to know the parts of your crochet hook, then try holding it like a knife or a pencil. Choose the hold that feels comfortable in your hand.

🪝 More help holding your yarn and hook

Get to know the parts of your crochet hook, then try holding it like a knife or a pencil. Choose the hold that feels comfortable in your hand.

🪝 More help holding your yarn and hook

Learn to make a chain stitch, then make two chains to create a chain-2 start for your plushie’s first round. Keep these two chains, or make extras for practice—the next lesson shows how to undo the extras.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Foundation: Chain-2 Start

🪝 Alternative: a magic ring is an adjustable starting loop you can pull closed to avoid a hole in the center.

Learn to make a chain stitch, then make two chains to create a chain-2 start for your plushie’s first round. Keep these two chains, or make extras for practice—the next lesson shows how to undo the extras.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Foundation: Chain-2 Start

🪝 Alternative: a magic ring is an adjustable starting loop you can pull closed to avoid a hole in the center.

Learn to undo stitches, called frogging, so you can fix mistakes. If you made extra practice chains, undo the extras and keep your first two for the first round.

Learn to undo stitches, called frogging, so you can fix mistakes. If you made extra practice chains, undo the extras and keep your first two for the first round.

Learn to make a single crochet stitch and find the little V at its top to count your stitches. Use six single crochets to make your first round.

🧶 Written pattern:
Round 1: 6 sc (6)

🧶 Found a knot or need to join a new yarn strand?

Learn to make a single crochet stitch and find the little V at its top to count your stitches. Use six single crochets to make your first round.

🧶 Written pattern:
Round 1: 6 sc (6)

🧶 Found a knot or need to join a new yarn strand?

Learn to make an increase (inc): two single crochet stitches in the same stitch. Each increase adds one stitch to your round, helping your plushie grow wider.

Learn to make an increase (inc): two single crochet stitches in the same stitch. Each increase adds one stitch to your round, helping your plushie grow wider.

Use increases and single crochet to widen Mr. Ribbit’s body, following the rounds below.

🧶 Written pattern:
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3: [sc, inc] x 6 (18)
Round 4: [2 sc, inc] x 6 (24)
Round 5: [3 sc, inc] x 6 (30)
Round 6: [4 sc, inc] x 6 (36)
Round 7-11: 36 sc (36)

Use increases and single crochet to widen Mr. Ribbit’s body, following the rounds below.

🧶 Written pattern:
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3: [sc, inc] x 6 (18)
Round 4: [2 sc, inc] x 6 (24)
Round 5: [3 sc, inc] x 6 (30)
Round 6: [4 sc, inc] x 6 (36)
Round 7-11: 36 sc (36)

Learn to make a decrease (dec), turning two stitches into one. Each decrease removes one stitch from your round, making your crochet narrower.

Learn to make a decrease (dec), turning two stitches into one. Each decrease removes one stitch from your round, making your crochet narrower.

Use decreases to narrow Mr. Ribbit’s body and add stuffing before finishing the final rounds.

🧶 Written pattern:
Round 12: [4 sc, dec] x 6 (30)
Round 13: [3 sc, dec] x 6 (24)
- Start stuffing the plushie before the opening becomes too narrow. Add more stuffing as you go.
Round 14: [2 sc, dec] x 6 (18)
Round 15: [sc, dec] x 6 (12)
Round 16: 6 dec (6)
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 6-inch tail.
- Fasten Off

Use decreases to narrow Mr. Ribbit’s body and add stuffing before finishing the final rounds.

🧶 Written pattern:
Round 12: [4 sc, dec] x 6 (30)
Round 13: [3 sc, dec] x 6 (24)
- Start stuffing the plushie before the opening becomes too narrow. Add more stuffing as you go.
Round 14: [2 sc, dec] x 6 (18)
Round 15: [sc, dec] x 6 (12)
Round 16: 6 dec (6)
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 6-inch tail.
- Fasten Off

Thread the yarn tail through the front loop of each stitch around the opening and gently pull it closed. Hide the yarn tail inside your plushie.

Thread the yarn tail through the front loop of each stitch around the opening and gently pull it closed. Hide the yarn tail inside your plushie.

Use single crochet and increases to make Mr. Ribbit’s belly patch. Finish its edge in the next lesson before sewing.

🧶 Written pattern:
Belly
- Chain-2 Start or Magic Ring
Round 1: 6 sc (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3: [sc, inc] x 6 (18)
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 12-inch tail.
- Invisible Fasten Off

🪝 Help starting this part
Chain-2 start
Magic ring alternative

Use single crochet and increases to make Mr. Ribbit’s belly patch. Finish its edge in the next lesson before sewing.

🧶 Written pattern:
Belly
- Chain-2 Start or Magic Ring
Round 1: 6 sc (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3: [sc, inc] x 6 (18)
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 12-inch tail.
- Invisible Fasten Off

🪝 Help starting this part
Chain-2 start
Magic ring alternative

Learn to finish with a sewn stitch that blends into the surrounding stitches. Gently adjust your new V until it matches the size of the others.

Learn to finish with a sewn stitch that blends into the surrounding stitches. Gently adjust your new V until it matches the size of the others.

Learn where to position the belly patch and how to sew around its edge to attach it to Mr. Ribbit’s body.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Sew the belly to the body between rounds 7 and 13.
- Thread the long tail from the invisible fasten off through the needle. Insert the needle in the stitch that is directly beneath the yarn tail and out of the body right beneath the closest stitch on the belly’s edge.
- Continue sewing through the body then the belly, then back through the belly into the body. This way the seam will be nearly invisible.
- When sewing, it is important to check back every stitch or two to make sure the parts are well aligned.

Learn where to position the belly patch and how to sew around its edge to attach it to Mr. Ribbit’s body.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Sew the belly to the body between rounds 7 and 13.
- Thread the long tail from the invisible fasten off through the needle. Insert the needle in the stitch that is directly beneath the yarn tail and out of the body right beneath the closest stitch on the belly’s edge.
- Continue sewing through the body then the belly, then back through the belly into the body. This way the seam will be nearly invisible.
- When sewing, it is important to check back every stitch or two to make sure the parts are well aligned.

Crochet two matching eye pieces and learn how to secure a safety eye inside each one.

🧶 Written pattern:
Eyes x 2
- Chain-2 Start or Magic Ring
Round 1: 6 sc (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3-4: 12 sc (12)
- Insert the eye in the center of round 1
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 6-inch tail for sewing.
- Fasten Off

🪝 Help starting this part
Chain-2 start
Magic ring alternative

Crochet two matching eye pieces and learn how to secure a safety eye inside each one.

🧶 Written pattern:
Eyes x 2
- Chain-2 Start or Magic Ring
Round 1: 6 sc (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3-4: 12 sc (12)
- Insert the eye in the center of round 1
- Cut the yarn, leaving a 6-inch tail for sewing.
- Fasten Off

🪝 Help starting this part
Chain-2 start
Magic ring alternative

Learn where to position the two eye pieces on top of Mr. Ribbit’s head and how to sew them securely to the body.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Sew the eyes symmetrically to the top of the body, between rounds 3 and 6.

Learn where to position the two eye pieces on top of Mr. Ribbit’s head and how to sew them securely to the body.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Sew the eyes symmetrically to the top of the body, between rounds 3 and 6.

Learn how to use a strand of yarn and a needle to sew Mr. Ribbit’s smile onto the face.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Using a 4-inch piece of yarn, insert the needle at the point where the smile should begin and bring it out at the point where the smile should end.
- Pull both yarn tails, tie a knot close to one exit point, then using the needle push the knot inside to finish the smile.

Mr. Ribbit, made by you. A finished plushie, and new skills to take into your next project.

Learn how to use a strand of yarn and a needle to sew Mr. Ribbit’s smile onto the face.

🧶 Written pattern:
- Using a 4-inch piece of yarn, insert the needle at the point where the smile should begin and bring it out at the point where the smile should end.
- Pull both yarn tails, tie a knot close to one exit point, then using the needle push the knot inside to finish the smile.

Mr. Ribbit, made by you. A finished plushie, and new skills to take into your next project.