Bring peace and playfulness to your crochet collection with this adorable yoga bear keyring pattern. Perfect for gifting or keeping, this project blends charm and function, transforming your leftover yarn into a pocket-sized mindful buddy. The step-by-step instructions guide you through crafting each detail—from the bear’s expressive face and cozy outfit to its relaxed yoga pose.
Crochet Yoga Bear Keyring
Whether you’re a beginner or experienced crocheter, this pattern offers fun customization with different colors for the outfit, and it’s a fantastic way to create a cute, personal accessory that clips onto bags, keys, or backpacks. Add a little calm to your creativity with this meditative make!
Materials Needed
- Sunny yarn in three colors (body, pants, top)
- Doll eyes and a nose or yarn for features
- Black yarn for nose detailing
- Keyring loop (ball chain preferred)
- Size 3 crochet hook
- Markers, scissors, yarn needle
- Glue gun or wood glue for attaching eyes/nose
Making the Keyring Loop
- Make a slip knot with body color yarn
- Chain 10
- Cut yarn, leaving 10 cm, and pull through the last loop
Head
- Round 1: Magic ring, 6 SC
- Round 2: Increase in each stitch (12 SC)
- Rounds 3–6: Evenly increase 6 stitches per round
- Rounds 7–12: SC around (36 SC)
- Attach keyring loop to the center top of the head
- Rounds 13–15: Decrease 6 stitches evenly per round, stuffing as you go
- Close the opening
Nose
- Follow head Rounds 1–2 (12 SC)
- Round 3: SC around
- Fasten off, leave a long tail for sewing
Ears (Make 2)
- Follow head Rounds 1–2 (12 SC)
- Round 3: (SC 2, Inc) around (16 SC)
- Rounds 4–5: SC around
- Fasten off, leave tail for sewing
Tail
- Follow head Rounds 1–2 (12 SC)
- Round 3: SC around
- Round 4: Decrease around (6 SC)
- Fasten off, leave tail for sewing
Arms (Make 2)
- Follow head Rounds 1–2 (12 SC)
- Round 3: (SC 3, Inc) around (15 SC)
- Round 4: (SC, Dec) x5 (10 SC)
- Rounds 5–18: SC around, stuff lightly
- Close the opening
Legs and Body (Make 2 Legs, then Join)
Legs
- Rounds 1–3: Follow head increase pattern to 18 SC
- Round 4: SC around
- Round 5: (SC, Dec) x6 (12 SC)
- Rounds 6–7: SC around
- Close the opening
Pants
- Chain 14, join into ring
- Round 1: SC around, decrease 2 evenly (12 SC)
- Round 2: Attach foot, SC around
- Round 3: Decrease 2 evenly (10 SC)
- Rounds 4–8: SC around
- Round 9: Increase 2 evenly (12 SC)
- Rounds 10–11: SC around
- Round 12: Increase 2 evenly (14 SC)
- Rounds 13–15: SC around
Repeat for second leg and join to begin body.
Body
- Rounds 1–5: Increase at beginning and end of Rounds 1 & 2, then SC around
- Round 6: Decrease 6 evenly
- Round 7: SC around
- Switch to shirt color
- Work in rows to form shirt, switching colors for sleeves
- Attach arms as you crochet last body rounds
Neck: Decrease for shaping
Assembly
- Stuff the body
- Sew head to body
- Make and attach shoulder straps
- Sew ears onto head
- Attach nose and sew a black line under it
- Glue on eyes
- Sew tail onto back
Final Pose
- Use yarn to stitch bear into desired yoga pose
- Adjust limbs gently for balance and cuteness
This bear’s ready to Zen out on your keys or gift someone a little handmade calm!
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