A cute and beginner friendly crochet pattern to make your own cat daruma doll. The Daruma is a traditional Japanese doll, which can be used as a lucky charm - to wish good luck, health, wealth and more! They can come in many colours and each colour has it’s own meaning.

This makes them the purrfect gift to wish your loved ones much luck and all the best!
They also make a purffect stress and worry reliever, since they fit into your palm and are very squishy!

The PDF file is written in US crochet terms and consists of clear instructions and picture tutorials. The pattern leaves a lot of room for customisations to express your own creativity and you can use the materials and tools you are comfortable with.

Feel free to use different colour combinations to give your daruma a different meaning! You can also easily substitute cotton yarn for any type of yarn you like!

Recommended for confident beginners:
It’s suitable for beginners, but maybe not for your very first amigurumi.

For this pattern you do need some basic knowledge about crocheting in the round, the basic stitches, like: increasing, decreasing, how to colour change, pick up a stitch, ensembling an amigurumi and some experience in embroidery, but overall a lot of enthusiasm and patience!

Materials

• 2.5 mm hook
• 2 mm hook
• scrap yarn or stitch marker
• polyester fibre fill (toy stuffing)
• yarn needle
• Optional: pink powder blush for the cheeks

Yarn
- Katia capri cotton 2.5 mm: red for the body and ears.
White for the face.
- Hobbii rainbow cotton 8/4 (2.5 mm) in yellow mustard to embroider the heart and stripes

-Black lace yarn - 1.5/1 mm or black embroidery thread
to embroider the facial expression and whiskers & pink for the nose.

Size
Exact gauge is not important for Amigurumi, you can adjust the size by using thicker or thinner yarn and another hook size. If you do use the materials and exact sizes as listed above, your daruma will be approximately 5 cm tall and 4.5 cm wide.