STITCH ROUND Marshmallow cow amigurumi trio: strawberry, banana and watermelon
8 to 10 rounds build three mini cow amigurumi: strawberry, banana and watermelon.
- Skill
- Intermediate
- Rounds
- 41 rounds
- Yarn weight
- Bulky
- Hook
- 4.0 mm
- Time
- 6-8 hours
Intermediate
What the original page called it. Nothing here is graded a second time.
41 rounds
Each one gets its own line, with a box beside it to tick as you go.
Bulky
What the sample was made in. Any weight works — the size moves with it.
About this pattern
Three small cow bodies share the same bulky-yarn, 4.0mm base: a strawberry cow, a banana cow, and a watermelon cow, each ticked off in a main pattern of 8 or 10 rounds. Every variant then adds its own short pieces — horns, ears, nose, and a fruit-themed accent like banana peels, a belly, or a watermelon bag — so the body is the fast part and the trims are what set each cow apart.
The shaping sits in the small pieces more than the body itself. Horns build up over three rounds with a single increase row in the middle, ears finish in one row worked on both sides of a chain, and the banana peel piece repeats five times over seven rounds each. Slow down on the increase rows and on the double-sided ear chain, since a miscount there is the easiest way to end up with lopsided features.
- Work the main pattern rounds first to build the base body in the yarn color for that variant.
- Chain and single crochet the ears in one row, working both sides of the chain for each ear.
- Add the small nose piece and set it aside ready for sewing onto the face.
- the banana cow, repeat the banana peel piece five times before attaching it to the body.
- the strawberry or watermelon variant, finish the belly or bag accent piece before assembling the face.
What goes wrong
- Losing count on the ear chain row Work the ear in order, tracking the single crochet stitches and the increase at the end of the chain so both ears match.
- Sewing horns without checking spacing Mark the horn placement on the body before stitching so both horns sit level and evenly spaced on the head.
- Setting safety eyes after stuffing Insert and lock the plastic safety eyes while the head opening is still wide enough to reach through easily.
- Swapping similar yarn colors between pieces Lay out the neon yellow, yellow, pale pink, and white yarns separately before starting so body yarn is not used for horns, ears, or nose by mistake.
Yarn, hook and the rest
Copied from the source pattern's own materials list.
Yarn
- Bulky / Category 5
Colors
- White, yellow, neon yellow, and pink yarn
Hook
- 4.0mm (G/6)
Yarn
- Bulky / Category 5
Colors
- Yellow, yellow neon, light yellow, pink, and a little white yarn
Hook
- 4.0mm (G/6)
Yarn
- Bulky / Category 5
Colors
- Red, pale pink, green, a little pink and white yarn
Hook
- 4.0mm (G/6)
Yarn
- Bulky / Category 5
Colors
- Dark green, green, red, a little pink, white, and black yarn
Hook
- 4/0mm (G/6)
Tools
- Stitch marker
- Sewing needle
- Scissors
- Fiberfill
- Plastic safety eyes (6mm x 9mm)
- Stitch marker
- Sewing needle
- Scissors
- Fiberfill
- Plastic safety eyes (6mm x 8mm)
- Stitch marker
- Sewing needle
- Scissors
- Fiberfill
- Plastic safety eyes (6mm x 8mm)
- Stitch marker
- Sewing needle
- Scissors
- Fiberfill
- Plastic safety eyes (6mm x 8mm)
Progress tracker
0 of the 41 rounds on this page are ticked.
The pattern, round by round
Kept in the order and the wording the source used. Tick a round as you finish it; the ticks stay on this device.
Main Pattern
Step by step: Use neon yellow yarn.
Step by step: Use yellow yarn.
Step by step: Use pale pink yarn.
Step by step: Use dark green yarn.
Round 1
3SC, 4SC, 3SC in the last st, 4SC, 2SC, INC (18)Step by step: [(SC, SC) in one st] 6 times (12).Step by step: Row 2-4: 4SC (4) 3 rows total.Make CH4, start in the second chain from the hook (work both 2 sides of the chain): SLST, 2SC), SLST in 2nd st of R4, repeat 4 timesStep by step: Fasten off and leave a long tail of sewing to the body in R1-R3.Step by step: Fasten off and leave a long tail of yarn. Sew the ears into R4 of the body.
Round 2
INC, 2SC, 4SC, 3INC, 4SC, 2SC, 2INC (24)
Round 3
SC, INC, 2SC, 4SC, (SC, INC) 3 times, 5SC, SC, (SC, INC) 2 times (30)Fasten off and leave a long tail of yarn. Sewing the horns into R2-3 of the body, 2sts between them.Fasten off and leave a long tail of yarn. Sewing the horns into R2-3 of the body, 2sts between them.Fasten off and leave a long tail of yarn. Sewing the horns into R2-3 of the body, 2sts between them.
Round 4
5SC, 19SC, 6SC (30)
Round 5
3SC, 22SC, 5SC (30)Row 6-15: (3SC, 2SC) (30) 10 rows total Attach the eyes between R7 and R8, the first eye attached between the 12th and 13th stitch, and 5sts between the eyes.Step by step: 3SC, SC, DEC, SC, DEC, SC, DEC, SC, 2SC, 3SC, SC, DEC, SC, DEC, SC, DEC, SC, 2SC (24); 3SC, DEC, DEC, DEC, SC, 2SC, 3SC, DEC, DEC, DEC, SC, 2SC (18).Stuffing: Press the two edges of the yarn together with your hand and close them with 9SC, begin in the 5th st as shown.Row 6-14: 30SC (30) 9 rows total Attach the eyes between R7 and R8, the first eye attached between the 12th and 13th stitch, and 5sts between the eyes.Row 6-9: 30SC (30) 4 rows total Attach the eyes between R5 and 6, the first eye attached in the middle of the 6th-7th stitch, 5sts between eyes.
Round 10
10SC, 10SC, 10SC (30)
Round 11
9SC, 13SC, 8SC (30)
Round 12
7SC, 17SC, 6SC (30)
Round 13
SC, DEC, 4SC, 3SC, (SC, DEC) 3 times, 5SC, (SC, DEC) 2 times (24)
Round 14
DEC, 4SC, 3SC, DEC 4 times, 5SC, DEC 2 times (18)Stuffing: Press the two edges together with your hand and sew the two edges together. Weave in the yarn end and cut.
Horns (Make 2)
Use yellow yarn
Round 1
4SC in a MR (4)
Round 2
(SC, INC) 2 times (4)
Round 3
6SC (6)Fasten off and leave a long tail of yarn for sewing. Sew the horns in R1 of the body, 4sts between them.
Ears (Make 2)
Use neon yellow yarn
Round 1
Make 5ch (Working on both sides of a chain) start in the second chain from the hook: 3SC, 3SC in the last st, 2SC, INC (10)Fasten off and leave a long tail of yarn for sewing. Sew the ears into R2-3 of the body.
Nose
Use pink yarn
Round 1
Make 4ch (Working on both sides of a chain), start in the second chain from the hook: INC, SC, 4SC in the last st, SC, INC (10)Fasten off and leave a long tail of yarn for sewing. Embroider the white lines into the nose, and then sew the nose into R6-7 the body as shown.
Main Pattern
Round 1
6SC in a MR (6)
Round 2
6INC (12)
Round 3
(SC, INC) 6 times (18)
Round 4
(2SC, INC) 6 times (24)
Round 5
(3SC, INC) 6 times (30)Row 6-9: 30SC (30) 4 rows total Attach the eyes between R6 and R7, the first eye attached between the 13th and 14th stitch, and 6sts between the eyes. Cut the yarn.Change to neon yellow yarn
Round 10
BLO in all st, 30SC (30)Row 11-15: 30SC (30) 5 rows total
Round 16
3SC, (SC, DEC) 3 times, 6SC, (SC, DEC) 3 times, 3SC (24)
Round 17
3SC, 3DEC, 6SC, 3DEC, 3SC (18)
Stuffing: Press the two edges of the yarn with your hand and sew 2 edges together. Cut the yarn & weave the end in.
Stuffing: Press the two edges of the yarn with your hand and sew 2 edges together. Cut the yarn & weave the end in.
Banana Peels (Make 5)
Use neon yellow yarn. Pick up the yarn in the second of the FLO st of R10 and crochet.
Round 1
5SC, tch (5)
Round 2
5SC, tch (5)
Round 3
3SC, DEC, tch (4)
Round 4
2SC, DEC, tch (3)
Round 5
3SC, tch (3)
Round 6
SC, DEC, tch (2)Cut the yarn & weave the end in. Skip 1BLO st and crochet the next BLO st.Make similar for the other 4 peels, pick up previously skipped BLO st, and continue crocheting the edges of each peel:
Round 7
(SC into previously skipped BLO st, 5SC, 2INC, 5SC) 5 times Cut the yarn & weave the end in.
Nose
Use pink yarn
Round 1
Make 4ch, start in the second chain from the hook: INC, SC, 3SC in the last st, 2SC (8)Fasten off and leave a long tail of yarn. Embroider the white line into the nose, then sew the nose into R7-8 of the body, between 2 eyes as shown.
Use yellow yarn to make the lines from the points between 2 peels into the center of R17 as shown. Cut the yarn & weave the end in.
Ears (Make 2)
Use red yarn
Round 1
Make 5ch, start in the second chain from the hook (work both 2 sides of the chain): 3SC, 3SC in the last st, 2SC, INC (10)Fasten off and leave a long tail of yarn. Sew the ears into R4 of the body.
Nose
Use pink yarn
Round 1
Make 4ch, start in the second chain from the hook (work both 2 sides of the chain): 2SC, 3SC in the last st, SC, INC (8)Fasten off and leave a long tail of yarn. Embroider the white line into the nose, then sew the nose into R8-9 of the body, between 2 eyes as shown.
Belly
Use pale pink yarn
Round 1
Make 4ch, start in the second chain from the hook (work both 2 sides of the chain): 2SC, 3SC in the last st, SC, INC (8)
Round 2
INC, SC, 3INC, SC, 2INC (14)
Round 3
SC, INC, SC, (SC, INC) 3 times, SC, (SC, INC) 2 times (4)Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing it to the body in R11-R15 Use white yarn to embroider the strawberry seeds around the body
Ears (Make 2)
Use green yarn
Round 1
Make 5ch (Work on the both sides of the chain), start in the second chain from the hook: 3SC, 3SC in the last st, 2SC, INC (10)Fasten off and leave a long tail of yarn. Sew the ears into R4 of the body.
Nose
Use pink yarn
Round 1
Make 4ch, start in the second chain from the hook: 2SC, 3SC in the last st, SC, INC (8)Begin with red yarn
Round 1
5SC in a MR, fasten off and do not close the ring, tch (5)
Round 2
5INC, tch (10)
End R2, Change to dark green yarn
Fasten off and leave a long tail of yarn. Embroider the white line into the nose, then sew the nose into R8-9 of the body, between 2 eyes as shown.
Watermelon Bag
Round 3
10SC (10)
Use black yarn to embroider the seeds into the watermelon bag as shown. Sew the R3 of the watermelon bag between R12-14 of the body. Cut the yarn & weave the end in.
Check your count
- Main Pattern · Round 3: 30 sts
- Main Pattern · Round 10: 30 sts
- Main Pattern · Round 13: 24 sts
- Main Pattern · Round 14: 18 sts
- Horns (Make 2) · Round 1: 4 sts
- Horns (Make 2) · Round 2: 4 sts
Finish
- Stuff the body firmly while the last rounds of the main pattern are still open, then close and fasten off.
- Pin the horns, ears, nose, and any fruit accent piece in place, set the plastic safety eyes, and sew everything down.
Bigger or smaller
- Larger
- Move up from the 4.0mm hook and a heavier-than-bulky yarn to scale the body, horns, ears, and nose up together while keeping the same round counts.
- Smaller
- Drop to a finer yarn with a smaller hook so the same rounds pull in tighter, shrinking the body and every attached piece to match.
Photographs of this one
Every photograph on this page was taken by whoever published the pattern, and they are printed in the order the source listed them.
FAQs
Asked and answered
These answers came from whoever first published the pattern, kept word for word.
Does the same body work for all three cow variants?
Yes, the main pattern forms the base body used for the strawberry, banana, and watermelon versions. Only the yarn colors and the extra accent piece — banana peels, belly, or watermelon bag — change between them.
What hook and yarn does this pattern call for?
All three variants use bulky (Category 5) yarn with a 4.0mm (G/6) hook. Colors change by variant, but the weight and hook stay the same throughout.
How many banana peels are needed for the banana cow?
The banana peel piece is made five times, with each peel worked over seven rounds. Repeat it five separate times before attaching the peels to the body.
What size safety eyes should be used?
The cow variant uses 6mm x 9mm plastic safety eyes, while the banana cow uses 6mm x 8mm. Match the eye size to the variant being made.