Secret the Pumpkitten is a cute pumpkin with a kitten poking her head out of the pumpkin top. Use this adorable plushie as Halloween home decor, DIY fall decorations, or for gifting. Customize the cat to any color fur you want, or to match your own kitty at home!
Secret the Pumpkitten Premium Crochet Pattern
Secret the Pumpkitten—an amigurumi cat in a pumpkin—is my newest Halloween-themed crochet pattern!
Read on to learn more about my design process and inspiration. To make this doll, grab the beautifully formatted, ad-free, PDF pattern from Etsy here.
The easiest pumpkin ever!
Secret the Pumpkitten began with my desire to make some cute fall or Halloween themed decoration. Pumpkins are really popular this time of year, and what with the endless deluge of them I was seeing on social media, I really wanted to try to make my own.
Long story short, I tried a few patterns, and miserably failed at making my pumpkin. After a while, I decided that I would try on my own to design a pattern that was more approachable for me, and ended up with the pumpkin base that you see here! This pumpkin pattern is truly simple and is created from a sphere shape. As long as you can make a ball, then you can make this pumpkin! After that, the way to create those signature pumpkin grooves is just some easy stitching that pulls the sides of the sphere tight.
Secret the pumpkin cat
I loved the pumpkin that I came up with, but I wanted to add something extra. My sister has the most adorable gray Siberian cat named Secret, and she insisted that I include her in the pattern somehow. Secret is gray with the cutest white tufts of fur, and here are a few pictures from her last outing! She will reluctantly take walks on a leash (read: sit down while you insistently tug on the leash and then inevitably give up).
For my amigurumi, I decided on a cute pose of Secret’s head poking out the top of the pumpkin, complete with tiny paws and the pumpkin top sitting on her head.
The final result is super cute and very on theme for Halloween given the prevalence of cats and pumpkins around this holiday! If you’re also a cat lover, you could definitely change the color of the fur to match your own feline, or any imaginary cat color you wish. I can also imagine this amigurumi sticking around past Halloween, since fall and pumpkins mesh together quite well!
Get The Pattern
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Description
Secret the Pumpkitten is a cute pumpkin with a kitten poking her head out of the pumpkin top. Use this adorable plushie as Halloween home decor, DIY fall decorations, or for gifting. Customize the cat to any color fur you want, or to match your own kitty at home!
Yarn
- Red Heart Super Saver
- <1 skein of Burnt Orange (worsted weight)
- Hobbii Tivoli
- <1 skein of Gray (sport weight)
- <1 skein of Green (sport weight)
- Lion Brand DIYarn
- <1 skein of Brown (worsted weight)
Notions
- Size C (2.5 mm) Clover Amour crochet hook
- Size E (3.5 mm) Clover Amour crochet hook
- 4.0 mm safety eyes
- tapestry needle
- polyester fiberfill
- stitch markers
- black embroidery thread
- pink embroidery thread
I hope you like Secret the Pumpkitten! If you run into any problems feel free to ask me a question in the comments section below or through email at littleworldofwhimsy@gmail.com.
If you want to make more crochet plushies, check out these patterns:
Hi, I LOVE your Secret the Pumpkitten pattern and have already started it, my only question is that you have FSC: foundation single crochet in your abbreviation list but is never used in this pattern and throughout your pattern you have MR (which I know means magic ring) but it not listed in your abbreviation list. I quickly looked over the entire pattern before beginning my pumpkin and am not sure if FSC was ever meant to be used in this pattern or not, can you let me know please and thanks.
Hi Ingrid, thanks so much for your thoughtful comment. You’re correct, FSCs are not used in this pattern—I just use it very frequently so I include it on all my abbreviation lists. I should definitely have MR in my abbreviations, and have just corrected it! I really appreciate your taking the time to leave me a note.
Julia
Hi, I am sorry for asking what is probably a very dumb question, but I am just learning to read patterns and your is written slightly differently from any others I have tried. I am good until round 3 and then I can’t figure out how to get the same stitch count as you from there on out. If I have 12 stitches in round 2, where do I do the 6 stitches for increase? The only way I know to increase is to SC into the same stitch the indicated number of times but if I Increase each stitch in round two, then I would have 24 stitches in round 3. I am just confused about what I am supposed to do here. (The problem is most definitely with me and not you, but I will never learn if I don’t try and I have to ask questions when things don’t make sense to me. I truly appreciate this pattern; it is so cute! I also appreciate you being patient with my dumb questions!
Hi Beverly, thanks so much for taking the time to ask such a great question. There are no dumb questions in crochet, especially since we all start out as beginners! Let me see if I can clear this up for you. The instructions for round 3 read: (sc, inc) x6 (18 sts). You are totally correct in that an increase is crocheting two single crochet stitches in the same stitch. The parentheses around the (sc, inc) mean that you have to repeat the stitches inside the parentheses as many times as it says (in this case, 6x). This means that you will single crochet in one stitch, then increase in the next stitch, and the repeat this sequence six times. If I were to write it out, then it would look like this: Round 3: sc, inc, sc, inc, sc, inc, sc, inc, sc, inc, sc, inc (18 sts). However, I’ve just used the parentheses and the “x6” to write this out more concisely.
I use the parentheses notation throughout my pattern, and whenever you see it it just means “repeat the stuff inside the parentheses as many times as it says to,” and you should arrive at the correct stitch count. If you are still having problems, I suggest you reference this article, or send me an email and I’ll make a video explaining it!
Hope this helps 🙂
Julia
Thanks for the quick response! After I asked the question, I thought about it for a while and decided that I was supposed to do exactly what you said in your reply. My brain just was not wrapping itself around the instructions at first.
I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my question.
Of course! I’m glad that you were able to work it out on your own. As a further note, I do include the notation “(..) x” in my Abbreviations (as all patterns should do), so if you come across strange notation or different ways of writing things, I definitely suggest taking a look at the Abbreviations list at the beginning of the pattern to see whether it’s cleared up there. That being said, sometimes the short description might not be that helpful so it’s always a good idea to ask!
Best wishes,
Julia