Toasty Teddy – Teddy Bear on Toast – Free Crochet Pattern

Toasty Teddy is my newest food-themed free crochet pattern!

Read on to learn more about my design process and inspiration, or scroll to the end to get the free pattern. If you’re in a hurry and need to take this pattern offline, grab the beautifully formatted, ad-free, PDF pattern from Etsy here.

An adorable spin on the classic avocado toast!

I recently became addicted to avocado toast (about five years late, I know) and I’ve been wanting to make some more food themed animal amigurumi, so this design was a logical next step!

I had the idea of making a fried egg as a little “blanket” for my little teddy bear, and it all came together really quickly after that.

I’ve never made a fried egg before, but using a combination of a sphere shape for the yolk plus a few rounds of half double crochets made it super easy! I even stuff the yolk slightly at the end so it has its characteristic shape.

The toast pattern itself is drawn from my Bread & Butter pattern, which I love because it’s double thick to make it extra sturdy. It’s worked back and forth with some shaping for the top, and then you’ll crochet a border to work the two sides together without any sewing (huge win!).

If this is your first time working a border, don’t worry — I’ve got a great video tutorial to help you out.

More adorable food amigurumi patterns:

Tips for beginners making this pattern!

If you’re a beginner and want to make this pattern, it’s a great opportunity to try out some new skills! This pattern includes several advanced techniques like working around a border, embroidering a basic mouth, as well as sewing amigurumi pieces together.

Sewing can be the most challenging part of making amigurumi for most people, so if you’re just getting started I recommend reading my blog post below that breaks down my system to sewing amigurumi parts together.

How to Sew Amigurumi Parts Together (easy photo tutorial!)

If you’re new to embroidering basic features onto your amigurumi, you can check out my guide here on embroidering easy faces. I go over a basic nose, mouth, and blush features that you can mix and match to your amigurumi!

How to Embroider Easy Faces on Crochet Toys and Amigurumi!

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The Pattern

  • If you want to take this pattern offline, grab the beautifully formatted, ad-free, PDF pattern from Etsy here!

Description

This adorable Toasty Teddy amigurumi project is simply adorable and whimsical. This is a great project for food and teddy bear lovers — you can even customize it by adding your own toppings!

Yarn

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  • WeCrochet Brava Sport (sport)
    • (<1 skein) Cream
    • (<1 skein) Brindle
      • brown
    • (<1 skein) Custard
      • yellow
    • (<1 skein) White

Notions

  • Size D 3.25mm Clover Amour hook
  • 4.0mm safety eyes
  • black embroidery thread
  • embroidery needle
  • fiberfill stuffing
  • tapestry needle
  • stitch markers

Abbreviations

  • BLO: back loop only
  • ch: chain
  • CC: contrast color
  • dec: decrease
  • hdc: half double crochet
  • inc: increase (work two single crochets in one stitch)
  • MC: main color
  • MR: magic ring
  • rnd: round
  • RS: right side
  • sc: single crochet
  • sk: skip
  • x sc: work x number of single crochets
  • sl st: slip stitch
  • st(s): stitch(es)
  • WS: wrong side
  • (x sts): total number of stitches for the round
  • (…) x: work all steps within parentheses x number of times
  • *…* : work stitches between asterisks all in the same stitch

Technical Notes

  1. When filling with polyester stuffing, pull apart each large chunk into many smaller chunks. This ensures an even distribution of firmness within the amigurumi.
  1. To avoid large holes in the crochet fabric, increase tension until the holes cannot be seen, or choose a crochet hook a size down.
  2. Use sewing pins to secure parts of the amigurumi before you sew them.

Color Coding

For this pattern, the MC is Cream, CC1 is Brown, CC2 is White, and CC3 is Yellow.

Special Stitches

  • Invisible finish off: click here for tutorial.
  • Crocheting a HDC Border: click here for tutorial.
  • Foundation HDC: click here for tutorial.

Final Size

Approx. 5″ x5″

TOAST (in MC. See Special Stitches for Foundation HDC (FHDC), as well as *…* abbreviation. Work in turned rows. Make two pieces.)

  • Row 1: 22 FHDC (see Special Stitches for tutorial), chain and turn (22 sts)
  • Row 2-16 (15 rows): 22 hdc, chain and turn (22 sts)
  • Row 17: (sc, hdc, dc, work 5 tr in the next 5 sts, dc, hdc, sc) x2 (22 sts)
  • Change to CC1. Chain and work hdcs down the left side of the bread. Place 3 hdcs for every 2 rows, and place 3 hdcs in the corner. See Special Stitches for a tutorial on how to crochet an hdc border. Continue in this fashion around the other two sides (fig. 1).
  • When you arrive at the right side of row 12 (green stitch marker in fig. 1), work these stitches on top of row 12: 2 hdc, 3 hdc, 2 hdc, 3 hdc, 2 hdc, 3 hdc, 2 hdc, 3 hdc, 2 hdc, 5 hdc, slst to the first stitch in the border (27 sts total). See Abbreviations for meaning of asterisks. Finish off and weave in the end (fig. 2). Make another identically but do not finish off.
  • Place the two bread pieces wrong sides together. Insert the hook through both layers of the border and work single crochets all around, still using CC1, with both pieces held double. Slip stitch to the first stitch, finish off, and weave in end. Scroll down for photo tutorial.
Fig. 1: Work hdcs down the side of the bread using CC1. Place 3 hdc stitches for every 2 rows down.
Fig. 2: When you finish working around the bottom three sides, refer to instructions for working the border on top.

EGG YOLK (in CC3.)

  • Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6 sts)
  • Round 2: inc x6 (12 sts)
  • Round 3: (sc, inc) x6 (18 sts)
  • Round 4: (2 sc, inc) x6 (24 sts)
  • Round 5-6 (2 rnds): sc around (24 sts)
  • Switch to CC2 and continue to egg white without finishing off.

EGG WHITE (in CC2)

  • Round 1: FLO, hdc inc x24 (48 sts)
  • Round 2: 5 sc, 8 hdc, 12 sc, 14 hdc, 9 sc (48 sts)
  • Round 3: 4 sc, 10 hdc, 10 sc, 15 hdc, 9 sc (48 sts)
  • Round 4: 3 sc, hdc inc x6, 7 sc, 6 hdc, hdc inc x10, 6 hdc, 10 sc (64 sts)
  • Round 5: hdc around, sl st to first stitch (64 sts)
  • Invisible finish off (see Special Stitches), leaving a 24″ inch tail for sewing (fig. 2).
Fig. 2: Finished egg.

BEAR (in CC2)

  • Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6 sts)
  • Round 2: inc x6 (12 sts)
  • Round 3: (sc, inc) x6 (18 sts)
  • Round 4: (2 sc, inc) x6 (24 sts)
  • Round 5: (3 sc, inc) x6 (30 sts)
  • Round 6-17 (12 rnds): sc around (30 sts)
  • Insert two 4.0mm safety eyes between rounds 7 and 8, with 7 sts in between. Using black embroidery thread, embroider a “-” shaped nose directly between the eyes. Stuff with fiberfill stuffing. Finish off, leaving a tail for sewing. Using the tail, seam the bottom of the body closed with a running stitch (fig. 3).
Fig. 3: Body with eyes and nose. Bottom of body is seamed shut with the tail.

EARS (in CC2, make two)

  • Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6 sts)
  • Round 2: inc x6 (12 sts)
  • Round 3: (sc, inc) x6 (18 sts)
  • Invisible finish off (see Special Stitches), leaving a tail for sewing. Make another identically (fig. 4). Sew the two ears onto the head between rounds 4-6 (fig. 3).
Fig. 4: Finished ears.

ARMS (in CC2, make two)

  • Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6 sts)
  • Round 2-4 (3 rnds): sc around (6 sts)
  • Do not stuff. Finish off, leaving a tail for sewing. Make another identically (fig. 5). Set them aside to sew later.
Fig. 5: Finished arms.

ASSEMBLY:

  • You should now have a completed bread piece, a fried egg piece, a bear body, and two bear arms.
  • Place the finished egg on the toast towards the bottom. Decide how you would like to orient the egg, and then use the tail to seam it to the top of the toast with a running stitch around the outer edge of the egg. Lightly stuff the yolk of the egg with scrap yarn or fiberfill as you go.
  • When you get to the place where the bear should be, insert the bear body slightly underneath the egg, and sew through the bear body and through the top layer of toast as you continue to sew down the egg. Finish sewing the egg until it is completely secure, then weave in the end.
  • Sew on the two arms of the bear last, orienting them so that they overlap slightly with the top of the egg white, as if it were a “blanket.” They should be at around round 10 (counting from the top) of the body, 3 rounds below the eyes.

Your Toasty Teddy amigurumi is all done! I hope you enjoyed crocheting it and found the pattern helpful. I would love to see your finished amigurumi, so share a picture on Instagram with me by using the #littleworldofwhimsy and tagging me @littleworldofwhimsy.