Sun amigurumi pattern

Materials:
Sunshine yellow cotton yarn
Black cotton yarn
safety eyes
toy stuffing
crochet hook to compliment yarn (I’ve used a 3mm hook)

Front
Make a magic circle and start..

Rnd 1. 6sc in mc [6]

Rnd 2. inc in every st [12]
Rnd 3. 1 sc, 1 inc, repeat around [18]
Rnd 4. 2 sc, 1 inc, repeat around [24]
Rnd 5. 3 sc, 1 inc, repeat around [30]
Rnd 6. 4 sc, 1 inc, repeat around [36]
Rnd 7. 5 sc, 1 inc, repeat around [42]
Rnd 8. 6 sc, 1 inc, repeat around [48]

Cut off and secure the yarn.

place the eyes between Rnds 4 and 5 or embroider them there, trying to align
them where you will have had an increase in the round.

Back, sunrays & assembly

Follow the pattern for the front (you don't have to add eyes - unless you want
to) but don't cut off your yarn. Instead take your front piece and place them
wrong sides together. Now using single crochets, crochet around the
circumference, stuffing as you go.

Once you've crocheted the front and back together you now have to make the
sunrays. Without cutting off the yarn continue working in the round along the
circumference of your sun as follows:

For each ray:

*ch5, turn, sc in 2nd ch from hook, hdc in next, dc in next, skip 3 stitches of
the circumference and sc into the next stitch of the sun's circumference**.
Repeat from * to ** 11 more times to make 12 sunrays in total but slip stitch
into the last round of the circumference. If you don’t want a hanging loop you
can cut off your yarn and secure it.

Hanging Loop

Continuing from your last ray, slip stitch along the edge of the first sun ray until
you reach the point. Chain 20 and then slip stitch into the top point of the
sunray. Cut off yarn and secure.

Eyebrows and Mouth

You can have some fun with embroidering different facial expressions on your
suns.

I usually embroider eyebrows over the eyes between rounds 6 and 7 and
embroider a smile between rounds 4 and 5.

Happy sunshines 😊😊