When my friend, Lisa, from Stitch in Progress was doing a Facebook live video a few weeks ago in Our Crochet Community, she mentioned that her daughter was redecorating her bedroom and was wanting a cat pillow that wasn’t too babyish, wasn’t too pink and wasn’t too big. Well, with my blanket yarn kitty pillow, two out of three ain’t bad.

The Kiki Kitty Pillow is made from jumbo blanket yarn, embellished with super chunky blanket yarn, and worked up with a 19.00 mm hook so it’s a quick project with impressive results.

Your cat-loving kiddo will love to snuggle up to this stuffie that’s both super soft and super-sized! 

Want to see the pillow that Lisa came up with? You can find the free Purrsly Pillow pattern, here!

Materials

• Yarn Bee Eternal Bliss, jumbo weight #7 yarn (100% polyester; 28 yds/25.6 m per 8 oz/226 g skein)
  • 2 skeins Soft Pink
• Bernat Blanket, super bulky #6 yarn (100% polyester, 220 yds/201 m per 10.5 oz/300 g skein)
  • 10 yards Dark Grey
  • scrap White
• 19.00 mm (S/19) Crochet Hook
• 5.75 mm (J/10) Crochet Hook
• Scissors
• Large tapestry needle
• 12 oz bag of polyester fiberfill

If you’re not able to get your hands on Yarn Bee Eternal Bliss yarn from Hobby Lobby, you can substitute Bernat Blanket Big, which can be found at Michael’s stores in the US.

Abbreviations

• DC – Double Crochet
• HDC – Half-double Crochet
• RND – Round
• SC – Single Crochet
• SC2TOG – Single Crochet Two Stitches Together
• SLST – Slip Stitch
• ST(S) – Stitch(es)
• TC – Treble (triple) Crochet

Notes

• Skill Level: Easy
• US Terminology 
• When a row begins with a CH1, the ch does not count as a st. 
• Finished Measurements: 13″ tall x 12″ wide

Kiki Kitty Pillow Crochet Pattern

With S hook and jumbo yarn.

Working into a magic ring or CH4 loop

RND 1: SC 12. Join with a SLST to beginning SC. (12 STS)

RND 2: CH1. SC 2 in each ST around. Join with a SLST to beginning SC (24 STS)

RND 3: CH1, SC in each ST around. Join with a SLST to beginning SC (24 STS)

RND 4 – 8: Repeat Round 3.

RND 9: CH 1, SC in next 3 STS, HDC, DC, TC, DC, HDC, SC in next 7 STS, HDC, DC, TC, DC, HDC, SC in next 4 STS. Join with SLST to top of beginning SC. (24 STS)

Do not finish off.

Thread needle with remaining piece of yarn (still attached) and use it to move the end to one of the TC stitches.

Firmly fill the pillow with fiber fill.

Close the top by folding in half at the TC stitches and match stitches across the top.

Using a mattress stitch (or your favorite seaming stitch), sew the top closed. Do not cut yarn.

Use the needle to gradually guide the yarn down to the bottom-middle of the back of your pillow, pull through to form the tail. Cut to your desired length.

With super chunky yarn (grey) and J hook:

Eyes

CH 3, join with SLST to create a loop.

RND 1:  Working into the loop, CH 2, HDC 11. Join with SLST to beginning CH-2. (12 sts)

Finish off leaving a tail for attaching.

Using white, create highlights on the eyes.

Nose

CH3

RND 1: SC in 2nd ST from hook, SC in next ST.

(2 STS)

RND 2: CH 1, turn, SC2TOG. (1 ST)

Finish off leaving a tail for attaching.

Using a tapestry needle, sew eyes and nose onto the kitty pillow. Use photo for placement help.

Add whiskers and mouth.

You’re done!

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If you’d love to make this cute and cuddly kitty pillow, I’ve created a beautifully formatted, large print, ad-free PDF of this pattern for you to use at your convenience and you can get it on Ravelry for less than the cost of a cup of coffee…or join the Made with a Twist Makers Club to get lifetime access to all Made with a Twist PDF patterns for just $25!

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More Cat Stuffies You’ll Love

The Purrsly Pillow by Stitch in Progress

Amigurumi Christmas Cat

A whole host of cat patterns on AllFreeCrochet.com

 

This pattern and its images are copyright protected and the sole property of Made with a Twist by Crochetpreneur®, a division of Montgomery Grice Enterprises, Inc. Please do not redistribute, transfer, or sell the pattern, or alter it to claim as your own. You may sell any products you create from this pattern. Please credit the designer by linking online listings to www.madewithatwist.com or tagging @madewithatwist.