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Today, I would like to share with you an easy crochet pattern for bright and simple citrus slices.
I really like these slices because they can be used in so many ways. You can use them as keychains, toys for the baby mobiles, room decorations, educational play sets, and even as coasters for your hot tea or coffee.
The pattern includes descriptions of lime, lemon, orange, and grapefruit slices.
So let’s get started!
Language: English (US terminology).
Skill level: easy.
MATERIALS AND TOOLS
Yarn: Sport weight yarn in cream, green, light green, yellow, light yellow, orange, light orange, coral and light coral colors.
Used yarn: YarnArt Jeans (160m/50g), Alize Cotton Gold (330m/100g)
– 1,5 mm crochet hook
– tapestry needle
– embroidery needle
– stitch marker
– scissors
SIZE
Lime slice – 4.5 cm (1.8 inch), lemon slice – 5.4 cm (2.1 inch), orange slice – 6.0 cm (2.4 inch), grapefruit slice – 6.7 cm (2.6 inch), if using the indicated yarn.
ABBREVIATIONS (US terms)
MR – magic ring
rnd – round
st/lp – stitch/loop
ch – chain
sl st – slip stitch
sc – single crochet
inc – increase (2 sc in 1 stitch)
fasten off invisibly – make the invisible fasten off (see the tutorial here)
(…)*n times – repeat those in brackets n-times
[…] – stitch count of the round or row
USEFUL TIPS
How to make Invisible Fasten Off
PLEASE NOTE
Work in continuous rounds using a stitch marker at the beginning of the round unless otherwise specified. This pattern is meant for an easy skill level. Please make sure you already have the necessary crochet skills, as this pattern does not include crocheting lessons.
PATTERN INSTRUCTIONS
LIME SLICE
Make 2 pieces. Start in cream yarn.
Rnd 1: start 7 sc in a magic ring [7]
Change to light green yarn.
Rnd 2: 7 inc [14]
Rnd 3: (1 sc, inc)*7 times [21]
Rnd 4: 1 sc, inc, (2 sc, inc)*6 times, 1 sc [28]
Change to cream yarn.
Rnd 5: (3 sc, inc)*7 times [35]
Change to green yarn.
Rnd 6: 2 sc, inc, (4 sc, inc)*6 times, 2 sc [42]
Fasten off the first piece, but don’t fasten off the second piece, in the next round, you will join both pieces together. Place both pieces together with the wrong sides facing each other (see the photo below).
Join both pieces – work through both loops of both pieces together around the edge, 42 sl st [42]
Fasten off invisibly, weave in the yarn ends (see photos below).
Using a long cream yarn tail, embroider the stripes of the lime “sectors” on both sides of the slice, spacing 4-5 stitches between the upper ends of the stripes (see photos below). Fasten off, weave in the yarn ends.
IMPORTANT:
The processes shown in the photos are the same for all slices and just show one slice as an example.
LEMON SLICE
Make 2 pieces. Start in cream yarn.
Rnd 1: start 7 sc in a magic ring [7]
Change to light green yarn.
Rnd 2: 7 inc [14]
Rnd 3: (1 sc, inc)*7 times [21]
Rnd 4: 1 sc, inc, (2 sc, inc)*6 times, 1 sc [28]
Rnd 5: (3 sc, inc)*7 times [35]
Change to cream yarn.
Rnd 6: 2 sc, inc, (4 sc, inc)*6 times, 2 sc [42]
Change to green yarn.
Rnd 7: (5 sc, inc)*7 times [49]
Fasten off the first piece, but don’t fasten off the second piece, in the next round, you will join both pieces together. Place both pieces together with the wrong sides facing each other (see the photo below).
Join both pieces – work through both loops of both pieces together around the edge, 49 sl st [49]
Fasten off invisibly, weave in the yarn ends (see photos below).
Using a long cream yarn tail, embroider the stripes of the lemon “sectors” on both sides of the slice, spacing 5-6 stitches between the upper ends of the stripes (see photos below). Fasten off, weave in the yarn ends.
IMPORTANT:
The processes shown in the photos are the same for all slices and just show one slice as an example.
ORANGE SLICE
Make 2 pieces. Start in cream yarn.
Rnd 1: start 7 sc in a magic ring [7]
Change to light green yarn.
Rnd 2: 7 inc [14]
Rnd 3: (1 sc, inc)*7 times [21]
Rnd 4: 1 sc, inc, (2 sc, inc)*6 times, 1 sc [28]
Rnd 5: (3 sc, inc)*7 times [35]
Rnd 6: 2 sc, inc, (4 sc, inc)*6 times, 2 sc [42]
Change to cream yarn.
Rnd 7: (5 sc, inc)*7 times [49]
Change to orange yarn.
Rnd 8: 3 sc, inc, (6 sc, inc)*6 times, 3 sc [56]
Fasten off the first piece, but don’t fasten off the second piece, in the next round, you will join both pieces together. Place both pieces together with the wrong sides facing each other (see the photo below).
Join both pieces – work through both loops of both pieces together around the edge, 56 sl st [56]
Fasten off invisibly, weave in the yarn ends (see photos below).
Using a long cream yarn tail, embroider the stripes of the orange “sectors” on both sides of the slice, spacing 6-7 stitches between the upper ends of the stripes (see photos below). Fasten off, weave in the yarn ends.
IMPORTANT:
The processes shown in the photos are the same for all slices and just show one slice as an example.
GRAPEFRUIT SLICE
Make 2 pieces. Start in cream yarn.
Rnd 1: start 7 sc in a magic ring [7]
Change to light green yarn.
Rnd 2: 7 inc [14]
Rnd 3: (1 sc, inc)*7 times [21]
Rnd 4: 1 sc, inc, (2 sc, inc)*6 times, 1 sc [28]
Rnd 5: (3 sc, inc)*7 times [35]
Rnd 6: 2 sc, inc, (4 sc, inc)*6 times, 2 sc [42]
Rnd 7: (5 sc, inc)*7 times [49]
Change to cream yarn.
Rnd 8: 3 sc, inc, (6 sc, inc)*6 times, 3 sc [56]
Change to light coral yarn.
Rnd 9: (7 sc, inc)*7 times [63]
Fasten off the first piece, but don’t fasten off the second piece, in the next round, you will join both pieces together. Place both pieces together with the wrong sides facing each other (see the photo below).
Join both pieces – work through both loops of both pieces together around the edge, 63 sl st [63]
Fasten off invisibly, weave in the yarn ends (see photos below).
Using a long cream yarn tail, embroider the stripes of the grapefruit “sectors” on both sides of the slice, spacing 7-8 stitches between the upper ends of the stripes (see photos below). Fasten off, weave in the yarn ends.
IMPORTANT:
The processes shown in the photos are the same for all slices and just show one slice as an example.
Congratulations, your citrus slices are ready!
Hope you had fun making these bright tiny toys.
You can also purchase an Ad-free, printable PDF version of the pattern from my shop here.
And if you want to crochet some cute and funny animal that really loves fruit, you might also be interested in my premium amigurumi Bathing Baby Capybara pattern. With this pattern, you can make a really cute little capybara with a bathtub, towel and tiny oranges 🙂
You can find the pattern here:
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