About This Pattern
This beginner-friendly crochet football key-chain pattern is a fun project for football fans and handmade gift lovers. Create a small football using simple crochet stitches, color changes, and embroidered laces, then add key-chain hardware to turn it into a fun everyday accessory. The finished football measures approximately 2.5 inches, making it a small and portable project.
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Pattern Details
Skill Level: Beginner
Hook: 3.5 mm (E/4) crochet hook
Yarn Weight: Medium (4) worsted weight yarn
Finished Size: Approximately 2.5″ (6.4 cm) not including keychain hardware.
Gauge: Not critical for this project. Use a hook size that creates a tight fabric so the stuffing does not show through.
Terms: US Crochet
Materials
Yarn
• Toffee: Premier Basix Worsted, small amount (less than 10 g)
• White: Premier Basix Worsted, small amount
Yarn Substituion
Any yarn can be used for this pattern. Keep in mind that using a different yarn weight or hook size will change the finished size of the project.
Supplies
• 3.5 mm (E/4) crochet hook
• Medium (4) worsted weight yarn
• Polyester fiber fill
• Yarn needle
• Stitch marker
• Keychain hardware (split ring with chain)
• Scissors
• 1 to 2 pairs of pliers
Pattern Notes
• This pattern is worked in joined rounds.
• Join each round with a slip stitch to the first stitch, then chain 1 before beginning the next round. The slip stitch and chain 1 do not count as stitches and are not worked into on the following round.
• Begin each new round in the first single crochet of the previous round.
• Stitch counts are shown in parentheses at the end of each round.
• Stuff the football firmly before closing.
• Embroider the football laces after Round 12, before completing the final decrease rounds.
Abbreviations
MR
Ch
Sl St
SC
Inc
Inv-Dec
St
YO
Magic Ring
Chain
Slip Stitch
Single Crochet
Increase
Invisible Decrease
Stitch
Yarn Over
Pattern
R1: With Toffee, MR, ch 1, 6 sc in MR. Join and ch 1. (6)
R2: Inc around. Join with White, ch 1. (12)
R3: Sc around. Join and ch 1. (12)
R4: (Sc, inc) around. Join with Toffee, ch 1. (18)
R5: Sc around. Join and ch 1. (18)
R6: (2 sc, inc) around. Join and ch 1. (24)
R7-9 (3 rounds): Sc around. Join and ch 1. (24)
R10: (2 sc, inv-dec) around. Join with White, ch 1. (18)
R11: Sc around. Join and ch 1. (18)
R12: (Sc, inv-dec) around. Join with Toffee and ch 1. (12)
FO the white
Lightly stuff and embroider the football laces.
R13: With Toffee, sc around. Join and ch 1. (12)
Stuff firmly.
R14: Inv-dec around. Join. (6)
FO
Finishing
FO, leaving a 4-5 in. tail. Thread the tail through the FLO of the remaining stitches, pull tight to close, and weave the end through the middle of the football and cut end.
Attach the keychain hardware to the top of the football.
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