Donut With Sprinkles

Donut With Sprinkles Crochet Toy

What Is Being Made

The Donut With Sprinkles is a crocheted amigurumi-style toy designed by Yarn Blossom Boutique. This finished piece measures 3½ inches wide by 1¼ inch tall, making it a small, decorative crochet creation perfect for play or display. The donut features a classic ring shape with dimensional sprinkles, created using fundamental crochet construction techniques.

Crochet Techniques and Construction Method

This intermediate-level project uses continuous round crochet construction, meaning stitches are worked in a spiral without joining at the end of each round. The designer recommends using a stitch marker to keep track of the round progression, which is essential when working in continuous rounds. The donut is constructed from the bottom-inside upward to the top-inside, creating the hollow center characteristic of a ring-shaped object. This building method allows the crocheter to shape the donut form as they work.

Stitches Used

The pattern employs several fundamental crochet stitches to achieve the final design:

• Single Crochet (sc) — the primary stitch used throughout the main body construction
• Chain (ch) — used to establish the foundation ring at the project's beginning
• Slip Stitch (sl st) — used to join the chain into a circle and for finishing
• Half Double Crochet (hdc) — incorporated for texture and stitch variation
• Double Crochet (dc) — used for additional height and dimension in certain sections
• Treble Crochet (tr) — employed for extended stitches where needed
• Single Crochet 2 Together (sc2tog) — a decrease stitch used to shape the donut and reduce stitch count as needed

Materials and Yarn Requirements

This project requires 2 ounces of worsted weight cotton yarn in a 4-ply configuration. The designer specifically used Hobby Lobby I Love This Cotton! in five coordinating colors: Taupe, Brown, White, Pink, and Banana. These colors create the base donut body and the colorful sprinkles that give the toy its playful appearance. A 3.5 mm crochet hook is used throughout the pattern, which produces a gauge of 20 single crochet stitches equaling 4 inches in width when measured with this hook size.

Skill Level and Pattern Format

Rated as an intermediate difficulty project, this pattern assumes the crocheter is comfortable with basic stitches and understands how to read crochet abbreviations and instructions. The pattern is provided as a downloadable PDF from Yarn Blossom Boutique, an independent designer, making it accessible for immediate digital access and printing.