Flamingo Scrubby Buddy in Lion Brand Stitch Soak Scrub and 24/7 Cotton - M22036 SSS TC - Downloadable PDF

Flamingo Scrubby Buddy Free Crochet Pattern – Lion Brand Stitch Soak Scrub & 24/7 Cotton (M22036 SSS TC)

This free downloadable crochet pattern by Kristi Simpson in collaboration with Lion Brand guides you through creating an adorable Flamingo Scrubby Buddy — a charming, functional amigurumi-style scrubby toy that doubles as a bath or kitchen companion. The finished flamingo stands approximately 7 inches (18 cm) high, making it a perfectly sized handmade gift or decorative scrubber. Pattern number M22036 SSS TC is rated Easy, making it an ideal project for beginner crocheters looking to build confidence with three-dimensional construction and simple shaping techniques.

What Is Being Made

The Flamingo Scrubby Buddy is a stuffed, sculptural crochet figure designed in the shape of a flamingo. It combines decorative amigurumi construction with the practical scrubbing texture of Lion Brand Stitch Soak Scrub yarn, meaning parts of the finished piece can actually be used as a scrubby or bath accessory. The figure is worked in separate pieces — body, head, legs, beak, and wings — which are then assembled and finished with embroidered details to bring the flamingo to life.

Techniques Used

• Amigurumi-style construction: Individual pieces are crocheted separately and seamed or joined together to form the three-dimensional flamingo figure.
• Working in the round: Many components are crocheted in continuous rounds, a hallmark of amigurumi technique that creates seamless, rounded shapes ideal for stuffed figures.
• Shaping through increases and decreases: The pattern uses standard increases and the sc2tog decrease to sculpt the body, head, and other rounded parts of the flamingo.
• Stuffing with fiberfill: Fiberfill stuffing is inserted into the body and head pieces to give the flamingo its plush, three-dimensional form.
• Embroidery: A small amount of black yarn is used to embroider the flamingo's eyes directly onto the finished surface, adding expressive character detail.
• Stitch marker use: Stitch markers are employed to track round beginnings, an essential technique when working in continuous rounds without a slip stitch join.
• Finishing and assembly: Pieces are sewn together using a Lion Brand large-eyed blunt needle, a standard finishing technique in amigurumi projects.

Stitches Used

• Single crochet (sc): The primary stitch throughout the pattern, used to build the body of all components.
• sc2tog (single crochet two stitches together): A decrease stitch worked by inserting the hook into the next stitch and drawing up a loop twice, then yarning over and drawing through all three loops on the hook to reduce by one stitch — essential for shaping the rounded forms of the flamingo's body and head.
• Increases: Multiple single crochets worked into the same stitch to expand rounds and create curved, full shapes.

Materials and Yarn

This pattern uses two distinct Lion Brand yarn lines worked together across different components of the flamingo:

• Lion Brand Stitch Soak Scrub (Art. #781) — a worsted weight yarn with a textured, scrubby construction designed for bath and kitchen accessories. The colorway used is #142 Rose (Color A), which forms the main scrubby body of the flamingo.
• Lion Brand 24/7 Cotton (Art. #761) — a smooth, mercerized 4-ply / worsted weight cotton yarn used for the finer detail pieces. Three colorways are called for: #103 Pink Lemonade (Color B), #153 Black (Color C), and #100 White (Color D).

Two crochet hook sizes are required to accommodate both yarn types: a Lion Brand crochet hook size F-5 (3.75 mm) and a Lion Brand crochet hook size