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Crochet Cow Pattern (Free Chart)

A friendly cow face with horns and a pink nose — the farmyard face your animal blanket has been waiting for.

Cows are having a moment — the highland cow trend has put fluffy, horned faces on every nursery mood board for years, and this chart brings the same energy without a 90-stitch commitment. The face is 24 × 15 stitches in six colors: little horns up top, a brown patch over one eye, and a big bubblegum-pink nose with two black nostrils. Six colors sounds like a herd, but three of them are details of 22 stitches or fewer.

It joins the farmyard wing of our animal chart family — frog, bee, bunny, and friends — and it's sized to match: one evening per square, so a full farm-animal blanket is a month of evenings, not a year. Want your own cow instead — highland, jersey, the one from the petting zoo? Upload a photo to the generator and it comes back as a counted chart.

The free charts

Digital preview
Cow Face crochet chart, 24 × 15 stitches, 6 colors

15 rows

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Rendered previewCow Face as worked crochet fabric — simulated stitch texture

Simulated stitch texture from the chart grid — not a photo.

Finished lookCow Face — finished crochet piece inspiration

Cow Face

Difficulty
Easy
Technique
Graph (single crochet) or C2C
Chart size
24 × 15 stitches
Colors
6
Yarn needed
≈ 25 yds total
Source
Original pixel design

Cream-white face with beige horns tipped in brown, a chocolate eye patch over one eye, and a pink nose with two black nostrils. The nose alone is 78 stitches — over a quarter of the 290-stitch motif — which is exactly as it should be.

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Written instructions (row by row)

Work from the bottom up. Odd rows are the right side (worked right-to-left), even rows the wrong side (left-to-right). Tap a row to mark it done — the chart shades it too.

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How to crochet it

  1. Gather your materials

    About 25 yards of worsted weight (#4) yarn in 6 colors, a 5.0 mm (H/8) hook, a tapestry needle, and scissors. The white face and pink nose take most of the yarn; the horns, eye patch, and nostrils are scraps by any definition.

  2. Check the finished size

    The 24 × 15 chart gives a panel of about 15 × 8 cm in single crochet at a typical 16 sc × 18 rows = 10 cm gauge. In C2C the cow comes out about 30 × 17 cm — a proper blanket square or nursery pillow front.

  3. Work the chart from the bottom up

    One square = one single crochet, from the bottom row up: odd rows read right to left, even rows left to right. The whole face is 360 stitches — one evening for most crocheters. For C2C, start at the bottom-right corner and work diagonally.

  4. Change colors cleanly

    Finish the last stitch of the old color with the new one, and drop the yarn instead of carrying it more than 3–4 stitches. The fiddly bits are small — two-stitch nostrils, the little horn tips — so work those off small bobbins and the back stays tidy.

  5. Add a border and finish

    Work one round of single crochet in white around the panel with 3 sc in each corner, weave in the ends, and steam block lightly. Sew the cow onto a blanket square, a nursery cushion, or a tote — or line it up with the frog, bee, and bunny charts for the full farmyard blanket.

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Frequently asked questions

Is this cow crochet pattern free?

Yes — the chart downloads free as a PNG with grid, palette, and per-color stitch counts, no email wall. It's an original pixel design made for this site, free for personal use.

Can I use this cow chart for C2C?

Yes — each cell becomes one C2C block worked diagonally from the bottom-right corner. In C2C with worsted yarn the face comes out about 30 × 17 cm, a nice size for a blanket square or nursery pillow.

What can I make with a cow face chart?

Farm-themed nursery blankets are the classic — pair the cow with the frog, bee, and bunny charts as matching squares. It also works as a cushion front, a tote-bag panel, or an appliqué on a plain baby sweater.

Can I make it look like a highland cow?

Close, with a palette swap: trade the white face for rusty ginger and the brown patch for a deeper chocolate, and you have the shaggy highland look. The chart's big simple shapes take recoloring well — and the pink nose can stay.

Can I chart my own cow from a photo?

Yes — upload a clear photo to the free pattern generator and it converts it into a counted stitch grid. Faces photographed straight-on against a plain background convert best; at this 24-stitch size, keep the palette around six colors.