Pride Flag Bees- Free Crochet Guide

If you’ve seen my shop or Instagram, you’ve definitely seen one of my most popular items, my bee plushies! My bees are made from the TikTok famous pattern by Hooked by Robin. It’s a super easy pattern, great for beginners! I also make pride flag-patterned bees for Pride Month. I changed the pattern to make balanced stripes for many different kinds of pride flags, and I’m going to show you how I do it!

Pride month is over for the year, but check out my posts on Instagram and Facebook to read about Sheepberry’s charity initiative for the Trevor Project, an organization dedicated to providing mental health support for LGBTQ+ youth.

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First, some background on the original pattern so you know how to read my diagrams! The body of the bee has 3 main parts: the increases, the straight rounds, and the decreases. The increases form the face, the straight rounds are the rounds that have NO increases (sc in each stitch) that form the body, and the decreases form the butt. There are 13 straight rounds in total.

The head and butt of the bee are shown on the diagram to make sure the stripes are balanced, and because you still need to know what colors to use. Following the original pattern, I would still recommend sewing the face on after the 3rd straight round so it doesn’t look too small. Basically, just use this chart to know when to change colors, but follow the original pattern in every other way!

The great thing about these guides is they work with so many other pride flags because most of them have a version that is either 5, 4, or 3 stripes. There aren’t any other 6 stripe flags that I could find, but rainbows are great for any occasion! Now, onto the color charts!

For the rainbow bee: Start and crochet the increases with red, crochet 3 red straight rounds, and 2 rounds of the other colors (orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple), and continue the decreases in purple.

For the transgender flag: Start, increase, and crochet 2 straight rounds in blue, then 3 pink rounds, 3 white rounds, 3 pink rounds, and 3 blue rounds before forming the butt of the bee. Other 5 stripe flags you can make with this pattern include: lesbian, gay man, aromantic, and genderfluid.

For the non-binary bee: Start and increase in yellow. Crochet 3 yellow rounds for the head, 4 white rounds, 4 purple rounds, and 2 black rounds, ending with black for the decreases. Other 4 stripe flags that will work with this chart would be asexual/demisexual.

For the bisexual flag: Start and increase in pink, crochet 4 pink rounds, 5 purple rounds, and 4 blue rounds, then decrease and end in blue. You can also create pansexual, genderqueer, polyamory, or polysexual bees with this color chart.

See examples of some of the alternate flags I listed below!

Now you can have fun making colorful bees! If you want to share what you made with my guide, feel free to tag me on Instagram or Facebook. I hope this has been helpful or inspiring to you. Happy crafting!

UPDATED JUNE 2023- updated photos and included examples of other flags that can be made with the same color charts.