Crochet Pirate Cat Amigurumi Free Pattern

A brand-new character is here to join the Halloween Cats in Costume Collection. The Pirate Cat Amigurumi! This swashbuckling feline is the perfect spooky-but-cute addition to your Halloween decorations or handmade toy collection. And yes, there’s a step-by-step video tutorial to guide you!

Meet the Other Halloween Cat Characters

The Pirate Cat joins the mischievous gang of Halloween Cats in Costume, which includes the Skeleton Cat, Cat Dracula, Mummy Cat, and Pumpkin Cat. You can find all of them together in the Halloween Cats in Costume Collection.

And for more spooky fun, take a peek at the other Halloween favorites like the Mini Frankenstein, Little Witch, and Chubby Black Cat. Still want more Halloween patterns? You’ll find even more right here!

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Pirate Cat Amigurumi Video Tutorial

Crochet Pirate Cat Amigurumi Free Pattern

Materials:

• 2mm crochet hook 
• Brown, white, red, dark blue, yellow and a color of your choice for the cat, I used light brown. Sports weight yarn.
• Black thread to embroider the face, white thread to embroider the fish
• Stuffing material
• Scissors
• Sewing needle.
• Or, you can use safety eyes! The position is at the end of this post.

Finish size:

The finished amigurumi Mad Hatter measures approximately 4,3″ (11 cm) tall. However, the final size may vary depending on your stitch tension and the materials used.

Gauge

Gauge is not crucial for this pattern, so feel free to use a hook size that matches your chosen yarn. I always recommend using a slightly smaller hook to keep the stitches tight and prevent the stuffing from showing through. If needed, adjust your hook size for a neater finish.

However, if you’d like to know the gauge for my chosen yarn and materials, here it is:
With sport-weight yarn and a 2mm crochet hook, the gauge for 5 rounds (increasing to 30 stitches) measures approximately 1.6″ (4.5 cm).

Terms and abbreviations (US terms):

Slip stitch (sl): insert the hook into the stitch and pull up a loop, now, pull it through the loop on your needle.

Single crochet (sc): insert the hook into the stitch, and pull up a loop yarn over the needle, you will have two loops on the hook, yarn over the needle, and pull it through the two loops.

Increase (inc): make two single crochet inside the same stitch.

Decrease (dec): Insert the hook into the front loop only of the next two stitches, yarn under, and pull through, you will have two loops on the hook. Yarn under and pull through both loops on the hook.

Crochet Pirate Cat Amigurumi Instructions

Body

Start crocheting the Peg Leg. With brown color yarn start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 to 5 rnd  6sc

6 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.

Left Leg

With light gray (or the color you choose for your cat!) start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

3 rnd  12sc

• Change to dark blue

4 to 6 rnd  12sc

• Don’t cut the yarn, chain 3.
• Insert the loop of the needle inside one stitch of the wooden leg and continue working:

7 rnd  30sc

8 rnd  (4sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 36sts

9 and 10 rnd  36sc

• Change to red,

11 rnd  36blsl

12 rnd  36blsc

13 rnd    36sc

• Chang to white,

14 rnd    (4sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 30sts

15 rnd    30sc

• Change to red,

16 rnd    (3sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 24sts

17 rnd    24sc

• Add stuffing material before continuing to the next round.
• Change to white,

18 rnd    (2sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 18sts

19 and 20 rnd  18sc

• Change to cat color,

21 rnd    18blsl

Head

For the next round, you will work in the remaining front loop from round 20. This will make the round 21 face inside of the toy, giving a sharp edge between the neck and head.

22 rnd  FL(1inc, 1inc, 1sc) repeat 6 times Total 30sts

23 rnd  (4sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 36sts

24 rnd  (5sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 42sts

25 rnd  (6sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 48sts

26 to 32 rnd  48sc

33 rnd  (6sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 42sts

34 rnd  (5sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 36sts

35 rnd  (4sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 30sts

36 rnd  (3sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 24sts

37 rnd  (2sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 18sts

• Stop here to finish adding stuffing material.

38 rnd  (1sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 12sts

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.

Arms

With gray color yarn start,

1 rnd    6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  (2sc, 1inc) repeat 2 times Total 8sts

• Change to red color,

3 and 4 rnd  8sc

• Change to white color,

5 and 6 rnd  8sc

• Change to red color,

7 and 8 rnd  8sc

• Change to white color,

9 rnd  8sc

• Stop here to add a little bit of stuffing material before continuing to round 9.

10 rnd  4sc, crocheting the sides together, closing the arm.

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off. Leave a bit of yarn for sewing it later.
• Make another one following the same instructions.
• Leave on the side for now.

Ears

With gray color yarn start,

1 rnd  4sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  (1inc, 1sc) repeat 2 times Total 6sts

3 rnd  (1inc, 2sc) repeat 2 times Total 8sts

4 rnd  (1inc, 3sc) repeat 2 times Total 10sts

5 rnd  (1inc, 4sc) repeat 2 times Total 12sts

6 rnd  (1inc, 5sc) repeat 2 times Total 14sts

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off. Leave a tail for sewing it.
• Make another one following the same instructions.

Tail

With gray color yarn start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 to 15 rnd  6sc

16 rnd  3sc crocheting the sides together.

• Cut the yarn and leave a tail for sewing it.

Hat

We start crocheting the hat detail, which will be for the brim.

With brown, chain 48. Start crocheting from the first chain, closing a circle.

1 rnd  48sc

2 rnd  18sc, 2hdc, 8dc, 2hdc, 18sc

3 rnd  18sl, 2hdc, 8dc, 2hdc, 18sl

• Change to yellow

4 rnd  48sl

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.

Now, we will work on the hat crown.

With brown color yarn start,

1 rnd    6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

• From here start working in rows

3 row  (1sc, 1inc) repeat 3 times, chain 1, turn Total 9sts

4 row  (2sc, 1inc) repeat 3 times, chain 1, turn Total 12sts

5 row  (3sc, 1inc) repeat 3 times, chain 1, turn Total 15sts

6 row  (4sc, 1inc) repeat 3 times, chain 1, turn Total 18sts

7 row  (5sc, 1inc) repeat 3 times, chain 1, turn Total 21sts

8 row  (6sc, 1inc) repeat 3 times, chain 1, turn Total 24sts

9 and 10 row  24sc

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off
• Now you have 6 stitches left unworked from the second round.
• Skip the first one, attach the yarn on the next stitch, and start:

3 row    (1sc, 1inc) repeat 2 times, chain 1, turn Total 6sts

4 row    (1sc, 1inc) repeat 3 times, chain 1, turn Total 9sts

5 row    (2sc, 1inc) repeat 3 times, chain 1, turn Total 12sts

6 row    (3sc, 1inc) repeat 3 times, chain 1, turn Total 15sts

7 row    (4sc, 1inc) repeat 3 times, chain 1, turn Total 18sts

• From here, go back to working in rounds

8 rnd    chain 3, 24sc joining with the back side, chain 3,   18sc Total 48sts

9 and 10 rnd  48sc

• Change to yellow.
• Add the hat detail (brim) on top of the hat crown and start crocheting together.

11 rnd  46sc, (chain 7, skip first chain, 6sl, join with a sc)   repeat 2 times

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.

 With a white thread, embroider a fish bone in the central part of the hat.

Assembly and final details

1. Sew the arms in round 19 of the body.
2. Place the hat on the cat’s head and mark the position where the ears should be sewn. Or, sew them between rounds 29 to 36, leaving 20 stitches (counted from round 29) between them.
3. Embroider the eyes in round 26, leaving 4 stitches between them.
4. Embroider the central whiskers 2 stitches beside the eye with 5 stitches in length. And the other two whiskers, one round up and the other one round down the central one going on diagonal up one round and with 4 stitches in length.
5. Sew the tail in the back central part of round 9.
6. Dress the hat on the cat.

Congratulations!!!

Your crochet Pirate Cat amigurumi toy is ready!

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See you next time!

Love,

Ana

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