Welcome to the crochet Halloween Cat is in Costume! This year, I have a swashbuckling surprise for you—three more patterns will join the special Halloween Cats edition, featuring first, the Pirate Cat! It’s the perfect crochet toy to add to your spooky season collection.
Don’t forget to explore other spooky collections as well, like last year’s Mini Frank, Little Witch, and Chubby Black Cat amigurumi. They’re all sure to add a dash of frightful fun to your crochet projects!
This Pirate Cat is part of the new Halloween collection, joining the ranks of the mischievous Skeleton Cat, the spooky Mummy Cat, and the iconic Cat Dracula! Like the others, the Pirate Cat pattern is completely free and available as a written pattern on the website.
Hello there! My name is Ana! Welcome to Little Crochet Farm.
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If you wish for an ad-free printable version of this pattern, you can find it in Ravelry here! And on Etsy here!
Take a look at other amigurumi you may like!
Before we start, I leave a link to all the stitches tutorial I used to complete this pattern. If you are a complete beginner or not familiar with some technique, there is a blog post with step-by-step images with descriptions and video tutorials.
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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: 11cm or (about) 4,3 inches
For a low cost, ad-free and printable pattern, you can find it in Ravelry here! And on Etsy here!
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
- Sew the arms in round 19 of the body.
- 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.
- Embroider the eyes in round 26 leaving 4 stitches between them.
- Embroider the central whiskers 2 stitches beside the eye with 5 stitches 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 length.
- Sew the tail in the back central part of round 9.
- Dress the hat on the cat.
Congratulations!!!
Your crochet Pirate Cat amigurumi toy is ready!
I hope you enjoy this pattern, and if you have any questions or comments in general, leave them in the comment box below.
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I also will share here my Ravelry shop where you can find a bit more advanced crochet patterns. And, on Ravelry, there is available a low-cost printable version of these free patterns you can see here.
See you next time!
Love,
Ana
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