One more pattern from the amigurumi Christmas Ornaments collection. There are currently eight Christmas crochet free patterns available here, Happy Grinch, Santa Claus, Gingerbread man, Mrs. Claus, Chubby Penguin, Chubby reindeer and the Nutcracker!
Hello there! My name is Ana! Welcome to Little crochet farm.
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Little Elf free amigurumi pattern
Materials:
- 1,75mm or 2mm crochet hook
- Green, white, red and brown 100% cotton sports weight yarn. The brand I used for this amigurumi is Mondial Lane basic cotton. For similar yarn with the same quality and thickness, I recommend this one, which I also use for many of my projects.
- Stuffing material
- Scissors
- Sewing needle.
- Embroidery thread
- Or, you can use safety eyes! The position is at the end of this post.
Finish size: 12cm or (about) 4,5 inches
For a low cost, ad-free printable pattern, you can find it in Ravelry here!
And on Etsy here!
SHIRT DETAIL
We start preparing the detail we will need a little bit later.
With green yarn chain 36 and start crocheting in the first chain, closing a circle.
1 rnd (1sl, chain 1, 1dc, chain 1) repeat 18 times
• Cut the yarn and fasten off.
BODY
With brown yarn start
1 rnd 6sc in a magic ring
2 rnd 6inc Total 12sts
3 rnd 12bpsc
• Change to white
4 and 5 rnd 12sc
• Cut the yarn and fasten off.
• Make another one following the same instructions.
• Don’t fasten off the second leg, change to red color and connect the two legs by inserting the loop of the needle inside one stitch of the first leg, following,
6 rnd 24sc (12 from each leg)
7 rnd (1sc, 1inc) repeat 12 times Total 36sts
• Change to white
8 and 9 rnd 36sc
• Change back to red
10 and 11 rnd 36sc
• Change to green color yarn
12 rnd 36sc connecting with the leaves
13 and 14 rnd 36sc
15 rnd (4sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 30sts
16 rnd (3sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 24sts
17 rnd (2sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 18sts
• Change to beige tone
18 rnd 18blsl
19 rnd FL(3sc, 2 inc, 2sc, 2 inc, 5sc, 2inc, 2sc, 2inc, 2sc) Total 26sts
ps: 2 inc = 3sc in same st
20 rnd 4sc, 2inc, 4sc, 2inc, 7sc, 2inc, 4sc, 2inc, 3sc Total 34sts
21 rnd 5sc, 2inc, 6sc, 2inc, 9sc, 2inc, 6sc, 2inc, 4sc Total 42sts
22 to 29 rnd 42sc
30 rnd (5sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 36sts
31 rnd (4sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 30sts
32 rnd (3sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 24sts
33 rnd (2sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 18sts
• Stop here for finish stuffing the Elf.
34 rnd (1sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 12sts
• Cut the yarn and fasten off.
HAT
With white yarn start,
1 rnd 6sc in a magic ring
2 and 3 rnd 6sc
• Change to red
4 rnd 6inc Total 12sts
5 and 6 rnd 12sc
• Change to white
7 rnd (1sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 18sts
8 and 9 rnd 18sc
• Change to red
10 rnd (2sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 24sts
11 rnd 24sc
• Change to white
12 rnd (3sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 30sts
13 rnd 30sc
• Change to red
14 rnd (4sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 36sts
15 rnd 36sc
• Change to white
16 rnd (5sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 42sts
17 rnd 42sc
• Change to red
18 and 19 rnd 42sc
• Change to white color yarn,
20 rnd 42hdc
• Cut the yarn and fasten off.
HAT TOP
With green color yarn start
1 rnd 6sc in a magic ring
2 rnd 6inc Total 12sts
3 to 6 rnd 12sc
• Cut the yarn and fasten off.
• Leave a small tail and sew it on top of the hat.
ARMS
With beige yarn of your choice start,
1 rnd 5sc in a magic ring
2 rnd 5inc Total 10sts
3 rnd 10sc
• Change to green color yarn
4 to 9 rnd 10sc
• Cut the yarn and fasten off.
• Leave a small tail for sewing it.
• Make another one following the same instructions.
ASSEMBLY
- Sew the arms at row 17.
- Embroider the eyes in round 25 leaving 4 stitches distance between them.
- Crochet the ears by making: chain 4, 1sl, 1sc, 1dc (make two of them)
- Sew the ears in round 26, 5 stitches away from the eyes
- With red color yarn and sewing needle, embroider two X in the central part of his shirt, starting two rows under the neck, leaving one row between them.
- With brown color yarn, embroider hair strings. Starting in round 27, and going up to his head (here, it doesn’t matter how high you embroider, it will be covered with the hat, only rounds 27 and 28 will be seen with the hair detail).
- Add the hat, and sew the hat on the Elf’s head.
Congratulations!!!
Your little Elf Christmas ornament amigurumi 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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See you next time!
Love,
Ana
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I cannot download the elf pattern. Can you send it to me.
Hey Joanne, the pattern is available on the website for free. There is a printable version available to download in my shop on Ravelry and Etsy, but there is no option to download from there in the website!