Elf Girl Amigurumi Free Crochet Pattern

It might be a little late for this year’s Christmas or early for the next — it all depends on how you look at it! But one thing’s for sure: this Elf Girl Amigurumi is ready to bring holiday cheer no matter the season. She’s part of the third edition of my amigurumi Christmas ornaments collection, and like always, she’s cute, beginner-friendly, and full of personality.

Crocheting for the holidays is always magical, and I hope this little elf brings some of that joy to your hook!

Discover All the Christmas Ornament Collections

This Elf Girl is part of the third edition of Christmas ornament patterns, which includes four characters: the Snowman, the Mrs. Grinch, and two more surprises coming soon!

If you haven’t seen the earlier editions yet, the first collection includes the Happy Grinch, Mini Santa Claus, Little Elf, and Chubby Reindeer. The second collection brought even more holiday fun with Mrs. Claus, the Gingerbread Man, Chubby Penguin, and the Nutcracker.

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Elf Girl Amigurumi Free Pattern

Materials:

• 2mm crochet hook 
• Brown, white, red, green, skin tone of your preference and hair color of your preference yarn, 100% cotton sports weight yarn, I recommend this one.
• Black thread for embroidering the eyes, golden thread for the belt. 
• Stuffing material
• Scissors
• Sewing needle.
• Or, you can use safety eyes! The position is at the end of this post.

Finish size

The finished Elf Girl Amigurumi measures approximately 6″ (15 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.

Double Crochet (dc): yarn over the needle, insert the hook into the stitch, pull up a loop, yarn over the needle, pull through the first two loops of your needle, yarn over the needle, inside all loops on the needle.

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.

Elf Girl Amigurumi Pattern Instructions

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 8 rnd    10sc

9 rnd  5sc crocheting the sides together. Closing the arm.

• Cut the yarn and fasten off.
• Make another one following the same instructions.

Shirt Detail

We start preparing the detail we will need a little bit later.

With green yarn chain 24 and start crocheting in the first chain, closing a circle.

1 rnd  (1sl, chain 1, 1dc, chain 1) repeat 12 times

• Cut the yarn and fasten it 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 it 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 (12sts from each leg)

7 rnd  24sc

• Change to white

8 and 9 rnd  24sc

• Change back to red

10 rnd  24sc

• Change to green and fasten off the white and red yarn.

 11 rnd    24sc crocheting together with the shirt detail you   worked previously

• Change to brown color yarn

12 rnd  24blsl

13 rnd  24blsc

• Change to green color yarn and fasten off the brown yarn.

14 rnd  24blsl

15 rnd  24blsc

16 rnd    24sc

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

18 rnd  2sc, 5sc with arm, 4sc, 5sc with other arm, 2sc

Head

• Change to beige,

19 rnd  18blsl

• For the next round, you will work only in the remaining front loop of round 18. This way, round 19 should be left inside the toy.
• Add stuffing material before continuing to round 20.

20 rnd  FL(1sc, 1inc) repeat 9 times Total 27sts

21 rnd  (2sc, 1inc) repeat 9 times Total 36sts     

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

23 to 29 rnd     42sc

30 rnd  42blsc

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

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

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

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

• Stop here to finish stuffing the elf girl.

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

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.

Hat

With red yarn start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 and 3 rnd   6sc

4 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

5 and 6 rnd   12sc

7 rnd  (1sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 18sts

8 and 9 rnd  18sc

10 rnd  (2sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 24sts

11 rnd  24sc

12 rnd  (3sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 30sts

13 rnd  30sc

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

15 rnd  36sc

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

17 to 19 rnd  42sc

• Change to white color yarn,

20 rnd  42hdc

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.
• Leave a tail for sewing it.

Hat Top

With white 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.

Assembly

1. Hair strings and braids: cut 30 pieces of the yarn color you chose for the hair, with about 20cm/8 inches in length. Find round 30, the one you work on in the back loop, and attach the strings in the remaining front loop—15 strings on one side and 15 on the other. Leave 12 stitches in front of the Elf (her face) without attaching the hair strings. Braid the hair. Close the braid with a little piece of red yarn.
2.  With the same color yarn, embroider hair strings. Starting in round 27 and going up to her 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).
3.  Embroider the eyes in round 26, leaving 4 stitches between them.
4.  Crochet the ears by making: chain 4, 1sl, 1sc, 1dc (make two of them)
5.  Sew the ears in round 26, 4 stitches away from the eyes. Pull a couple of hair strings in front of the ear.
6.  With white color yarn, embroider the snowflakes on the hat. Make a bigger one in the center and two little ones on the sides.
7.  Add the hat, and sew the hat on the Elf’s head.
8.  Make a square on her belt with a piece of golden embroidery thread.

Congratulations!!!

Your Elf Girl amigurumi Christmas ornament is ready!

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See you next time!

Love,

Ana

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