Crochet Mini Santa Claus – Free Amigurumi Pattern

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Crochet Mini Santa Claus Free Amigurumi Christmas Pattern

Materials

• 2mm crochet hook 
• Skin tone of your choice, red, black, and white yarn. A little bit of yellow for the belt. I used 100% cotton, sports yarn.
• Black thread to embroider the face. 
• Stuffing material
• Scissors
• Sewing needle.
• Or, you can use safety eyes! The position is at the end of this post.

Finish size

The finished Crochet Mini Santa Claus measures approximately 3 inches (8 cm) tall with the hat. 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):

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

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

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

Back loop Slip stitch (blsl): Insert hook into the back loop only of the stitch, yarn under, pull through both stitch and loop on hook.

Crochet Mini Santa Claus Amigurumi Pattern Instructions

Head

With the skin tone of your choice, start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

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

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

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

6 to 10 rnd  30sc

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

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

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

• Add stuffing material to the head before continuing.
• Change to red color yarn,

14 rnd  12blsl

Body

• For the next round, you will crochet in the remaining front loop from round 13. Round 14 will be facing the inside of the toy.

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

16 rnd  18sc

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

• Change to black and work the next 2 rounds, grabbing just the back loop of the stitch

18 rnd  24blsl

19 rnd  24blsc

• Change back to red

20 to 22 rnd  24sc

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

• Stop here to finish adding stuffing material,

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

• Place the toy upside down and attach the black yarn to the remaining front loop of round 24.

1 rnd  24sc

• Join with a slip stitch. Cut the yarn and fasten it off.

Arms

With the skin tone of your choice start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  6sc

• Change to white

3 rnd  6sc

• Change to red

4 rnd    6sc

5 rnd   3sc crocheting the sides together, closing the arm.

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

Hat

With white color yarn start,

1 rnd  6sc magic ring

2 rnd  6sc

• Change to red

3 rnd  6blsl

4 rnd  6blsc

5 rnd  6sc

6 rnd  (1sc, 1inc) repeat 3 times Total 9sts

7 to 9 rnd  9sc

10 rnd  (2sc, 1inc) repeat 3 times Total 12sts

11 rnd  12sc

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

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

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

15 to 18 rnd  30sc

• Change back to white

19 rnd  30blsl

• For the next round, you will work with double crochet and grab only the front loop of the stitch. Chain 2 and start,

20 rnd  FL(5dc, 1inc) repeat 5 times Total 35sts

• Join with a sl.
• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.

Beard

With white color yarn, chain 14. Skip the first chain and start,

1 row  1sc, (3dc in the same stitch, 1sl) repeat 5 times, 3dc in the   same stitch, 1sc

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

Mustache

With white color yarn chain 9. Skip the first chain and start,

1 row  8sl

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

Assembly

1. Sew the arms in round 12 of the toy, leaving 5 stitches of space between them.
2. For the shirt detail, sew it in round 8 of the toy, leaving 4 stitches between each side. On the back, sew both edges of the shirt detail to the center of round 8.
3. Embroider the eyes on round 18, leaving 6 stitches of space between them. Then, embroider the mouth two rounds below

Congratulations!!!

Your Mini Santa Claus amigurumi Christmas is ready!

I hope you enjoy this pattern! If you have any questions or comments, leave them in the comment box below.

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See you next time!

Love,

Ana

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