Let’s kick off the best season of the year with a brand-new crochet Christmas ornaments collection! If you enjoyed the World of Mini Halloween amigurumi collection, I’m sure you’re going to love this one too! Starting today with a mini Santa Claus free crochet ornament pattern, there are seven more to come, so stay tuned! And if you haven’t yet, remember to subscribe to the newsletter to get updates as soon as each new Christmas pattern is released.
If you haven’t explored them already, there are so many other Christmas crochet ornaments available here! A few favorites include the Happy Grinch, Gingerbread Man, and the Nutcracker. Or you can head over to this part of my website to see all the Christmas patterns in one place.
I also recommend checking out the popular crochet wings applique—always a hit during the Christmas season—and, of course, the Christmas tree applique!
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This isn’t your regular crochet eBook; it’s a magical world where stories meet crochet, where the characters come to life from your hands!
“Gingerbread Man’s Sweet Christmas Adventure”(Our amigurumi fairy tale) transforms the amigurumi you crochet from realms of mere toys to lively characters twisted within an unforgettable story!
Take a look at 10 Christmas-themed amigurumi patterns and a delightful original Christmas tale!
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Before we start, I leave a link to all the stitches tutorials I used to complete this pattern. If you are a complete beginner or not familiar with some techniques, there is a blog post with step-by-step images with descriptions and video tutorials.
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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: 8cm or (about) 3 inches with the hat.
For a low cost, ad-free and printable pattern, you can find it in Ravelry here! And on Etsy here!
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.
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 grabbing 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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