Welcome to the second edition of Amigurumi Christmas Ornaments! This year’s festive lineup brings even more charm with four delightful characters: Mrs. Claus, the Nutcracker amigurumi, Gingerbread Man, and Chubby Penguin. This Nutcracker design is perfect for adding a handmade royal touch to your Christmas decor.
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Nutcracker The Royal Soldier Amigurumi Free Pattern
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Materials
- 2mm crochet hook
- Black, blue, red and yellow. 100% cotton sports weight yarn. The brand I used for this amigurumi is Mondial Lane basic cotton. For a similar yarn with the same quality and thickness, I recommend this one, which I also use for many of my projects.
- Black thread for embroidering the eyes.
- Stuffing material
- Scissors
- Sewing needle.
- Or, you can use safety eyes! The position is at the end of this post.
Finish size
The finished Nutcracker amigurumi measures approximately 4.6″ (12 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).
Useful Crochet Tutorials
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.
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.
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Pattern Instructions
Shirt Detail
We start preparing the detail we will need a little bit later.
With red yarn chain 23. Skip the first chain and start working single crochet in the third loop of the chain,
1 rnd 22sc
- Change to yellow color, chain one, turn
2 rnd 22FLsl
- Cut the yarn and fasten it off.
Legs
With black yarn start
1 rnd 6sc in a magic ring
2 rnd 6inc Total 12sts
3 rnd 12bpsc
4-5 rnd 12sc
- Cut the yarn and fasten it off.
- Make another one following the same instructions.
Body
- Don’t fasten off the second leg, change to blue 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)
7-9 rnd 24sc For the next round, you will crochet together with the shirt detail you worked previously.
- Change to black yarn.
- Here, find the two central stitches in the front of the body. Mark these two stitches.
- In the shirt detail, you have 22 stitches. In the body, you have 24 stitches. These two stitches you marked previously should be the gap between the beginning and end of the shirt.
- It is important for you to know that because, if your first stitch of the round is in a different position then mine, your shirt will be a bit sideways, and you will need to adapt the count below:
10 rnd 11blsl with the shirt, 2sl, 9blsl with the rest of the shirt
11 rnd 24blsc
- Change to red color yarn,
12 rnd 24blsl
13 rnd 24blsc
14-16 rnd 24sc
17 rnd (2sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 18sts
Head
- Change to beige yarn,
18 rnd 18blsl
- For the next round, you will work only in the remaining front loop of round 17 (the front loop in red color).
19 rnd FL (1sc, 1inc) repeat 9 times Total 27sts
20 rnd (2sc, 1inc) repeat 9 times Total 36sts
21 rnd (5sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 42sts
22-29 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 to finish stuffing the soldier.
34 rnd (1sc, 2dec) repeat 2 times Total 12sts
- Cut the yarn and fasten off. Weave the tail through the front loops of all 12 stitches and pull tight to close the circle. Hide the remaining tail inside the toy.
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 red yarn,
4 to 8 rnd 10sc
- Change to yellow yarn,
9-10 rnd 10sc
- Add stuffing material to the arms.
- Cut the yarn and fasten it off. Leave a small tail for sewing it.
- Make another one following the same instructions.
Hat
With black yarn 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 rnd (4sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 36sts
7 rnd (5sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 42sts
8 rnd 42blsc
9-16 rnd 42sc
- Change to yellow yarn,
17 rnd 42blsl
- Cut the yarn and fasten it off. Leave a tail for sewing it.
Top of the Hat Detail
With yellow yarn start,
1 rnd 6sc in a magic ring
2 rnd 6inc Total 12sts
3 rnd 12bpsc
- Cut the yarn and fasten it off. Leave a small tail for sewing it.
Front of the Hat Detail
With blue yarn start,
1 rnd 6sc in a magic ring
2 rnd 6inc Total 12sts
- Change to yellow,
3 rnd 12blsl
- Cut the yarn and fasten it off.
- Leave a tail for sewing it.
Hat Assembly
- Sew the top detail in the central part of the hat top.
- Sew the front detail in the central part, in front of the hat, starting under round 8.
Assembly
- With a piece of yellow yarn, embroider three lines in the central part of the chest, starting two rounds under the neck, and with a length of 6 stitches.
- Bring the same yarn to the two black stitches in the center of the soldier (the belt) and embroider the buckle.
- Sew the arms beside the body. Here, sew it, taking the central stitches of the arm. Leaving the top of the arm free, giving the impression of an epaulet.
- Place the hat over his head, until round 26 and sew it around.
- Embroider the eyes in round 24 leaving 4 stitches between them.
Congratulations!!!
Your Nutcracker, the Royal soldier 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.
See you next time!
Love,
Ana
FAQ – Crochet Christmas Ornament Pattern
Yes, absolutely! You are welcome to sell finished items made from this pattern. I would ask if possible to credit Little Crochet Farm as the designer. A link back is always appreciated if you sell online.
Definitely! I used sports yarn for mine, but you can absolutely use velvet yarn or acrylic yarn if you’d like a different texture. Just keep in mind that the look and feel will change depending on the yarn you choose. And remember to adjust the needle to the yarn weight.
Yes, you can! Using a larger hook (and matching yarn weight) will make your finished Santa bigger and softer. Just make sure your stitches are tight enough so the stuffing doesn’t show through.
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