Amigurumi Dog Pattern – My Dog measure around 26 cm. I have used 1.5 ball of main colour and 0.5 ball of additional colour, chenille yarn 95g/100m and 4.5mm hook.
You will need:
- Yarn in desired colour I have used chenille yarn 100m/100g (Aldi brand) and used 1,5 no of ball of main colour and half of additional colour
- Crochet hook 4,5mm.
Needle
- Polyester fibrefill stuffing Plastic eyes 14mm
- My dog is 26cm hight.
Observation:
- ch chain
- dec decrease
- sc single crochet
- sl st slip stitch
- st stitch
- inc increase
- BLO back loop only
- DC double crochet
Notes:
Do not join at the end of each round; rounds are worked in continuous spirals or otherwise stated.
Use a stitch marker to mark the beginning of each round. Move the marker up each time you start a new round.
Head
Starting with black yarn
1: make chain with 6st , starting from second st from hook, 4sc, 3sc in 1 st, on the other side of the chain, 3sc, inc (12)
2: 6sc, (1sc, inc) x 3 (15)
3: 6sc, (2sc, inc) x 3 (18)
4: 6sc, (3sc, inc) x 3 (21)
6: 6sc, (inc, 4sc) x 3 (24)
7: 16sc with black, change colour to white, BLO – 8sc (24)
8: Work on BLO where the white mix with the black yarn from previous round – 8sc, inc, 6sc, inc, 6sc, inc, 1sc (27)
9: 9sc, inc, (4sc, inc) x 3, 2sc (31)
10: 10sc, inc, (3sc, inc) x 5 (37)
11: 11sc, inc, (3sc, inc) x 5, 5sc (43)
12-13: 43sc (43)
14: 2sc, inc x 7, 34sc (50)
15: 50sc (50)
16: (inc, 9sc) x 5 (55)
17: (10sc, inc) x 5 (60)
Attached eyes in round 11 in space of 10,
count all st apart, as this is round where you did increase.
18-19: 60 (60)
20: (10sc, dec) x 5 (55)
21: 55sc (55)
22: (9sc, dec) x 5 (50)
23: (8sc, dec) x 5 (45)
24: (7sc, dec) x 5 (40)
25: (6sc, dec) x 5 (35)
26: (5sc, dec) x 5 (30)
27: (4sc, dec) x 5 (25)
28: (3sc, dec) x 5 (20) – stuff the head
29: (2sc, dec) x 5 (15)
30: (1sc, dec) x 5 (10)
31: dec x 5 – f/o leaving long tail and sew hole.
Body
1: Starting from the top of the neck, leave long tail on the beginning to close of neck later and sew the head, make chain 17, slst to the first chain creating a ring (17)
2: 17sc
3: 16sc, inc (18)
4: chain 15, starting from the second sc from the hook, 14sc, make 1sc in the same space which you start the chain, 16sc on the neck to the marker
5: 13sc on the chain, inc, 14sc on other side of the chain, 19 on the neck (48)
6: 14sc, inc x 2, 32sc (50)
7: (9sc, inc) x 5 (55)
8: (10sc, inc) (60)
9-16: 60sc (60)
17: 39sc, skip 10sc, 3sc, skip 10sc, 1sc (you skip 8sc from this round and 2 sc from next round that mean you pass the marker) move marker in this place
18: 6sc, skip 10sc, 3sc, skip 10, 11sc (20)
Start to staff the body, then add the filling as required.
19: 5sc, dec x 3, 5sc, dec x 2 (15) – f/o leaving long tail to sew the hole later on. We create the holes in the bottom of the body for legs.
Legs
1: attach yarn and make 15sc in the hole (15)
2 – 6: 15sc – fill the leg as required, stop the last row in the middle of the leg, fold them in half to indicate the
middle, like on the photograph, put the marker in this place
7: 9sc, inc x 5, 1sc (20) – inc should be on the front of the leg
8: (2sc, dec) x 5 (15)
9: (1sc, dec) x 5 (10)
10: dec x 5 (5) f/o leaving tail and sew the hole
Tip: For easer working out of the legs, stuff and f/o each leg after you finish all four. I have change colour of the one leg in round 4.
Now add the staffing to the body as required and sew the middle hole.
Ears, make 2
I have done one of each colour
1: 4sc in MR (4) – leave long tail of yarn on the beginning so you can use it to sew the ear to the head.
2: inc x 4 (8)
3: (1sc, inc) x 4 (12)
4: 12sc (12)
5: (2sc, inc) x 4 (16)
6: 16sc (16)
7: (3sc, inc) x 4 (20)
8-11: 20sc (20)
12: (4sc, inc) x 4 (24)
13-15: 24sc (24)
16: (5sc, inc) x 4 (28)
17-19: 28sc (28)
Make additional 14sc and close off the ear with single crochet.
Do not stuff, sew into the head.
Tail
1: 4sc in MR (4)
2: (1sc, inc ) x 2 (6)
3-7: 6sc (6)
Change colour;
8: (1sc, inc) x 3 (9)
9-12: 9sc (9)
13: (1sc, inc) x 4, inc (14)
14: (2sc, inc) x 4, 1sc, inc (19)
15: 2sc, inc x 5, 13sc (24)
16: (5sc, inc) x 2 f/o leaving long tail, sew into the body