Baby Elephant

Difficulty Level: medium

Amigurumi crochet elephant

Free Baby Elephant crochet tutorial by Olyushka Lukoshkina @lukoshkina.o.

With this pattern, you can crochet an elephant. A crocheted girl elephant toy. For this amigurumi project, any acrylic yarn, cotton yarn, or cotton blend yarn and a suitable crochet hook will work. The author did not provide a clothes pattern, so you can decorate the toy however you like.

Materials and Tools

Any yarn
Suitable crochet hook
Safety eyes
Black thread or black yarn for embroidering the mouth, eyebrows, and eyelashes
Toy stuffing
Needle
Scissors

Abbreviations

MR - magic ring
ch - chain stitch
sl st - slip stitch
sc - single crochet
hdc - half double crochet
inc - increase
dec - decrease

Amigurumi Girl Elephant Crochet Pattern in Clothes

Head

Start with the trunk:

1: 6 sc in MR
2: (inc + 1 sc) x 3 times = 9 sc
3: 9 sc in BLO
4-5: 9 sc (2 rounds)
6: (inc + 2 sc) x 3 times = 12 sc
7-9: 12 sc
10: (inc + 3 sc) x 3 times = 15 sc
11-15: 15 sc (5 rounds)

16: inc, sc, 4 inc, sc, inc, sc, inc, sc, inc, sc, inc, sc = 24 sc
17: 4 sc, 4 inc, 5 sc, inc, 9 sc, inc = 30 sc
18: (inc + 4 sc) x 6 times = 36 sc
19: (inc + 5 sc) x 6 times = 42 sc
20: (inc + 6 sc) x 6 times = 48 sc
21-28: 48 sc
29: (dec + 6 sc) x 6 times = 42 sc
30: (dec + 5 sc) x 6 times = 36 sc
31: (dec + 4 sc) x 6 times = 30 sc
32: (dec + 3 sc) x 6 times = 24 sc
33: (dec + 2 sc) x 6 times = 18 sc
34: (dec + 1 sc) x 6 times = 12 sc

Stuff, cut the yarn, and hide the end inside.

Crochet elephant pattern

Ears (2 pieces)

Crochet elephant pattern

Body

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc = 12 sc
3: (inc + 1 sc) x 6 times = 18 sc
4: (inc + 2 sc) x 6 times = 24 sc
5: (inc + 3 sc) x 6 times = 30 sc
6: (inc + 4 sc) x 6 times = 36 sc
7: (inc + 5 sc) x 6 times = 42 sc
8: (inc + 6 sc) x 6 times = 48 sc
9-14: = 48 sc (6 rounds)
15: (dec + 6 sc) x 6 times = 42 sc
16-18: = 42 sc (3 rounds)
19: (dec + 5 sc) x 6 times = 36 sc
20-22: = 36 sc (3 rounds)
23: (dec + 4 sc) x 6 times = 30 sc
24-26: = 30 sc (3 rounds)
27: (dec + 3 sc) x 6 times = 24 sc
28-29: = 24 sc (2 rounds)
30: (dec + 2 sc) x 6 times = 18 sc

Stuff firmly with filling, shaping the belly, and leave a bit of yarn for sewing the head.

Arms (2 pieces)

1: 6 sc in MR
2: (inc + 1 sc) x 3 times = 9 sc
3-4: = 9 sc (2 rounds)
5: (inc + 2 sc) x 3 times = 12 sc
6-17: = 12 sc (12 rounds)
18: (dec + 2 sc) x 3 times = 9 sc

Crochet 3 sc through both sides, and leave yarn for sewing.

Legs (2 pieces)

Start with the shoe, using green yarn:

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc = 12 sc
3: (inc + 1 sc) x 6 times = 18 sc
4: (inc + 2 sc) x 6 times = 24 sc
5: (inc + 3 sc) x 6 times = 30 sc
6: 5 sc, ch, turn, 5 sc, ch, turn, 5 sc, ch
7: then continue in the round in BLO = 35 sc
8-10: = 35 sc (3 rounds)
11: 7 sc, 6 dec, 16 sc = 29 sc
12: 5 sc, 6 dec, 12 sc = 23 sc
13: (lace on the shoe) 3 hdc in one sc, sl st, repeat around.
Cut the yarn, hide the end inside, attach beige yarn and crochet 15 sc (since there were 23 sc, I skip some sc and crochet only 15 sc).
15-24: = 15 sc (10 rounds)
25: (dec + 3 sc) x 3 times = 12 sc
26-28: = 12 sc (3 rounds)