Ballerina Frog

Free Ballerina Frog crochet tutorial by Maria Kostyuchenko @mariya.kostychenko.

With this pattern, you can crochet a frog in a tulle skirt. Any cotton blend yarn and a suitable crochet hook will work for this amigurumi project.

The finished toy is about 27 cm tall.

Materials and Tools

• Gazzal Baby Cotton or Alize Cotton Gold yarn
• 2 mm crochet hook
• Thread for embroidering the face
• Toy stuffing
• Tulle
• Needle for sewing pieces together
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR — magic ring
• ch — chain stitch
• sl st — slip stitch
• sc — single crochet
• dc — double crochet
• inc — increase
• dec — decrease
• (...) x n — repeat n times

Amigurumi Crochet Ballerina Frog Pattern

Head

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
6: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
7: (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
8: (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
9: (7 sc, inc) x 6 (54)
10: (8 sc, inc) x 6 (60)
11-23: 60 sc
24: (8 sc, dec) x 6 (54)
25: (7 sc, dec) x 6 (48)
26: (6 sc, dec) x 6 (42)
27: (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
28: (4 sc, dec) x 6 (30)
29: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
30: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)
31: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
32: 6 dec

Eyes (make 2)

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4-6: 18 sc
7: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
8: 6 dec

Cheeks (make 2)

12 dc in MR

Decorative Flower (make 5)

In MR: (2 ch. 1 dc. 2 ch. 1 sl st) x 5.

Body

With pink yarn

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
6: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
7: (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
8-11: 42 sc
12: BLO: 42 sc
13-17: 42 sc
18: (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
19-20: 36 sc
21: (4 sc, dec) x 6 (30)
22-23: 30 sc
24: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
25: 24 sc
Change to green yarn
26: BLO: 24 sc
27-30: 24 sc

At the waist, work a skirt waistband into the remaining loops: 42 dc

Arms (make 2)

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4-7: 18 sc
8: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
9: (4 sc, dec) x 2 (10)
10-30: 10 sc

Fold in half and crochet 5 sc through both layers to close the opening.

Leg (make 2)

With pink yarn, make a chain of 6 ch and start in the second chain from the hook

1: 4 sc, 3 sc in one stitch, 3 sc, 1 inc (12)
2: 1 inc, 3 sc, 3 inc, 3 sc, 2 inc (18)
3: 1 inc, 6 sc, 2 inc, 6 sc, 1 inc, 2 sc (22)
4: 1 sc, 1 inc, 6 sc, 5 inc, 6 sc, 2 inc, 1 sc (30)
5: BLO: 30 sc
6-8: 30 sc
9: 9 sc, (1 dec, 1 sc) x 4; 9 sc (26)
10: 7 sc, (1 dec, 1 sc) x 4; 7 sc (22)
Change to green yarn
11: 22 sc
12: 8 sc, (1 dec, 1 sc) x 2; 8 sc (20)
13: 8 sc, 2 dec, 8 sc
14: 18 sc
15: (4 sc, dec) x 3 (15)
16-40: 15 sc

Fold in half and crochet 7 sc through both layers to close the opening.

Assembly

Sew the pieces together and attach the skirt.