Corgi

Free crochet tutorial for a Corgi by Katerina Golovanova @adeshkakaktus.

With this pattern, you can crochet a little corgi dog with a scarf. Any cotton blend yarn and a suitable crochet hook will work for this amigurumi. You can use a cotter pin joint if you like.

Materials and Tools

• Gazzal Baby Cotton yarn, color 3465
• Gazzal Baby Cotton yarn, color 3432
• Pekhorka Detskaya Novinka yarn, color 01
• Pekhorka Detskaya Novinka yarn, color 02
• 2 mm and 5 mm crochet hooks
• 10 mm safety eyes
• Safety nose
• Toy stuffing
• 20 mm disk
• Suitable cotter pin
• Stitch markers
• Needle
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR - magic ring
• ch - chain stitch
• sl st - slip stitch
• sc - single crochet
• dc - double crochet
• hdc - half double crochet
• inc - increase
• dec - decrease
• MC - crochet with the main color
• W - crochet with white
• (...) x n - repeat n times

Crochet Amigurumi Corgi Pattern

Legs (make 2)

Start crocheting with white yarn. Stuff the piece firmly as you crochet.

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12 sc)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18 sc)
4-6: 18 sc - 3 rounds
7: 3 sc, 6 dec, 3 sc (12 sc)
8: 12 sc
9: 4 sc, 2 dec, 4 sc (10 sc)
10-13: 10 sc - 4 rounds
14: 4 sc, 2 inc, 4 sc (12 sc)
15: 12 sc
Add the second color. The marker should be strictly at the back of the leg
16: MC 3 sc, W 6 sc, MC 3 sc (12 sc)
17: MC 4 sc, W 4 sc, MC 4 sc (12 sc)
18: MC 4 sc, W 4 sc, MC 4 sc (12 sc)
19: MC 4 sc, W 2 sc

On the first leg, fasten off and cut the yarn. Continue crocheting from the second leg.

Body

Stuff the piece firmly as you crochet. From one leg, chain 4, join to the second leg, and crochet:

1: W 2 sc, MC 8 sc, W 2 sc, 4 sc along the chain, 2 sc, MC 8 sc, W 2 sc, 4 sc along the chain (32 sc)
2: W 2 sc, MC inc, (2 sc, inc) x 7, 2 sc, W inc, 2 sc, inc, 2 sc (42 sc)
3: W 2 sc, MC 4 sc, inc, (6 sc, inc) x 4, 1 sc, W 5 sc, inc (48 sc)
4: MC (7 sc, inc) x 5, 3 sc, W 3 sc, K 1 sc, inc (54 sc)
Continue crocheting with the main color
5-10: 54 sc - 6 rounds
11: (7 sc, dec) x 6 (48 sc)
12-13: 48 sc - 2 rounds
14: (6 sc, dec) x 6 (42 sc)
15-18: 42 sc - 5 rounds
19: (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36 sc)
20-23: 36 sc - 4 rounds
24: (4 sc, dec) x 6 (30 sc)
25-26: 30 sc - 2 rounds
27: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24 sc)
28: 24 sc
29: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18 sc)
30: 18 sc

Insert a disk and cotter pin that fit the neck size.

31: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12 sc)
32: 6 dec

Fasten off, cut the yarn tail, and hide it.

Head

Start crocheting with white yarn. Stuff the piece firmly as you crochet.

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12 sc)
3: (2 sc, inc) x 4 (16 sc)
4: (3 sc, inc) x 4 (20 sc)
5: (4 sc, inc) x 4 (24 sc)
6: (5 sc, inc) x 4 (28 sc)
7: (6 sc, inc) x 4 (32 sc)
8: (7 sc, inc) x 4 (36 sc)
9: (8 sc, inc) x 4 (40 sc)
10: 3 sc, inc) x 10 (50 sc)
11-15: 50 sc - 5 rounds

Change to the main color
16: 50 sc
17: 23 sc, dec, 23 sc, dec (48 sc)
18: 48 sc
Secure the cotter pin.
19: (6 sc, dec) x 6 (42 sc)
20: (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36 sc)
Insert the eyes between rounds 17 and 18.
21-23: 36 sc - 3 rounds
24: (4 sc, dec) x 6 (30 sc)
25: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24 sc)
26: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18 sc)
27: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12 sc)
28: 6 dec

Close the opening, fasten off, and hide the yarn tails.

Tail (Long)

1: 6 sc in MR
2-3: 6 sc - 2 rounds
4: (1 sc, inc) x 3 (9 sc)
5-6: 9 sc - 2 rounds
7: 8 sc, inc (10 sc)
8-9: 10 sc - 2 rounds

Stuff the piece lightly so you can shape it. Leave a long tail for sewing.

Tail (Short)

1: 6 sc in MR
2: (1 sc, inc) x 3 (9 sc)
3: 9 sc
4: (2 sc, inc) x 3 (12 sc)
5: 6 sc - crochet an incomplete round so the piece will point upward.

Leave a long tail for sewing the piece on.

Muzzle

Crochet with white yarn. Stuff the piece while sewing it to the head.

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12 sc)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18 sc)
4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24 sc)
5-8: 24 sc - 4 rounds

Fasten off and leave a tail for sewing the piece on.

Arms (make 2)

Start crocheting with white yarn.

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12 sc)
3-5: 12 sc - 3 rounds
6: (2 sc, dec) x 3 (9 sc)
Change to the main color. Lightly stuff only the white part of the piece.
7-21: 9 sc - 15 rounds

Fold the piece in half and crochet 4 sc through both edges of the piece. Fasten off and cut the yarn.

Ears (make 2)

Crochet with the main color. Do not stuff.

1: 6 sc in MR
2: (1 sc, inc) x 3 (9 sc)
3: 9 sc
4: (2 sc, inc) x 3 (12 sc)
5: 12 sc
6: (3 sc, inc) x 3 (15 sc)
7-8: 15 sc - 2 rounds
9: (4 sc, inc) x 3 (18 sc)
10: 18 sc
11: (5 sc, inc) x 3 (21 sc)
12-16: 21 sc - 5 rounds
17: (5 sc, dec) x 3 (18 sc)

Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Collar

Crochet with white yarn. Chain 11, then starting from the 2nd chain from the hook, crochet 10 sc. Finish each following row with a chain and turn.

1: 10 sc
2: dec, 6 sc, dec
3: dec, 4 sc, dec
4: 6 sc
5: dec, 2 sc, dec
6: 2 dec
7: dec

Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing the piece on.

Feather

Crochet with white yarn. Chain 11, then starting from the 2nd chain from the hook, crochet around:

4 sc, 1 hdc, 2 dc, 1 hdc, 1 sc, 4 sc in 1 stitch, 1 sc, 1 hdc, 2 dc, 1 hdc, 4 sc, sl st.

Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing the piece on.

Scarf

Use a bulkier yarn and a size 4 or 5 hook.

Chain 41, then starting from the 2nd chain from the hook, crochet: 40 sc. All rows end with a chain and turn. Crochet 4 more rows of 40 sc.

Fasten off and hide the yarn tails.

Assembling the Toy

• Sew the arms, "collar", and your chosen tail option to the body.
• Sew the ears and muzzle to the head. Do not forget to stuff the muzzle while sewing it on. Also sew on the "feather".
• Shape the eye area with thread and embroider the whites of the eyes with white yarn.
• Tie the scarf on the corgi.

Congratulations! Your new friend is ready.