Totoro

Free crochet Totoro tutorial by Anastasia Markova @asenok.toys.

With this pattern, you can crochet a plush Totoro from the anime "My Neighbor Totoro." Any plush yarn will work for this amigurumi: Himalaya Dolphin Baby, YarnArt Dolce, and others. You will need about 4 skeins of the main color.

The finished toy is about 45 cm tall.

Materials and Tools

• Plush YarnArt Dolce: 760 gray (4 skeins), 741 white (a little)
• Iris yarn: black and white
• 4 mm and 1-2 mm crochet hooks
• Toy stuffing
• Needle for sewing pieces together
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR — magic ring
• sc — single crochet
• inc — increase
• dec — decrease
• (...) x n — repeat n times

Crochet Amigurumi Totoro Pattern

Legs (make 2)

Popcorn stitch made of 3 chain stitches.

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: 12 inc (24)
4: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
5: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
Round 6 work in the back loop only: 4 sc, popcorn stitch, (3 sc, popcorn stitch) x 2, 23 sc (36)
7: 36 sc

Fasten off and cut the yarn.

Body

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: 12 inc (24)
Round 4 crochet the legs into the body: 3 sc, 6 sc together with the leg, 6 sc, 6 sc together with the leg, 3 sc (24)

I attached the legs to the body by eye, with the toes facing forward.

5: 3 sc along the body, 30 sc along the remaining part of the leg, 6 sc along the body, 30 sc along the remaining part of the leg, 3 sc (72)
6: (11 sc, inc) x 6 (78)
7: (12 sc, inc) x 6 (84)
8: (13 sc, inc) x 6 (90)
Rounds 9-14 (6 rounds): 90 sc
15: (14 sc, inc) x 6 (96)
Rounds 16-20 (5 rounds): 96 sc
21: (14 sc, dec) x 6 (90)
Rounds 22-26 (5 rounds): 90 sc
27: (13 sc, dec) x 6 (84)
Rounds 28-32 (5 rounds): 84 sc
33: (12 sc, dec) x 6 (78)
Rounds 34-35 (2 rounds): 78 sc
36: (11 sc, dec) (72)
37: 72 sc
38: (10 sc, dec) x 6 (66)
39: 66 sc
40: (9 sc, dec) x 6 (60)
Rounds 41-42 (2 rounds): 60 sc
43: (8 sc, dec) x 6 (54)
44: 54 sc
45: (7 sc, dec) x 6 (48)
46: (6 sc, dec) (42)
47: (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
48: (4 sc, dec) x 6 (30)
49: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
50: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)
51: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
52: 6 dec

Fasten off and cut the yarn.

Belly

Crochet with white yarn.

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: 12 inc (24)
4: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
5: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
6: (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
7: (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
8: (7 sc, inc) x 6 (54)
9: (8 sc, inc) x 6 (60)
10: (9 sc, inc) x 6 (66)
11: (10 sc, inc) x 6 (72)
12: (11 sc, inc) x 6 (78)
13: (12 sc, inc) x 6 (84)
14: (13 sc, inc) x 6 (90)
15: (14 sc, inc) x 6 (96)
16: (15 sc, inc) x 6 (104)
17: (16 sc, inc) x 6 (110)
18: (17 sc, inc) x 6 (116)

Fasten off. If you will use this same yarn tail to sew the belly to the body, leave a long tail. I sewed it on with Iris yarn.

Ears (make 2)

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 sc
3: (1 sc, inc) x 3 (9)
4: 9 sc
5: (2 sc, inc) x 3 (12)
6: 12 sc
7: (3 sc, inc) x 3 (15)
8: 15 sc
9: (4 sc, inc) x 3 (18)
10: 18 sc
Round 11 work in the back loop only: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
12: 6 dec (6)
13: 6 sc

Fasten off. If you will use this same yarn tail to sew the ears to the body, leave a long tail. I sewed them on with Iris yarn.

Tail

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)
Rounds 10-14 (5 rounds): 54 sc
15: (7 sc, dec) x 6 (48)
Rounds 16-18 (3 rounds): 48 sc
19: (6 sc, dec) x 6 (42)
Rounds 20-22 (3 rounds): 42 sc
23: (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
Rounds 24-26 (3 rounds): 36 sc

Fasten off. If you will use this same yarn tail to sew the tail to the body, leave a long tail. I sewed it on with Iris yarn.

Arms (make 2)

1: 4 ch. Starting in the 2nd chain from the hook: inc, 1 sc, 4 sc in the last chain, 1 sc, inc (10)
2: 2 inc, 1 sc, 4 inc, 1 sc, 2 inc (18)
3: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
Rounds 4-13 (10 rounds): 24 sc
14: (6 sc, dec) x 3 (21)
Rounds 15-19 (5 rounds): 21 sc
20: (5 sc, dec) x 3 (18)
Rounds 21-25 (5 rounds): 18 sc

If needed, work offset stitches. Fold the piece in half and crochet 9 sc through both layers.

Fasten off. If you will use this same yarn tail to sew the arms to the body, leave a long tail. I sewed them on with Iris yarn.

Eyes (make 2)

Crochet with Iris yarn or a similar yarn. With black yarn:

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
With white yarn:
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)

Fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing.

Toy Assembly

• Sew the belly between rounds 7 and 34.
• Sew the arms to round 34.
• Embroider the fingers on the arms.
• Sew on the ears.
• Sew on the tail. I sewed it between rounds 7 and 12. You can place it a little higher.
• Sew on the eyes.
• Embroider the nose, mouth, eyebrows, and whiskers.