Doll

Free crochet doll tutorial by Yulia Piga @juliiapyha.

Using this pattern, you can crochet a doll with a knitted hat and cowl. Any cotton blend yarn will work for this amigurumi, including YarnArt Jeans, Alize Cotton Gold, Gazzal Baby Cotton, and others. Decorate the doll however you like with buttons, pom-poms, pins, and more.

Materials and Tools

• YarnArt Jeans yarn: 07 beige (boots and cowl), 48 sand (tights), 15 blue (sweater), 03 milk (head and hands)
• Nako Elit Baby 6792 yarn (hat)
• 1.9 mm crochet hook
• 2.5 mm knitting needles (for the cowl) and 3.5 mm knitting needles (for the hat)
• 6 mm safety eyes
• Toy stuffing
• Decorations
• Tulle (skirt)
• Cotton swabs
• Doll hair wefts
• Needle for sewing pieces together
• Scissors

Abbreviations

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

Crochet Amigurumi Doll Pattern

Legs and Body

Stuff firmly after completing the first 14 rounds. Left leg, using the boot color:

1: 6 sc in MR (6)
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: 18 sc in BLO
5-7: 18 sc
8: 6 sc, 3 dec, 6 sc (15)
9-10: 15 sc
11: in FLO: 14 sc, sl st (15)
Switch to the tights color.
12: work 15 sc into the back loops of round 10
13-21: 15 sc (9 rounds)
22: work 11 sc (to the inner center of the thigh), place a marker in the 12th stitch—this is where the legs will be joined. Cut the yarn.

Right leg, using the boot color:

1: 6 sc in MR (6)
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: 18 sc in BLO
5-7: 18 sc
8: 6 sc, 3 dec, 6 sc (15)
9-10: 15 sc
11: in FLO: 14 sc, sl st (15)
Switch to the tights color.
12: work 15 sc into the back loops of round 10.
13-22: 15 sc (9 rounds)
23: work 5 sc (to the inner center of the thigh), ch 3, and join to the left leg:
24: 15 sc around the left leg, 3 sc along the chain, 15 sc around the right leg, and 3 sc along the chain (36)

Place a marker at the beginning of the round.

25: (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
26-28: 42 sc (3 rounds)
29: (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
30: 36 sc
Continue using the sweater color:
31: 36 sl st in BLO
32: 36 sc in BLO
33: (4 sc, dec) x 6 (30)
34-36: 30 sc (3 rounds)
37: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
38-39: 24 sc (2 rounds)

Insert the cotton swabs and secure them with stuffing.

40: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)
Continue using the milk color:
41: in BLO: (sc, dec) x 6 (12)
42: 12 sc
43: 12 inc (24)
44: 24 inc (48)
The fabric will ripple. Don't worry—it will smooth out after stuffing.
45: (7 sc, inc) x 6 (54)
46-59: 54 sc (14 rounds)
Insert the eyes between rounds 54 and 55, with 5 stitches between them.
60: (7 sc, dec) x 6 (48)
61: (6 sc, dec) x 6 (42)
Stuff the head very firmly.
62-66: work 6 dec in each round
67: 6 dec, then close the opening.

Arms (Make 2)

Using the milk color:

1: 6 sc in MR (6)
2: (sc, inc) x 3 (9)
3-4: 9 sc (2 rounds)
Continue using the sweater color:
5: 9 sl st in BLO
6: 9 sc in BLO
7-17: 9 sc (11 rounds)
18: fold in half and work 4 sc through both sides

Fasten off, leaving a long tail. Sew the arms to the body.

Attaching the Hair Wefts

The doll will wear a hat, so three rows of hair are enough. Attach the hair fairly high, starting just above the eyes, rather than low on the head. This will make it easier to sew on the hat.

Hat

Hold two strands together and knit with 3.5 mm needles:

Make a gauge swatch first. My gauge is 2 stitches per 1 cm. Keep in mind that the stitch pattern is very stretchy. The doll's head measures 18 cm.

Cast on 36 sts + 2 edge sts = 38 sts.

1-15: work in K1, P1 ribbing (knit 1, purl 1...)
16: edge st, (K2tog, K1) to the end of the row, edge st
17: purl
18: edge st, K2tog to the end of the row, edge st

Cut the yarn, leaving a long tail. Thread it onto a needle and pass it through all the stitches on the knitting needle. Pull tight and sew the seam. Place the hat on the doll and sew it to the head, not directly along the hat's edge but about 1 cm above it, so the hair does not separate into clumps.

Cowl

Cast 6 stitches onto 2.5 mm knitting needles and work in garter stitch (knit every row) until the piece is long enough to fit snugly around the body. Bind off. Sew pom-poms and buttons onto the cowl (or decorate it with a large flower). Wrap it around the doll and sew the ends together.

Skirt

Cut the tulle into strips 3-4 cm wide and 15 cm long. Make sure the fabric stretches across the width, not lengthwise. Take a strand of the yarn used for the sweater and tie the strips onto it with simple overhand knots. The more strips you add, the fuller the skirt will be. Sew the skirt to the body. The doll is finished.