Puppy

Free Puppy crochet tutorial by @vivir_vintage.

With this pattern, you can crochet a little dog. This crocheted puppy stands on four legs. Any yarn and a matching crochet hook will work for this amigurumi project. For example, you can use YarnArt Jeans yarn and a 2.5 mm hook. All pieces are crocheted separately. The legs and tail are sewn on, while the ears are crocheted directly into the head as you work.

Materials and Tools

• Any yarn
• A crochet hook suitable for your yarn
• Safety eyes
• Safety nose
• Synthetic poly filling
• Thread
• Needle for sewing pieces together
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR - magic ring
• ch - chain stitch
• sc - single crochet
• dc - double crochet
• hdc - half double crochet
• inc - increase
• dec - decrease
• (...) x n - repeat n times

Amigurumi Puppy Crochet Pattern

Head

Start with white yarn. Stuff as you go. Insert the safety eyes between rounds 6 and 7, 6 stitches apart.

1: MR 6 sc (6)
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4-5: 18 sc (2 rounds)
Switch to light brown yarn.
6: in back loops only: 6 sc, 6 inc, 6 sc (24)
7: 6 sc, (1 sc, inc) x 6, 6 sc (30)
8: 30 sc
9: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
10-13: 36 sc (4 rounds)
In the next round, crochet the ears.
14: 13 sc, crochet the first ear: 9 ch, starting in the second chain from the hook 1 hdc, 5 dc, 1 hdc, sl st, 11 sc, crochet the second ear, 9 ch, starting in the second chain from the hook 1 hdc, 5 dc, 1 hdc, sl st, 12 sc (36)
15: 36 sc
16: (4 sc, dec) x 6 (30)
17: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
18: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)
19: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
20: 6 dec

Body

Use light brown yarn. Stuff as you go.

1: MR 6 sc
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)
6-8: 30 sc (3 rounds)
9: 9 sc, 6 dec, dec (24)
10: 24 sc
11-14: 18 sc (3 rounds)
15: 3 sc, 6 dec, 3 sc (12)
16-18: 12 sc (3 rounds)
19: 6 dec

Pull the opening closed, fasten off, and hide the yarn tail inside the piece.

Tail

Use light brown yarn. Chain 8, then starting in the second chain from the hook: 7 sl st. Fasten off and leave a tail for sewing to the body.

Legs (4 pieces)

Start with white yarn. Stuff as you go.

1: MR 5 sc
2: 5 inc (10)
3-4: 10 sc (2 rounds)
5: (2 sc, dec) x 2, 2 sc (8)
Switch to light brown yarn.
6: in back loops only 8 sc
7: 8 sc
8: (2 sc, inc) x 2, 2 sc (10)
9-12: 10 sc (4 rounds)
13: 5 dec

Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing to the body.

Toy Assembly

• Sew the tail to the middle of the body, between rounds 3 and 4.
• Sew the legs to the sides of the body. Sew the head to the top of the body, turning it slightly to one side.
• Embroider the whites of the eyes underneath using white yarn.
• Insert a finished plastic nose or embroider it on the muzzle with black thread.