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Today is the day! The first day of the Summer 2024 Mini Amigurumi Crochet Along. This day has been a long time coming, I have had to push back the start a couple of times due to life stuff, being out of town, and just needing a little extra time to get the patterns all ready, so I am excited to finally get started. In case you missed the announcement, the theme for this crochet along is little dinosaurs.
Just like the other mini amigurumi crochet alongs I have done this one will include 12 crochet patterns released over 13 days (Monday-Saturday, no new pattern on Sunday), this time all fitting the theme "Little Dinos". They will be mostly dinosaurs, but there may be a couple dinosaur related designs that are not dinosaurs. Each amigurumi will be around 3-5" long or tall. With the different shapes of the dinosaurs I feel like there is a little more variation in size this time, but still all around that range.
I decided to start with Little Steggie, a tiny little Stegosaurus with plates down its back and spikes on its tail. I chose this as the first dinosaur because I was obsessed with dinosaurs as a little kid and Stegosaurus was my favorite. I don't really know why that was my favorite, but it always was.
I made all of my little Dinos with a multipack of mini Red Heart Super Saver, I used the pastel pack, but the original would also work well for brighter colored dinosaurs. There are a couple of things in this set that I felt like the color really mattered, but for the dinosaurs I was ok with using a variety of random colors. You could use all greens and grays and browns, etc., but I figured since my little dinosaurs were crocheted they already weren't super realistic so the colors could be anything. For this particular dinosaur I used 2 colors, one for the body and one for the little plates and spikes. I went with pale yellow and coral. These mini amigurumi are also great for using up your yarn stash because they don't take a lot of yarn.
In addition to the yarn I also used 6 mm safety eyes and embroidered a little mouth, this will be the same for all of the mini amigurumi in the set. If you do not want to use safety eyes you could embroider those as well. If you are planing to give them to small children I would definitely consider embroidering the eyes rather than using the safety eyes, but either one is an option depending on your preference. The little stegosaurus is the first of the 12 dinos, come back tomorrow to see what is next.
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How to Crochet Little Steggie
Finished Size about 5" long
You will need:
- Worsted weight yarn in 2 colors (Sample made with Red Heart Super Saver in Pale Yellow and Coral)
- G crochet hook (4/4.25 mm)
- 2- 6mm safety eyes
- black embroidery floss and needle
- stuffing
- yarn needle
- stitch markers
- scissors
Instructions:
All of the pieces except the tail spikes are made beginning with a magic ring. The body/head/tail is one piece made starting with the head, the 4 legs, plates, and spikes are made separately and sew on at the end.
Head/Body/Tail
Make 1 in body color, beginning with magic ring (sample made in Pale Yellow)
Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: 2 sc in each st (12 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (18 sc)
Rounds 4-6: 1 sc in each st (18 sc)
Add safety eyes between rounds 2 and 3 with a few stitches in between (the eyes will be kind of on the top of the head because the body will be laid horizontal and then the face will be on the front)
Begin stuffing and continue stuffing as you work
Round 7: sc2tog around (9 sc)
Round 8: 2 sc in each st (18 sc)
Round 9: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (24 sc)
Rounds 10-15: 1 sc in each st (24 sc)
Round 16: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (18 sc)
Round 17: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next 4 sts] repeat around (15 sc)
Round 18: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next 3 sts] repeat around (12 sc)
Round 19: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (9 sc)
Round 20: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (6 sc)
Round 21: 1 sc in each st (6 sc)
Round 22: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (4 sc)
Finish off, weave in ends
Stitch a small smile below the eyes
Legs
Make 4 with body color, beginning with magic ring (sample made in Pale Yellow)
Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (9 sc)
Round 3: 1 sc in each st (9 sc)
Finish off and cut yarn leaving long tail for sewing
Add a small amount of stuffing to each leg and stitch onto the bottom side of the body
Plates
make 2 large and 1 small with contrasting color, beginning with magic ring (sample made in Coral)
Large Plate (make 2)
Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 4 sc (4 sc)
Round 2: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (6 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (8 sc)
Finish off and cut yarn leaving long tail for sewing
Small Plate (make 1)
Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 4 sc (4 sc)
Round 2: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (6 sc)
Finish off and cut yarn leaving long tail for sewing
Flatten plates and sew the plates down the back of the dinosaur, on the top, the 2 large plates closer to the head and the small plate closer to the tail
Spikes
make 4 with contrasting color, beginning with chain (sample made in Coral)
ch 2, turn, sl st in each ch
Finish off and cut yarn leaving long tail for sewing
Sew the spikes to the end of the tail in pairs, 2 a little below the last plate so that they point off of the tail in each direction (kind of in a v shape), then the other 2 just below that closer to the end of the tail
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