How about making a plush baby dinosaur? Making a crochet dinosaur may seem very easy, but you need to know a few techniques, so I don’t think crochet toys are suitable for beginners. The crochet toy is made using two different colors of yarn, and these colors are two different shades of blue. The dinosaur has large eyes, but its arms and legs are quite small.
Plush Baby Dinosaur Amigurumi Toy
A very thick yarn is used in making the toy, and that’s why it is recommended to use a 6mm crochet hook. It is recommended to use 18mm safety eyes to make the eyes of the crochet dinosaur.
Designer: drchoco_crochet
Abbreviations
MR – Magic ring
SC – Single crochet
DEC – Decrease
INC – Increase
FO – Fasten off
FLO – Front loops only
BLO – Back loops only
SLST – Slip stitch
CH – Chain
BOB – Bobble stitch
Materials
Size 6 Super Bulky blue and light blue yarn (you can use different kind of yarn according to your preference)
Hook size according to yarn you use (I used 6mm)
Safety eyes 18mm
Stitch marker
Scissors
Sewing needle
Fiberfill
Head – Body
Start with blue, make a magic ring. **You need to use stitch marker to keep a track number of stitches**
1. sc x 6 (6sc)
2. Inc x6 (12sc)
3. (Sc, inc) x 6 (18sc)
4. Change color, make a bobble stitch, change to body color, sc x 17 (18sc)
5. sc x 18 (18sc)
6.Change color, make a bobble stitch, change to body color, sc x 17 (18sc)
7. sc x 6. dec x 3, sc x 6 (15sc)
Insert safety eyes between rows 4-5, 8sts apart. Align eyes with arms.
Bobble stitches with 3 DC, you should have 4 loops on your hook.
8. Change color, make a bobble stitch, change to body color,
sc x 4, dec x 3, sc x 4 (12sc)
9. Sc x 5, inc x 3, sc x 4 (15sc) Stuff the head.
10. Change color, make a bobble stitch, change to body color, sc x 5, inc x 3, sc x 6 (18sc)
11. (2sc, inc) x6 (24sc)
12. Change color, make a bobble stitch, change to body color, Sc x 4, then make a bobble stitch with 4dc with body color working only in front loop, sc x 13, make a bobble stitch with 4dc with body color in FLO, sc x 4 (24sc)
13. (3sc, inc) x 6 (30sc)
14. Change color, make a bobble stitch, change to body color, SC x 29 (30sc)
15. Sc x 28, skip last 2 stitces, you will continue with chains to make a hole for tail. Ch 5.
16. Skip 3, sc into 4th stitch of the row. Make sc x 26 more (keep continue making sc into chain). (30sc)
17. (3sc, dec) x 6 (24sc)
18. (2sc, dec) x 6 (18sc) Start stuffing, keep stuffing as you go.
19. Sc, dec, sc, dec, bobble stitch with 4dc with body color, dec, sc, dec, sc, bobble stitch with 4dc with body color, dec, dec (12sc)
20. Dec x 6 (6sc) fasten off, close hole
Increases should be in front of the body to make belly.
To make a hole for tail, you need to skip 5stitches, last 2 sts of row 15 and first 3 sts of row 16.
Tail
You will have 5sts in body, 5sts in chain and 2 holes in two sides of hole. You need to make sc into these holes too, at the end you will have 12sc.
1.Hold dino upside down. Insert your hook and yarn over, pull through and make a chain. Make SC x 11 until the end of the row. You will have 12 sc in total.
2. Dec, sc x 4, dec, sc x 2, change color and make a Bobble stitch, change to body color and sc (10sc)
3. (Dec, 3sc) x 2 (8sc) Stuff with fiberfill.
4. (Dec, 2sc) x 2 (6sc)
5.(Dec, sc) x2 (4sc)
Fasten off, close hole. Weave in the end.
Congrats! You finished your plushie I hope you enjoyed it. If you post your plushie, please don’t forget to tag me.