Crochet Dear Elephant Amigurumi Idea

The Crochet Dear Elephant Amigurumi Pattern guides you in fashioning an adorable elephant softie. It suits all crochet lovers and provides clear instructions for an endearing, heartwarming handmade toy.

Crochet Dear Elephant Amigurumi

The Crochet Dear Elephant Amigurumi Pattern is a charming guide for making a lovable elephant toy. Key features of this amigurumi pattern include a curvy elephant with big ears, a long trunk, and friendly eyes. This pattern is suitable for crocheters of all skill levels, enabling them to enrich their handcrafted toy collection with a piece of wild jungle charm.

Materials:

• Yarn:
  • Light grey yarn for the body and legs
  • Dark grey yarn for the ears and inner ears
  • Black yarn for the eyes and mouth
  • Pink yarn for the cheeks (optional)
• Crochet hook: Size suitable for your yarn weight (I used a 3.5mm hook for worsted weight yarn)
• Stuffing: Polyester fiberfill
• Tapestry needle: For sewing the pieces together
• Scissors: To cut the yarn
• Safety eyes: (Optional) 10mm

Step by Step Pattern 

Body:

1. Start with a magic ring with the light grey yarn.
2. Crochet 6 single crochets (sc) into the magic ring. Pull tight to close the ring.
3. Increase by crocheting 2 sc in each stitch around. You should now have 12 sc.
4. Continue crocheting in sc around, increasing by 1 sc in each stitch around. You should now have 18 sc.
5. Continue crocheting in SC around without increasing for 7 rounds.
6. Stuff the body firmly as you go.
7. Decrease by crocheting 2 sc together around. You should now have 12 sc.
8. Decrease by crocheting 2 sc together around. You should now have 6 sc.
9. Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Legs (make 4):

1. Make a magic ring with the light grey yarn.
2. Crochet 6 sc into the magic ring. Pull tight to close the ring.
3. Increase by crocheting 2 sc in each stitch around. You should now have 12 sc.
4. Continue crocheting in SC around without increasing for 6 rounds.
5. Stuff the leg firmly.
6. Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Ears (make 2):

1. Make a magic ring with the dark grey yarn.
2. Crochet 6 sc into the magic ring. Pull tight to close the ring.
3. Increase by crocheting 2 sc in each stitch around. You should now have 12 sc.
4. Continue crocheting in SC around without increasing for 3 rounds.
5. Change to the light grey yarn and crochet 1 round in SC without increasing.
6. Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Inner Ears (make 2):

1. Make a magic ring with the dark grey yarn.
2. Crochet 4 sc into the magic ring. Pull tight to close the ring.
3. Increase by crocheting 2 sc in each stitch around. You should now have 8 sc.
4. Continue crocheting in SC around without increasing for 1 round.
5. Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Tail:

1. Make a chain of 20 stitches with the light grey yarn.
2. Single crochet back down the chain.
3. Continue crocheting in sc around, increasing 1 sc in each end for 3 rounds. You should now have 26 sc.
4. Continue crocheting in SC around without increasing for 10 rounds.
5. Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Nose:

1. Make a magic ring with the black yarn.
2. Crochet 6 sc into the magic ring. Pull tight to close the ring.
3. Increase by crocheting 2 sc in each stitch around. You should now have 12 sc.
4. Continue crocheting in SC around without increasing for 4 rounds.
5. Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Assembly:

1. Sew the legs to the body.
2. Sew the ears to the head, with the inner ears slightly inset.
3. Sew on the safety eyes or embroider the eyes.
4. Embroider the mouth with black yarn.
5. Sew on the nose.
6. Sew on the cheeks with pink yarn (optional).
7. Sew the tail to the body.
8. Weave in any loose ends.