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Grey Alien with Tea crochet pattern

  • Mathematically BalancedChecked by script: in all 81 rounds the increases and decreases add up to the stitch count.

by the pattern engineFantasy

Difficulty
2/3
Time
~3 h
Size
12 cm
Weirdness
2/5
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A4 PDF: materials, every round with a tick box, assembly and face

Free crochet alien pattern: a Grey Alien with Tea amigurumi, about 12 cm tall in DK yarn with a 2.5 mm hook. The toy is a small grey alien with a big head, huge black almond eyes with tiny highlights and pink cheeks, politely holding a white teacup with a blue stripe. You need about 100 m of yarn: 60 m grey, 10 m cream, 10 m black, 5 m light grey, 5 m brown, 5 m blue and 5 m blush pink. Plan on roughly 3 hours. It makes a polite little gift for tea drinkers and sci-fi fans, or a quirky shelf buddy. Spin the 3D model and follow the round-by-round pattern.

How to crochet the Grey Alien with Tea

Intermediate · 12 cm tall · about 3 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook

  1. Crochet the 12 pieces in rounds: Body, Head, Big almond eye ×2, Cheek ×2, Foot ×2, Teacup, Tea, Arm ×2 (81 rounds in all).
  2. Stuff and put it together in 8 steps; each one lights up where it goes on the 3D model.
  3. Add the face: safety eyes by round and stitch, or embroider them for a child under 3.

Every round with its stitch count is in the Pattern tab below, and in the free printable PDF.

What you'll need

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Gauge

1 sc ≈ 4 mm wide, 1 round ≈ 3.6 mm tall (10 cm ≈ 25 sc × 28 rounds); yarn about 1.9 mm thick. The gauge sets the size of the toy; crochet tightly so the stuffing does not show.

Worked in

Continuous spiral rounds. Don't join. Move a stitch marker up every round.

Parts

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  14. Size before assembly: about 5 cm at the widest, 5.3 cm long; 17 rounds. Multi-colour rounds are listed stitch by stitch from the round-start marker; keep the round start on the piece's centre front line (as it sits on the finished toy). The order is for right-handed crocheting (right to left on the outside); left-handed: reverse it.
  15. Change to grey (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R12).
  16. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff firmly just before sewing it on; a little less near the edge, then add a pinch when the seam is nearly done.

  26. Size before assembly: an oval about 10.7 × 7.9 cm at the widest, 7.4 cm long; 28 rounds. The piece is oval: the rounds go around the chain, and on the finished toy the chain (the long side of the oval) runs side to side; the starting chain is at the top of the piece (on the finished toy). The round-start marker is in the middle of a long side (the piece's centre line), while R1 starts at a turn: after R1 shift the round start — sc 4 more (not counted in any round) and place the marker there. The increases fall on the turns.
  27. With grey: ch 9.
  28. → Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
  29. Press the piece flat to about 10.2 cm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 5 % --> Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 6 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.

  5. A flat oval about 4.9 × 2.9 cm; 4 rounds. Worked around a chain, so it is an oval: sew it on with its long side (along the chain) running side to side. The round-start marker is in the middle of a long side (the piece's centre line), while R1 starts at a turn: after R1 shift the round start — sc 2 more (not counted in any round) and place the marker there. The increases fall on the turns.
  6. With black: ch 7.
  7. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.

  3. A flat circle about 1.5 cm across; 2 rounds.
  4. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.

  6. Size before assembly: about 1.6 cm at the widest, 2.3 cm long; 7 rounds.
  7. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff firmly just before sewing it on; a little less near the edge, then add a pinch when the seam is nearly done.

  10. Size before assembly: about 3.9 cm at the widest, 3.1 cm long; 11 rounds.
  11. Change to blue (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R7).
  12. Change to cream (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R9).
  13. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly just before sewing it on; a little less near the edge, then add a pinch when the seam is nearly done.

  5. Size before assembly: about 3 cm at the widest (lies flat); 4 rounds.
  6. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.

  5. Size before assembly: about 1.2 cm at the widest, 2.8 cm long; 8 rounds.
  6. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly just before sewing it on; a little less near the edge, then add a pinch when the seam is nearly done.

The whole face is embroidered. Order: the eyes (black satin), then the white glints over them, then the nose and mouth, blush last. Mark the centres with pins first and compare with the picture. Bring thread ends out where a sewn-on piece will cover them, or bury them in the stuffing.

  • Eye glint (on the left big almond eye): in white thread over the embroidered eye, a oval about 4 mm wide and 4 mm tall, horizontal stitches; centred in round 2, on the centre top line .
  • Eye glint (on the right big almond eye): in white thread over the embroidered eye, a oval about 4 mm wide and 4 mm tall, horizontal stitches; centred in round 2, on the centre top line .
  • Embroidery in charcoal thread (on the head), straight stitches through: (between rounds 20 and 21, 1 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's right ) → (in round 21, on the centre front line) → (between rounds 20 and 21, 1 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ).

Body · R1–R3

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    Abbreviations

    MR
    magic ring
    sc
    single crochet
    inc
    2 sc in the same stitch
    dec
    single crochet two stitches together (invisible decrease recommended)
    BLO
    work the round in back loops only
    FLO
    work the round in front loops only
    ch
    chain
    sl st
    slip stitch
    st
    stitch
    R5
    round 5; R7–14 = rounds 7 to 14 are the same
    (…) ×6
    repeat 6 times
    (24)
    stitches in the round when it is done