Green Dino with a Red Saddle
- Difficulty
- 2/3
- Weirdness
- 1/5
- Times crocheted
- 0
Free crochet dragon pattern: a Coiled Christmas Dragon amigurumi, about 13 cm tall in DK yarn with a 2.5 mm hook. A green dragon curled in a coil, with gold horns, red wings, a striped scarf, a tiny Santa hat and a white snowflake puff at its mouth. You need about 115 m of yarn: 60 m green, 25 m red, 10 m cream, 10 m white, 5 m gold and 5 m pink. Plan on roughly 4 hours. It makes a cosy desk buddy or a gift for dragon fans who also love Christmas. Spin the 3D model and follow the round-by-round pattern.
How to crochet the Coiled Christmas Dragon
Advanced · 13 cm tall · about 4 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
- Crochet the 12 pieces in rounds: Coiled body, Head and neck, Snout, Horn ×2, Santa hat, Pompom, Wing ×2, Snowflake, Cheek ×2 (164 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 10 steps; each one lights up where it goes on the 3D model.
- 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
0 of 11 gathered
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
0 of 94 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 2.7 cm at the widest, 34.2 cm long; 89 rounds. Multi-colour rounds are listed stitch by stitch from the round-start marker; keep the round start on the piece's centre back 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.
- colours of round 1 in order: 1 sc in green, 1 sc in cream, 2 sc in green
- → Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- 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. Bend ≈ 480° around round 12<!-- the bend spreads over 2 rounds --><!-- coil 2 pitch 16 -->. The piece rolls up into a spiral (about 1.3 turns) from round 12 to its end: after stuffing, roll it up starting from the last round (round 89) toward the side that faces backward on the finished toy; the turns lie close, each wider than the last. From the last round back to round 12 tack neighbouring turns together with 2–3 stitches of matching yarn every 3–4 rounds and hide the yarn inside.
- Size before assembly: an oval about 7.7 × 6.1 cm at the widest, 7.2 cm long; 24 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 2 more (not counted in any round) and place the marker there. The increases fall on the turns. 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.
- With green: ch 6.
- Change to red (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R19).
- Change to white (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R21).
- Change to red (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R22).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Insert the safety nose/eyes now, while the piece is open (positions: see “Face”). Stuff firmly just before sewing it on; a little less near the edge, then add a pinch when the seam is nearly done.
- Size before assembly: an oval about 3 × 2.2 cm at the widest, 1.4 cm long; 5 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 front 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 1 more (not counted in any round) and place the marker there. The increases fall on the turns.
- With cream: ch 4.
- 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.
- Size before assembly: about 1.3 cm at the widest, 2.2 cm long; 6 rounds.
- → Start stuffing (lightly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 10 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 6.4 cm at the widest, 6.6 cm long; 21 rounds.
- Change to white (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R18).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff. Bend ≈ 115° around round 9<!-- the bend spreads over 5 rounds -->. Bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces toward the toy's right on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 9, 3.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's right <!-- st 3.55 right -->). It is a gradual bend: with the needle and matching yarn run a line of stitches along the inner side from round 7 to round 11, one stitch in every round along one column, then pull the yarn until the piece bends to the angle (the inner side gathers by about 4 rounds) and fasten off inside.
- Size before assembly: about 2.3 cm at the widest, 1.9 cm long; 7 rounds.
- → Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- 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.
- Flat motif — half circle (worked in turned rows, one layer of fabric), about 4 × 7.5 cm; 8 rows.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (~30 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff. Weave in the starting tail, pin the motif out to shape on a soft surface and steam it lightly.
- Flat motif — star (worked in rounds, one layer of fabric), about 3.2 × 2.8 cm; 2 rows.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (~30 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff. Weave in the starting tail, pin the motif out to shape on a soft surface and steam it lightly.
- A flat circle about 1.5 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
Nobody has shown theirs yet. Be the first.
Sign in to show yours
No questions yet
Ask the first one — the author and the AI helper both read here.
Make this toy yours
Open it in the 3D editor: change the colours, the size of any piece, or ask the AI in words. Your version gets its own pattern.
Try asking:
