Green Dino with a Red Saddle
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A free floppy dragon crochet pattern for a soft sage-green amigurumi dragon with long, dangly arms and legs that flop wherever you sit it. This dragon plushie has a cream belly, little cream horns, cream paws, small dark sage wings and a row of soft spikes running from its head down to the tail. It is worked in the round in single crochet with DK yarn and a 2.5 mm hook, with lightly stuffed limbs, 10 mm safety eyes and an embroidered smile, and it ends up about 14 cm (5.5 in) tall. Follow the pattern row by row with stitch counts and turn the interactive 3D model to see where every piece is sewn.
How to crochet the Floppy Dragon
Advanced · 14 cm tall · about 4 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
- Crochet the 17 pieces in rounds: Body, Head, Muzzle, Belly patch, Horn ×2, Long arm ×2, Long leg ×2, Tail, Wing ×2, Soft spike ×4 (117 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 13 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 8 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 84 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 6.4 cm at the widest, 6.2 cm long; 21 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff moderately 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 8.1 cm at the widest, 6.8 cm long; 27 rounds.
- → Insert the safety eyes now (positions: see “Face”) and fix the backs. 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.
- Size before assembly: an oval about 3.4 × 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 2 more (not counted in any round) and place the marker there. The increases fall on the turns.
- With sage: ch 5.
- 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.
- A flat oval about 6.1 × 3.7 cm; 5 rounds. Worked around a chain, so it is an oval: sew it on with its long side (along the chain) running vertically, top to bottom. 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 3 more (not counted in any round) and place the marker there. The increases fall on the turns.
- With cream: ch 8.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 1.3 cm at the widest, 1.6 cm long; 5 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff moderately 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 1.6 cm at the widest, 4.9 cm long; 14 rounds.
- Change to sage (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R2).
- 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 2.1 cm at the widest, 5.8 cm long; 17 rounds.
- Change to sage (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R3).
- 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 2.6 cm at the widest, 3.3 cm long; 10 rounds.
- 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. Bend ≈ 40° around round 4<!-- the bend spreads over 3 rounds -->. After stuffing, bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces up on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 4, on the centre top line). On the inner side draw rounds 4 and 5 together (1 rounds go into the fold): with the needle and matching yarn make 3–4 stitches through the loops of both rounds over about 2 st, pull to the angle and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 3.2 cm at the widest, 2.5 cm long; 8 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff it lightly — a thin layer, just enough to hold the walls apart: the ear about 10.8 mm thick, with thick rounded edges. Then shape it into a spoon: push the front wall toward the back wall — a concave spoon about 3 mm deep in front, a rounded back; about 32 mm wide. Keep the opening a curve, hollow side forward, not a straight line.<!-- (spoon 45 %) -->
- Of these: on the head — 1; on the body — 2; on the tail — 1. Size before assembly: about 1.3 cm at the widest, 1.6 cm long; 5 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly only and press it flat to about 6 mm thick.<!-- flattened 55 % -->
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