Winnie-the-Pooh with a Honey Pot
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A free crochet dog pattern for a sitting golden retriever puppy with soft floppy ears and a red collar with a round gold tag. This golden retriever plushie has a warm honey coat, caramel ears that hang beside its face, a cream muzzle with a black nose, and cream paws. Worked in the round in single crochet with DK yarn and a 2.5 mm hook, it sits about 14 cm (5.5 in) tall; the collar is a chain ring, the tag a small flat circle, and the eyes and nose are safety pieces. The page gives the row-by-row pattern with stitch counts and an interactive 3D model to check every piece, a sweet gift for any dog lover.
How to crochet the Golden Retriever Puppy
Advanced · 14 cm tall · about 5 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
- Crochet the 14 pieces in rounds: Body, Head, Muzzle, Ear ×2, Cheek ×2, Collar, Round tag, Front leg ×2, Hind foot ×2, Tail (123 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 95 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 8.2 cm at the widest, 6.7 cm long; 27 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.
- Change to honey (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R20).
- → 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: about 9.4 cm at the widest, 8.7 cm long; 33 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 4.3 × 2.7 cm at the widest, 2 cm long; 7 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 cream: ch 6.
- 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 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 5.1 cm at the widest, 6.2 cm long; 19 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 4.8 mm deep in front, a rounded back; about 51 mm wide. Keep the opening a curve, hollow side forward, not a straight line.<!-- (spoon 45 %) --> Bend ≈ 90° around round 17<!-- the bend spreads over 3 rounds --><!-- drape relax_mm 6 twist 1 -->. The piece is soft and unstuffed: do not tack a fold. Sewn on as the assembly says, it bends over the head by itself and hangs down; the inner side of the bend faces down on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 17, 1.5 st from the centre bottom line, toward the back <!-- st 1.43 back -->). If the ear sticks out, smooth it down along the head by hand.
- A flat circle about 1.5 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 6.9 cm at the widest, 0.7 cm long; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Flat motif — circle (worked in rounds, one layer of fabric), about 2.3 × 2.3 cm; 3 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.
- Size before assembly: about 2 cm at the widest, 3 cm long; 9 rounds.
- Change to honey (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R3).
- 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.
- Size before assembly: about 3.8 cm at the widest, 2.4 cm long; 9 rounds.
- Change to honey (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R4).
- 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.
- Size before assembly: about 1.6 cm at the widest, 4.2 cm long; 12 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 ≈ 45° around round 7<!-- the bend spreads over 4 rounds -->. After stuffing, bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces up on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 7, on the centre top line). On the inner side draw rounds 6 and 8 together (2 rounds go into the fold): with the needle and matching yarn make 3–4 stitches through the loops of both rounds over about 3 st, pull to the angle and hide the end inside.
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