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Free crochet mushroom ornament pattern: a Toadstool Ornament amigurumi, about 9 cm tall in fingering yarn with a 2 mm hook. It is a red toadstool cap with white spots on a cream stem, sleepy closed eyes, a tiny smile, pink cheeks and a hanging loop on top. You need about 60 m of yarn: 25 m red, 20 m cream, 10 m white and 5 m blush. Plan on roughly 2 hours. A cosy little tree decoration or a gift for anyone who loves woodland things. It is a gentle project for beginners, and the 3D model lets you spin it while you follow the round-by-round pattern.
How to crochet the Toadstool Ornament
Beginner-friendly · 9 cm tall · about 2 h · fingering yarn · 2 mm hook
- Crochet the 11 pieces in rounds: Stem, Cap, Dot ×4, Small dot ×2, Cheek ×2, Hanging loop (56 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 8 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 9 gathered
Gauge
1 sc ≈ 3 mm wide, 1 round ≈ 2.7 mm tall (10 cm ≈ 33 sc × 37 rounds); yarn about 1.4 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 49 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 3.8 cm at the widest, 4.5 cm long; 21 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.
- Size before assembly: about 6.3 cm at the widest, 4.2 cm long; 26 rounds.
- Change to cream (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R20).
- → Start stuffing (moderately) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Change to red (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R25).
- 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.
- Of these: front — 1; side — 2 (left and right); back — 1. A flat circle about 1.7 cm across; 3 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- A flat circle about 1.1 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- A flat circle about 1.1 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 1.5 cm at the widest (lies flat); 2 rounds. Each piece is two circles (front and back): make 2 circles — 1 as below and 1 plain in red (same rounds, no colour changes).
- Fasten off. Hold a front and a plain circle wrong sides together and sc around through both layers: 16 sc. Do not stuff. Leave a long tail (~30 cm) for sewing.
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