Winnie-the-Pooh with a Honey Pot
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A free crochet axolotl pattern for a round pink ornament in a tiny Santa hat, made to hang on the tree. This amigurumi axolotl has feathery raspberry gills, rosy cheeks and a soft smile, with a white pompom and a gold loop on top. It is worked in the round in single crochet with fingering yarn and a 2 mm hook, ends up about 7.5 cm (3 in) tall, and has safety eyes with a glint (embroider them for small children); the gills, paws and tail are sewn on. Follow it row by row with stitch counts and turn the interactive 3D model to see where every piece goes.
How to crochet the Axolotl in a Santa Hat Ornament
Beginner-friendly · 8 cm tall · about 2 h · fingering yarn · 2 mm hook
- Crochet the 15 pieces in rounds: Head-body ball, Gill ×6, Cheek ×2, Paw ×2, Tail, Santa hat, Pompom, Hanging loop (55 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 ≈ 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 4.3 cm at the widest, 3.6 cm long; 19 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.
- Of these: top — 2 (left and right); mid — 2 (left and right); low — 2 (left and right). Size before assembly: about 0.7 cm at the widest, 1.8 cm long; 7 rounds.
- → Start stuffing (lightly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Press the piece flat to about 4 mm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 40 % --> Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 3 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside. Bend ≈ 35° around round 4<!-- 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 4, 1.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's right <!-- st 1.63 right -->). It is a slight bend: tilt the piece as you sew it on; optionally tack the inner side with 1–2 stitches drawing rounds 4 and 5 together.
- A flat circle about 1 cm across; 2 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 0.8 cm at the widest, 0.7 cm long; 3 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly only and press it flat to about 4 mm thick.<!-- flattened 50 % -->
- Size before assembly: about 0.8 cm at the widest, 1.3 cm long; 5 rounds.
- → Start stuffing (lightly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Press the piece flat to about 4 mm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 50 % --> Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 5 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 3 cm at the widest, 2.2 cm long; 10 rounds.
- Change to snow white (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R7).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff. Bend ≈ 30° around round 5<!-- the bend spreads over 3 rounds -->. Bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces backward on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 5, on the centre back line). On the inner side draw rounds 4 and 6 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 6 st, pull to the angle and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 1.4 cm at the widest, 1.7 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.
- 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 soft gold (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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