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Free crochet dumpling pattern: a Santa Hat Dumpling Ornament amigurumi, about 7 cm tall in fingering yarn with a 2.0 mm hook. It is a cream half-moon dumpling with pleats along the top, blushing pink cheeks, a tiny smile and a red Santa hat with a white pompom and a red loop. You need about 40 m of yarn: 15 m cream, 5 m red, 5 m ivory, 5 m caramel, 5 m white and 5 m pink. Plan on roughly 1 hours. Hang it on the tree, add it to a food-lover's gift, or use it as a small desk decoration. You can spin the 3D model and follow the round-by-round pattern.
How to crochet the Santa Hat Dumpling Ornament
Beginner-friendly · 7 cm tall · about 2 h · fingering yarn · 2 mm hook
- Crochet the 10 pieces in rounds: Dumpling, Cheek ×2, Pleat ×4, Santa hat, Pompom, Hanging loop (48 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 9 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 43 rounds done
- Size before assembly: an oval about 6.9 × 3.9 cm at the widest, 4.3 cm long; 21 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 bottom 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 5 more (not counted in any round) and place the marker there. The increases fall on the turns.
- With caramel: ch 12.
- Change to cream (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R5).
- → Insert the safety eyes now (positions: see “Face”) and fix the backs. Start stuffing (moderately) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Press the piece flat to about 5.2 cm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 25 % --> 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.
- 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 1.2 cm at the widest, 1.2 cm long; 5 rounds.
- → Start stuffing (lightly) and keep adding as you decrease.
- Press the piece flat to about 8 mm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 35 % --> 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 2.4 cm at the widest, 3 cm long; 12 rounds.
- Change to white (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R10).
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 1.6 cm at the widest, 1.2 cm long; 6 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 1.3 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: 14 sc. Do not stuff. Leave a long tail (~30 cm) for sewing.
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