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Free crochet pinecone pattern: a Smiling Pinecone Ornament amigurumi, about 9 cm tall in DK yarn with a 2.5 mm hook. A tapered cone, wide at the top and pointed at the bottom, is covered in rows of pointed overlapping scales in two shades of brown, with a small face of black embroidered eyes and smile on the scales and a red ribbon loop on top. You need about 120 m of yarn: 50 m brown, 50 m light brown, 15 m dark brown and 5 m red. Plan on roughly 4 hours. Hang it on the tree or tuck it into a winter wreath or a woodland-themed gift. Spin the 3D model and follow the round-by-round pattern; the scales are small cones sewn on in rows.
How to crochet the Smiling Pinecone Ornament
Advanced · 9 cm tall · about 4 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
- Crochet the 69 pieces in rounds: Cone body, Light scale ×33, Scale ×34, Red ribbon loop (31 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 11 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 ≈ 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 25 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 4.5 cm at the widest, 6.7 cm long; 20 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 12 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.
- Of these: on the cone body — 33 (16 pairs, left and right, and 1 single). Size before assembly: about 1.6 cm at the widest, 1.1 cm long; 4 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Of these: on the cone body — 34 (14 pairs, left and right, and 6 single). Size before assembly: about 1.6 cm at the widest, 1.1 cm long; 4 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.
- Size before assembly: about 2.3 cm at the widest, 1.1 cm long; 3 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: 18 sc. Do not stuff. Leave a long tail (~30 cm) for sewing.
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