Green Dino with a Red Saddle
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A free crochet dragon pattern for a chubby little purple dragon who sits up with a big open-mouthed smile and shiny eyes. This amigurumi dragon has a lilac belly with embroidered plate lines, golden horns, golden triangle spikes along its back and tail, and two padded lilac wings. It is crocheted in the round in single crochet with DK yarn and a 2.5 mm hook, uses 14 mm safety eyes, has the mouth and belly lines embroidered, and sits about 14 cm (5.5 in) tall. The page gives the full row-by-row pattern with stitch counts and an interactive 3D model, so you can check every piece before you sew it on.
How to crochet the Little Purple Dragon
Advanced · 14 cm tall · about 4 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
- Crochet the 18 pieces in rounds: Body, Head, Muzzle, Horn ×2, Arm ×2, Leg ×2, Tail, Wing ×2, Spike ×6 (104 rounds in all).
- Stuff and put it together in 14 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 8 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 92 rounds done
- Size before assembly: about 7.4 cm at the widest, 5.5 cm long; 19 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.
- 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 8.9 cm at the widest, 7.1 cm long; 29 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 4.2 × 3 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 lilac: ch 5.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff moderately 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, 1.9 cm long; 6 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff moderately 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 2 cm at the widest, 2.5 cm long; 8 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.
- Size before assembly: about 4 cm at the widest, 3.1 cm long; 11 rounds.
- Change to purple (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 3.2 cm at the widest, 4.5 cm long; 13 rounds.
- Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff moderately 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 5<!-- the bend spreads over 3 rounds -->. After stuffing, bend the piece so the inner side of the bend faces up on the finished toy (on the piece: in round 5, on the centre top 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 3 st, pull to the angle and hide the end inside.
- Size before assembly: about 3.2 cm at the widest, 2.1 cm long; 7 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 3.1 mm deep in front, a rounded back; about 32 mm wide. Keep the opening a curve, hollow side forward, not a straight line.<!-- (spoon 45 %) -->
- Of these: on the head — 2; on the body — 2; on the tail — 2. Flat motif — triangle (worked in turned rows, one layer of fabric), about 1.4 × 2.4 cm; 4 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.
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