A4 PDF: materials, every round with a tick box, assembly and face
A free crochet unicorn pattern for a white sitting amigurumi unicorn with a golden horn and a pastel rainbow mane. This unicorn plushie has a swirl embroidered around its horn, sleepy closed eyes with lashes, pink cheeks and pink hooves, plus a fluffy rainbow forelock and tail in six soft colours. It is worked in the round in single crochet with DK yarn and a 2.5 mm hook and stands about 14 cm (5.5 in) tall; the face is fully embroidered and the mane is knotted in with yarn strands. Follow it row by row with stitch counts and turn the interactive 3D model to see where every piece goes.
How to crochet the Unicorn
Intermediate · 14 cm tall · about 4 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook
Crochet the 11 pieces in rounds: Body, Head, Horn, Ear ×2, Hind leg ×2, Front leg ×2, Cheek ×2 (82 rounds in all).
Stuff and put it together in 7 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.
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.
Size before assembly: about 6.7 cm at the widest, 5.7 cm long; 19 rounds.
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 cm at the widest, 5.8 cm long; 25 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 1.9 cm at the widest, 3.1 cm long; 9 rounds.
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 3.3 cm at the widest, 2.9 cm long; 9 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.
Do not stuff. Shape it into a spoon: push the front wall into the back wall (not down to a thin plate) — a concave spoon about 3.8 mm deep in front, a rounded back, and rounded folds of two layers at the sides (about 5.7 mm thick); about 33 mm wide. Keep the opening a curve, hollow side forward, not a straight line.<!-- (spoon 55 %) -->
Size before assembly: about 2.4 cm at the widest, 2.5 cm long; 9 rounds.
Change to white (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R5).
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 1.6 cm at the widest, 2.8 cm long; 9 rounds.
Change to white (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R4).
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.
A flat circle about 1.5 cm across; 2 rounds.
Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing.
Do not stuff.
The whole face is embroidered. Order: the eyes (black satin), then the white glints over them, then the nose and mouth, blush last. Mark the centres with pins first and compare with the picture. Bring thread ends out where a sewn-on piece will cover them, or bury them in the stuffing.
Embroidery in brown thread (on the head) (2, symmetric: the toy's left side is described, the right is its mirror image), straight stitches through: (between rounds 14 and 15, 2.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (between rounds 15 and 16, 3.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (between rounds 15 and 16, 4.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (between rounds 15 and 16, 5.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (between rounds 14 and 15, 6.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ).
Embroidery in brown thread (on the head) (2, symmetric: the toy's left side is described, the right is its mirror image), straight stitches through: (between rounds 15 and 16, 3.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (between rounds 14 and 15, 3 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ).
Embroidery in brown thread (on the head) (2, symmetric: the toy's left side is described, the right is its mirror image), straight stitches through: (between rounds 15 and 16, 5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (in round 15, 5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ).
Embroidery in brown thread (on the head) (2, symmetric: the toy's left side is described, the right is its mirror image), straight stitches through: (in round 15, 6 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (between rounds 14 and 15, 7 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ).
Embroidery in amber thread (on the horn), straight stitches through: (between rounds 3 and 4, on the centre front line ) → (in round 4, 2.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (in round 5, 3.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's right ) → (between rounds 5 and 6, on the centre front line ) → (between rounds 6 and 7, 4 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (in round 7, 4.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's right ) → (in round 8, on the centre front line) → (in round 9, 4.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ).
Mane (on the body): cut 14 pieces of yarn (pink, peach, lemon, mint, sky, lilac) about 116 mm long; fold each in half and attach with a lark's head knot (pull through a stitch with the hook) along in round 9, on the centre back line -> in round 7, on the centre back line, evenly spaced. Trim to about 48 mm. Give the strands a soft wave (see the last item of this section).
Embroidery in brown thread (on the head), straight stitches through: (in round 17, 1 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's right ) → (between rounds 17 and 18, 0.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's right ) → (between rounds 17 and 18, on the centre front line ) → (between rounds 17 and 18, 0.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (in round 17, 1 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ).
Mane (on the head): cut 40 pieces of yarn (pink, peach, lemon, mint, sky, lilac) about 100 mm long; fold each in half and attach with a lark's head knot (pull through a stitch with the hook) along between rounds 2 and 3, 0.5 st from the centre back line, toward the toy's left -> in round 7, 1 st from the centre back line, toward the toy's left -> in round 12, 1.5 st from the centre back line, toward the toy's left -> in round 17, 1 st from the centre back line, toward the toy's left , evenly spaced. Trim to about 40 mm.
Mane (on the head): cut 40 pieces of yarn (pink, peach, lemon, mint, sky, lilac) about 100 mm long; fold each in half and attach with a lark's head knot (pull through a stitch with the hook) along between rounds 2 and 3, 0.5 st from the centre back line, toward the toy's right -> in round 7, 1 st from the centre back line, toward the toy's right -> in round 12, 1.5 st from the centre back line, toward the toy's right -> in round 17, 1 st from the centre back line, toward the toy's right , evenly spaced. Trim to about 40 mm.
Strands (mane) (on the head): cut 20 pieces of yarn (pink, peach, lemon, mint, sky, lilac) about 80 mm long; fold each in half and attach with a lark's head knot (pull through a stitch with the hook) along between rounds 2 and 3, 1 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left -> between rounds 3 and 4, 3 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left -> in round 5, 7.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left -> between rounds 6 and 7, 11 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left , evenly spaced. Trim to about 30 mm.
Curling the strands: Soft waves: untwist each strand into its plies and brush lightly.
× scV incΛ dec
Abbreviations
MR
magic ring
sc
single crochet
inc
2 sc in the same stitch
dec
single crochet two stitches together (invisible decrease recommended)
