I have finally finished it – a free dolphin amigurumi pattern! It’s a very simple and fun amigurumi to make, so I hope everyone enjoys it!
Dolphin Amigurumi Pattern
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- Sport weight yarn in baby blue and white
- Size F/3.75 mm crochet hook
- 1 pair of 9 mm solid black safety eyes
- Blunt tapestry needle
- Scissors
- Stuffing of your choice
Using baby blue yarn,
R1: Ch 2, 6 sc in second st from hook – 6 sts
R2: 2 sc in each st around – 12 sts
R3: 1 sc, 2 sc in next st (repeat around) – 18 sts
R4: 2 sc, 2 sc in next st (repeat around) – 24 sts
R5 – R9: sc in each st around – 24 sts
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Switch to white yarn.
R10: 2 sc, 1 dec in next st (repeat around) – 18 sts
R11: 1 sc, 1 dec in next st (repeat around) – 12 sts
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Insert the 9 mm solid black safety eyes into the head. Insert the eyes between R8 and R9. Leave 4 sts in between the eyes for the most ideal spacing. Fasten the eyes in place.
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Stuff the body with your choice of stuffing.
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R12: 1 dec in each st around – 6 sts
Fasten off, leaving a long tail.
Using a blunt tapestry needle and the long tail of yarn, sew the hole at the bottom of the body closed.
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Once the hole is closed, hide the stray tail inside of the body. Using the tip of your scissors gently stuff the tail end into the body.
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With that, the body is complete!
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Using baby blue yarn,
R1: Ch 2, 6 sc in second ch from hook – 6 sts
R2: sc in each st around – 6 sts
R3: 2 sc in the next 4 sts (leave the last 2 sts in the round empty) – 8 sts
Fasten off, leaving a long tail.
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Place the snout between the eyes and sew in place. Position the snout so that the wider bottom half faces down and the smaller top half faces up.
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Finish sewing the snout in place onto the body.
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Using baby blue yarn,
R1: Ch 2, 4 sc in second ch from hook – 4 sts
R2: 2 sc in each st around – 8 sts
Fasten off, leaving a long tail. Pinch each piece in half so that they form semi-circles.
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Using the blunt tapestry needle, sew the fins onto the sides of the body. I like to place the fins more towards the back of the body rather than exactly at the sides. It looks more like it’s swimming in this position!
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Once sewn, it should look like this.
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Repeat the same process with the other fin. Be sure to position the fin on the body as symmetrically as possible. Re-position as many times as needed to achieve the most symmetrical position.
Now, it should have 2 fins!
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Using baby blue yarn,
R1: Ch 2, 3 sc in second ch from hook – 3 sts
R2: 2 sc in each st around – 6 sts
Fasten off, leaving a long tail. Pinch the piece in half to form a semi-circle like the side fins.
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Sew the fin onto the top of the body. I staggered the fin slightly below the center of the top, just to give it a little more style.
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Using baby blue yarn,
R1: Ch 2, 3 sc in second ch from hook – 3 sts
R2: 2 sc in each st around – 6 sts
R3: 1 sc, 2 sc in next st around – 9 sts
R4: 2 sc, 2 sc in next st around – 12 sts
Fasten off, leaving a long tail. Do not stuff the tail. The shape should look like a cone.
Sew the tail onto the back end of the body.
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Once sewn, it should look like this.
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Using baby blue yarn,
Ch 2, 6 dc in second ch from hook. The shape should resemble a small fan. Fasten off, leaving a long tail.
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Sew the tail fin onto the tip of the tail.
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Weave in any stray ends.
That’s it! You’re finished!
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Enjoy!
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It’s time for a truly scary monkey – Halloween mummy monkey amigurumi! So many M’s!! mmm……mummy…
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For those of you who appreciate scary/gory things…how’s this? Is it to your liking? :]
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Time for the side views…
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I spent a long time on this mummy monkey amigurumi. I pretty much had free rein over what to do with this particular monkey amigurumi so I went crazy with it!
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The one thing that took up most of my time was the one eyeball. It took me an entire day just to paint it like that. First I had to paint the entire eye red, then yellow, red again, yellow, and then finally the black pupil. That’s not the end of it though! I still had to wait for all the layers of paint to dry and then I could finally go over all of it with clear nail polish to give it that shiny, glossy finish.
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Wrapping this monkey also took a long time. I was cleaning out my sink cabinet one day and found this plain white t-shirt and thought, “hey, I could use this!” So I cut up the entire thing into one very long strip and wrapped it all around the monkey. I got really lazy so instead of cutting the strip into shorter ones, I just used the same long strip to wrap the entire monkey. I only glued a few spots and somehow they stayed! Yay.
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Our mummy monkey amigurumi has friends too!
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At first, this mummy monkey amigurumi was all white and had no red bloody spots on it. It just didn’t look scary enough somehow so I couldn’t help myself any longer and just splotched it all over with red paint. But even then, I still don’t think it’s scary enough… But I’m still satisfied with the end product!
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Hope you like our Halloween mummy monkey amigurumi!!
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Since the first time I posted about my monkey amigurumis, I have received lots of positive feedback and interest in getting a pattern for them. Not knowing so many people would take interest in my monkeys, I actually submitted my pattern for them in Interweave’s 2012 Crochet Me Amigurumi Calendar Contest, and surprisingly got chosen to be a part of the calendar! I received my complimentary copy of the calendar in the mail about a month ago, and have been waiting since then for them to publish the ebook which contains all the patterns for the amigurumis in the calendar. They finally have, so I’m posting about it now to spread the good news!
Here are some pictures of the calendar I took myself:
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I also submitted a pattern for a polar bear my sister fondly nicknamed Polar Lucibear, and it got chosen for the month of December too! Never had the chance to take nice pictures of it before I had to send it in for the contest, but oh well, the professionals did a good job anyway!
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Visit here to take a look at the ebook.
Visit here to take a look at the calendar.
According to the site description, the patterns for the monkeys will be released for free download at CrochetMe.com during the first week of the month for which they appear in the calendar (my monkeys were chosen for the month of June). If you don’t want to wait, you can always download the ebook now with all the patterns in the calendar at the link above.
Can’t wait to order some more calendars myself! Definitely excited to give them away as presents to friends and family! 
Thanks to everyone who gave me such nice feedback and for showing interest in my monkeys, it really means a lot to me.
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Let’s celebrate Independence Day with a festive Fourth of July monkey amigurumi!!!
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Yep, you guessed it! Another monkey to kick off the start of a new month. No, we will not stop until we have completed all twelve monkeys for all twelve months of the year. It just wouldn’t be fair or right if we just decided to leave out the rest of the months and their representative monkey amigurumis now would it? 
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So here we have our Fourth of July monkey amigurumi in the signature Uncle Sam pointing at YOU pose. He wants YOU and so does the monkey! Does our monkey successfully resemble the poster in the background? We even tried to coordinate the colors of the monkey to match Uncle Sam’s outfit. We used an off-white colored felt to give the monkey an overall old school look. Of course, to make it more festive we gave it a nice and crazy Fourth of July hat–that was very time consuming and painstaking to make.
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This is the top of the hat…very festive right? First we crocheted the standard top hat and then cut out strips of white and blue felt which were glued directly onto the hat. Then we used sequin stars to decorate the rest of it. We even included a little bling on his hat with small crystal accents between the stars.
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The standard home-made flag. Made possible by the combined efforts of a nice printer, toothpick, and tacky glue!
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Our Fouth of July monkey is a very busy little monkey amigurumi. He may look carefree and all, but he’s busily planning away a July 4th celebration on his computer! Yes, an old school computer for an old school monkey.
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He’s sending out invitations to his Fourth of July party. Will you be there? Don’t worry, he’ll call you when the meat’s grilling away on his BBQ GrillMaster 7411 in the backyard.
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No, he will NOT put down the flag. Even when he’s grilling.
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Our Fourth of July monkey amigurumi just loves America that much! <3
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