Elephants are well loved around here. My 1 1/2 year old sleeps every night with “Dawdle” her elephant and she gets extremely excited when she sees a picture of one in a book. She makes a most adorable high pitched “Bwawoooo!” sound just like an elephant, that her daddy taught her. I thought it would be fun to make up a crochet pattern for one and she will likely be getting on this Christmas.
The free pattern is included below. If you’d like to buy one head over to my store!
Elephant
PatternMade with a size G hook and mystery stash yarn 🙂 It was a smallish worsted weight I believe
About 5 inches tall and 4 1/2 inches wide ear to ear when finished
Head
Row 1: 6 sc in a loop, tighten loop
Row 2: 2sc in each around (12 total)
Row 3: sc, 2sc, repeat around (18 total)
Row 4: sc, sc, 2sc, repeat around (24 total)
Row 5: sc, sc, sc, 2sc, repeat around (30 total)
Row 6: sc, sc, sc, sc, 2sc, repeat around (36 total)
Row 7: sc, sc, sc, sc, sc, 2sc, repeat around (42 total)
Rows 8-11: sc even
Row 12: sc, sc, sc, sc, sc, sc2tog, repeat around (36 total)
Row 13: sc, sc, sc, sc, sc2tog, repeat around (30 total)
Row 14: sc, sc, sc, sc2tog, repeat around (24 total)
Row 15: sc, sc, sc2tog, repeat around (18 total)
Row 16: sc, sc2tog, repeat around (12 total)
Row 17: sc2tog, repeat around (6 total)
Stuff with stuffing, finish off
Ear
Row 1: 5 sc in a loop, tighten loop
Row 2: 2sc in each around (10 total)
Row 3: sc, 2sc, repeat around (15 total)
Row 4: sc, sc, 2sc, repeat around (20 total)
Row 5: sc, sc, sc, 2sc, repeat around (25 total)
Row 6-8: sc even
sl st to round off
press sides together (do not stuff) and sew to head
Body
Row 1: 6 sc in a loop, tighten loop
Row 2: 2sc in each around (12 total)
Row 3: sc, 2sc, repeat around (18 total)
Row 4: sc, sc, 2sc, repeat around (24 total)
Row 5-7: sc even
Row 8: sc, sc, sc2tog, repeat around (18 total)
Row 9: sc even
Row 10: sc, sc2tog, repeat around (12 total)
Row 11: sc even
Row 12: sc, sc2tog, repeat around (8 total)
sl st to round off
stuff with a little bit of beans in the bottom and stuffing on top
Arm
Row 1: 10 sc in a loop, tighten loop, join with sl st to first sc of this row
Row 2: sc blo even
Row 3: sc, sc, sc, sc2tog, repeat twice (8 total)
Row 4: sc, sc, sc2tog, repeat twice (6 total)
Row 5: sc even
sl st to round off
stuff with stuffing
Leg
Row 1: 6 sc in a loop, tighten loop
Row 2: 2sc in each around (12 total)
Row 3: sc blo even around
Row 4-8: ec even
sl st to round off
stuff lightly with beans
Trunk
Row 1: 6 sc in a loop, tighten loop
Row 2: 2sc in each around (12 total)
Row 3: sc blo even around
Row 4-8: sc even
Row 9-10: sc2tog, sc, sc, sc, sc, sc, 2sc, sc, sc, sc, sc (12 total)
sl st to round off, stuff with stuffing
Tail
Join a double thickness of yarn to the body where you want the tail and using both pieces ch 4, then knot in a loop and cut ends to leave a little tassel
I love elephants too! I need to try this, in a smaller version!
My daughter loves elephants, so I’ll have to make her one:-) This one was just adorable! Are there also a pattern for the ears? I’ve just read through the pattern, but couldn’t find ears…but I’ll figure it out:-)
How cute! I don’t see pattern instructions for the ears, though. Would you mind adding them, please? Many thanks!
Sorry about the error! I fixed it and added the ear instructions to the pattern. Thanks for the heads up!
Thanks so much for sharing! My daughter is turning four in a couple of weeks definitely making this for her. She has such such a love for elephants and has her whole life so far. Thanks again!
Great pattern! I’m making a big one for my mom! One quick question, what is the back loop only stitching for? I don’t get what is does, when I tried the arm it just turned out lumpy, I ended up just making my own arm pattern. (Haven’t tried trunk or legs with blo yet) Yours looks so great! Thanks!
Hi, Kate. Thanks! The blo stitches create the little ridge that you see at the end of the trunk, arm, and leg. It helps turn from the flat end to the side. I also loosely stuff these, and it helps keep the shape. Hope that helps.
Oh, okay great! Thanks!
Oh I’m sorry two more little things. I used flo stitch instead of blo cause it just made more sense to me. And when you say “sl st to round off” what do you mean?
No problem at all. If you do a flo there, the ridge of stitching will be on the inside… it will tend to form a turn in the opposite direction that a blo would. Sl st to round off just means do sl st so you don’t finish off straight from a sc. This “rounding off” leaves a flat edge.
Well do you crochet in the round from the inside of the bowl? Or the outside? I hope you know what I mean, I didn’t know how to explain it.
From the outside…
Beautiful. 🙂
Great Pattern, love elephants. Having trouble figuring out how to sew the ears on though. Any suggestions on how you did it?
so cute <3 I made one and it looks great thank you 🙂