Are you a unicorn lover or know someone who loved unicorns? You will enjoy making this little cute and cuddly toy.
This tutorial looks a little complicated but it uses very simple crochet stitches, and if you follow the written instructions you will finish it easily.
The body, head, ears, legs, arms, tail, eyes, horn, and hair are made separately and this tutorial has detailed written instructions about how to assemble all parts together at the end.
Materials needed to make this pattern are DK weight yarn with (pastel rainbow, black, gold, and white) shades, a 2.5 mm crochet hook, and fiberfill.
Pattern by: Catknit
Materials
- Colour A (2 balls): Rico Ricorumi Spin Spin DK – Pastel Rainbow
- Colour B: Rico Ricorumi DK – Black
- Colour C: Rico Ricorumi DK – White
- Colour D: Rico Creative Lamé – Gold
- Crochet Hook: 2.5mm
- Toy stuffing
You’ll be using both the start and end tail of colour A to achieve the right colour changes. Which to use for each part is specified in the pattern.
Abbreviations
Sc – single crochet
Inc – increase
Dec – decrease
BLO – back loops only
Sl st – slip stitch
Head
Round 1: Using colour A, starting with the outer pink colour,
work 6 sc in magic ring (6)
Round 2: Inc in each st (12)
Round 3: [1 sc, 1 inc] x6 (18)
Round 4: [2 sc, 1 inc] x6 (24)
Round 5: [3 sc, 1 inc] x6 (30)
Round 6: [4 sc, 1 inc] x6 (36)
Round 7: [5 sc, 1 inc] x6 (42)
Round 8: [6 sc, 1 inc] x6 (48)
Round 9: [7 sc, 1 inc] x6 (54)
Round 10: [8 sc, 1 inc] x6 (60)
Round 11: [9 sc, 1 inc] x6 (66)
Round 12: [10 sc, 1 inc] x6 (72)
Round 13-14: Sc in each st
Round 15: [10 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (66)
Round 16-17: Sc in each st
Round 18: [9 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (60)
Round 19-20: Sc in each st
Round 21: [8 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (54)
Round 22-23: Sc in each st
Round 24: [7 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (48)
Round 25-26: Sc in each st
Round 27: [6 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (42)
Round 28: Sc in each st
Round 29: [5 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (36)
Round 30: Sc in each st
Round 31: [4 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (30)
Round 32: [3 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (24)
Round 33: Sc in each st
Now stuff the head firmly and crochet a flat seam through both layers across the top of the head to close.
Ears x2
Round 1: Using colour A, starting with the outer now yellow colour, work 4 sc in magic ring (4)
Round 2: Inc in each st (8)
Round 3: Sc in each st
Round 4: [1 sc, 1 inc] x4 (12)
Round 5: [2 sc, 1 inc] x4 (16)
Round 6-7: Sc in each st
Round 8: [2 sc, 1 inv.dec] x4 (12)
Round 9: Sc in each st
Round 10: [1 sc, 1 inv.dec] x4 (8)
Fasten off, leaving a tail to attach the ears later.
Body
Round 1: Using colour A, starting with the outer yellow colour, work 6 sc in magic ring (6)
Round 2: Inc in each st (12)
Round 3: [1 sc, 1 inc] x6 (18)
Round 4: [2 sc, 1 inc] x6 (24)
Round 5: [3 sc, 1 inc] x6 (30)
Round 6: [4 sc, 1 inc] x6 (36)
Round 7: [5 sc, 1 inc] x6 (42)
Round 8: [6 sc, 1 inc] x6 (48)
Round 9: [7 sc, 1 inc] x6 (54)
Round 10: [8 sc, 1 inc] x6 (60)
Round 11: [9 sc, 1 inc] x6 (66)
Round 12: [10 sc, 1 inc] x6 (72)
Round 13: [11 sc, 1 inc] x6 (78)
Round 14: [12 sc, 1 inc] x6 (84)
Round 15-19: Sc in each st
Round 20: [5 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6, sc in the rest of the sts (78)
Round 21: [11 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (72)
Round 22: [4 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6, sc in the rest of the sts (66)
Round 23: Sc in each st
Round 24: [9 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (60)
Round 25-26: Sc in each st
Round 27: [3 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (54)
Round 28: Sc in each st
Round 29: [7 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (48)
Round 30-32: Sc in each st
Round 33: [6 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (42)
Round 34: Sc in each st
Round 35: [5 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (36)
Round 36-37: Sc in each st
Round 38: [4 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (30)
Round 39: [3 sc, 1 inv.dec] x6 (24)
Now stuff the body firmly and with the belly part centered in the front, meaning your last st won’t be the starting point, sew (you won’t crochet this part like you did with the head) through both layers across the top of the body to close.
Legs x2
Start a new yarn ball.
Round 1: Using colour A, starting with the outer pink colour,
work 6 sc in magic ring (6)
Round 2: Inc in each st (12)
Round 3: [1 sc, 1 inc] x6 (18)
Round 4: [2 sc, 1 inc] x6 (24)
Round 5:. Sc in BLO
Round 6-7: Sc in each st
Round 8-10: Change to the inner blue colour, sc in each st
Fasten off leaving a tail for attaching the legs later, do not stuff.
Arms x2
Round 1: Using colour A, starting with the outer pink colour, work 6 sc in magic ring (6)
Round 2: Inc in each st (12)
Round 3: [1 sc, 1 inc] x6 (18)
Round 4: Sc in BLO
Round 5-6: Sc in each st
Round 7-9: Change to the inner blue colour, sc in each st
Fasten off leaving a tail for attaching the arms later, do not stuff.
Tail
Round 1: Using colour A, starting with the outer pink color, ch 36, starting in the second ch from the hook, inc in each st (70) After each row: ch 1 (does not count as st) turn
Round 2: Sc in each st
Round 3-4: Change to the inner blue colour, sc in each st
Round 5-6: Take off a bit of the pink colour of the ball so you get to the peach like colour, sc in each st
Round 7-8: Change to the inner blue colour, sc in each st
Fasten off, leaving a long tail for attaching later.
Eyes Part 1
Round 1: Using colour C, work 6 sc in magic ring (6)
Round 2: Inc in each st (12)
Round 3: [1 sc, 1 inc] x6 (18)
Round 4: [2 sc, 1 inc] x6 (24)
Fasten off leaving a tail for attaching later.
Eyes Part 2
Round 1: Using colour B, work 6 sc in magic ring (6)
Round 2: Inc in each st (12)
Round 3: Change to colour A, using the the inner blue colour [1 sc, 1 inc] x6 (18)
Fasten off leaving a tail for attaching later.
Using colour C, make a st across on of the sts in round 2, go over the same st 4 more times.
Horn
Round 1: Using colour D, work 4 sc in magic ring (4)
Round 2: Inc in each st (8)
Round 3: [1 sc, 1 inc] x4 (12)
Round 4-5: Sc in each st
Round 6: [2 sc, 1 inc] x4 (16)
Round 7: Sc in each st
Fasten off leaving a tail for attaching later.
Hair
Make a mix of the following lengths using both the inner and the outer part of colour A, I ended up with 17 pieces in total. The best way of judging how many you need and what lenghts would be to pin all your other pieces in place and then create the hair so you can judge when you’re happy with the amount and placement.
Short:
Round 1: Using colour A, ch 16, starting in the second
ch from the hook, inc in each st (30)
Fasten off leaving a tail for attaching later.
Medium:
Round 1: Using colour A, ch 21, starting in the second ch from the hook, inc in each st (40)
Fasten off leaving a tail for attaching later.
Long:
Round 1: Using colour A, ch 26, starting in the second ch from the hook, inc in each st (50)
Fasten off leaving a tail for attaching later.
Assembly
- Head: Attach the flat body seam to row 18 and 19 of the head, secure the head with a few sts between the chin and body.
- Ears: Attach the ears at the front of each side of the top head seam.
- Legs: Attach the legs across row 9-17 of the body, with 14 sts in between on row 13.
- Arms: Attach the arms across row 26-31 with 8 sts in between on row 29.
- Tail: Create a tube like shape with the tail and attach the flat part of the start across row 15-19 in the middle of the back, and the tip in row 19, secure the rest of the tail with a few sts between tail and body. Eyes: Attach the white part of the eyes across row 18-25 with 3 sts in between on row 22. Attach the 2nd part of the eye in the bottom inner corners of the white with the white twinkle landing at 10 and 2 o’clock angles.
- Horn: Attach the horn across 27-30, in the middle of the head.
- Mouth: Using colour B, make a st across row 10-12, 2 sts wide on the right side of the face, a couple of sts away from the end of the white part of the eye
- Hair: Pin all your pieces in place, I added 5 strands to the front of the face and 12 to the back. Sew in place.
