Cute cactus Amigurumi free patter

 

Materials

1. Yarn: green (for the cactus), terracotta (for the pot), brown (for the ground), and colors for flowers. I used Gazzal Baby Cotton yarn (165 m/50 g, 60% cotton, 40% acrylic). It's better to use yarns of similar weight for the cactus, pot, and ground.
2. Crochet hook suitable for your yarn. I used a 2 mm crochet hook.
3. Fine thread for decoration.
4. Polyester fiberfill, long needle, scissors, stitch marker, pins.
5. Felt (for mustaches) and glue.

Size of the finished cactus is about 10 cm.

Abbreviations

• MR - magic ring
• ch - chain
• SC - single crochet
• hdc - half double crochet
• sist - slip stitch
• inc - increase
• dec - decrease
• BLO - work in back loops only

Options

1. You can make a keychain by sewing a ring with a chain (the base for the keychain) on top of the cactus.
2. To make the cactus serve as a pincushion, add a solid bottom (cut from cardboard or plastic) and weight (using small pebbles, coins, cereals, etc.) to keep it stable.

Cactus

Green yarn. This part is worked in turning rows, meaning you need to make 1 ch and turn at the end of each row.

1. Make 17 ch, from the second stitch from the hook work 16 hdc.
2. Work each row in back loops only, crocheting 23 rows in total.
3. Leave a thread for sewing at the end.
4. Sew the short edges of the rectangle, and pull off the upper hole with the thread left. Secure the thread well and weave in the ends.

Pot

Terracotta yarn.

1. 8 sc in MR
2. 8 inc (16)
3. (1 sc, inc) *8 (24)
4. 1 sc, inc, (2 sc, inc) *7, 1 sc (32)
5. (3 sc, inc) *8 (40)
6. 40 sc BLO
7. 40 sc (3 rounds)
8. (19 sc, inc) *2 (42)
9. 42 sc (3 rounds)

Change to brown:

1. BLO 42 sc
2. (5 sc, dec) *6 (36)
3. (4 sc, dec) *6 (30)
4. (3 sc, dec) *6 (24)
5. Stuff the pot.
6. (2 sc, dec) *6 (18)
7. (1 sc, dec) *6 (12)
8. Pull the 12 stitches using a needle. Secure the thread and weave in the ends.

Flower

In MR, work:

1. 1 ch, 2 hdc, 1 ch, sist.
2. Repeat this combination 4 more times (this will give you 5 petals).
3. Pull the ring, secure the thread, and leave a thread for sewing.

Cactus Assembly

1. Stuff the cactus with filler. Cut a thread of the same color as the cactus, insert it into the needle, and secure it inside the cactus. Pull the bottom edge of the cactus with this thread (laying wide stitches along the bottom edge) until the lower part fits into the pot, and a strip of ground between the cactus and the edge of the pot is visible after sewing.
2. Fix the cactus in the middle of the pot with pins, then sew with green thread (grabbing the stitches of the bottom edge of the cactus and the stitches of the ground). Secure the thread and weave in the ends.
3. Attach a thread of the pot color to the front loops of the 13th round of the pot. Make 2 ch and work with hdc in a circle, then sist into the first stitch. Secure the thread and weave in the ends.
4. Embroider the eyes on the 4th round of the pot, counting from the top edge. The width of each eye is 2 sc, and there are 5 sc between the eyes. Embroider eyelashes as desired (1 sc width).
5. Embroider a smile two rounds below the eyes (2 sc width).
6. If you add mustaches, cut them from felt, glue them one round below the eyes, and sew along the edge for reliability. Skip embroidering the smile if using mustaches.
7. Sew the flowers onto the cactus as desired. I sewed 3 flowers of different shades on the side.