Free Crochet Tutorial Elephant

Free Crochet Tutorial: Elephant in Pants by @rena_toys

In this tutorial, you can learn how to crochet a cute elephant wearing pants. You can use any acrylic or cotton yarn for this amigurumi project. The muzzle can be embroidered with the same yarn or floss threads. Feel free to decorate the toy as you like, according to your preferences. You can choose any colors, from bright to pastel shades.

Materials and Tools:

  • Yarn
  • Crochet hook
  • Safety eyes for the toy
  • Stuffing for the toy
  • Markers for crochet
  • Pins
  • Buttons for decoration
  • Needle for sewing the details
  • Scissors

All necessary materials can be purchased here.

Crochet Abbreviations

  • KA — Magic ring
  • sc — Single crochet
  • inc — Increase (2 sc in the same stitch)
  • dec — Decrease (sc 2 together)
  • (…) x n — Repeat n times

Crochet Instructions for Elephant in Pants

Upper Legs (2 pieces)

  1. Row 1: 6 sc in KA (6)
  2. Row 2: 6 inc (12)
  3. Row 3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
  4. Rows 4-5: 18 sc in the back loop
  5. Rows 6-8: 18 sc
  6. Row 9: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
  7. Rows 10-19: 12 sc
  8. Row 20: (2 sc, dec) x 3 (9)

If you plan to sew, fold and crochet 4 together. Leave the yarn tail for sewing. If you are joining directly, leave it as is.

Lower Legs (2 pieces)

  1. Row 1: 6 sc in KA (6)
  2. Row 2: 6 inc (12)
  3. Row 3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
  4. Row 4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
  5. Rows 5-6: 24 sc in the back loop
  6. Rows 7-8: 24 sc
  7. Row 9: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)
  8. Rows 10-14: 18 sc
  9. Row 15: (1 sc, dec) x 6 (12)
  10. Rows 16-20: 12 sc

If you plan to sew, fold and crochet 6 together. Leave the yarn tail for sewing. If you are joining directly, leave it as is.

Trunk

Start with 12 ch, join in a ring.

  1. Rows 1-7: 12 sc
  2. Row 8: (2 sc, dec) x 3 (9)
  3. Rows 9-11: 9 sc
  4. Row 12: dec, 7 sc (8)
  5. Row 13: dec, 6 sc (7)
  6. Row 14: 7 sc
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