Axolotl — Free Amigurumi Pattern
A free crochet amigurumi axolotl pattern with round-by-round instructions, stitch counts and assembly. Worsted weight, 3.5 mm hook, about 16 cm tall.
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Yarn weight
- worsted
- Hook
- 3.5 mm
- Finished size
- 16 cm
An axolotl is one long body rather than a head joined to a torso, so the head and body here are worked as a single piece and only the gills, legs and tail are sewn on.
Before you start
Work in a continuous spiral without joining rounds, and move a stitch marker up
as you go. Every dec is an invisible decrease.
Numbers in brackets are the stitch count at the end of the round.
Abbreviations: MR magic ring · sc single crochet · inc two sc in one stitch · dec invisible decrease · st stitch.
Gauge is not critical, but the fabric must be dense enough that stuffing does not show through. If it does, drop a hook size.
Head and body
- Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
- Round 2: inc in each st around [12]
- Round 3: [sc 1, inc] 6 times [18]
- Round 4: [sc 2, inc] 6 times [24]
- Round 5: [sc 3, inc] 6 times [30]
- Rounds 6–17: sc in each st around [30]
- Round 18: [sc 3, dec] 6 times [24]
- Round 19: [sc 2, dec] 6 times [18]
- Round 20: [sc 1, dec] 6 times [12]
Place the safety eyes between rounds 6 and 7, well apart — an axolotl reads best with wide-set eyes. Stuff as you go, firmly at the head and softer along the body.
Tail
- Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
- Round 2: inc in each st around [12]
- Rounds 3–10: sc in each st around [12]
Flatten the last four rounds as you work them so the tail ends as a paddle rather than a tube. Do not stuff.
Gills — make 6
- Round 1: 4 sc in magic ring [4]
- Rounds 2–5: sc in each st around [4]
Leave unstuffed. Three go on each side of the head.
Legs — make 4
- Round 1: 5 sc in magic ring [5]
- Rounds 2–5: sc in each st around [5]
Stuff lightly. Splay them outward when you sew them on.
Assembly
- Sew the tail to the last round of the body, flat side horizontal.
- Attach three gills to each side of the head at rounds 4 to 6, fanning them backwards.
- Sew the front legs at round 9 and the back legs at round 15, angled outward so the axolotl lies flat.
- Embroider a wide, shallow smile across rounds 3 and 4 in a slightly darker pink.
Making it a different size
Every stitch count here scales together. To make this 16 cm axolotl larger or smaller, scale the magic ring and each round by the same factor — the pattern resizer does the arithmetic and rewrites the increase rounds. To keep the size but use a different yarn, the yarn weight converter shows what changes.