Hedgehog Crochet Toy Free Pattern You Can Make Today
This crochet hedgehog pattern guides you through creating a small, textured amigurumi hedgehog with a sweet face and signature spiky back. The design combines simple shaping with popcorn stitches to achieve a fun, tactile finish that looks impressive yet remains beginner friendly.
Crochet Hedgehog Toy
This crochet hedgehog makes a charming handmade toy, nursery décor piece, or thoughtful gift, and it can easily be customized with different yarn colors or facial expressions to suit your style.
Materials
- Magic ring
- Stitches used: single crochet, double crochet, increase, decrease, slip stitch, popcorn stitch
- Two yarn colors (main color and contrast for spikes)
- Stuffing, yarn needle, scissors
Head
- Round 1: Work 6 single crochet into a magic ring and join with a slip stitch
- Round 2: Single crochet in each stitch around and join
- Round 3: Repeat one single crochet and one increase three times, join
- Round 4: Single crochet in each stitch around and join
- Round 5: Repeat one single crochet and one increase four times, finish with one single crochet and join
- Round 6: Repeat two single crochet and one increase around, finish with one single crochet and join
- Round 7: Repeat three single crochet and one increase three times, finish with one single crochet and join
- Round 8: Repeat four single crochet and one increase around, finish with one single crochet and join
- Round 9: Repeat five single crochet and one increase around, finish with one single crochet
- Round 10: Change to second color and work slip stitches around
- Round 11: Working in back loops only, repeat six single crochet and one increase around
- Round 12: Repeat seven single crochet and one increase three times, finish with one single crochet
Spiky Body
- Round 13: Work six double crochet, chain one and skip one stitch, then repeat popcorn stitch with chain two and skip one across, ending with six double crochet
- Round 14: Work six double crochet, two double crochet in chain space, repeat popcorn stitch with chain two across, finish with two double crochet in chain space and six double crochet
- Round 15: Work six double crochet, chain one and skip one, repeat popcorn stitch with chain two across, end with six double crochet
- Round 16: Repeat the same structure as round fourteen
- Round 17: Work six double crochet, chain one and skip one, repeat popcorn stitch with chain one across, end with six double crochet
Decreasing and Finishing
- Round 18: Combine double crochet and double crochet decreases at the front, work popcorn stitches across the back, then mirror the decreases
- Round 19: Work double crochet decreases at the front and repeat popcorn stitch with skips to form seven popcorns
- Stuff the hedgehog firmly
- Round 20: Work final decreases with popcorn stitches to form four popcorns
- Fasten off and sew the opening closed securely
