The Blooming Cactus Amigurumi Pattern has been made to bring smiles to you and the people around you. This adorable green creature will be a nice decoration for your car or desktop, or cute helpful pincushion!
Follow our cactus crochet pattern, don’t forget to pin your favorite pictures!
Supplies:
- Yarn in green, pink, brown and white colors (Yarnart Baby, 100% acrylic, 50 g / 150 m)
- 2.0 mm crochet hook
- Fiberfill
- 10 mm safety eyes
- Two plastic or cardboard circles (the sizes are equal to the diameters of the flower pot top and bottom)
- Yarn or embroidering floss for mouth and lashes
- One bead for flower
Skill level: easy
The size of the crochet cactus is 14 cm (5.5″) without flower. Please note that the toy size depends on your yarn weight and hook size.
Blooming Cactus Amigurumi
Free crochet pincushion pattern
Abbreviations:
ch = chain
st = stitch
sc = single crochet
inc = increase (2 sc in one st)
dec = decrease (2 sc together)
sl st = slip stitch
(..) = repeat the space in brackets the given number of times
[..] = total number of stitches
Eye whites (make 2):
Work with white yarn.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
Rnd 2: (inc) repeat 6 times [12]
Rnd 3: (sc in next st, inc) repeat 6 times [18]
Finish with sl st. Fasten off leaving a tail for sewing.
Insert safety eyes into the crocheted eye whites slightly aside from their middle.
Cactus:
Crochet with green yarn.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
Rnd 2: (inc) repeat 6 times [12]
Rnd 3: (sc in next st, inc) repeat 6 times [18]
Rnd 4: (sc in next 2 st, inc) repeat 6 times [24]
Rnd 5: (sc in next 3 st, inc) repeat 6 times [30]
Rnd 6: (sc in next 4 st, inc) repeat 6 times [36]
Rnd 7: (sc in next 5 st, inc) repeat 6 times [42]
Rnd 8: (sc in next 6 st, inc) repeat 6 times [48]
Rnd 9: (sc in next 7 st, inc) repeat 6 times [54]
Rnd 10: (sc in next 8 st, inc) repeat 6 times [60]
Rnd 11: (sc in next 9 st, inc) repeat 6 times [66]
Rnd 12-20: sc in all 66 st [66]
Rnd 21: (sc in next 9 st, dec) repeat 6 times [60]
Rnd 22-23: sc in all 60 st [60]
Rnd 24: (sc in next 8 st, dec) repeat 6 times [54]
Rnd 25-26: sc in all 54 st [54]
Rnd 27: (sc in next 7 st, dec) repeat 6 times [48]
Rnd 28-29: sc in all 48 st [48]
Rnd 30: (sc in next 6 st, dec) repeat 6 times [42]
Rnd 31-32: sc in all 42 st [42]
Place safety eyes with eye whites between Rnd 19 and Rnd 26. Fix plastic eyes from the inside and sew eye whites on the cactus face.
Rnd 33: Crochet in back loops only (sc in the next 5 st, dec) repeat 6 times [36]
Rnd 34: (sc in next 4 st, dec) repeat 6 times [30]
Rnd 35: (sc in next 3 st, dec) repeat 6 times [24]
Stuff tightly with fiberfill.
Rnd 36: (sc in next 2 st, dec) repeat 6 times [18]
Rnd 37: (sc in next st, dec) repeat 6 times [12]
Decrease till the hole is closed. Fasten off and cut off the yarn.
Soil:
Join brown yarn to one of the front loops of Rnd 32 of the cactus.
Rnd 1: (sc in next 6 st, inc) repeat 6 times [48]
Rnd 2: (sc in next 7 st, inc) repeat 6 times [54]
Rnd 3: (sc in next 8 st, inc) repeat 6 times [60]
Rnd 4: (sc in next 9 st, inc) repeat 6 times [66]
Rnd 5: (sc in next 10 st, inc) repeat 6 times [72]
Fasten off and cut off the yarn.
Pot:
Crochet with pink yarn.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
Rnd 2: (inc) repeat 6 times [12]
Rnd 3: (sc in next st, inc) repeat 6 times [18]
Rnd 4: (sc in next 2 st, inc) repeat 6 times [24]
Rnd 5: (sc in next 3 st, inc) repeat 6 times [30]
Rnd 6: (sc in next 4 st, inc) repeat 6 times [36]
Rnd 7: (sc in next 5 st, inc) repeat 6 times [42]
Rnd 8: (sc in next 6 st, inc) repeat 6 times [48]
Rnd 9: sc in all 48 st in back loops only [48]
Rnd 10: (sc in next 7 st, inc) repeat 6 times [54]
Rnd 11: (sc in next 8 st, inc) repeat 6 times [60]
Rnd 12: (sc in next 9 st, inc) repeat 6 times [66]
Rnd 13: (sc in next 10 st, inc) repeat 6 times [72]
Rnd 14-19: sc in all 72 st [72]
Put a smaller plastic circle on the bottom of the pot. Stuff the pot with fiberfill.
Put a bigger plastic circle on top of the pot (the edges of the circle should be inside the pot). Place the cactus with the soil on the pot to join them together.
Rnd 20: crochet through the stitches of the pot and the soil at the same time, joining them together – sc in all 72 st [72]
Rnd 21: sl st in all 72 st [72]
Fasten off and hide the yarn tail.
Cactus sprout:
Work with green yarn.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
Rnd 2: (inc) repeat 6 times [12]
Rnd 3: (sc in next st, inc) repeat 6 times [18]
Rnd 4: (sc in next 2 st, inc) repeat 6 times [24]
Rnd 5: (sc in next 3 st, inc) repeat 6 times [30]
Rnd 6-10: sc in all 30 st [30]
Rnd 11: (sc in next 3 st, dec) repeat 6 times [24]
Rnd 12: (sc in next 2 st, dec) repeat 6 times [18]
Fasten off leaving a long tail for sewing.
Flower:
Crochet with pink yarn.
Rnd 1: 8 sc in magic ring [8]
Rnd 2: Crochet this round in front loops only. *Sl st in next st, 4 ch, starting from the second ch from hook make sl st in the next 3 ch, sl st in the place where you started crocheting the chain*. Repeat from * to * till the end of the round. Now you have 8 petals.
Rnd 3: Crochet this round in back loops of Rnd 1. (Sc in next st, inc) repeat 4 times [12]
Rnd 4: *sl st, 6 ch, sl st in the second ch from the hook, sc in next 4 ch along the chain, sl st in the place where you started crocheting the chain*. Repeat from * to * till the end of the round. Now you have 12 petals in this round.
Fasten off leaving a tail for sewing.
Assembly:
1. Stuff the sprout with fiberfill and sew it to the cactus between Rnd 6 and Rnd 11.
2. Sew the flower on the sprout. Sew on the bead in the center of the flower.
3. Embroider a mouth and lashes.
Congrats! Your amigurumi cactus pincushion is finished! Share the pictures of your finished crochet toys in our Facebook group >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/amigurumidollscrochet
This is adorable!
I was wondering if it is ok to sell the items made from this patterns, I would not produce much, but I was wondering if it would be ok for you if I would sell some 🙂
Hi Eira, you are more than welcome to sell finished crochet toys made with the help of our patterns, giving a credit to our website, but no more than 50 items per month 🙂
This is so cute, can’t wait to work it up 😊
is there a pattern for the cute unicorn?
You can find it here >> https://amigurumi.today/crochet-baby-unicorn-amigurumi-pattern/
Ihr Lieben
Suche dringend Anleitung wie man einen echt süssen Mops häkelt
Wäre euch ewig dankbar
https://amigurumi.today/baby-pug-dog-amigurumi-pattern/
This is adorable
My apologies. I missed the line that says to stuff the cactus. That will teach me to read a pattern and post a comment with my dog barking at the neighbors. Lol. My sincerest apologies.
You left out the points where you stuff and add last bits of stuffing in the cactus itself. While I have been crocheting long enough that I don’t need to be told to stuff the cactus, there are beginners out there who will most likely do EXACTLY as your pattern says and not think about having to stuff the cactus until Rnd 37 or have decreased the hole closed and go to or have fastened off and cut their yarn. Please know I am NOT criticizing in any way, just know how easy it is to get so caught up in following the pattern exactly that you don’t remember the stuffing in time and then have to pull out several rows. I love this pattern and can’t wait to get the yarn to make it.