Get ready to add another beloved Pokémon to your crochet collection with this Squirtle crochet pattern! Squirtle, the Water-type Pokémon, joins the ranks alongside Charmander and Bulbasaur, completing the trio of original starter Pokémon.
Perfect for crocheters with some experience in making amigurumi, this pattern offers a fun and rewarding challenge. The pattern includes clear instructions to guide you through each step, ensuring a smooth crafting experience.
Creating Squirtle is an enjoyable journey as you bring its adorable form to life stitch by stitch. The crochet pattern beautifully captures Squirtle’s distinctive features, from its bright blue body and playful eyes to its signature shell.
Whether you’re expanding your Pokémon amigurumi collection or seeking a new crochet project, this Squirtle pattern promises to be a delightful endeavor. So, gather your crochet hook, shades of blue and brown yarn, and create your very own Squirtle masterpiece!
Supplies you'll need to crochet Squirtle
General supplies:
- Crochet hook 2,5 mm, I always use clover amour hooks for my projects!
- Sewing needle
- Stuffing
- Stitch marker
With Amigurumi you guage doesn’t matter much. Using smaller hook and yarn will make you finished Squirtle smaller, and bigger hook and yarn will make him bigger. Just make sure that your yarn and hook fits together and makes a tight fabric so the stuffing won’t show through!
With the recommended yarn below, your finished Squirtle will be about 12cm/5inches tall in his sitting position.
I reccomend Hobbii Rainbow cotton 8/4. This yarn is a 100% cotton and very nice to work with! With this yarn, I use a 2,5 mm hook (or a B-1 or C-2 should work too!). If Rainbow cotton is sold out, I can also recommend Friends cotton from Hobbii as a direct substitute.
- blue
- beige/pale yellow for the belly
- Brown and white for the shell
- a bit of black, white and magenta for eyes and face-features
Abbreviations in this crochet pattern
Rnd = round
mr = magic ring
sc = single crochet
inc = increase, 2 sc in the same stitch
dec = decrease, make 2 stitches into 1
ss = slip stitch
BLO = Back Loop Only
FLO = Front Loop Only
FO = Finish Off
Squirtle crochet pattern
Head
In blue
Rnd 1: 6sc in mr (6)
Rnd 2: inc x 6 (12)
Rnd 3: (sc, inc) x 6 (18)
Rnd 4: (sc, inc, sc) x 6 (24)
Rnd 5: (3sc, inc) x 6 (30)
Rnd 6: (2sc, inc, 2sc) x 6 (36)
Rnd 7-12: sc around (36)
Rnd 13: 12sc, (inc, sc) x 6, 12sc (42)
Rnd 14: 17sc, (inc, sc) x 4, 17sc (46)
Rnd 15: sc around (46)
Rnd 16: 17sc, (dec, sc) x 4, 17sc (42)
Rnd 17: 12sc, (dec, sc) x 6, 12sc (36)
Rnd 18: 2sc, (3sc, dec) x 6, 4sc (30)
Rnd 19: (3sc, dec) x 6 (24)
Rnd 20: (sc, dec, sc) x 6 (18)
stuff
Rnd 21: (sc, dec) x 6 (12)
Rnd 22: dec x 6 (6)
FO.
Body
In beige/pale yellow
Rnd 1: 6sc in mr (6)
Rnd 2: inc x 6 (12)
Rnd 3: (sc, inc) x 6 (18)
Rnd 4: (sc, inc, sc) x 6 (24)
Rnd 5: (3sc, inc) x 6 (30)
Rnd 6: (2sc, inc, 2sc) x 6 (36)
Rnd 7: (11sc, inc) x 3 (39)
Rnd 8-14: sc around (39)
Rnd 15: (dec, 11sc) x 3 (36)
Rnd 16: (5sc, dec, 5sc) x 3 (33)
Rnd 17: (9sc, dec) x 3 (30)
Rnd 18: (4sc, dec, 4sc) x 3 (27)
ss and FO with tail for sewing.
Arms
Start in blue
Rnd 1: 5sc in mr (5)
Rnd 2: inc x 5 (10)
In the next round the fingers will be made. To make a puff-stitch do the following: (yarn over, hook through stitch, yarn over, hook back out of stitch, yarn over, pull through 2 loops on hook) x 3, (you will have 4 loops on hook after 3 repetitions), yarn over and pull through 4 loops.
Rnd 3: sc, (inc, puff-stitch) x 3, inc, sc, inc (15)
Rnd 4-5: sc around (15)
Rnd 6: 5sc, dec, sc, dec, 5sc (13)
Rnd 7-11: sc around (13)
Rnd 12: 11sc, dec (12)
Stuff firmly
Rnd 13: dec x 6 (6)
FO with tail for sewing. Make 2.
Legs
In blue
Rnd 1: 6sc in mr (6)
Rnd 2: inc x 6 (12)
Rnd 3: (sc, inc) x 6 (18)
Puff-stitch is explained under the arms part.
Rnd 4: 4sc, (sc, puff-stitch, sc) x 3, 5sc (18)
Rnd 5: sc around (18)
Rnd 6: 4sc, (sc, dec) x 3, 5sc (15)
Rnd 7-13: sc around (15)
Stuff firmly
Rnd 14: (dec, 3sc) x 3 (12)
Rnd 15: dec x 6 (6)
FO with tail for sewing. Make 2.
Shell
In brown
Rnd 1: 6 sc in mr (6)
Rnd 2: inc x 6 (12)
Rnd 3: (sc, inc) x 6 (18)
Rnd 4: (sc, inc, sc) x 6 (24)
Rnd 5 (inc, sc) x 2, 6sc, (inc, sc) x 3, 6sc, inc, sc (30)
Rnd 6: (inc, 2sc) x 2, 6sc, (inc, 2sc) x 3, 6sc, inc, 2sc (36)
Rnd 7: (inc, 2sc) x 2, 9sc, (inc, sc) x 3, 9sc, inc, 2sc (42)
Rnd 8: sc around (42)
FO the brown.
Connect white yarn in a front loop (FLO) and continue to crochet around with the white.
Rnd 9: in FLO sc around (42)
Rnd 10: sc around (42)
Rnd 11: sc around going through both the regular white stitch and the brown back loop left from round 8 (42)
Now your white edge is folded down. FO the white with a tail for sewing.
Tail
In blue
Rnd 1: 6sc in mr (6)
Rnd 2: inc x 6 (12)
Rnd 3: (2sc, inc) x 4 (16)
Rnd 4-23: sc around (16)
Rnd 24: (6sc, dec) x 2 (14)
Rnd 25-26: sc around (14)
Rnd 27: (5sc, dec) x 2 (12)
Rnd 28-29: sc around (12)
Rnd 30: (4sc, dec) x 2 (10)
Fold the piece and make 5 sc across through both layers. Don’t stuff the tail. Roll up the tail and sew it in place.
Eyes
Start in black
The eye is worked around a chain. Start by chaining 4. The work starts in the 2nd chain from the hook.
Rnd 1: 2sc, 3sc in last chain, turn and continue work on the other side of the chain, sc, change color to magenta, 2inc, change color to black, 2sc, ss and FO.
Next connect white yarn to the side and make 4 slip stitches along the edge. Repeat on the other eye, but put the slip stitches on the opposite side of the eye so you have both a left and a right eye. Embroider a white highlight in the black part of the eye.
Assembly of your crochet Squirtle
Attach the head to the body. The body sits around round 19 of the head. Remember to stuff the body firmly before finishing the sewing.
Next attach the shell to the back of Squirtle. The increases we made in the head is the front of the face. The shell sits across the back (the widest part is placed horizontally). The placement is starting where the head meets the shell and down to about round 4 of the body. Remember to stuff the shell before sewing shut.
Next add the limbs. The legs sit between rounds 5-9, and the end of the leg sits close to the shield. The arms sit 3-4 rounds above the legs and again close to the shell.
Add the tail to the back of Squirtle on round 3 of the body. Be aware of what direction your spiral rolls.
Lastly attach the eyes on rounds 9-13 of the face with 3-3,5 stitches between them.
As a finishing touch, embroider a mouth, nostrils and eyebrows in black. Also embroider the pattern in the shell in a darker brown or black color.
