Freebie Friday: Pokey Super Mario Crochet Pattern
Happy Freebie Sunday my fellow crocheters!
I am so sorry that this weeks post is late. I am away in Cyprus for my baby sisters wedding and have been too busy getting stuff done. The wedding has gone now and it was such an amazing day. She looked like a goddess and Mercedes (my sister) and her husband (eek! Sounds so amazing to say) planned such a phenomenal day.
Needless to say I haven’t had the chance to get any crocheting done either but I was not expecting to in the run up to the wedding. However, as I have mentioned in previous posts I plan on using the summer to complete a lot of projects and complete most of the many patterns that I have yet to turn into PDF tutorials.
I don’t have many pictures with me because I am using my tablet to type up this post but thankfully Pokey is such a simple pattern. The pattern consisted og four sphere which are crocheted as once continuous piece – so be sure to stuff as you go.
When I originally made him I opted to do a colour change with brown yarn to give that effect that you can see. I didn’t follow a particular pattern, I just spaced did a single stitch in brown every couple of stitiches and for the next row kept it yellow. I repeated that sequence of colour changes for one row and plain yellow for the next row. I purposely tried to place the brown stitch halfway between the two brown stitches from the previous colour change row.
Another option, however, is for you to just use brown yarn when you have finished crocheting and stuffing your Pokey and stitching small V’s all over which will give the same effect.
The approximate measurements using DK yarn and 3mm hook are 11 inches height, 3.5 inches width (head spike span).
Materials required:
- Yellow DK yarn
- Brown DK yarn
- Green DK yarn
- Fibrefill
- 3mm hook
- Yarn needle
- Scissors
- Felt glue
- White felt
- Black felt
- Green felt
- Pink felt
Abbreviations:
- MR#—MAGIC RING WITH SPECIFIED NUMBER OF SINGLE CROCHETS (E.G. MR6)
- SC—SINGLE CROCHET (DOUBLE CROCHET UK)
- INC—INCREASE
- DEC—DECREASE (I USED INVISIBLE DECREASE METHOD)
- CC—COLOUR CHANGE
- FLO—FRONT LOOP ONLY
- *_______* X# — REPEAT SEQUENCE WITHIN THE ASTERISKS THE SPECIFIED NUMBER OF TIMES (E.G. *SC, INC* X6)
- FO—FASTEN OFF
BODY AND HEAD
STARTING WITH YELLOW YARN
1. MR6
2. 6INC (12)
3. SC, INC* X6 (18)
4. *2SC, INC* X6 (24)
5. *3SC, INC* X6 (30)
6. *4SC, INC* X6 (36)
7. *5SC, INC* X6 (42)
8. 42SC (42) = 7 ROWS
9. *5SC, DEC* X6 (36)
10. *4SC, DEC* X6 (30)
11. *3SC, DEC* X6 (24)
12. *2SC, DEC* X6 (18)
13. *SC, DEC* X6 (12)
14. FLO: *SC, INC* X6 (18)
REPEAT ROWS 4 TO 14 TWO MORE TIMES (BRINGS YOU TO ROW 36)
37. *2SC, INC* X6 (24)
38. *3SC, INC* X6 (30)
39. *4SC, INC* X6 (36)
40. *5SC, INC* X6 (42)
41. 42SC (42) = 7 ROWS
42. *5SC, DEC* X6 (36)
43. *4SC, DEC* X6 (30)
44. *3SC, DEC* X6 (24)
45. *2SC, DEC* X6 (18)
CC GREEN
46. FLO: 18SC (18)
47. *7SC, DEC* X2 (16)
48. 14SC (14)
49. *6SC, DEC* X2 (14)
50. 12SC (12)
51. *5SC, DEC* X2 (12)
52. *4SC, DEC* X2 (10)
53. *3SC, DEC* X2 (8)
54. *2SC, DEC* X2 (6)
55. *SC, DEC* X2 (4)
FO
SPIKES (MAKE TWO)
USING GREEN YARN
1. MR4 (4)
2. *SC, INC* X2 (6)
3. *2SC, INC* X2 (8)
4. *3SC, INC* X2 (10)
5. *4SC, INC* X2 (12)
6. 12SC (12)
7. *5SC, INC* X2 (14)
8. 14SC (14)
FO
To finish off your Pokey:
- Stitch the two green horns on his head as pictured
- Cut out the eyes using black and white felt then glue on
- Cut out the mouth using black and pink felt then glue on
- Cut small triangles out of green felt and glue all over Pokey as pictured
Now, I am going fo try my hardest to get next weeks pattern out on time but I will still be in Cyprus so not sure if I will have the time. Don’t fret though because there will still be a release. I will start working on the post from now and try to get a bit done each day inbetween my planned excursions. I haven’t decided which pattern I will release next. Ideally it would have been Bullet Bill but it will ultimately depend on which one I have the most pictures for.
Thank you for dropping by and until next time happy crocheting!
Chantelle X
Hi! I am looking for a little help with the spikes, did you mean to put INC instead of DEC? and do I start with a magic ring for those? Thank you!
Thank you for the message. I had written complete jibberish. I have corrected the error now. Happy crocheting! X
Het
You wrote in the pattern two horns but there is tree om the picture
Hello, that is because the centre horn is part of the main body pattern. The other two horns are crocheted separately and then attached. I hope that makes sense. Chantelle x
Ohh haha, thanks a lot! I made this for my son, he loves Mario characters. I plan to make more of your patterns for him, I appreciate your work!! They are so good!
Thanks for so many Mario patterns, it gives me hope and strength to finish my products to get to try these.
Thank you! It’s always good to have a motivator to help keep you on track and get things done.