Katamari Damacy – Katamari Prince Amigurumi Pattern
The Katamari Prince pattern has been a long time ambition of mine because I have a lot of clump spirit. The pattern is a Nerdigurumi original made in my usual array of worsted weight cotton yarn. The head and body were done with a 3.75 mm hook and the legs and arms with a 3.5 mm hook while the antenna and red ball were done with half strands of yarn and a 2.5 mm hook. An actual Katamari pattern will be coming up soon!
SC = Single Crochet
INVDEC = Invisible Decrease
INC = Increase (2 SC in one stitch)
Yarn Colors Used
Head
Start in a dark green
CH2 or Magic Ring or however you like to start
1. 6 SC (6)
2. INC x 6 (12)
3. INC then switch to your Medium Green, SC then INC X 5; SC (18)
4. 2 SC then INC; repeat around (24)
5. 4 SC then switch to Lightest Green then SC x 20 (24)
6. SC around (24)
7. SC then switch to Light Green and move your stitch marker to this new spot. Next row starts from here.
8 – 22. SC around for rows 8 through 22 (24) (stuff)
24. Switch to Lightest Green SC around (24)
25. SC around (24)
26. SC then switch to Medium Green and SC x 23 (24)
27. SC 2 then DEC; repeat around (18)
28. SC then switch to Dark Green; DEC then SC; repeat (DEC then SC) 6 times (12) (stuff)
29. DEC 6 times; you may need more or fewer DEC depending on how tight your work is, finish off and weave tail in to work.
Body
Start with Purple (works from butt up to an open ended neck)
CH2 or Magic Ring or however you like to start
1. SC 6 (6)
2. INC in each (12)
3. SC then INC; repeat around (18)
4. 2 SC then INC; repeat around (24)
5. 3 SC then INC; repeat around (30)
6. Switch to Light Green (same as the main color on the head) SC around (30)
7. 8 SC then DEC; repeat around (27)
8. SC around (27)
9. 7 SC then DEC; repeat around (24)
10 SC around (24) (stuff)
11. 6 SC then DEC; repeat around (21)
12 – 14. SC around (21)
15. 5 SC then DEC; repeat around (18) (stuff)
16. SC around (18) finish off but keep a long tail for sewing the neck to the head.
Frock Detail
To get the look of the frock, insert your hook into the fabric, right where the Light Green starts just above the purple butt. Slip your hook down under one stitch lengthwise and pop it out on the other side of the same stitch, now slip stitch. Repeat all the way around with the Light Green yarn. It should be around 24 slip stitches to get around it, like a belt of slip stitches. Keep the Light Green yarn going for the first row of single crochets.
1. SC in each slipstitch (24)
2. Switch to Dark Green; SC then INC; repeat around.
Finish off and weave in tail.
Arm (make 2)
CH2 or Magic Ring or however you like to start
Light Green yarn, same as the body and the main green on the head.
1. SC 6 (6)
2 – 14. SC 6 (6)
Finish off and keep a long tail for stitch to body
Leg (make 2)
CH2 or Magic Ring or however you like to start
Purple Yarn, same as butt.
1. SC 6 (6)
2 – 14. SC 6 (6)
Finish off and keep a long tail for stitch to body
Antenna
For this to look right you have to use either a thin crochet cotton or split a strand of worsted weight yarn and a smaller hook too. It can’t be a big sausagey wang shaped thing and look right so you have to use something at least half the thickness of the yarn you are using for the body.
Gold (half strand) yarn
CH2 or Magic Ring or however you like to start
1. SC 5 (5)
2. SC 5 (5)
3. SC then INC; repeat (7)
4. SC 7 (7)
5. Slip Stitch in each SC (7)
Finish off but keep a long tail for sewing
Antenna Ball
This also need a thin weight of yarn or crochet thread. Same deal as the antenna above.
Red (half strand) yarn
CH2 or Magic Ring or however you like to start
1. SC 5 (5)
2. INC x 5 (10)
3. SC around (10)
4. DEC x 5 (5)
Finish off and tidy up the ball by sewing in stitches where it’s loose if needed. Keep a long tail for sewing.
Do not stuff the antenna unless it looks deflated. If it looks deflated, stuff with a tiny bit of same colored yarn or consider propping it up with a wire. The antenna ball should be too tight to stuff. Do not stuff unless it’s deflated looking, or consider redoing it with a smaller hook.
Sew the ball to the Antenna using the yellow tail of the antenna. Pull the red yarn from the ball down through the antenna (hidden) and use that to secure it to the head in a way that the red thread will be tucked under the antenna (hidden). Use the yellow yarn to stitch the antenna to the head cleanly around the base of the antenna.
Stitch the head to the body using the tail at the open end of the neck. Make sure the body is stuffed firmly but not fat and bloated looking. If you look closely, the Prince is a slender fellow with a lovely frock!
Stitch the arms and legs to the body. Do not stuff the arms and legs! They should be so tight you couldn’t dream of getting anything in there anyways. I put copper electrical wire in the arms and legs of my Prince. If you want this, you can slip the wire in through the open end before stitching them on.
Cut a rectangle of felt and stitch on, or make a cream colored crochet rectangle. Stitch it on with a border that matches the color of the antenna. Stitch on grey eyes (like lines or notches), an orange triangle nose and a rectangular shaped mouth.
My embroidery skills leave a lot to be desired, so this is probably where I failed the most!
Confused? Let me know and I’ll try to explain!
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Thanks so much for the Katamari pattern! I was looking around and couldn’t find it until I saw your blog. =D And I was wondering, if I wanted my Katarmari to be bigger, could I just double everything? Like for example if I make the head, instead of making 6 stitches, I’d make 12 stitches. And then increase by 24 stitches and so on. Would that work? Thanks!!
Increasing the size of a finished piece is tricky because if you just double everything the shape won’t be true and some things (like 12 sts in a first round) will get weird. You want to look at how wide or how many stitches around you want it to be, but get there gradually.
What I would suggest is looking at it from a mathematical perspective, and the prince is I think a good one to try this on since he is effectively just a series of sausage shapes.
To give you an idea of what I mean, for his head I would suggest you do 3 rounds of dark green (first being 6 sts, second being 12 sts and third being 18 sts) then switch to the medium green for 3 rounds of that colour (24 for the first, 30 for the next and 36 for the next) then to your light green for 3 rows of that (42 then 48 then 48) then to the regular basic green for the body and do SC around (48 each round) for 20 or so rounds but look at it as you go and if it looks like it should be shorter or longer, modify as needed. Then do how you started but in reverse to close off his head.
Basically it’s like, you want to get the thickness of your piece where it’s at it’s fattest, to double the thickness of the original, but you have to do this in a gradual way, spreading your increases out so that the shape is retained. Hope that helps or makes some kind of sense 😀
Hey. I’m working on the pattern right now, and I don’t know all the techniques and such, but I was wondering if you could make a tutorial video on how you did the “Frock” I seem to be having trouble with that. I can’t get it and/or I am but I don’t know if I am doing it right. D: Please and thank you.
Hi there, glad to hear the Prince is getting some love 🙂 You might want to have a look at this post http://nerdigurumi.com/2010/02/slip-stitch-technique-for-detail-work.html and watch the videos, the second one especially as it demonstrates the technique. Good luck and let me know if you have any more questions.
Very acurate! I’m totaly addicted to Katamari&crocheting, so this is perfect. I’m using this pattern to make some of my favorite cousins, like Dipp&Opeo!
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