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I whipped up an amigurumi Minecraft Creeper due in part to the frequency of the request, my kid’s obsession with Minecraft and the general awesomeness of Creepers themselves. Unfortunately the construct wasn’t all that easy to come up with since the character is blockish and pixelated, two things very difficult to pull off with amigurumi worked in the round.

I cringed at the thought of sewing multiple panels together and I am not a fan of the alternating stripes of texture made when squares are worked by turning the work every row, so it took some reworkings and multiple attempts frogged but ultimately the shape came together nicely enough. For colour, I tried a few different ombre yarns and colour switching techniques but they didn’t look right so ultimately I settled on a solid murky green with grey for the feet and face. I have toyed with the idea of fabric paint to create some varied colours but without being able to achieve the pixelated symmetry, I’m not convinced it would look good. Plastic canvas is necessary to reinforce the shape and prevent over-sausagification of the pieces. The finished creeper is around 5 inches tall and works up fairly quickly.

Side View

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Minecraft Screenshot

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Amigurumi Minecraft Creeper Pattern

The amigurumi was made using a 3.5 mm crochet hook and my stash of 100% cotton worsted weight yarn, colours listed below. Rounds are worked in both loops unless otherwise state. Rounds are to be joined and should not be worked in a spiral. The facial details are felt cutouts attached with fabric glue. 7 mesh plastic canvas panels were cut out and insert to reinforce edges and give the creeper a more block like appearance. While this is optional, leaving that step out will result in a much rounder creeper.

SC = Single Crochet
SL ST = Slip Stitch
SK = Skip a stitch
INVDEC = Invisible Decrease
INC = Increase
DC = Double Crochet
TC = Treble or Triple Crochet

Charcoal

Sage Green

Head part 1 (start in green)
CH 2 or Magic Ring or start however you like.
1. SC x 8; join then CH 1; (8)
2. INC x 8; join then CH 1; (16)
3. SC, SC, INC, SC; repeat 3 more times; join then CH 1; (20)
4. SC, SC, SC then DC then TC in same stitch, DC then SC in same stitch, SC; repeat 3 more times; join then CH 1; (32)
5. SC around in back loop only; join then CH 1; (32)
6. SC around (go back to working in both loops); join then CH 1; (32)
7 – 12. SC around; join then CH 1; (repeat for rounds 7 through 12) (32)
finish off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Head part 2
(start in green)
CH 2 or Magic Ring or start however you like.
1. SC x 8; join then CH 1; (8)
2. INC x 8; join then CH 1; (16)
3. SC, SC, INC, SC; repeat 3 more times; join then CH 1; (20)
4. SC, SC, SC then DC then TC in same stitch, DC then SC in same stitch, SC; repeat 3 more times; (32)
finish off and leave long tail for sewing. Reinforce the first part of the head with canvas, stuff then sew part 2 on like a lid. This should create a cube.

Body (started from the butt)
(start in green)
CH 7 then in second chain from hoom
1. INC, SC x 4, INC, switch to other side of the chain and work in the opposite loop; INC, SC x 4, INC; join then CH 1; (16)
2. (work in both loops) SC, SC then DC then SC in the same stitch, SC x 4, SC then DC then SC in the same stitch, SC x 2, SC then DC then SC in the same stitch, SC x 4, SC then DC then SC in the same stitch, SC; join then CH 1; (24)
3. SC around in back loop only; join then CH 1; (24)
4. SC around in both loops; join then CH 1; (24)
5 – 14. repeat round 4 for rounds 5 through 14; (24)
finish off leaving long tail to sew to bottom of the head. Reinforce with plastic canvas, stuff and pin to bottom of the head then sew in place.

Foot part 1
(start in green)
CH 2 or Magic Ring or start however you like.
1. SC x 8; join then CH 1; (8)
2. SC, SC then DC then SC in same stitch; repeat 3 more times; join then CH 1; (16)
3. SC around in back loop only; join then CH 1; (16)
4. (work in both loops) SC around; join then CH 1; (16)
5 – 6. repeat round 4 for rounds 5 and 6; (16)
finish off and weave in tail.

Foot part 2
(start in charcoal)
CH 2 or Magic Ring or start however you like.
1. SC x 8; join then CH 1; (8)
2. SC, SC then DC then SC in same stitch; repeat 3 more times; join then CH 1; (16)
SL ST around the square doing one CH at each corner in order to keep the SL ST from pulling the corner too taught and rounding it. Finish off then leave a long tail for sewing to part one. Stuff and pin this “lid” in place then sew using the grey yarn to sew in place.

Sew legs (green top) to the body of the creeper. I hooked into the front loop that wasn’t used at the top of the foot, and single crocheted across and into the next leg, so I had a little flap to stitch to the body, since his legs aren’t really under his body but sort of in front and behind. Sewing without the flap should work fine as well though.