Mini Dragon Bawnimal Amigurumi

Louie's Loops

Medium difficulty

Medium

1 hour

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Lefty

This pattern teaches how to make a miniature baby dragon. This pattern is designed around my Bawnimals, aka small spherical animals that you just can’t help but bawww at! This pattern is designed with as little sewing as possible, but can be a pretty difficult to master due to some specialized stitches like the Spiked Bobble Stitch used for the horns, nose, and tail. I suggest trying out the mini frog pattern first to get a general idea of the techniques used in this pattern.
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What you'll create

What you'll learn

01 Mini Dragon Wings

02 Teeth

03 Body

04 Adding the Face

05 Body (cont'd)

What you'll need

Cotton Yarn

Weight

Colors

White (Teeth)
Main Color (Body)

Safety Bead (x2)

6 mm

Mini Super Strong Magnets (x3)

Stuffing

Darning Needle

Abbreviations

ch

Chain Stitch

st

Stitch

slst

Slip Stitch

sc

Single Crochet

inc

Increase

dec

Decrease (Sharp)

invdec

Invisible Decrease

FLO/BLO

Front / Back Loops Only

hdc

Half-Double Crochet

mbo

Mini Bobble Stitch

sc2tog

Single Crochet 2 Together

bo

Bobble Stitch (4-dc bobble)

sbo

Spiky Bobble Stitch

mp

Mini Picot

Other Useful Info

Gauge

5 Rnds and 4 sts per 1”
Finished piece is about 2” tall

Worked

In the Round

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The Pattern

Use the checkboxes to track your progress
(1:23) The time codes match to the pattern video

01Mini Dragon Wings

Make 2
(7:30)

[All Main Color]
All stitches worked in the back loops of the chains.

[ch 3, slst 1 in 2nd ch from the hook] 3 times.

Starting in the 2nd slst chain, hdc 1, sc2tog using the next 2 chs, sc 1 in the last ch.

Ch 1, cut the yarn and pull through.

02Teeth

Make 2
(12:56)

[All White]
Ch 3, pull tight,

Skip 2 chs, working in the 3rd chs back loop sc 1, ch 1, cut the yarn and pull through.

Sew this onto the body under the lip (Rnd 5a).

03Body

(14:34)

[All in Main Color]
Magic loop

How to crochet the Spiked Bobble (aka “sbo”)

(19:08)
Step 1: Work 2 double crochet into one stitch, leaving the last loop of each on the hook.

Step 2: With the loops still on the hook, work a mini picot (ch 2, sl.st into the 2nd ch from the hook)

Step 3: Work 1 more double crochet into one stitch, leaving the last loop of each on the hook.

Step 4: Yarn over and draw through all the loops on the hook.

{} = Worked in the same stitch
sbo = Spiked Bobble (See above)
eye = mbo (Mini Bobble Stitch) in White
*eyes can be made with just a sc instead

Rnd 1: sc 6 into the magic loop (6)

Rnd 2: {sc 1, sbo}, {sc 1, eye}, inc 2, {eye, sc 1}, {sbo, sc 1} (12)

Rnd 3: sc 3, working in the FLO, sc 3, sbo 1, sc 3, working in both loops, sc 2 (12)

Rnd 4: sc 3, working in the unused BLO from Rnd 2, inc 1, sc 5, inc 1, working in both loops of Rnd 3, sc 2 (14)

Rnd 5: sc 4, inc 1, sc 6, inc 1, sc 2 (16)

Rnd 6: sc 5, inc 1, sc 6, inc 1, sc 3 (18)

Rnd 7: sc in each (18)

04Adding the Face

(45:09)

Attach the teeth first by pulling the tail ends through 2 adjacent stitches in the corners of the lip (Rnd 3 overhang). Double knot on the inside and cut short.

Add safety eyes. To add eyes into the mbo stitches from Rnd 2, first, insert a hook between the stitches on either the left or right of the center. Twist the hook to separate the stitches and leave a hole where you can insert the back of a 6mm or 8mm safety eye. Lock onto the back on the inside. There are a few ways to do this to make your dragon looking different directions, so test a few out before locking it in place.

05Body (cont'd)

(53:49)

Rnd 8: sc 1, sbo 1, sc 4, working into the inc from Rnd 4 (two Rnds up) bo 1,

sc 1, working into the st from Rnd 5 (one Rnd up) bo 1,

sc 3, working into the st from Rnd 5 (one Rnd up) bo 1,

sc 1, working into the inc from Rnd 4 (two Rnds up) bo 1,

sc 3 (18)

Attach wings onto the back by pulling through 2 adjacent stitches vertically 1 Rnd under the horns on the back. Double knot on the inside and cut short.

Rnd 9: [sc 1, dec 1] 6 times (12)

Rnd 10: dec in each (6)

Stuff fully. Add 2 more mini magnets to the bottom (make sure they're flipped correctly!)

Cut the yarn and sew closed.

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6 thoughts on “Mini Dragon Bawnimal Amigurumi”

  1. This is great, but I’d like to see you release the specifics for more bawnimals – cow, possum, elephant, etc. All the ones shown in your videos and photos. It’s frustrating seeing them with no directions to make them.

    Having live streamers ONLY vote to choose what you’re making is not helpful for those of us who don’t have 3 hours to sit around waiting for the next row’s/round’s instruction to eke out between chit chat.

    Please just publish the patterns.

    • If you have the bawnimal patterns bought or if you have a clubcrochet subscription you can actually make most of the bawnimals Louie shows in the livestreams! I believe the possum is just a mouse with slightly different ears, and for the cow you could use the dragon ears oriented in a different way! The sky’s the limit, really! (Also, when Louie is making the bawnimals on stream, he usually doesn’t write the patterns down, unless it’s a pattern designing stream.)

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