Witchy-Poo

Who doesn’t need a witch on a broomstick flying around their room?

Materials

• Approx 15-40g of various DK Yarns
• 4 mm crochet hook
• Tapestry Needle
• Stitch marker
• 2 x 10mm safety eyes
• Toy stuffing

I used the following colours for Witchy-Poo, but you can use whatever you prefer.

Colour 1:

Good Old Fashioned DK Violett (yes it is spelled like that :))

Colour 2:

Stylecraft Special DK Bluebell

Colour 3:

Stylecraft Special DK Lobelia

Colour 4:

Stylecraft Special DK Grey

Colour 5:

Stylecraft Special DK Plum

Colour 6:

Stylecraft Special DK Grape

Colour 7:

Stylecraft Special DK Silver

Skill Level – Easy

You will need to be able to crochet single crochet (UK =double crochet) in the round in the amigurumi style, to change colours and to work in the front and back loops of stitches. You will need to be able to do a 5-sc bobble for the “thumbs” on her gloves, but this is explained at that point.

Abbreviations

Please note that I am using US crochet terms throughout. I am actually British, but I find the US terms more intuitive.

sc – single crochet (UK = dc)

hdc – half double crochet (UK = htr)

dc – double crochet (UK = tr)

sl – slip stitch

ch – chain

mr – magic ring

st – stitch

inc – increase by 1 st (2 stitches into the same stitch from previous row)

dec – decrease over 2 st (1 stitch across 2 stitches from previous row)

start(x) – Either mr (x sc in mr) or ch2, x sc in 2nd chain from hook – whatever you like best [I am personally not a fan of mr and just stick to the ch2 method]

(x) – x = number of stitches at end of round

Y/O – Yarn Over

F/O – Fasten Off

BLO– Back Loops Only

Pattern

Shoes (make 2 with Colour 3)

Round 1: start(3)

Round 2: 3 sc around

Round 3: inc, 2sc (4)

Round 5: 4 sc around

Round 6: inc, 2 sc, inc (6)

Round 7: 6 sc around

Round 8: 1 sc, inc, 2 sc, inc, 1 sc (8)

Rnds 9-10: 8 sc around

Round 11: 4 sc, inc, 2 sc inc (10)

Round 12: 10 sc around

Stuff shoes very lightly

Round 13: dec, 4 sc, dec, 2 sc (8)

Round 14: 2 sc, dec, 2 sc, dec (6)

Round 15: 6 sc around

Round 16: 6 sc BLO

F/O

Legs (with Colour 2, Colour 5, make 2)

Change colour after every 3 rows. Do not stuff

Round 1: Starting with Colour 2 and working on top of foot and in front loops from the last row of Shoe, 6 sc. Join with sl st

Rnds 2-4: 6 sc around

Round 5: inc, 4 sc, inc (8)

Rnds 6-7: 8 sc around

Round 8: inc, 6 sc, inc (10)

It doesn’t really matter where you add the increases, but if you always add them at the front and back of each row you’ll end up skew cone instead of a straighter leg, so I have moved the increases around a bit.

Rnds 9-15: 10 sc around

Round 16: 4 sc, inc, 4 sc, inc (12)

Round 17: 5 sc, inc, inc, 5 sc (14)

Rnds 18-22: 14 sc around

Round 23: inc, 12 sc, inc (16)

Rnds 24-26: 16 sc around

Round 27: 6 sc, inc, 6 sc, inc, inc (18)

Rnds 28-30: 18 sc around

Round 31: 18 sc FLO

Skirt (with Colour 1)

Round 1: start(6)

Round 2: inc * – repeat * around (12)

Round 3: (1 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (18)

Round 4: (2 sc, inc) * – repeat * around in BLO (24)

Round 5: (3 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (30)

Round 6: (4 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (36)

Round 7: (5 sc. inc) * – repeat * around (42)

Round 8: (6 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (48)

Round 9: (7 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (54)

Round 10: (8 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (60)

Rnds 11-13: 60 sc around in BLO

F/O

Dress (with Colour 1)

We want a cone shape here so we’ll increase and decrease at the start and finish of each round.

Round 1: Working in front loops of round 4 of Skirt, 24 sc; join with a sl st

Round 2: 24 sc around

Round 3: dec, 20 sc, dec (22)

Rnds 4-5: 22 sc around

Round 6: dec, 18 sc, dec (20)

Rnds 7-8: 20 sc around

Round 9: dec, 16 sc, dec (18)

Round 10: 18 sc around

Round 11: dec, 14 sc, dec (16)

Round 12: 16 sc around

Round 13: dec, 12, dec (14)

Round 14: 14 sc around

Round 15: dec, 10 sc, dec (12)

Round 16: 12 sc around

Stuff Dress, being careful not to overstuff

F/O

Hat (with Colour 2, Colour 3)

Change colours after every 3 rows

Round 1: starting with Colour 3, ch 16; join with a sl st

Round 2-3: 16 sc around

Round 4: dec, 12 sc, dec (14)

Round 5: 14 sc around

Round 6: dec, 10 sc, dec (12)

Round 7: 12 sc around

Round 8: 2 sc, dec, 4 sc, dec, 2 sc (10)

Round 9: 10 sc around

Round 10: dec, 6 sc, dec (8)

Rnds 11-12: 8 sc around

Round 13: 1 sc, dec, 1 sc, dec 2 sc (6)

Rnds 14-21: 6 sc around

Round 22: dec, 2 sc, dec (4)

Rnds 23-24: 4 sc around

Round 25: dec around (2)

F/O leaving tails from both colours for hanging your with up later

Hat Brim (with Colour 3)

Round 1: Join in with a sl st and sc in the BLO of the first row of the hat (16)

Round 2: 16 sc around

Round 3: inc, 14 sc, inc (18)

Round 4: 2 sc, inc, 14 sc, inc, inc, 2 sc (21)

Round 5: 2 sc, inc, 4 sc, inc, 4 sc, inc, 4 sc, inc, 2 sc (24)

Round 7: (3 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (30)

Round 8: (4 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (36)

Round 9: (5 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (36)

Round 10: (6 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (42)

Round 11: (7 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (48)

Round 12: (8 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (54)

Round 13: (9 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (60)

F/O

Head (with Colour 7)

Place safety eyes around rows 6-7

Round 1: start(6)

Round 2: inc * – repeat * around (12)

Round 3: (1 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (18)

Round 4: (2 sc, inc) * – repeat * around (24)

Rnds 5-10: 24 sc around

Round 11: inc, 22 sc, inc (26)

Round 12: 26 sc around

Round 13: dec, 22 sc, dec (24)

Round 14: (2 sc, dec) * – repeat * around (18)

Round 15: 18 sc around

Stuff head lightly

Round 16: (1sc, dec) * – repeat * around (12)

Round 17: 12 sc around

Round 18: dec * – repeat around (6)

F/O

Nose (with Colour 7)

Do not stuff

Round 1: start(6)

Round 2: 6 sc around

Round 3: dec, 4 sc (5)

Round 4: dec, 3 sc (4)

Round 5: 3 sc around

Round 6: 1 sc, dec (2)

Round 7: dec (1)

F/O

Arms (make 2 with Colour 1)

Do not stuff

Round 1: ch 15, join with sl st

Round 2: 15 sc around

Round 3: dec, dec 9 sc, dec (12)

Round 4: 12 sc in FLO

Rnds 5-6: 12 sc around

Round 7: dec, 2 sc, dec, dec, 4 sc in BLO (9)

Rnds 8-9: 9 sc around

Round 10: dec, 7 sc (8)

Rnds 11-12: 8 sc around

Round 13: 1 sc, dec, 3 sc, dec (6)

Round 14: 6 sc around

Round 15: 6 sc FLO

F/O:

Gloves (make 2 with Colour 3)

Special Stitch: 5-sc bobble: Insert hook into st and yarn over and pull through a loop. Y/O and pull through 1 loop x 5; Y/O and pull through all remaining loops.

Round 1: start (8)

Round 2: 8 sc around

Round 3: 2 sc, 5-sc bobble, 5 sc (8)

Round 4: 8 sc around

Round 5: dec, 4 sc, dec (6)

Round 6: 6 sc around

F/O

Broomstick (with Colour 4)

Round 1: start(6)

Round 2: inc, 4 sc, inc (8)

Repeat 8 sc around until the broomstick measures about 26 cm long. Stuff lightly as you go along. F/O. Sew up end.

Assembly

1. To create Witchy-Poo’s hair, cut equal strands of Colour 5 and use the crochet hook to thread them through her head in the same manner as you would if you were making a tassel for a scarf (https://www.dummies.com/crafts/crocheting/how-to-add-fringe-to-crochet/). Keep doing this until she has the hairstyle you like.
2. Sew on facial features like mouth and eyebrows. I used Colour 5 again for these.
3. Stuff the bottom of the Hat lightly and sew onto the Head.
4. Sew the Head to the body.
5. Squish the Nose and sew it to the Head using the picture for reference.
6. Sew the Gloves to the bottom of the Arms through the back loops left from the last row so that the Gloves start inside the sleeves of the Arms.
7. Sew the Arms to the top of the Dress.
8. Sew the Legs to the bottom of the Dress underneath the Skirt.
9. Using Colour 6, create the Broom bristles in the same way as you did Witchy-Poo’s hair.
10. Position Witchy-Poo on the Broom and sew her Gloves lightly to each side.
11. Using the extra strands left on her Hat, hang her up where she can fly free.

That’s it. She should be flying now 🙂 I hope you enjoy the pattern. If you have any issues, feel free to contact me via email of on the Twitter of Facebook accounts. There’ s also chat available via this website if you need to get me in a hurry and I am online.

The Legal Stuff

Copyright 2020- Cazimodo Creative by Caz Thomson. I am very happy for you to make and also sell items using this pattern, but please don’t sell or otherwise distribute the pattern itself. Please credit me with a link to the pattern if you do sell your finished item online.