Narwhal Amigurumi With Design

I am a big fan of the narwhal, or the unicorn of the sea.  This almost mythical looking creature is just so cool that I had to make one for the baby's room.

Designing your own amigurumi can be fun and it's not that hard.  All you have to do is break your piece into elements.  Amigurumi are composed of spheres, half spheres, tubes, and cones.  I broke down my narwhal into the head, half sphere, body, tube, tail, cone, fins and tail pieces were half sphere, cone and tube, and the horn was a tube.

I first sketched out the design and then made notes as I went.  The sketch is useful because you can refer back to it when calculating how many rows, for example i wanted the body and tail to be roughly the same amount of rows, whereas the head was about 1/3 of the size of the body or the tail.  

I've included the pattern as well as a picture of my design and some of the elements.

Narwhal Amigurumi

Need 2 9mm solid black snap on doll eyes
G6 (or your favorite crochet hook)
Red Heart Super Saver yarn in royal blue and white.


start with Body, Arms and tail in Red Heart Royal Blue
R1- Ch 2, 6 sc in second chain from hook
R2- 2 sc in each sc around (12 sts)
R3- *Sc 1, 2 sc in next sc*, repeat 6 times (18 sts)
R4- *Sc 2, 2 sc in next sc*, repeat 6 times (24 sts)
R5- *Sc 3, 2 sc in next sc*, repeat 6 times (30 sts)
R6- *Sc 4, 2 sc in next sc*, repeat 6 times (36 sts)
R7-R18 - Sc 36
Add Eyes and Embroider on mouth, can begin stuffing or wait until around R24 to start stuffing.
R19 - *sc 10, sc 2 tog*, repeat 3 times(33)
R20 - *sc 9, sc 2 tog*, repeat 3 times(30)
R21 - *sc 8, sc 2 tog*, repeat 3 times(27)
R22 - *sc 7, sc 2 tog*, repeat 3 times(24)
R23 - *sc 6, sc 2 tog*, repeat 3 times(21)
R24 - *sc 5, sc 2 tog*, repeat 3 times(18)
R25 - *sc 4, sc 2 tog*, repeat 3 times(15)
R26 - *sc 3, sc 2 tog*, repeat 3 times(12)
R27 - *sc 2, sc 2 tog*, repeat 3 times(9)
R28 - *sc 1, sc 2 tog*, repeat 3 times(6)
R29 - *sc 2 tog*, repeat 3 times(3)
Bind off weave in tail.

The Arms and the tail pieces are the same, but one is connected at the rounded part (beginning)
and  one is connected at the pointy part (the end).

For the tail leave a long tail before the slipknot so you can use that for sewing the rounded
portion to the body
Tailx2
R1- Ch 2, 6 sc in second chain from hook
R2- 2 sc in each sc around (12 sts)
R3-R7 s12
R8 - Sc 2 tog (6)

Horn (in white)
R1 Sc 2 sc 4 in 2nd chain from hook
R2-8 sc 4
Bind off, leave a tail for sewing to forehead.

R9 - Sc 2 tog (3)
Bind off, weave in tail.

Arm x 2
R1- Ch 2, 6 sc in second chain from hook
R2- 2 sc in each sc around (12 sts)
R3-R7 s12
R8 - Sc 2 tog (6)
R9 - Sc 2 tog (3)
Bind off, leaving a long tail for sewing to body.