Jack Skellington, the most iconic character of Halloween, is with you as a crochet pattern. You will have a lot of fun while crocheting the free amigurumi doll jack skellington. It will be a great gift for your children shortly before Halloween. Many detailed photos will accompany you so that you can quickly make this amigurumi doll made with plush yarn. A 5 mm crochet hook was used when making the palm-sized jack skellington crochet amigurumi doll.

Designer: eliyarnart

Jack skellington crochet pattern

Materials and tools:

• Hook: 5mm
• Black chenille size 4 medium
• White chenille size 4 medium
• Black cotton acrylic yarn
• White cotton acrylic yarn
• Black felt
• White felt
• Stuffing
• Tapestry needle
• Stitch markers
• Scissors
• Hot/super glue

Abbreviations:

R: Round
St: Stitch
MR: Magic ring
Sc: Single crochet
Hdc: Half double crochet
Slst: Slip stitch
Inc: Increase
Dec: Decrease
BLO: Back loop only
FLO: Front loop only
FO: Fasten off
CC: Change color

Head

Use white yarn.
R1: 8sc in a mr (8)
R2: 8inc (16)
R3: (sc, inc)x8 (24)
R4: (3sc, inc)x6 (30)
R5: (2sc, inc, 2sc)x6 (36)
R6-10: 36sc (36) – 5 rounds
R11: (4sc, dec)x6 (30)
R12: (3sc, dec)x6 (24)
R13: (4sc, dec)x4 (20)
Cut yarn, FO with invisibile join.
Add fiber fill (stuff a lot to get rounded shape).

Body Pt.1

Start with black yarn.
R1: 5sc in a mr (5)
R2: Sinc (10)
R3: BLO 10sc (10)
R4-5: 10sc (10) – 2 rounds
Cut yarn and FO with an invisibile join.
Make another leg but this time don’t cut yarn and ch2 (pic 1).
R6: Insert the hook in any of the first leg st (pic 2) and make 10sc, 2sc in the 2ch, 10sc, 2sc in the 2ch (24)

Body Pt.2

R7: (3sc, inc)x2, 6sc, inc, 3sc, inc, 5sc (28)
R8: BLO 28sc (28)
R9: 28sc (28)
R10: 13sc, cc to white 2sc. cc to black 13sc (28)
R11: 12sc, cc to white 4sc, cc to black 12sc (28)
R12: (3sc, dec)x2, sc, cc to white 2sc, dec, 2sc, cc to black, sc, dec, 3sc, dec, 3sc (23)
Start stuffing as you go, when you stuff the feet remember to keep them flat.
R13:4sc, dec, 3sc, cc to white sc, dec, 2sc, cc to black 2sc, dec, 5sc (20)
Finish stuffing.
Cut yarn leaving a long tail for sewing (pic 3).

Don’t worry if the color change isn’t neat, you are going to cover that part by making the jacket’s front hem.

Arms (X2)

Start using white yarn.
R1. 4 sc in a mr (4)
R2. 4 inc (8)
R3-5. cc to black 8 sc (8) – 3 rounds
R6. Fold the arm and close it making 4 sc (4)
Cut yarn leaving a long tail (pic 4).

Jacket’s front hem

Start using black yarn.
R1. Slip knot, ch6, starting from the 2nd ch from the hook make: 1sc, 1 hdc, ch2 in the back of the 2nd ch from the hook make 1 sc (pics 6-8), sc in the next 3 sts.

Cut yarn leaving a long tail for sewing. (pic 5).

Jacket’s back hem

Count 8 BLO sts (made in R8) in the back of the body (you can mark the first and last sts with a stitch marker.
R1: Insert hook in the BLO st of R8 and ch5 (the first ch doesn’t count as a st), sl st in the 2nd ch from the hook and make 2sc in the next 2sts.
R2: sl st in the next st, ch5, sl st in the 2nd ch from the hook and make 3sc in the next 3sts.
R3: sl st in the next st, ch4, sl st in the 2nd ch from the hook and make 2sc in the next 2sts.
Repeat R2 and R3 until you have 7 spikes (you should end with a short one of R3).
Cut yarn and FO (pic 9).

Sewing

Sew the head to the body, add fiber fill while sewing if needed.
Sew the arms to the body at R12-13.
Cut 2 black felt circles using pic 10 as reference and glue them on R7-9.

Note that size may vary according to the yarn you are using.

Body details

Sew the jacket’s front hem following the outline of the white stitches.
With white cotton/acrylic yarn sew the suit’s stripes: sew the legs part and the upper part separately.
Cut black and white felt to make the papillon like pic.

You’ve completed the jack skellington crochet pattern!