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Crochet the body and colorful wings of Daiyu the Dragon in this step-by-step amigurumi tutorial. Part 3 of the free crochet-along guides you through shaping the body, switching between the main and belly colors, adding decreases, and finishing the stuffed form with an optional raised back for a tucked-chin pose.
Learn to crochet the dragon’s rounded wings with double crochet stitches and a contrasting top edge. This amigurumi crochet pattern tutorial is ideal for makers following the Daiyu the Dragon CAL or looking for clear crochet instructions for a handmade dragon plush, stuffed animal, body shaping, and decorative wings.
Learn to crochet the dragon’s rounded wings with double crochet stitches and a contrasting top edge. This amigurumi crochet pattern tutorial is ideal for makers following the Daiyu the Dragon CAL or looking for clear crochet instructions for a handmade dragon plush, stuffed animal, body shaping, and decorative wings.
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00:08in a moment we'll be starting the free version of the pattern through video instruction if you
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00:33from my store the link is in the description box below we are going to go ahead and crochet the
00:42body
00:43of the dragon now the body is going to have a main color i'm using purple for that and it's
00:49going to
00:49have a belly color and i'm using this light pink for that so we'll be switching colors as we work
00:56on
00:56the body and belly portion you're going to start off with the main body color i'm using purple here
01:04once again and you're going to start off with a magic ring for round one in round one insert six
01:15single crochets into the ring that's one two three four five and six then you're going to tighten the
01:28ring so pull in that yarn tail cinch it up and let's go ahead and jump into round two for
01:37round two we're
01:38going to increase around so let's insert two single crochets in each stitch i'm going into that very
01:46first stitch and i'm going to put two one and two single crochets in the next stitch i'm going to
01:56do the
01:56same here's number three and four and increase in the next one stitch five and six and again go all
02:11the
02:11way around until you have 12 stitches
02:35after you finish going all the way around in the circle you're going to have um you're going to be
02:41ready to move on to round three round three is going to be a repetition of a single crochet
02:47and an increase all the way around so let's go ahead and do that
02:55in this first stitch we're just going to do a single crochet
03:05and in the next stitch an increase
03:11and i should explain why i just moved my yarn tail up and this is for me to keep track
03:16of where my
03:16start of the round is and if you want to use a stitch marker that is fabulous and great
03:23i am just cheap and lazy so i don't have stitch markers
03:27but all right so let's go around i did the first repetition second repetition here a single crochet and then
03:35an increase
03:40third repetition a single crochet and an increase
03:47and again we're going to do this all the way around you should finish up with 18 single crochets
04:01now let's move on to round four round four is going to be two single crochets and then an increase
04:08and we're going to repeat that around you're going to get 24 stitches at the end
04:12so that's one and two single crochets and then that next stitch increase
04:23and again repeating that around one and two and increase
04:47there we go with 24 stitches all the way around all right and for the next round round five
04:56all you're going to do is single crochet around so we're putting one single crochet in each stitch
05:24so now that you finish round number five we're going to move on to round six round six is where
05:30we're gonna add in the belly color that's where the bottom of the belly will start to show
05:37and we're gonna actually start off by changing the color so the first five stitches would be done with
05:46the belly color i'm using pink once again and then we're gonna switch back to purple yarn to do the
05:53rest
05:55so as i switch um what i like to do is finish off the previous stitch with the new color
06:03so here i'm gonna go back just a little bit you see those um two loops and i'm gonna finish
06:10that
06:11previous single crochet with um attaching my pink yarn so now to start round six i'm going to uh single
06:22crochet
06:23crochet five that's one
06:28two
06:31three
06:34four
06:36and five and instead of um finishing off with the pink because i'm switching back to my body color
06:46i'm going to go ahead and finish off that last pink stitch with the body color
06:52all right and then i'm going to go ahead and single crochet 17 and decrease at the end
06:59so i'm basically single crocheting for the rest of the round here
07:04except decreasing in the last two so that's one two
07:07two three four five six seven eight
07:22nine
07:2210
07:2711
07:3012
07:3213
07:3414
07:3615
07:3816
07:42and 17
07:45and now i'm going to decrease in the last stitch
07:50last two stitches excuse me
07:54and to finish off my decrease i'm going to actually pull that pink yarn over
07:59because i'm going to start on my belly again in the next stitch
08:04all right that's round number six for round seven we're going to go ahead and do five single crochets
08:12for that belly
08:14so going into that first stitch here i'm going to do one
08:20two
08:23three
08:26four
08:28and five and finish off number five with that billy colored yarn again
08:37we're going to take that purple pull through and keep working
08:43um by the way we're going to start that first body stitch back here with a decrease then you're
08:51going to single crochet 14 and then decrease so let's do that decrease
09:00i'm going to crochet these first two stitches together
09:08oops there we go now single crochet 14
09:1315 that's one
09:20two
09:23three
09:26four
09:30five
09:32six
09:35seven
09:38eight
09:40nine
09:41nine
09:43ten
09:45eleven
09:49twelve
09:52thirteen
09:54and fourteen
09:56and then i'm going to decrease in those last two stitches
10:01and by the way it's going to be easier if i kind of push my piece
10:04um so that the right side's facing out so let me do that
10:09all right
10:11and let's decrease here
10:24oops and we're going to decrease by switching back to the pink yarn
10:28i almost forgot because we're starting on the belly again in the next round
10:33as you'll notice i'm not fasting off for that pink just because it's easier to
10:39um
10:40kind of pull it back and forth when you're using it at the start of the round
10:46and um you can go ahead and fasten off that color at the very end
10:52let's go to round eight for round eight you're going to have your
10:56belly yarn ready and you're going to single crochet five for the belly
11:04that's one
11:08oops
11:11sorry about that
11:14two
11:17ah
11:19okay my apologies
11:22your this uh tension is kind of weird right now and it's so squeaky too
11:29okay
11:32yikes sorry all right now switch to that main body color yarn after you finish your five stitches
11:42and then what you're going to do is decrease single crochet 12 and decrease again
11:49so let's go ahead and work on that here's my first decrease
11:55single crocheting two of those stitches together then i'm going to single crochet 12 here
12:02that's one
12:05two
12:08three
12:09oof
12:11don't know why it's so squeaky
12:16three
12:18four hold on
12:20you decrease and then it's one two three four five okay i miscounted five and then six
12:29seven eight
12:34nine
12:37ten
12:40eleven
12:43twelve
12:45after 12 we're gonna go ahead and decrease in that next stitch
12:50uh in the next two stitches sorry
13:00and go ahead and finish off your last stitch with the pink uh with the belly colored yarn
13:07because you're gonna go back to the belly again all right there we go now for round number nine
13:15what you're gonna do is single crochet and then decrease and single crochet two using your belly colored yarn
13:24so it's gonna look like this a single crochet a decrease
13:34and two single crochets one and two and we're gonna finish off with that body colored yarn
13:47then with the body colored yarn you're gonna decrease single crochet 10 and then decrease
13:55so to do that let me go ahead and decrease in that first uh in the first two here
14:06single crochet 10
14:12one
14:14two
14:17three
14:20four
14:23five
14:26six
14:29seven
14:32eight
14:35nine
14:38ten
14:39and in that very last two we're going to decrease
14:49remember with all of these last stitches we're just finishing off with the belly colored yarn because
14:57we're gonna go back to doing the belly
15:02all right
15:06your little dragon's body should look a little something like this so far you'll notice that
15:13um the belly is forming it's that nice little pink in the middle and this is the rest of the
15:20body
15:21all right now going back to um now we're on round 10 for round 10 we're going to single crochet
15:28four using that belly colored yarn
15:32so i'm going to go in here
15:35four
15:35one
15:38one
15:38two
15:43three
15:47and four
15:51finish off with that body colored yarn
16:00okay
16:02now as we work around we are going to um decrease in that next stitch and then single crochet eight
16:13and decrease again
16:20so decrease in that next stitch or the first two
16:28single crochet eight
16:29one
16:31two
16:32three
16:37four
16:40five
16:44six
16:49seven
16:52and eight
16:54and we're gonna do a decrease in the last two stitches
17:05let's finish off with that pink yarn
17:09or belly colored yarn sorry you might not be using pink so i should say belly colored
17:14all right
17:16all right
17:16and now for round number 11
17:20yay we're nearly done here
17:22for round 11 you're gonna do a decrease and then single crochet two
17:29using that belly colored yarn
17:32so let's do that i'm gonna
17:35decrease
17:41single crochet two
17:43that's one and two
17:48oops
17:51finish off with the body colored yarn
17:59and i'm gonna kind of uh my piece is getting a little frumpy so i'm gonna
18:06pull it back
18:07okay
18:13all right and then for the rest of this round using that body color
18:18you're going to decrease single crochet six and decrease
18:26so here i go decrease
18:43single crochet six
18:47one
18:48two
18:50three
18:54four
18:56five
19:00and six
19:04and then decrease at the very end
19:13again we're gonna finish off with that belly color
19:17and this will actually be the last bit of
19:22belly color you'll be doing so right now on round 12 we're going to single crochet three with this
19:30belly colored yarn
19:33here i'm gonna do one
19:36one
19:38and three stitches
19:42switch off to the body color
19:47and with the body color you're going to single crochet seven and then you're gonna slip stitch
19:54in that very last stitch
19:57so let's go ahead and do that
20:00single crochet seven here
20:04that's one
20:05one
20:07two
20:10three
20:13four
20:16five
20:19oops
20:26five
20:28oh no
20:29i'm sorry
20:33uh
20:34just me doing lots of blenders on video here
20:38all right here's five
20:41got it okay six
20:45and seven and i'm gonna slip stitch in that last stitch of the round
20:53voila okay
20:55phew now my dragon's body looks kind of uh frumpy let me go ahead and
21:00straighten it out
21:03this will be a good time to um now snip off that pink yarn or that belly colored yarn
21:10because you're not going to be using it anymore
21:12leave a bit of a tail
21:15so that you can stuff it into your dragon's body
21:19and um
21:21here let's just poke that in first
21:24and we're gonna finish off um with an optional round that um
21:31i think would be helpful so this last round is like a half round
21:36and what it's gonna do is it's gonna create like a higher ridge on top so that when you put
21:42your
21:42dragon's head onto the body it's gonna have a kind of a tucked chin look
21:47so that gives it that cute like looking up at you pose when you're putting it in your palm
21:54so if you want your dragon to have more of a straight um like looking straightforward head
22:01you or like a more pointed straightforward head you can just stop here
22:08but if you wanted to have that tucked chin look like this
22:12i recommend you doing this last step
22:15so this last step is again like i said like a half round it's not really a full round at
22:22all
22:22what you're gonna do is um you're gonna turn your piece
22:31and we're gonna work back this way so we're not working in the same direction don't go towards the
22:37belly go towards the back you're gonna skip the slip stitch that you just made then you're gonna single
22:45crochet six that's one two three four
23:01five
23:05and six
23:08and then you're going to slip stitch in that very last stitch
23:15and that's all you need to do this will give you that um
23:22that elevated um bit in the back and your dragon's head when you sew it on
23:30it's going to be more at a slant so that it looks so cute when it's looking up at you
23:36all right now you're going to want to fasten off with a long tail here
23:40because you're going to use this tail for sewing the head on later so i'm just passing off
23:49long tail there we go remember to um pull in all your ends like the starting tail
23:56and you're going to want to stuff your dragon's body as well all right i find it helpful to stuff
24:04my amigurumi with like little um holes using the end of a crochet hook
24:13you can use chopsticks as well or the back of a pen works too
24:21all right and there you go here's the finished body for your dragon
24:29let's go ahead and make the wings for your dragon you're going to be using two different colors here
24:35one color is going to be the bulk of the wing and the other color is going to be used
24:41for just the top
24:42edging part so i'm using pink for the main color and pink was also the color that i used for
24:51my dragon's belly
24:53all right so to begin with round one you are going to chain five
25:03here's my slip knot oops slip knot to start my chain and then it's one two three four five chains
25:15now you're going to insert a double crochet in that fifth chain from your hook so counting back that's
25:23going to be the very first chain you made go ahead and insert a double crochet there
25:32like so then you're going to chain and double crochet three times into this same stitch
25:42so chain double crochet that's the first time chain double crochet that's the second time
25:59after you do that you should have um five double crochets and five chains and basically if i count
26:09back one two three four five the um starting chain three is going to be counting as one double crochet
26:18and
26:19the fourth chain is a chain so one two three four five double crochets and one two three four wait
26:28a minute
26:29one two three four yep four chains all right so now once you've got that down you're ready for round
26:38two
26:40for round two you're going to chain five one two three four five and each time you do that
26:48chain five it's going to count as both a double crochet and a chain so just for future reference
26:56now you're going to turn your piece we're going to work the other way you're going to insert two
27:02double crochets in that first chain space it's referring to this space right here so i'm going to put two
27:11double crochets in there one and two
27:20there we go
27:25then you're going to chain two
27:30and you're going to insert two double crochets in that next chain space and we're going to repeat
27:36that whole thing three times so two double crochets in this next chain space
27:45all right let's repeat that a second time so two chains two double crochets
27:55two chains and two double crochets in that chain space
28:08now at the very end you're going to do two more chains one two and you're going to insert one
28:15double
28:15crochet in that last uh in that chain one excuse me in that last chain space and it's going to
28:24be
28:24alongside those two double crochets you made just earlier like so so this should give you 10 double
28:32crochets one two three four five six seven eight nine and ten and it should give you um five chain
28:41spaces
28:41one space two three four and five all right that's that for round number two for round three you're going
28:53to chain five one two three four five then you're going to turn your piece we're going to work back
29:00around
29:01this um rounded portion you're going to start with inserting two double crochets into that chain space
29:10the first chain space so here's one double crochet and here's two double crochets
29:21and then you're going to do um two double crochets two chains and two double crochets all in the next
29:29chain space we're going to repeat that three times let's go ahead so two double crochets
29:41two chains two chains and two double crochets all in that same chain space
29:51that's the first repetition here's the second repetition in the next chain space
29:58two double crochets
30:03two chains two double crochets
30:31and um now we're looking at that very last chain space here
30:37in that last chain space you're going to do two double crochets two chains and then
30:41one single double crochet at the end so two double crochets
30:50two chains one single double crochet
31:00that concludes round number three and we can move on to round four so for round four we're going to
31:09start
31:09off with five chains one two three four and five then you're going to turn your piece and we're going
31:18to work
31:18along this rounded edge you're going to first insert two double crochets in that first chain space
31:28so that's one double crochet and two double crochets
31:35then you're going to double crochet on top of the next double crochet
31:42so instead of going into the chain space we're going into that double crochet here
31:53oops slipped there okay first double crochet
32:01you'll see that there's another double crochet here and another we're going to skip these two
32:08so skip the next two stitches and double crochet into the following stitch
32:16it's going to look like this
32:24you'll notice that i skipped those two stitches in between
32:29and after doing that you are going to now work in that chain space
32:36in that chain space you're going to insert two double crochets chain two and two double crochets
32:44so let's do it two double crochets
32:50chain two and two double crochets all in that same chain space
33:00and we're going to kind of repeat this around so we're going to insert a double crochet into the next
33:07double crochet here
33:12we're going to skip the next two stitches
33:16double crochet onto the following one
33:23and in that chain space you're going to insert two double crochets
33:30two chains
33:32two chains and two double crochets
33:39let's do that again insert a double crochet into the next stitch
33:46skip two stitches insert a double crochet into the next
33:53and in that chain space you're going to insert two double crochets
34:01two chains and two double crochets
34:13and then you can go ahead and insert um a double crochet into the next stitch
34:22skip two stitches double crochet into the next
34:30and insert two double crochets into that last chain space two chains and one double crochet
34:47all right all right and that concludes round number four
34:53after you finish round four we can go ahead and switch to that um other color yarn i'm using purple
35:02here
35:02this is actually the purple is the main color for my dragon
35:08and we're going to work on that top edging
35:12so we're no longer working on this rounded portion here of the wings but on the straight
35:17top edge so here's how you're going to do that let's switch over to that purple yarn
35:34and we're going to chain two one two
35:43then you're going to turn and insert a single crochet in that second chain from your hook
35:54like so and now we're going to work along this top edge and basically insert one single crochet
36:05in each double crochet across um until you reach the center in the center we'll insert two stitches
36:13so let me show you how that looks we're gonna go ahead and just single crochet
36:22oops sorry my yarn is a little splitty here
36:41oh and um i think i said um insert one single crochet in each double crochet around
36:48i meant two i'm sorry i misspoke so insert two double two single crochets in each double crochet here
37:00like i'm doing and you'll notice i'm kind of holding in those yarn tails
37:06got lots of them so let me snip off the pink now we kind of don't need that anymore
37:16and this is the beginning the starting tail for the whole wing so i'm gonna kind of hold that a
37:24little
37:24further as i um stitch along and when you reach that very center like the the middle where you started
37:35you're also going to insert two single crochets in that same spot so let me just do one and two
37:43single crochets
37:45and let's continue on two single crochets
37:52two single crochets
37:56two single crochets
38:02two single crochets
38:10and let me snip off this end here
38:15all right
38:19at the very end you are just going to um finish with two chains and then you're gonna insert a
38:29single
38:30crochet into that second chain from your hook
38:34and you're gonna fasten off with a bit of a tail
38:38a tail to weave into the ends um into the yeah weave into the ends of the um
38:49wing here
38:52so for instance i can pull it into this last stitch here
39:02and i'll kind of um i want to kind of weave it in so it doesn't poke out or show
39:15all right and after you weave it in a few times like i'm doing here you can go ahead and
39:24fasten off
39:27i'll just do it a little bit more all right pull that let me fasten off
39:36okay
39:39so um here is the finished wing
39:44congratulations on finishing part three of the creator challenge you'll have done the body and the wings
39:51and if you followed along for part two um last week that would be the arms and the little legs
40:02and part one is the head of the dragon with the horns and ears
40:11so you are nearly there join me next week for the tail and we're also going to do the finishing
40:19touches
40:19which includes sewing everything together all right see you then
40:24so
40:28you
40:29you
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