Doll Boo – Free Crochet Doll Pattern with Monster Backpacks

Boo is a small doll in a pink dress with brown hair in two ponytails, and she arrives with two monster backpacks: Mike Wazowski in green and Sulley in mint. Everything is crocheted in cotton on a 2 mm hook, so the pieces are small and the seams stay tidy.

Two things make this doll different from most amigurumi. The hands carry a wire frame, so they can be bent and the doll can hold the backpack straps; and the legs are joined to the body in the round rather than sewn, which is why round 4 of the body reads the way it does. Read the body section twice before you start.

Every round is written out below.

What you need

• Yarn: cotton in beige (main), brown (hair), white (socks, eyes), lilac (leggings), pink (dress), green (Mike), mint (Sulley)
• Hook: 2 mm
• Safety eyes: 9 mm for Boo, 6 mm for Mike, 3 mm for Sulley
• Notions: fibre fill, tapestry needle, 0.8 mm floral wire, adhesive plaster, blush, four pink beads 5–6 mm

Abbreviations

• MR magic ring, sc single crochet, hdc half double crochet, dc double crochet, TR treble crochet
• inc increase, dec decrease, slst slip stitch, ch chain
• BLO back loop only, FLO front loop only, bubble 3 hdc cluster

Head

Beige, 2 mm hook, stuffed as you go.

• R1: 6 sc in MR (6)
• R2: 6 inc (12)
• R3: (sc, inc) x6 (18)
• R4: (2 sc, inc) x6 (24)
• R5: (3 sc, inc) x6 (30)
• R6: (4 sc, inc) x6 (36)
• R7: (5 sc, inc) x6 (42)
• R8: (6 sc, inc) x6 (48)
• R9: (7 sc, inc) x6 (54)
• R10: (8 sc, inc) x6 (60)
• R11: (9 sc, inc) x6 (66)
• R12–27: 66 sc — 16 rounds

Insert the 9 mm eyes between R21 and R22, 13 stitches apart.

• R28: (9 sc, dec) x6 (60)
• R29: (8 sc, dec) x6 (54)
• R30: (7 sc, dec) x6 (48)
• R31: (6 sc, dec) x6 (42)
• R32: (5 sc, dec) x6 (36)
• R33: (4 sc, dec) x6 (30)
• R34: (3 sc, dec) x6 (24)
• R35: (2 sc, dec) x6 (18)

Cut the yarn and hide the end inside the head.

Hair (make 2)

Brown, 2 mm hook.

• R1: 6 sc in MR (6)
• R2: 6 inc (12)
• R3: (sc, inc) x6 (18)
• R4: (2 sc, inc) x6 (24)
• R5: (3 sc, inc) x6 (30)
• R6: (4 sc, inc) x6 (36)
• R7: (5 sc, inc) x6 (42)
• R8: (6 sc, inc) x6 (48)
• R9: (7 sc, inc) x6 (54)
• R10: (8 sc, inc) x6 (60)
• R11: (9 sc, inc) x6 (66)
• R12: (10 sc, inc) x6 (72)
• R13–15: 72 sc — 3 rounds

Leave a long end for sewing. One hair piece covers the crown, the second is placed behind it for volume.

Bangs

Brown, worked in turning rows, BLO from row 2 onwards.

• R1: 11 ch, 10 sc from the second chain, ch, turn
• R2–17: 10 sc, ch, turn — 16 rounds
• R18: 10 sc

Ponytails (make 2) and ears (make 2)

• Ponytail: 4 sc in MR, then (8 sc along a 9-chain, 1 sc into the ring) x4. Leave a long end.
• Ear: 3 ch in MR, 4 hdc. Leave a long end.

Hands (make 2)

Beige, stuffed as you go.

• R1: 5 sc in MR (5)
• R2: 5 inc (10)
• R3: 10 sc (10)
• R4: 5 sc, bubble, 4 sc (10)
• R5: (3 sc, dec) x2 (8)
• R6–18: 8 sc — 13 rounds

Cut the yarn. Bend a 0.8 mm wire into the arm shape, wrap the ends with adhesive plaster and slide it into the hand before the arm is attached to the body.

Legs and shoes (make 2)

White for the shoe, beige from R11, lilac from R16.

• R1: 8 ch, 6 sc from the second chain, 3 sc in the last chain, 5 sc back along the other side, inc (16)
• R2: inc, 5 sc, inc, sc, inc, 5 sc, inc, sc (20)
• R3: sc, inc, 5 sc, inc, 3 sc, inc, 5 sc, inc, 2 sc (24)
• R4: 2 sc, inc, 5 sc, inc, 5 sc, inc, 5 sc, inc, 3 sc (28)

Cut two insoles from thick card or a plastic lid, test them, and glue them in after R5.

• R5 (BLO): 28 sc (28)
• R6–7: 28 sc (28) — both loops
• R8: 8 sc, 6 dec, 8 sc (22)
• R9: 7 sc, 4 dec, 7 sc (18)
• R10: 18 sc (18)

Change to beige on the BLO round.

• R11 (BLO): (4 sc, dec) x3 (15)
• R12–15: 15 sc — 4 rounds

Change to lilac.

• R16: (4 sc, inc) x3 (18)
• R17 (BLO): 18 sc (18)
• R18: 18 sc (18)
• R19: 4 sc, inc, 8 sc, inc, 4 sc (20)
• R20–21: 20 sc — 2 rounds
• R22: dec, 16 sc, dec (18)
• R23: 2 sc, dec, 3 sc, 4 inc, 3 sc, dec, 2 sc (20) — knees, increases dead centre
• R24: 20 sc (20)
• R25: 2 sc, inc, 3 sc, 4 dec, 3 sc, inc, 2 sc (18)
• R26–27: 18 sc — 2 rounds
• R28: (8 sc, inc) x2 (20)
• R29–32: 20 sc — 4 rounds

Finish the cuffs: with white, work 18 sc into the front loops of R10; with lilac, work 18 sc into the front loops of R16.

Body

Lilac, legs joined as you go.

• R1: 6 sc in MR (6)
• R2: 6 inc (12)
• R3: (sc, inc) x6 (18)
• R4: 2 sc, 4 sc through the first leg, 6 sc, 4 sc through the second leg, 2 sc (18)
• R5: 2 sc, 16 sc through the remaining leg stitches, 6 sc, 16 sc through the other leg, 2 sc (42)
• R6–12: 42 sc — 7 rounds

Change to beige.

• R13: (12 sc, dec) x3 (39)
• R14–17: 39 sc — 4 rounds
• R18: 7 sc, 4 sc through the hand, 16 sc, 4 sc through the other hand, 8 sc (39)
• R19: 7 sc, 4 sc in the remaining hand stitches, 16 sc, 4 sc in the other hand, 8 sc (39)
• R20: 39 sc (39)
• R21: (11 sc, dec) x3 (36)
• R22: (sc, dec) x12 (24)
• R23: (2 sc, dec) x6 (18)
• R24–26: 18 sc — 3 rounds

Dress and sleeves

• Sleeves (2): 18 ch closed in a ring, R2–4 18 sc, R5 (7 sc, dec) x2 (16), R6–7 16 sc
• Dress R1: 54 ch closed in a ring
• R2: 54 sc, R3: (16 sc, dec) x3 (51), R4: 51 sc
• R5: (15 sc, dec) x3 (48), R6–15: 48 sc — 10 rounds
• R16: 9 sc, 6 sc with sleeve, 18 sc, 6 sc with sleeve, 9 sc (48)
• R17: 9 sc, 10 sc in the remaining sleeve loops, 18 sc, 10 sc in the other sleeve, 9 sc (56)
• R18: 56 sc, R19: 6 sc, 2 dec, 8 sc, 2 dec, 12 sc, 2 dec, 8 sc, 2 dec, 6 sc (48)
• R20: 5 sc, 2 dec, 6 sc, 2 dec, 12 sc, 2 dec, 6 sc, 2 dec, 5 sc (40), R21: 40 sc

The two backpacks

Mike Wazowski — green, head and body in one piece: R1 6 sc in MR, R2 6 inc, R3 (sc, inc) x6, R4 (2 sc, inc) x6, R5 (3 sc, inc) x6 (30), R6–7 30 sc, R8 (9 sc, inc) x3 (33), R9–10 33 sc, R11 (10 sc, inc) x3 (36), R12–13 36 sc, R14 (2 sc, dec) x9 (27), R15 (sc, dec) x9 (18), R16 (sc, dec) x6 (12), R17 6 dec. His big eye is a white 18-stitch dome sewn over the front.

Sulley — mint body with milky horns, purple spots and webbing, 3 mm eyes and blue eyebrows. The horns are small cones stuffed lightly and sewn to the top; the spots are flat circles in purple, four or five of them, placed asymmetrically.

Assembly

• Sew the hair pieces to the crown, then the bangs at the forehead, then a ponytail on each side.
• Sew the ears just above the hairline.
• Needle-sculpt the eye sockets before adding the nose: a 3-stitch line between R21 and R22, 5 stitches from each eye.
• Slide the wire into each hand, then sew the arms at R18–19 of the body.
• Pull the dress over the body, then sew the first dress round to the waist.
• Blush the cheeks and sew a pink bead at each side of the mouth.

Notes

The knees are the fiddliest part: four increases in a single round, dead centre, then four decreases two rounds later. If they pucker, you have worked them one round early — rip back and count from R22.

For other dolls and small figures, Little Miki Cat is the beginner one, Esperanza Cat is the 20 cm one, and One-Eyed Monster uses the same green as Mike. Everything is on the patterns page.

Pattern source: Doll Boo, Crochetphoria Pattern.

For a dressed doll rather than a gnome, Christmas Gnome uses the same top-down cardigan logic as Doll Boo’s dress.