Aurora the Princess Doll is an amigurumi princess doll free pattern that can be endlessly customized to look like yourself or your favorite Disney princesses. While this project may look complicated, it’s composed only of the most basic stitches. The perfect gift for a child or for yourself!
Aurora the Princess Doll Premium Crochet Pattern
Aurora the Princess Doll—an amigurumi princess doll—is a crochet pattern on my blog!
Read on to learn more about my design process and inspiration. To make this doll, grab the beautifully formatted, ad-free, PDF pattern from Etsy here!
The Perfect Amigurumi Princess Doll
I’ve been wanting to make an amigurumi princess doll since I started my doll-making journey with The Little Prince a few months ago. However, I didn’t want to make just any princess doll, I wanted to make the perfect one.
For me, this means beautiful detailing on the dress, while at the same time maintaining an adorable stature and expression to create the ultimate doll that can be customized in any way imaginable.
The central elements of any princess dress are featured on the dress, including lacing detail on the front, a second layer underneath, and a poofy gown fit for any ball. However, the best part of this pattern is that it can be adapted to any real or fictional character out there!
To explore the endless customizations, simply change the color of Aurora’s dress to imitate your favorite Disney princess (perhaps blue for Elsa or yellow for Belle) or any other princess you could imagine.
I love that this doll is so versatile and universal and can be adapted in so many ways! I can even imagine making an adorable mini-me just by changing the color of the hair and changing the gown to my favorite color (orange, of course!).
Can I make this?
At first glance, this doll is extraordinarily complicated. And she is—just not in the way that you think! Although Aurora looks like she was created by a super advanced crocheter (which I certainly am not), the fact is, she only requires the most basic stitches to accomplish.
I love that this amigurumi princess doll is so accessible to make, because when I was first starting out crocheting, I thought that amigurumi like these were way out of my league and that I would never be able to make something as complicated as this. However, I’m here to tell you that as long as you can make a toy bear, you can make this doll!
She is essentially comprised of a doll base, no more complicated than the average bear or bunny amigurumi, with a dress made separately. The key to looking complex is just a lot of simple parts put together.
The hair may also look intimidating, but I promise you that it’s made up of nothing more than simple stitches like the rest of the doll. You got this!
The Yarn
I used sport weight yarn for this doll because I wanted her to be small (she stands 6.5 inches tall), but have lots of details. Since I usually use a smaller hook size to eliminate gaps when making amigurumi, sport weight yarn turned out to be the perfect balance.
I used mostly Schachenmayr Catania yarn because of the huge color range and high quality this line possesses. Generally, this is my favorite yarn to crochet amigurumi with because I have no trouble finding the exact shade that I need, and each skein is relatively inexpensive!
For the hair, I went with the LB Collection Chainette yarn to get a more fuzzy and fluffy look. I’m pretty happy with how it came out, but I don’t think that this is absolutely necessary.
This amigurumi princess doll used less than one skein of each color, a great stash buster for those loose ends lying around. Especially if you’re used to making larger projects that result in tons of tiny half skeins, this is the perfect quick project to use up all the unused yarn in your stash.
A note on yarn substitution: there is a lot of variation between brands of yarn that are categorized as sport weight. The best way to compare skeins from different brands, fiber contents, and origins, is to look at the yardage per gram. This can be found on the yarn label on any ball or skein of yarn.
When blending yarns within one project, try to make sure that two given balls of yarn differ no more than 0.5 yards per gram from each other and that the gauge is similar.
Get The Pattern
- To make this pattern, grab the ad-free, inexpensive, printable PDF pattern here!
- Pin this pattern to your Pinterest boards later here!
Description
Aurora the Princess Doll is an amigurumi princess doll free pattern that can be endlessly customized to look like yourself or your favorite Disney princesses. While this project may look complicated, it’s composed only of the most basic stitches. The perfect gift for a child or for yourself!
Supplies:
- 2.5mm B/1 Amour Crochet hook , and 3.0-3.5mm hook for hair
- 6.0 mm safety eyes
- black embroidery thread for eyelashes (optional)
- tapestry needle
- polyester fiberfill
- blocking materials (optional)
- foam mats, pins, and handheld steam iron
- wire or paper clip for neck support (optional)
- stitch markers (optional)
Yarn:
- Schachenmayr Catania in Creme (00130) (<1 skein)
- Sport weight beige yarn for skin—you can swap for any other skin color
- Schachenmayr Catania in Lavender (00422) (<1 skein)
- Sport weight darker purple yarn for primary color of dress and shoes
- Schachenmayr Catania in Flieder (00226) (<1 skein)
- Sport weight light purple yarn for inner lining of skirt and lacing on dress
- LB Collection® Chainette Yarn in Mustard (<1 skein)
- Worsted weight brown yarn for hair
- Schachenmayr Catania in Weiss (00106) (scrap)
- Sport weight white yarn for details on dress (skirt and cuffs of sleeves)
- Lion Brand DIYarn in Brown (scrap)
- Worsted weight dark brown yarn for eyebrows—can be swapped for embroidery thread
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