Crochet Cactus Frog with a Removable Flower Pot
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This crochet cactus frog combines a rounded green frog, white cactus-spine embroidery and a pink flower. The frog sits inside a separate brown pot, so the finished piece can be lifted out. Small back legs and little toes give it its frog shape without changing the basic stuffed body. This guide follows the supplied Cactus Frog PDF and keeps the pot removable.
Project details
| Skill level | Intermediate amigurumi |
|---|---|
| Finished size | Depends on yarn and tension; no finished measurement is stated. |
| Hook | The supplied pages do not specify a hook size. |
| Pattern source | Cactus frog with removeable pot, supplied PDF; the readable pages do not identify a designer. |
Materials
Green, white, yellow and pink yarn for the frog and flower; brown yarn for the pot; a matching hook that produces firm fabric, stuffing, stitch marker, tapestry needle and embroidered eyes or securely fitted eyes.
Plan the pieces before starting
Make one body, two back legs, two toe pieces, two front legs, one flower and one pot. Use continuous rounds for the frog unless the source explicitly asks for a join. Mark the first stitch and move the marker every round. In the directions below, inc means two single crochets in one stitch, dec means one single-crochet decrease, and BLO/FLO mean back/front loop only. All stitch names use US terms.
The source has no yarn-weight, hook or finished-size specification in its readable instructions. Choose a yarn-and-hook combination that hides the stuffing, then use that combination for all the small body pieces. Do not assume the pot will fit if you change yarn halfway through.
Shape the frog body
| Round | Work | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1–5 | Start with 8 sc in a magic ring; increase evenly by 8 each round. | 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 |
| 6 | 16 sc, inc, 5 hdc increases, inc, 17 sc. | 47 |
| 7 | Change to white; BLO: 21 sc, 3 dec, 20 sc. | 44 |
| 8 | (3 sc, inc) twice, 12 sc, 2 dec, 12 sc, (3 sc, inc) twice. | 46 |
| 9–10 | Sc around. | 46 |
| 11 | (3 sc, dec) twice, 10 sc, dec, 2 sc, dec, 10 sc, (3 sc, dec) twice. | 40 |
| 12–15 | (2 sc, dec) ×10; one plain round; (sc, dec) ×10; dec ×10. | 30, 30, 20, 10 |
Position the eyes between rounds 5 and 6 with four stitches between them, centering the nose. Add stuffing before the opening becomes too small. The final source step is only three decreases, followed by fastening off and drawing the opening closed; it is not a complete extra ten-stitch round.
Make the legs and toes
For each back leg, work 6 sc in a magic ring, increase to 12, then repeat (sc, inc) six times for 18. Work one more round of 18 and leave a sewing tail. Add filling while sewing each leg in place. The front legs begin with 5 sc; round 2 is inc, 2 sc, inc, sc, giving 7. Continue at 7 stitches through round 10. These narrow front legs stay unstuffed.
Each toe piece begins with 8 sc in a magic ring. Form three little chain-three toes, returning along each short chain with hdc and a slip stitch and anchoring back into the base. Finish the remaining base stitches as shown in the PDF. Set both toe pieces beside the legs before sewing so their fingers point outward rather than toward the center of the frog.
Add the flower and removable pot
The yellow flower center begins with 6 sc, then 12, then 18, working the designated back loops. Pink petals use a chain of five with four hdc worked back along it. The source specifies eight petals in the first layer and eight in the free front loops for a total of sixteen. Keep those two layers distinct; the eighteen-stitch center does not mean eighteen petals.
For the brown pot, start with 8 sc and increase evenly by 8 to 56 stitches over seven rounds. Round 8 is BLO, followed by six plain rounds at 56. Finish with 56 hdc in FLO for the rim. Fit the frog inside before weaving in the pot tail.
Finish the expression and assembly
Pin both stuffed back legs symmetrically and add the toe pieces at their outer ends. Place the front legs near the belly, using the source photos to keep them clear of the back legs. Embroider small white X shapes over the green surface for cactus spines, then sew the flower onto the top or side of the head. Keep the pot separate. The photographed sample is a display ornament; use embroidery instead of small detachable features when adapting it for a child.
Frequently asked questions
Why does the body reach 47 stitches?
The half-double-crochet increases in round 6 create the raised frog-face area. Keep that asymmetric round rather than replacing it with a regular eight-stitch increase round.
Should I stuff the pot?
The pot is a separate sleeve for the stuffed frog. The source does not ask for it to be filled like the body.
Can I use a different flower color?
Yes. Keep the yellow center and two eight-petal layers structurally the same, then choose contrasting petal colors.
Source and project reference
Cactus frog with removeable pot, supplied PDF; the readable pages do not identify a designer. This article is a source-based crochet guide with its own explanations and clearly identified editorial clarifications. Project photographs and the original diagrams shown here come from the supplied source, with crops described in their captions.
Open the original Cactus Frog.pdf reference in Drive — Whole PDF. Keep the original charts with your project, especially where this guide points to a pictured construction step.
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