Pattern: Finger puppets of Saint George, Princess warrior and Dragon

Knight, princess warrior and dragon amigurumi puppets

One of my favourite days of the year is coming: Saint George, when Catalonia awakes smelling of roses and brand new book pages. Couples walk down the street holding flowers and families gather around stands, flicking through the latest publications and bargaining the roses’ price.

Some years ago I posted a free pattern that sums up these two symbols of the festivity, the book and the rose, and this year I want to present the three main characters of the legend: Saint George, the princess and the Dragon. 

With these cute finger puppets you can recreate once and again the most told story in our land and you’ll be able to imagine new endings, more adjusted to our time. For example, I gave the princess a sword and an armor dress, so she can face herself the terrible dragon. And as for the beast, you can choose whether to make it fiery or benevolent, just by changing the expression of its eyebrows.

Here you have the instructions to make Saint George’s Legend amigurumi finger puppets

Materials

• 2,5mm crochet hook
• 3mm black safety eyes or beads (for the princess and the knight )
• 4,5mm black safety eyes or beads (for the dragon)
• Thin yarn, according to the hook size. Colors: cream, white, gray, dark blue, dark green, light green, yellow, brown, red.
• Felt. Colors: red, light brown, dark brown and gray.
• Embroidery floss: red and brown
• Fiberfill

Abbreviations:

rd: round ch: chain st: stitch sc: single crochet inc: increase (2sc in the same stitch) dec: decrease (2 single crochet together) sl st: slide stitch hdc: half double crochet BL: Back loops. Crochet inserting the hook through the back loops only *…*: repeat to the end of the round […]x… repeat the sequence between the brackets as many times as the number shown after the “x” (…): stitches you should have at the end of the round

Note: This pattern is made in continuous rounds. Do not chain and turn at the end of each row, unless it is specified. I recommend using a stitch marker

Saint George (or any knight, really)

 

Head and body

Rd 1: With beige yarn, 6sc into a magic ring (6) Rd 2: *inc* (12) Rd 3: *1sc, inc* (18) Rd 4: *2sc, inc* (24)Rd 5 – Rd 9: 24sc (24) Place the safety eyes or sew beads between Rd 5 and 6 Rd 10: *2sc, dec* (18) Rd 11: *1sc, dec* Stuff (12) Rd 12: *dec* (6) Rd 13: Grey. *Inc* (12) Rd 14: *1sc, inc* (18) Rd 15- 16: 18sc (18) Rd 17: White. 18sc (18) Rd 18 – 30: 18sc (18) Sl st and fasten off

Helmet

With gray yarn Rd 1: 3pb in a magic ring (3) Rd 2: 1sc, inc, 1sc (4) Rd 3: 1sc, inc, 1sc, inc (6) Rd 4: *inc* (12) Rd 5: *1sc, inc* (18) Rd 6: *2sc, inc* (24) Rd 7: 24sc (24) Rd 8 – Rd 14: We will work in rows. 16sc, ch1, turn your work (16) Sl st and fasten off 

Putting it together

• Belt: Using brown yarn, surface crochet all around the body between Rd 23 and 24
• Sew the helmet to the head
• Embroider the hair with brown embroidery floss
• Using red felt, cut out a cross and attach it to the body using textile glue
• In order to make the blade cut out a rectangle of grey felt measuring about 0,5cm wide, and cut the end to make it pointy. Stick it to one side of the body, right below the belt.
• Using light brown felt cut a grip (like a cross but without one of the ends) and stick it above the belt, above the blade
• Embroider the mouth with red embroidery floss

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Princess warrior (This lady waits for no man to rescue her!)

Head and body

With cream yarn Rd 1: 6sc in a magic ring (6) Rd 2: *Inc* (12) Rd 3: *1sc, inc* (18) Rd 4: *2sc, inc* (24) Rd 5 – Rd 9: 24sc (24) Place the safety eyes or sew beads between Rd 6 and Rd7 Rd 10: *2sc, dec* (18) Rd 11: *1sc, dec* Stuff (12) Rd 12: *dec* (6) Rd 13: Dark blue. Inc* (12) Rd 14: *1sc, inc* (18) Rd 15: 18sc (18) Rd 16: With blue 5sc, with grey 3sc, with blue 2sc, with grey 3sc, with blue 5sc (18) Rd 17 – 23: With grey 18sc (18) Rd 24: BL 18sc (18) Rd 25 – Rd 30: With blue 18sc (18) Sl st and fasten off

Armour’s skirt

Will will work in rows

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Attach grey yarn in 11th st of Rd 24

Rd 1: dec, 1sc, inc, [2sc, inc]x4, dec, ch1 and turn (21) Rd 2: dec, [3sc, inc]x4, 1sc, dec, ch1 and turn (23) Rd 3: dec, [4sc, inc]x3, 4sc, dec (24) Sl st and fasten off

Hair

With brown yarn Rd 1: 6sc in a magic ring (6) Rd 2: *Inc* (12) Rd 3: *1sc, inc* (18) Rd 4: *2sc, inc* (24) Rd 5 – Rd 7: 24sc (24) Rd 8 – Rd 9: 24sc, ch1 and turn (24) Rd 10: 1hdc, 2dc, 1hdc, 1sc, 1sl st Leave a long end to sew

Braid

With brown yarn ch 21 Rd 1: From 2nd ch from hook, *inc* (40) Sl st and leave a long end to sew

Rose

Using red yarn, ch5 Rd 1: In the 3rd ch from hook do the following [1dc, ch1 1dc, ch1 1dc]. In the 4th ch from hook [1sl st, ch3]. In the 5th ch from hook [1dc, ch1, 1dc, ch1, 1dc, 1sl st]. Leave a long end to sew.

Wrap your work so it looks like a rose and make some stitches to secure it.

Putting it together

• In order to make the the blade cut out a rectangle of grey felt measuring about 0,5cm wide, and cut the end to make it pointy. Stick it to one side of the body, with the flat side under the skirt
• Using dark brown felt cut a grip (like a cross but without one of the ends) and stick it above the skirt and above the blade
• Embroider the mouth with red embroidery floss
• Sew the hair to the head
• Sew the braid to one side of the hair
• Sew the rose to the beginning of the braid, where it is attached to the hair.

Dragón (the endangered species)

Head

Using dark green yarn Rd 1: 6sc in a magic ring (6) Rd 2: *1sc, inc* (9) Rd 3: 9sc (9) Rd 4: *2sc, inc* (12) Rd 5: 12sc (12) Rd 6: 3sc, inc 6 times, 3sc (12) Rd 7: 3sc, [1sc,inc] x6, 3sc (24) Rd 8 – Rd 12: 24sc (24) Place safety eyes or beads between Rd 7 and 8, 7st apart Rd 13: *2sc, dec* (18) Rd 14: *1sc, dec* Stuff (12) Rd 15: *dec* (6) Sl st and fasten off

Body

With dark green yarn Rd 1: 6sc in a magic ring (6) Rd 2: *Inc* (12) Rd 3: *1sc, inc* (18) Rd 4 – Rd 19: 18sc (18) Sl st and leave a long end to sew

Belly

We are going to work in rows, so we will turn our work every time. With yellow yarn, ch3 Rd 1: 2sc, ch1, turn (2) Rd 2: *Inc*, ch1, turn (4) Rd 3 – Rd 12: 4sc, ch1, turn (4) Rd 13: 4sc Sl st and y leave a long end to sew

Ears

With dark green yarn, ch3 Rd1: 1sc, 1hdc (2) Sl st and y leave a long end to sew

Spikes

With light green yarn, ch29 Rd 1: From 2nd ch from hook [1sl st, ch1, 1hdc, ch2, 1sl st in 2nd ch from hook, 1hdc, ch1, 1sl st] x7 (24) Sl st and y leave a long end to sew

Putting it together

• Embroider the mouth with red embroidery floss and the eyebrows with light green embroidery floss.
• Sew the ears to the head
• Sew the head to the body
• Sew the belly to the body
• Embroider light green stripes in the belly, leaving 2 rows between each stripe.
• Place the spikes on the dragon’s back and hold them with pins, starting from the lower side of the body and up to the head. Once the spikes are well centered and forming a straight line, sew them to the back.

Now your finger puppets are ready! I hope you enjoy them and let your imagination fly playing with them!

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Thank you and happy Saint George’s day!

This pattern by Jennifer Martínez-O. Schmiedl is licensed under a Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional License.