Materials
Here’s what you’ll need to make your Baby Platypus:
- Yarn:
- Main color (body): 0.5 skein of plush yarn (e.g., Yarnart Dolce nr.754)
- Dark grey (beak & paws): Small amount (e.g., Yarnart Dolce nr.760)
- Milk color (egg): Small amount (optional)
- Hook: 4mm crochet hook
- Safety eyes: 13mm
- Other:
- Dark yarn for eyebrows
- Soft stuffing
- Thin long needle + large-eye needle
- Stitch marker
- Yarn cutter or scissors



Abbreviations
- mr: Magic ring
- ch: Chain stitch
- sc: Single crochet
- inc: Increase (2 sc in the same stitch)
- dec: Decrease (sc 2 stitches together)
- r/rnd: Round(s)
- (…)*: Repeat instructions in brackets
Finished Size
Approximately 22cm (8.6 inches) tall.
Pattern Instructions
Front Paws (Make 2)
Yarn: Dark grey | Hook: 4mm
- Round 1: 6ch. Work 15c into the 2nd ch from the hook, then 15c into the next 3 stitches. Inc in the last stitch, then 15c into the next 4 stitches on the other side of the chain (10 sts).
- Rounds 2–3: 10sc (2 rounds).
- Round 4: 15c.
- Switch to main color.
- Round 5: (3sc, 1dec) x2 (8 sts).
- Rounds 6–8: 8sc (3 rounds).
- Round 9: 15c (only work 15c this round).
- Stuff lightly. Sew the paw closed with a long tail for attaching.


