Another Crochet / Amigurumi Baby Groot

This Baby Groot (from Guardians of the Galaxy) is adapted from Twinkie Chan's Baby Groot pattern.

(I have previously made another one based on Smartapple Creations' pattern.)

Crochet / Amigurumi Baby Groot

This was also made with the inexpensive, acrylic Minlon brand yarn. Because the yarn is of DK weight, the pattern when followed exactly, produced a very tiny Baby Groot, and I only had 8mm eyes which were way too big for the tiny head.

After several iterations, this is my final adapted version of the pattern. I used 3.0 mm hook.

Head
Rnd 1: 6 sts magic ring (6)
Rnd 2: Inc 6 sts evenly (12)
Rnd 3: Inc 6 sts evenly (18)
Rnd 4: Inc 6 sts evenly (24)
Rnd 5: Inc 6 sts evenly (30)
Rnd 6: Inc 6 sts evenly (36)
Rnd 7: Inc 3 sts evenly (39)
Rnds 8-13: sc around (39)
*Rnd 14: Dec 3 sts evenly (36)
Continue until you reach the desired length for head, then continue to make the head accents.

*This was completely unnecessary. I was tinkering with the shape and got lazy to frog and redo. I should just continue evenly from Round 7 all the way to achieve a squarer/less rounded head.

Head Accents
I followed the pattern but made them bigger, with 4-6 sts pieces instead of the 3-4 sts in the original pattern.

Body
Rnd 1: 6 sts magic ring (6)
Rnd 2: Inc 6 sts evenly (12)
Rnd 3: Inc 6 sts evenly (18)
Rnd 4: Inc 6 sts evenly (24)
Rnd 5: Inc 6 sts evenly (30)
Rnd 6: Inc 6 sts evenly (36)
Rnds 7-8: Even (36)
Rnd 9: Dec 6 sts evenly (30)
Rnd 10: Dec 6 sts evenly (24)
Rnd 11: Dec 3 sts evenly (21)
Rnds 12-13: Even (21)
Rnd 14: Dec 3 sts evenly (18)
Rnds 15-16: Even (18)
Rnd 17: Dec 3 sts evenly (15)
Continue evenly (15 sts) until desired length.

I put a piece of twisted pipe cleaner in the body, and crochet around it, stuffing as I go. At the top of the neck, I leave about 1.5-2cm piece of the twisted pipe cleaner sticking out, and poke that through the hole in the magic ring of the head, and sew the body to the head.

Arms
I made 6 sts circumference arms.
Chain 6, slip stitch to 1st chain to join, and continue sc around in a spiral until you reach your desired length. Finish off with the fingers, and sew arms to body.

The rest as per original pattern.

If I make this again, I would try a few things differently.

1. Make the body and head in one piece. After the body, simply increase sts to 18, then 24, and so on for the head. No need to sew.
2. Squarer head (see note in pattern for head above).
3. Use Smartapple Creations' pattern for arms. Since the arms are not stuffed, there is no risk of the stuffing showing through, and the ribbing makes them naturally twisty and look vine-like.

We are Groot!