How to Make Crochet Doll Shorts and Pants – Free Crochet Pattern

Today we are going to learning how to make crochet doll shorts and pants. This free crochet pattern includes both the written pattern for both a pair or doll pants and a pair of shorts as well as a step-by-step video tutorial to show you how to make both of them. These patterns are beginner-friendly and easy to customize. I’ve also included a few quick and easy ways to customize this free pattern to make a unique pair of crochet doll shorts and pants.

I’ll be sharing some links to some other free crochet doll clothes patterns, accessories and doll garments that you can add to your doll’s wardrobe as well. This pattern is Week 13 and 14 of the Amigurumi Advent Calendar Crochet Along and is designed to fit my Advent Amy doll pattern. However, it could fit a number of my other amigurumi doll patterns that I have available.

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Missed the previous weeks of the CAL? No problem! You can start any time and there are already a lot of other crochet doll clothes patterns available.

• Week 1: Learn how to crochet an easy doll with this amigurumi crochet doll tutorial for the legs and body.
  
  
• Week 2: Learn how to crochet the doll’s head and an easy hair cap for our dolls.
  
  
• Week 3: Learn how to crochet the doll’s arms, how to embroider eyelashes and a
  nose on amigurumi, add blush to your doll and how to make a DIY advent calendar
  
  
• Week 4: Learn how to crochet a shirt for your amigurumi doll
  
  
• Weeks 5 & 6: Learn how to crochet a simple skirt and shoes for your doll
  
  
• Week 7: Learn how to crochet a t-shirt for your doll
  
  
• Week 8: Learn how to crochet overalls for your doll
  
  
• Week 9: Learn how to crochet a scarf for your doll
  
  
• Week 10: Learn how to crochet a hat for your doll
  
  
• Week 11: How to Crochet mini backpack for dolls
  
  
• Week 12: How to crochet an amigurumi doll dress

Make sure to follow me on social media or join my email list to be notified when more crocheted doll outfits, adorable accessories and easy crochet projects become available.

How to Make Crochet Doll Shorts or Pants

Both crochet patterns that I’ve shared today start the same way: You crochet the first leg of the pants and then the second leg is crocheted separately. After both legs are created, we will join the legs together and then crochet the rest of the pants. Both pant legs are worked from the bottom-up and I’ve done this for a very specific reason: so if your gauge is off or you want to be able to customize your pants, you can try them on your own dolls as you go to make sure they will fit them appropriately.

Although the written pattern for these pants create a pair of pants or shorts that is a solid color, there are a few easy ways to customize your pants and shorts to give them a new look. Have fun customizing your doll shorts or pants by:

• using different colors,
• adding stripes,
• embroidering on some small details like flowers or shapes,
• adding various trims / borders and more.

I have had so much fun seeing everyone’s unique color choices and the ways that you have customized your different doll clothes and doll dresses throughout the crochet along so far! If you have an idea to customize the shorts and pants, I’d love to hear about it and / or see it so please share your idea in the comment section below or share photos of your makes in the Loopy Lamb Crochet Community or tag me on social media.

Other Great Free Amigurumi Patterns to Check Out

• Trevor Triceratops
  
  
• My Pal Pascal
  
  
• Bubba Bird

Tips to Make Sure Your Pants or Shorts Fit Your Advent Amy Doll

If you’ve been crochet along with us for the Amigurumi Advent Calendar CAL, make sure that you start off using the same hook size that you have been using for all of the other projects that you have made so far.

If you find that your pants are too tight: try loosening up your tension or going up a hook size until the pants can slide over the doll’s feet and up the legs.

If you find that your pants are too loose: try tightening up your tension or going down a hook size until the pants fit more to your liking.

Where Can I Get a Printable Copy of this Pattern?

• You can purchase an inexpensive ad-free crochet PDF pattern with all three parts of the doll together in one convenient pdf file in my Ravelry and Etsy shop OR
  
  
• Buy the Amigurumi Advent Calendar CAL Bundle in my Ravelry or Etsy shops and get this pattern and all the CAL patterns in printable bundle files.

Important Note About The Supply List for this Project:

The supply list shown for this pattern shows the materials needed Weeks 10 – 18 of the Amigurumi Advent Calendar Crochet Along. Not all materials will be used this week. A new/updated material list will be posted starting Week 19. The supply list for Weeks 10 – 18 can be found on any of the previous week’s patterns (links listed above).

Disclaimer:

Feel free to sell the item created by this pattern but please provide pattern credit back to me when posting online, and please provide a link to my blog: https://theloopylamb.com.  Please do not resell, distribute, duplicate, or share this pattern in any printed or digital form, or claim this pattern as your own original design.  Please do not use my photos when selling your finished items.   

Skill Level:

• Easy

Terminology:

• US Term
  
  

Supplies:

• 3.5 mm (E) Furls Crochet Hook (or whatever sized hook needed to match gauge)
  
  
• Brava Worsted Weight Yarn (100% Premium Acrylic, Worsted Weight (4), 218yds/200m, 100g/3.5oz), 1 skein each of:
  • Colour A: Cream (or preferred skin colour)
  • Colour B: White
  • Colour C: Brindle (or preferred hair colour)
  • Colour D: Mulberry
  • Colour E: Lady Slipper
  • Colour F: Denim
  • Colour G: Black
  • Colour H: Cotton Candy
  • Colour I: Dove Heather
  • Colour J: Freesia
  • Colour K: Seraphim
  • Colour L: Rouge
  • Colour M: Marina
  • Colour N: Almond
    
    
• 2 – 9 mm Black Safety Eyes
  
  
• 12 – 9 mm Buttons in preferred colour(s)
  
  
• Polyester Stuffing
  
  
• 1 3/8” Pom Pom Maker or a piece of cardboard
  
  
• Tapestry Needle
  
  
• Multiple Stitch Markers
  
  
• Scissors
  
  
• Sewing Thread and Needle
  
  
• Sewing Pins (optional but helps make the assembly process easier)

Abbreviations:

• BLO = Back Loops Only
  
  
• BPDC = Back Post Double Crochet
  
  
• CH = Chain
  
  
• CH SP = Chain Space
  
  
• DC = Double Crochet
  
  
• FPDC = Front Post Double Crochet
  
  
• FLO = Front Loops Only
  
  
• FO = Finish Off
  
  
• HDC = Half Double Crochet
  
  
• MC = Magic Circle
  
  
• PM = Place Marker/Stitch Marker
  
  
• RS = Right Side
  
  
• SC = Single Crochet
  
  
• SCDEC = Single Crochet Decrease
  
  
• SCINC = Single Crochet Increase
  
  
• SK = Skip
  
  
• SL ST = Slip Stitch
  
  
• SP(s) = Space(s)
  
  
• ST = Stitch
  
  
• WS = Wrong Side

Special Techniques and Stitches:

• Invisible Finish/Join: FO leaving a long tail. Thread the tail onto a tapestry needle.  Place the tapestry needle through the top of the 2^nd ST from front to back and pull through.  Place tip of needle into top of the last ST of the round, under the back loop of the stitch, and pull through to the back of the work.  Weave in the end. Learn how to do this with my invisible finish/join tutorial.
  
  

Finished Size:

• Clothing to fit Advent Amy Doll which is approximately 10.5” tall.

Gauge:

• Clothing: 4 sts across x 6 rows = 1” square.
  
  
• Doll: Rounds 1 – 4 of the Leg = 1.5” across at widest point.

 

Notes:

• Gauge is important for ensuring that all of the parts of your doll fit appropriately.  If you don’t plan to match gauge, ensure that you maintain a consistent tension throughout your project. 
  
  
• Most of the pieces are worked back and forth in turned rows, unless noted.  Read instructions for each piece carefully before starting to crochet.
  
  
• For pieces worked in continuous rounds, a stitch marker is used to marker the first ST of the round and is moved up in each consecutive round.
  
  

You can purchase an inexpensive ad-free PDF version of this pattern with all three parts of the doll together + 1 outfit in one convenient file in my Ravelry and Etsy shops
OR
Buy the Amigurumi Advent Calendar CAL Bundle in my Ravelry or Etsy shops and get printable versions of all of the CAL patterns at once.

How to Crochet Doll Shorts & Pants Step-By-Step Video Tutorials:

Shorts

Pant Leg 1:

Using Colour F, CH 20, join last CH to first CH with a SL ST, taking care not to twist the CH.

Round 1: CH 1, SC around.  Join last ST to first ST with a SL ST (from here on out referred to as “Join”). (20)

Rounds 2 – 6: CH 1 and turn.  SC around.  Join. (20)

FO.

Pant Leg 2:

Using Colour F, CH 20, join last CH to first CH with a SL ST, taking care not to twist the CH.

Round 1: CH 1, SC around.  Join. (20)

Rounds 2 – 6: CH 1 and turn.  SC around.  Join. (20)

Do NOT FO. We will continue on to join the pant legs and create the rest of the shorts.

Round 7: CH 2 and turn.  SC in the last ST of Round 6 of Pant Leg 1 and PM in second CH (It will now be our first, marked ST in subsequent rounds), SC 19 around Pant Leg 1, SC in each of the 2 CHs, SC in last ST of Round 6 of Pant Leg 2, SC 19, SC in the CH. Join with SL ST to second CH of round. (44 – CH 1 of first 2 CHs counts as a ST)

Round 8: CH 1 and turn.  SC around.  Join. (44)

Round 9: CH 1 and turn.  SCDEC, SC 42. Join. (43)

Round 10: CH 1 and turn.  SC around. Join. (43)

Round 11: CH 1 and turn.  SC 41, SCDEC. Join. (42)

Round 12: CH 1 and turn.  SC in each ST around. Join. (42)

Round 13: CH 1 and turn.  SCDEC, SC 40. Join. (41)

Round 14: CH 1 and turn.  SC in each ST around. Do NOT join. Continue working in unjoined rounds. (41)

Round 15: CH 1 and turn.  SC 39, SCDEC. (40)

Round 16: CH 1 and turn.  SC in each ST around.   (40)  

Round 17: CH 6 and turn.  SK 6 CHs and SC in each ST around.

FO.  Weave in ends / yarn tail.

Using sewing needle and thread, sew a button on the shorts, across from the CH-6 space button hole from Round 17. Use the CH-6 space to fasten the shorts closed by slipping it over the button once on the doll.

Pants

 

Pant Leg 1:

Using Colour G, CH 20, join last CH to first CH with a SL ST, taking care not to twist the CH.

Round 1: CH 1, SC around.  Join last ST to first ST with a SL ST (from here on out referred to as “Join”). (20)

Rounds 2 – 16: CH 1 and turn.  SC around.  Join. (20)

FO.

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Pant Leg 2:

Using Colour G, CH 20, join last CH to first CH with a SL ST, taking care not to twist the CH.

Round 1: CH 1, SC around.  Join. (20)

Rounds 2 – 16: CH 1 and turn.  SC around.  Join. (20)

Do NOT FO. We will continue on to join the pant legs and create the rest of the pants.

Round 17: CH 2 and turn.  SC in the last ST of Round 16 of Pant Leg 1 and PM in second CH (it will now be our first, marked ST in subsequent rounds), SC 19 around Pant Leg 1, SC in each of the 2 CHs, SC in last ST of Round 16 of Pant Leg 2, SC 19, SC in the CH. Join with SL ST to second CH of round. (44 – CH 1 of first 2 CHs counts as a ST)

Round 18: CH 1 and turn.  SC around.  Join. (44)

Round 19: CH 1 and turn.  SCDEC, SC 42. Join. (43)

Round 20: CH 1 and turn.  SC around. Join. (43)

Round 21: CH 1 and turn.  SC 41, SCDEC. Join. (42)

Round 22: CH 1 and turn.  SC in each ST around. Join. (42)

Round 23: CH 1 and turn.  SCDEC, SC 40. Join. (41)

Round 24: CH 1 and turn.  SC in each ST around. Do NOT join. Continue working in unjoined rounds. (41)

Round 25: CH 1 and turn.  SC 39, SCDEC. (40)

Round 26: CH 1 and turn.  SC in each ST around.   (40) 

Round 27: CH 6 and turn.  SK 6 CHs and SC in each ST around.

FO.  Weave in ends.

Using sewing needle and thread, sew a button on the shorts, across from the CH-6 space from Row 27. Use the CH-6 space to fasten the shorts closed by slipping it over the button once on the doll.

I hope that you enjoyed learning how to crochet doll shorts and pants with this crochet doll shorts and pants pattern and tutorial. I’d love to see your beautiful finished project!  Share your dolls and doll clothing with me on social media by tagging me @theloopylamb or using #theloopylambCAL in your posts.

What colors are you going to make your shorts and pants in?  Let me know in the comments below and help inspire other makers!

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