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Jack in Love Amigurumi Pattern

Jack in Love Amigurumi Pattern
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5-7 Hours Time Needed
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Intermediate Level

Ideal for those with basic crochet experience, featuring slightly more advanced stitches and techniques to expand your skills.

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Weekend Treat

Takes 5-7 hours, making it an enjoyable project to finish over a couple of days.

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Cute Companion

An adorable friend to cherish, handcrafted with love to bring comfort and joy for years to come.

About This Jack in Love Amigurumi Pattern

This pattern creates a decorative amigurumi planter featuring a skull-style pot and a heart-shaped tree with leaves. You will crochet the base pot, soil top, a brown tree stem that splits into two heart-shaped branches and little green leaves. The pattern uses fine/sport or fingering yarn, wire for shaping the branches and step-by-step photos to help you assemble and finish.

Jack in Love Amigurumi Pattern crochet pattern - detailed view of completed project

Includes complete round-by-round instructions and clear photographs for each step. The finished toy measures about 15–27 cm depending on yarn and hook choices.

Why You'll Love This Jack in Love Amigurumi Pattern

I absolutely love this pattern because it combines cute amigurumi techniques with a playful decorative twist — a heart-shaped tree growing from a skull pot feels both whimsical and cozy. I enjoy how customizable it is: you can change yarn, colors and size to create many different looks. Sewing the embroidered face and attaching tiny leaves always feels like bringing the character to life. I take pride in the clear step-by-step photos in this pattern that make each stage satisfying and easy to follow.

Jack in Love Amigurumi Pattern step 1 - construction progress Jack in Love Amigurumi Pattern step 2 - assembly progress Jack in Love Amigurumi Pattern step 3 - details and accessories Jack in Love Amigurumi Pattern step 4 - final assembly and finishing

Switch Things Up

I love how easy it is to customize the colors in this pattern; try pastels for a softer, romantic look or bright jewel tones for a bold statement.

You can change the size by using a thicker yarn and larger hook for a chunky, decorative piece, or thinner yarn with a smaller hook for a tiny keychain version.

I often experiment with different pot designs — try stripes, contrasting rims, or a textured stitch for the pot exterior to create variety.

Instead of copper wire you can use flexible floral wire or craft wire for lighter branches, but remember to secure and bend the ends to prevent poking.

Try adding beads or tiny crocheted flowers to the branches for a more detailed, seasonal decoration — they stitch on easily with leftover yarn tails.

I recommend embroidering different facial expressions to give each planter its own personality; play with eye spacing and mouth curves for a playful effect.

For a more natural look, use variegated brown yarn for the tree and mixed greens for the leaves to get subtle shading without extra sewing.

Make a set of mini planters with different expressions and colors to create a charming display or a gift set — they work great for table centerpieces.

I sometimes glue a small battery LED under the soil before closing to create a gentle glow around the tree for a magical evening accent.

Don’t be afraid to combine yarns — a cotton base with an acrylic tree can change the texture in interesting ways and introduce sturdiness where needed.

Common Mistakes & How to Fix Them

✗ Skipping a stitch marker when working in continuous spirals will make it hard to track rounds; place a marker at the start of each round to avoid losing your place. ✗ Stuffing too early or too much can distort the shape of the base and soil; stuff gradually and firmly only where indicated to maintain smooth curves. ✗ Not changing color cleanly at the round boundary can leave visible floats; fasten off and weave in ends neatly when switching from black to white or brown. ✗ Inserting wire incorrectly will make branches unstable or poke through the fabric; measure and insert wire into the branch centers and bend ends as instructed before closing openings. ✗ Ignoring front-loop/back-loop instructions may change the look of edges; always work into BLO or FLO where specified to get the correct finish.

Jack in Love Amigurumi Pattern

Make a charming Jack-in-Love amigurumi planter with a skull-style pot and a heart-shaped tree growing from the soil. This pattern guides you through crocheting the pot, soil, stem, branches, leaves and embroidered face with clear step-by-step rounds. Perfect for adding a handmade, whimsical accent to your home or gifting to someone special.

Intermediate 5-7 Hours

Materials Needed for Jack in Love Amigurumi Pattern

— Main Fabric

  • 01
    Sport weight yarn (Fine yarn) for cotton+acrylic or Fingering (Super fine yarn) for 100% cotton yarn
  • 02
    Colors: white (approx. 20g), black (approx. 15g), brown (approx. 10g), green (approx. 5g)
  • 03
    Yarn Art Jeans (50g/160m, 55% Cotton, 45% Acrylic): black - #53 (bottom of the base, soil, eyes, mouth, nose), green - #82 (leaves), brown - #40 (tree)
  • 04
    Alize Cotton Gold (100g/330m, 55% cotton 45% polyacrylic): white - #55 (the pot)

— Tools Required

  • 01
    Crochet hook size 2 mm (Clover Amour) - corresponds to 1.75 mm regular crochet hook (use hook suitable for your yarn)
  • 02
    Crochet hook size 2.25 mm (Clover Amour) - used in testing (optional)
  • 03
    Crochet hook size 2 mm - alternate test sample
  • 04
    Scissors
  • 05
    Tapestry needle for sewing and weaving ends
  • 06
    Pins for assembly
  • 07
    Stitch marker (a piece of yarn can be used)
  • 08
    Fiberfill (stuffing)
  • 09
    Stuffing tool (wooden skewers and tweezers recommended)
  • 10
    Wire 2 mm (approximately 60 cm total) - copper recommended for stability
  • 11
    A piece of plastic to make the bottom steady (e.g., lid of plastic container)

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— Base :

Info :

Work with black yarn.

Round 1 :

6 sc in a MR (6)

Round 2 :

6 inc (12)

Round 3 :

(inc, 1 sc) * 6 (18)

Round 4 :

(inc, 2 sc) * 6 (24)

Round 5 :

(inc, 3 sc) * 6 (30)

Round 6 :

2 sc, (inc, 4 sc) * 5, inc, 2 sc (36)

Round 7 :

(inc, 5 sc) * 6 (42)

Round 8 :

3 sc, (inc, 6 sc) * 5, inc, 3 sc (48)

Round 9 :

(inc, 7 sc) * 6 (54)

Round 10 :

4 sc, (inc, 8 sc) * 5, inc, 4 sc (60)

Info :

Change to white color (fasten off black yarn).

Round 11 :

BLO (p.8) 60 sc (60)

Round 12 :

(inc, 9 sc) * 6 (66)

Round 13 :

66 sc (66)

Round 14 :

5 sc, (inc, 10 sc) *5, inc, 5 sc (72)

Round 15 :

72 sc (72)

Round 16 :

(inc, 11 sc) * 6 (78)

Rounds 17-21 :

(5 rows) 78 sc (78)

Round 22 :

(dec, 11 sc) * 6 (72)

Rounds 23-25 :

(3 rows) 72 sc (72)

Round 26 :

5 sc, (dec, 10 sc) * 5, dec, 5 sc (66)

Rounds 27-30 :

(4 rows) 66 sc (66)

Info :

Cut out a piece of plastic to fit the bottom (it will help to make the base steady) and put it inside the base (as shown in the p.9). If your plastic is too flexible, cut out 2 or 3 pieces and put them together.

Round 31 :

FLO 66 sc (p.10) (66)

Round 32 :

66 sc (p.11) (66)

Info :

Cut the yarn off leaving a tail 15-20 cm to weave in the end. Use the "straight edge" method (see the next page for instructions).

— Top (Soil) :

Info :

Attach black yarn to the back loop of 30th round (p.15).

Round 1 :

(dec, 9 sc) * 6 (60)

Round 2 :

4 sc, (dec, 8 sc) * 5, dec, 4 sc (54)

Round 3 :

(dec, 7 sc) * 6 (48)

Round 4 :

(dec, 6 sc) * 6 (42)

Round 5 :

(dec, 5 sc) * 6 (36)

Round 6 :

(dec, 4 sc) * 6 (30)

Info :

Stuff the base firmly.

Round 7 :

(dec, 3 sc) * 6 (24)

Info :

Change to brown color (fasten off black yarn).

Round 8 :

FLO 24 sc (24)

Round 9 :

(dec, 2 sc) * 6 (18)

Rounds 10-11 :

(2 rounds) 18 sc (18)

Round 12 :

(dec, 1 sc) * 6 (12)

Rounds 13-16 :

(4 rounds) 12 sc (12)

Info :

Stuff the stem.

Round 17 :

6 sc, ch 2 (8)

Info :

Continue crocheting the next round starting from the 1st stitch of the previous round (p.20). Mark the 2nd of 2 chains (p.21 - red loop), we will need it while crocheting the second branch.

Round 18 :

6 sc, 2 sc along the chain, make sure to crochet only into BLO of the chain (p.21 - white loops), as we will need the front loops (red and yellow) to crochet the second branch (p.22).

Rounds 19-27 :

(9 rounds) 8 sc (8)

Round 28 :

dec, 6 (7)

Rounds 29-32 :

(4 rounds) 7 sc (7)

Round 33 :

dec, 5 (6)

Rounds 34-43 :

(10 rounds) 6 sc (6)

Info :

Measure how much wire you will need, it should be inserted into the branch and about half of the body (p.23), cut 2 such pieces. Bend the bottom and top parts (p.24), insert the wire (p.25).

Info :

Cut the yarn off leaving a 15 cm tail for closing the opening. Insert the yarn tail into a needle, go under the front loops of all 6 sc (p.26), tighten the thread and weave in the yarn end (p.27).

Info :

Crochet the 2nd branch. Attach yarn to the marked loop of 17th round (p.28), leave 10-15 cm yarn tail, we will need it later.

Round 17 (2nd branch) :

2 sc along the chain, 6 sc (p.29) (8)

Round 18 (2nd branch) :

8 sc (8)

Info :

Repeat rounds 19-43 of the first branch.

Info :

Insert the 2nd piece of wire into the 2nd branch. Cut the yarn off and close the opening. If there is a hole left between two branches, sew it using the yarn tail left from starting the 2nd branch (p.30,31). Bend the branches to form a heart (p.32,33).

— Leaves :

Info :

Separate leaves (make 4). Ch 4, turn, work from the 2nd ch from hook (p.34 - white loop):

Round 1 :

1 sc, 2 hdc in 1 loop, 1 sc, ch 2, sl st into the 2nd ch from hook (p.35,36), continue on the other side of the chain, 1 sc, 2 hdc in 1 loop, 1 sc, sl st into the 1st stitch of the row (p.37,38)

Info :

Cut the yarn off leaving 10-15 cm for sewing.

Info :

Leaves on branches (make 4): Crochet the leaves in the same way, but make the last sl st with brown yarn (p.39,40). Ch 5, attach it to the tree with a sl st (p.41,42).

Info :

Weave in the ends. Sew the leaves on the branches randomly (p.48), you may attach some small branches on the inner side of the tree, and then sew the leaf to the outer side (p.45-47).

Info :

Make a few small branches without leaves: attach brown yarn to the tree (p.49), ch 6, starting from the 2nd ch from the hook (p.50): 5 sl st, sl st to the same place from where the ch begins (p.51). Cut the yarn off and weave in the ends. If the branch looks down, make a few stitches to make it look up (p.52).

— Eyes (make 2) :

Info :

Work with black yarn. Eyes will be worked in rows with a turning ch. Ch 2, turn, work from the 2nd ch from hook:

Row 1 :

3 sc in 1 stitch (p.54), ch 1, turn (3)

Row 2 :

inc, 1 sc, inc (p.55), ch 1, turn (5)

Row 3 :

inc, 3 sc, inc, ch 1, turn (7)

Row 4 :

inc, 5 sc, inc, ch 1, turn (p.56) (9)

Info :

Before crocheting the next row, watch the video.

Row 5 :

Skip 2 stitches, crochet into the 3rd stitch (p.56): (1 hdc, 2 dc, 2 tr, 2 dc, 1 hdc) (p.57), sl st into the next stitch, skip 2 stitches, crochet into the 3rd stitch: (1 hdc, 2 dc, 2 tr, 2 dc, 1 hdc)

Info :

Continue crocheting around the heart (p.59,60): 3 sc on the side part, 3 sc into the base ch, 3 sc on the side part.

Info :

Cut the yarn off leaving 40-50 cm. Weave in the end using the "straight edge" method, but in this case do not skip any stitches, insert the needle into the 1st stitch of the row. Do cut off the yarn, we will need it to sew the eyes to the base.

— Assembling :

Info :

Pin the eyes between rounds 15 and 25 (if you count from the 1st white round, the eyes will be between the 8th and 18th rounds), the shortest distance between eyes is 6 stitches (on the 14th round) (p.61).

Info :

Make sure that the middle part of the tree (the place where the branches are divided) corresponds with the middle part of the face.

Info :

Sew them around using an invisible stitch: grab a stitch on the head (p.62), insert the needle into a stitch on the eye (from the inner side - p.63), insert it back into the next stitch on the eye (from the outer side - p.64).

Info :

Sew the eyes around and weave in the end.

Info :

Cut a piece of yarn (approximately 10 cm) and pin it to create a guideline for embroidering the mouth (as shown in the p.65).

Info :

Embroider the mouth with black yarn, you will need 50-60 cm for the mouth and nose. If your yarn looks thin, you may use 2 threads for embroidery. Thread a needle and embroider the mouth following this guideline using running stitch (p.66,67).

Info :

Cover the blank spaces left with vertical stitches (p.68-70). Don't cut the yarn off, continue to embroider the nose.

Info :

Mark the points where the nose should be (if you count from the 1st white row, the nose will be between 6th and 8th rounds). The distance between the upper points is 1 stitch and between the lower points is 5 stitches (p.71).

Info :

Embroider the nose making 3 stitches for each nostril (p.71-74). Weave in the yarn end.

— Finishing :

Info :

Weave in all ends, shape the branches using the inserted wire, arrange leaves and small branches, and make final adjustments to the embroidered face. Your Jack in Love is ready!

Assembly Instructions

  • Pin the eyes between rounds 15 and 25 (counting from the 1st white round they will sit between rounds 8 and 18) with the shortest distance between eyes equal to 6 stitches, then sew in place with invisible stitch.
  • Make sure the middle part where the branches divide corresponds with the middle of the face, then insert and secure the tree into the top (soil) before closing the opening.
  • Insert 2 pieces of 2 mm wire into each branch and bend bottom and top parts before inserting; close openings and use the yarn tails to sew and hide any gaps between branches.
  • Sew leaves randomly on the branches and attach small brown chain-branches where desired; weave in ends and secure leaves with small stitches.
  • Use the pinned yarn guideline to embroider the mouth and nose with black yarn using running stitch; cover blank spaces with vertical stitches and weave in the ends.

Important Notes

  • 💡All parts are worked in continuous spirals (without slip stitch and ch) unless noted otherwise; use a stitch marker to keep track of the rounds.
  • 💡Stuff firmly but evenly; overstuffing can distort the shape and under-stuffing will make the piece floppy.
  • 💡Measure and cut the wire to fit each branch and body insertion depth before inserting to avoid poking through the fabric.
  • 💡Use the correct loops (FLO/BLO) as specified to achieve the intended edge and shaping; follow the photo references for guidance.

This sweet Jack in Love amigurumi brings whimsy and charm to any shelf or desk with its heart-shaped tree and embroidered skull pot. Make one as a unique handmade gift or a playful accent for your home — it is sure to spark smiles and conversations. Enjoy the process and have fun customizing colors and details! 🧶💚✨

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FAQs

What size will the finished piece be?

The finished amigurumi measures approximately 15 cm (6 inches) tall using the recommended yarn and a 2 mm hook; sizes in the pattern testing ranged up to 27 cm depending on hook and yarn.

Can I use different yarn weights for this pattern?

Yes, you can change yarn weight but this will affect the final size and stitch counts; adjust your hook accordingly and consider using wire lengths suitable for the new size.

Do I need prior crochet experience for this pattern?

This pattern is rated intermediate because it uses continuous spirals, front/back loop techniques and shaping for branches and leaves; familiarity with basic amigurumi stitches is recommended.

How long does this project typically take to complete?

Most crocheters complete this project in 5-7 hours, though time may vary depending on experience, yarn choices and how much assembly/embroidery you do.