- Hello, crochet friends, it's me, Jonah Larson.
I'm an author of two books, a crochet prodigy,
a philanthropist, and I love Pokemon.
And today, I'm gonna be showing you how to make a pattern
from the official "Pokemon Crochet" book.
And I was so excited to find out
that there was an official Pokemon crochet book.
And today, I'll be making the fire dragon, Charizard.
And the supplies you need to make Charizard
include your yarn, which you'll need a orange color,
a pure white, a yellow, a deep teal
for the underside of his wings
that I think makes it look so cool.
You'll need a thin black,
a thin yellow, and a thin red,
and these two are gonna be used for the tail.
And then next up, you'll need some pipe cleaners
to put in the tail so you can bend it to shape.
You'll need some fabric glue to sew on the felt,
a tapestry needle, a small crochet hook
with a very tiny tip
so you can get a nice, tight tension,
a good, sharp pair of scissors.
Of course, you'll need some stuffing,
but a lot more than this 'cause this is a big Charizard.
Three different colors of felt,
and you'll also need a hairbrush.
But you'll have to see what that's for later.
Let's get started on Charizard.
- Amazing!
- It evolved into Charizard!
(thrilling music) (wings zing)
(Charizard growls)
- Let's start with the body.
So you start off with the magic ring
where you won't have any hole when you're finished,
and it's like magic.
(upbeat music)
And then you're gonna take this strand
and insert it down through the center, and then watch.
You pull it tight,
and boom, you have no ring anymore in the center.
So then you're gonna slip stitch the first stitch,
which is a way of joining your work
so we can build up and work around and around in spirals.
Let's keep going, and soon, we'll need to stuff.
(upbeat music)
And now it is time to start stuffing the body.
(upbeat music)
There's Charizard's body.
Now you have to do the neck, which goes up to about here,
and that's just rounds of straight single crochet.
Okay, so we're gonna take a break here
and put some more stuffing in the neck.
(upbeat music)
So next up is the head.
So you start with a magic circle and then pull it tight,
and then you're gonna chain seven,
and then single crochet in each stitch across.
And then going back across the other side
of your foundation changes, turn it,
and work back and across the other side.
Work six more single crochets.
So here's the start of our mouth.
As you can see, it's flat on this side
and it comes up a little bit on this side,
but it still maintains that oval shape.
So now I'm gonna keep going,
and then when I get to the point
of where I need to stuff it,
I'll show you how to stuff your head.
(upbeat music)
So I'm gonna take a short stop right here in my mouth
to start some stuffing.
(upbeat music)
A little more stuffing,
and then don't stuff it all the way to the top,
'cause you're gonna want room to crochet
without getting stuffing caught in your crochet hook,
which is a problem in amigurum if you stuff it too much.
(upbeat music)
And there's your head.
- Great, Charizard, thanks.
(Charizard grumbles)
- So now, we have made our body and neck,
the head with the top right here.
Here's a side view, and it'll go in the back
of the head like this.
And of course, dragons have two feet,
or at least Charizard has two feet.
Let's put it that way.
What I think the coolest part about Charizard's feet
are those claws at the bottom.
They're really simple, just two stitches.
And I have one already made as you can see,
so let's make the second.
So I'm gonna start with chain five,
post one for turning chain and work 10 stitches around.
(upbeat music)
Now that we're right about for decrease,
it is time to do some stuffing of our leg.
So let's grab her stuffing and get started.
I have two more rows.
Then I can start to decrease and continue stuffing,
and then I can finish up my leg,
and we can move on to our claws.
(upbeat music)
There's your foot shape.
Let's get straight into the fingernails.
The fingernails are very quick.
Well, in this case, the toenails,
but I like to call them claws,
but they're referred to toenails in the book,
but they're more claw-like because, of course,
this is a fire dragon, Charizard.
All you have to do is start with a slipknot,
a chain three, slips stitch in the second from the hook,
single crochet in the next.
Take your scissors, cut a strand,
and over pull through.
Thread the needle, pull tight, and one claw is done.
Now, the fourth one, I've already made.
We go up to row one, two, three, four to sew them on.
So let's do that here.
And you have one, but this looks a little freaky.
So let's make two more.
(upbeat music)
And now, here are our two finished legs with their feet
and their vicious-looking claws.
Now on to our tail.
(Charizard groans)
I've already started to work on my tail,
so now I'm gonna work up some more rows.
(playful music)
And then take your pipe cleaners,
and I've really partly twisted it,
but go over your twists again,
and make sure it's extremely tight
'cause they need it to be very thin
so you can reach down to the bottom of this tiny point
where it consists of just four stitches.
And then you insert it
into your tail.
(playful music)
And if you come down, you can see you can bend it.
So that means you know it's in far enough,
and then you're gonna just tuck these strands in there
and put in some stuffing.
(playful music)
And there, we're done with Charizard's tail.
On to the arms with the talons.
(laser zings)
- [Pikachu] Let go!
(Pikachu strains)
- Return!
(Pikachu shrieks)
- Okay, so now it is time to start our arms.
I already have one made here, and they're super cool.
They have that long dragon arm,
and it's a pipe cleaner in there so you can bend it
and attach it to his body like this stuff.
There's a claw coming out.
And you're starting off with orange yarn and a magic ring,
and then you're gonna work up 17 rounds.
So I'm gonna do that now.
(light music)
I'm up 11 rows, so I'm gonna take my pipe cleaner,
and you could insert it inside of your arm.
Take a minimal amount of stuffing,
and continue working around with a single crochet.
(light music)
Now I'm gonna give it a quick roll,
and you can see we've maintain the same tension
so they're the same length, of course.
That's why it's so important to maintain equal tension.
And now we starting to start up with the fingers,
which are six single crochet and four rows.
Now it's time to do the claws.
(light music)
Now we have a two arms done with our pipe cleaners in there
so we can bend 'em just like so.
Now onto the wings.
- Listen up, (indistinct).
Charizard, Pikachu, about off face now!
(characters shriek)
(characters scream)
- So now I'm gonna start with showing you how to do one
of the sides 'cause they're the same,
except they're just crocheted together,
except for this part down here where they're separate.
Let's get into the wings.
(upbeat music)
And you have your two wings complete.
Our next step is to start putting it together.
(Charizard grumbles)
(tense music)
So our first step is gonna be sewing the head
to the body.
So that's what I'm gonna do now.
(upbeat music)
And now that you've put the head on,
the next step is the tail.
So take out your tail, which has that pipe cleaner in it
so it can be bent, and thread up your needle.
(upbeat music)
Here's Charizard's body, now with the tail attached.
So now next, it's time for the body stripe.
So thread up that nice, long strand that you left.
And then this stripe goes right down the center.
(upbeat music)
And we've completed our main stripe down his stomach
and down the back of his tail,
and now it's time to put on the legs,
which is gonna really bring our Charizard to life.
(upbeat music)
There's Charizard legs, and as you can see, he does stand.
Now we're on to the arms.
(upbeat music)
There's a very important part of the dragon,
which, of course, is his wings.
And the wings attache like this on the back,
right along this area,
and then the arm covers them slightly.
(upbeat music)
(Charizard roars)
- [Man] It's Gigantamax Charizard!
- That's Gigantamax?
- So cool!
- I have now finished sewing on my wings,
and I've added a few facial features with felt, the eyes.
The mouth we did in thin black yarn, and the teeth,
and then I also added the horns.
So here is your finished Charizard, except for the flame,
which I think is one of the most important parts
because that's what makes it a fire dragon.
So I'm gonna start with some yellow.
And what you're gonna do
is you're just gonna wrap it around.
And then just slowly snip all those strands.
But we also need to do this in our red color too.
(playful music)
Take your strands, and you're gonna all put 'em in here,
and then you're gonna use your brush
to brush 'em and make it nice and fluffy.
(playful music)
And then you have to brush it out going up
instead of going straight if you laid it on the table.
You have to hold it and then make it go up.
You just have to brush it out.
(exciting music)
- Charizard, use max (indistinct).
(Charizard growls)
(exciting music)
- So here's a back view of that tail.
It's super awesome, light and fluffy,
a right side view, a left side view,
and a front view.
And that's Charizard.
I hope you enjoyed watching me make Charizard,
and don't forget
that "Pokemon Journeys" is now streaming on Netflix.
Crochet away, friends.
(spray paint can whizzes)
(spray paint can rattles)
(upbeat music)