Bring autumn to your crochet with this cute acorn pattern, featuring a rounded brown body, textured cap, curly stem loop, and a detailed green oak leaf.
A small crocheted acorn gets its familiar woodland shape from a simple rounded body, while the dark brown cap adds the textured detail that makes the finished piece instantly recognizable. The crochet pattern uses increases and decreases to shape the acorn and front-loop stitches to create the cap texture.
Once the crochet acorn body is finished and stuffed, the remaining exposed loops become an important part of the next step rather than being hidden away. The dark brown yarn is worked through those loops to build the cap upward, then continues into the stem loop before the green oak leaf is crocheted and sewn into place.
Credit LYNCrochet
Materials Needed
- Yarn: Susan 4 (or similar medium-weight yarn) in Brown, Dark Brown, and Green
- Hook: 2.2 mm crochet hook
- Other: Fiberfill stuffing, tapestry needle, and stitch markers
Crochet Abbreviations
- MR: Magic Ring
- sc: Single crochet
- inc: Increase (2 sc in one stitch)
- dec: Decrease (sc 2 together)
- hdc: Half double crochet
- dc: Double crochet
- tr: Treble (triple) crochet
- slst: Slip stitch
- ch: Chain
- FLO: Front loop only
- BLO: Back loop only
Crochet Acorn Body Pattern
Work the acorn body in Brown yarn, beginning with a magic ring. The early increases widen the base gradually, while the middle rounds maintain the fuller shape before the decreases bring the top closed.
Round 1: 4 sc in magic ring [4]
Round 2: (1 sc, 1 inc) repeat 2 times [6]
Round 3: FLO 6 inc [12]
Round 4: (1 sc, 1 inc) repeat 6 times [18]
Round 5: (1 sc, 1 inc, 1 sc) repeat 6 times [24]
Round 6: (2 sc, 1 inc) repeat 8 times [32]
Rounds 7–12: 32 sc [32]
Round 13: (3 sc, 1 dec, 3 sc) repeat 4 times [28]
Round 14: 28 sc [28]
Round 15: BLO (5 sc, 1 dec) repeat 4 times [24]
Round 16: BLO (2 sc, 1 dec) repeat 6 times [18]
Stuff the Acorn
Start stuffing the acorn firmly with fiberfill at this point.
Why This Step Matters:
The body is already narrowing, so this is the useful point to add the stuffing before the opening becomes too small. Fill it firmly enough to give the acorn a rounded shape without distorting the stitches.
Round 17: (1 sc, 1 dec) repeat 6 times [12]
Round 18: 6 dec [6]
Fasten off and sew the bottom hole closed.
Acorn Cap and Stem
The cap is worked in Dark Brown yarn using the exposed front loops left behind from Rounds 14, 15, 16, and 17 of the acorn body.
Attach the dark brown yarn to the first exposed front loop.
Cap Pattern: (Ch 5, 1 sc in the next stitch). Repeat this sequence continuously around the acorn, working your way up through all the exposed front loops of Rounds 14, 15, 16, and 17.
Check the Cap Placement
The cap texture should travel upward across the exposed front loops rather than being worked randomly into the surface of the acorn. As you continue, keep the cap sitting naturally over the top portion of the brown body.
Once you reach the top center and finish the cap texture, do not cut the yarn.
Stem: Ch 20.
Start in the 12th ch from the hook, make 9 sc down the chain to create the stem loop.
Fasten off and weave the ends into the acorn.
Oak Leaf
Work the oak leaf in Green yarn, beginning with a chain that forms the central stem. The leaf blades are built along one side of the foundation chain and then continued back down the opposite side.
Start: Ch 24.
Stem Base: Skip the first 4 chains, go back to the 5th chain from the hook. Work 1 slst in the following 5 chains.
Small Leaf Blade 1: 1 hdc in next ch, (1 dc, ch 3, slst) in the next ch.
Large Leaf Blade 1: 1 sc in next ch, 1 hdc in next ch, 1 dc in next ch, (1 tr, ch 4, slst) in the next ch.
Large Leaf Blades 2 & 3: Repeat the large leaf blade pattern 2 more times up the chain.
Top Leaf Blade: In the very last chain (the tip), work: (slst, ch 3, 4 dc, ch 3, slst).
Now, work down the opposite side of the foundation chain.
Large Leaf Blades 4, 5 & 6: (slst, ch 4, 1 tr) in the first st, 1 dc in next st, 1 hdc in next st, 1 sc in next st. Repeat this sequence 2 more times down the side.
Small Leaf Blade 2: (slst, ch 3, 1 dc) in the next st, 1 hdc in next st, 1 sc in next st.
Finish: Work 5 slst down the remaining opposite side of the stem.
Fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing.
Attach the Oak Leaf
Sew the oak leaf securely onto the top base of the acorn cap, positioning it right next to the stem loop.
Take a moment to check the placement before making the final stitches. The leaf should sit against the cap rather than pulling the stem loop out of position.
The finished acorn brings together three recognizable autumn details: the rounded brown nut, the darker textured cap with its raised stem loop, and the green oak leaf tucked beside it.
