Crochet Groot...

I made this cute little fella for a young lady who is a HUGE Groot fan.  She has very serious medical problems that impairs her quality of life and keeps her wheelchair-bound.

I wanted to make this for her.  I searched Pinterest and found a few I liked but was unsettled how I wanted to make him.

Groot

Size: approximately 8-9" tall

Materials:
--5.0mm hook
--#4 worsted weight yarn (light tan/brown and green) -- the coloring on my pics is a little off from editing
--black embroidery thread for mouth
--2 black eyes
--polyfil
--stitch marker
--1 Chenille stem
--tapestry needle for weaving

U.S. Stitch Abbreviations:
Ch:  chain
Sl st:  slip stitch
St:  stitch(es)
SC:  single crochet
Rep:  repeat
MR:  magic ring
FO:  fasten off

Special Note:
I worked this pattern in the round.  Use your stitch marker to keep track of the beginning and ending stitches.  Move stitch marker up as you start each new round.

Directions:
Head:
For the most part, I followed the blog of Twinkie Chan for the head portion with a few slight changes.    Here is the LINK to her blog.  Note:  I did not make stems for the top of the head but I did make and attach 3 leaves.

After that, her Baby Groot was made like a tree.  I wanted mine to have a body and legs.  On my first attempt, I went up in increase stitches to 24 - but, I thought 24 stitches was too big.  I then settled on stopping at 18 stitches.

Body/Legs:
1.  For the body, I started with 6 SC st in a magic ring.  Pull tail to tighten.  (6)
2.  2 SC in each st around.  (12)
3.  2 SC in first st, 1 SC in next st.  Rep around.  (18)
4-10.  1 SC in each st around.  (18)
Stuff body with polyfil.
First Leg:
11.  1 SC in the first 9 st.  Sl st join to first st.  (9)
12-17.  1 SC in each st around.  At the end of Round 17, FO and weave ends.
Second Leg:
Rep 11-17 for the second leg.
Stuff legs with polyfil.

Bottom of Leg (make 2):
1.  6 SC st in a magic ring.  (6)
2.  2 SC in first st.  1SC in next st.  Rep around.  Sl st join to first st and FO.  Leave a long enough tail to attach to the bottom of each leg.

Arms (make 2):
1.  6 SC into magic ring.
2-10.  1 SC in each st around.  At end of Round 10, FO and leave a tail for attaching to body.
(I placed a Chenille stem - approx length of arm - inside to make movable.)

Hand (make 2):
1.  For the hand, I chained 2, slip stitched in first.  I rep this until I had 5 "fingers" made and then attached to bottom of arm.
2.  Rep again for second hand.

Leaves:
1.  I just made picot stitches (chain 3, slip stitch in first chain and fasten off) and attached throughout.  I attached a leaf to each arm, each leg and on the body and head.

I saw several pictures that used a long chain of stitches (well, that's what it looked like to me) so I made one and attached from under the arm, around the body and around one leg.  I then made a second chain of stitches long enough to wrap around the second leg.  I did not count how many chains for each.

Attach the body parts and that's it.

 

Happy Crocheting...