Free 4th of July Crochet Pattern – Posable Uncle Sam Amigurumi

I’m so excited to share this with you! This Posable Uncle Sam Crochet Pattern is my newest addition for the 4th of July and I couldn’t be more proud of how he turned out. He stands about 6.2 inches (16 cm) tall, with long arms and legs that can be posed in the cutest ways. Whether you’re decorating a shelf, making a festive keyring, or gifting handmade party favors, this patriotic little amigurumi is sure to stand out. It’s a free pattern, full of fun, quick, and packed with step-by-step photos to help you from start to finish!

Easy and Fun 4th of July Crochet Patterns to Celebrate in Style

If you love seasonal crochet, 4th of July crochet patterns are a wonderful way to add handmade flair to your celebrations. For decorating your home, preparing gifts, or just looking for a fun red, white, and blue project, check out these beautiful free crochet patterns! From stars and stripes to festive characters, these patterns are ideal for summer markets, party décor, or a relaxing holiday weekend crochet session.

Posable Crochet Amigurumi Collection

This Uncle Sam joins my special collection of posable crochet dolls, a style I absolutely love designing, and many of you keep emailing me requesting more! If you’ve been following along, you may have already seen my posable Grinch, Santa Claus, Gingerbread Man, Bunny, Chick, The candy corn buddies, mini ghost, and Black Cat. All of them share the same key features: long arms and legs that you can bend or cross, full of expressive personality. They’re fun to make, easy to display, and perfect for gifting.

And yes, there are more characters coming soon!

If you’re looking for even more crochet inspiration, I recommend starting here with the other free crochet patterns available on the blog.

💙 Ready to start? Let’s crochet this Uncle Sam together!

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POSABLE UNCLE SAM CROCHET PATTERN

List of Materials:

• 2mm crochet hook,
• White, red, blue and skin tone of your choice sports weight cotton yarn. I used Hobbii Friends for this pattern.
• Black embroidery thread for the eyes.
• Sewing needle,
• Stuffing material hypoallergenic polyester,
• Scissors

Finish size:

This toy is crocheted using sports weight yarn and a 2 mm hook. The finished size is approximately 16 cm (6.2 inches) tall.

Gauge

You don’t need to worry too much about the gauge for this pattern. Just choose a hook that works well with your yarn. I always like to use a slightly smaller hook than the yarn label suggests—this helps keep the stitches nice and tight, so the stuffing doesn’t poke through. If your stitches look a bit loose, try going down a hook size.

But if you’d like to check the gauge I got with my yarn, here it is:
Using sports weight yarn and a 2 mm hook, 5 rounds (ending with 30 stitches) measure about 1.6″ (4.5 cm) across.

For a low-cost, ad-free, and printable pattern, with a photo tutorial, you can find it in Ravelry here! And on Etsy here!

Uncle Sam Pattern Instructions

LEGS

With brown yarn chain 5, skip the first chain and start,

1 rnd    3sc, 4sc in the last chain, turning the work and continue working on the other side, 2sc, 3sc in the last chain. Total 12sts

2 rnd    12blsc

3 rnd    1sc, 4dec, 3sc Total 8sts

• Change to white yarn. Leave a small tail of the brown yarn for sewing later.

• Chain 16, skip the first chain. Change to red yarn and make 15 slip stitches.

• Cut both yarns and fasten off.

• Using the leftover brown yarn, sew the 4 stitches from one side of the foot to the 4 stitches on the other side, closing it.

ARMS

With the skin tone of your choice, start

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 and 3 rnd  6sc

• Change to blue yarn. Cut the skin tone yarn and fasten it off.

• Fold the hand in half so that you have 3 single crochets on each side.

• For the next round, crochet the two sides together to close the hand.

4 rnd  1sc, (chain 16, skip first chain, 15sl), skip the central stitch, 1sc

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.

• Make another one following the same instructions

BODY

With red yarn start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

3 rnd  (1sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 18sts

4 rnd  (2sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 24sts

5 rnd  (1sc, 1inc) repeat 12 times Total 36sts

• Introduce the white yarn and continue working with both colors

6 rnd  ([red] 3blsc, [white] 3blsc) repeat 6 times

• For the next round, you will crochet together with the legs

7 rnd  [red] 3sc, [white] 3sc, [red] 3sc, [white] 2sc, 1sc with one leg,   [red] 3sc, [white] 3sc, [red] 3sc, [white] 1sc with the other leg,   2sc, [red] 3sc, [white] 3sc, [red] 3sc, [white] 3sc

8-10 rnd  ([red] 3sc, [white] 3sc) repeat 6 times

• Change to blue color and continue working with blue and white.

• Cut the red yarn and fasten it off.

11 rnd  [blue] 15blsl, [white] 3blsl, [blue] 18blsl

12 rnd  [blue] 15blsc, [white] 3blsc, [blue] 18blsc

13 rnd  [blue] 15sc, [white] 3sc, [blue] 18sc

14 rnd  [blue] 10sc, 1dec, 3sc [white] 3sc, [blue] 4sc, 1dec, 10sc,   1dec Total 33sts

15 rnd  [blue] 9sc, 1dec, 3sc [white] 3sc, [blue] 3sc, 1dec, 9sc, 1dec     Total 30sts

16 rnd  [blue] 8sc, 1dec, 3sc [white] 3sc, [blue] 2sc, 1dec, 8sc, 1dec     Total 27sts

17 rnd  [blue] 12sc, [white] 3sc, [blue] 12sc

18 rnd  [blue] 7sc, 1dec, 3sc [white] 3sc, [blue] 1sc, 1dec, 7sc, 1dec   Total 24sts

19 rnd  [blue] 11sc, [white] 3sc, [blue] 10sc

20 rnd  [blue] (2sc, 1dec) repeat 3 times, [white] 2sc, [blue]  1dec,   (2sc, 1dec) repeat 2 times Total 18sts

• For the next round, you will crochet the arms together with the body.

• If your starting stitch isn’t in the same position as mine, the arms might not end up centered with the legs.

• To fix this, find the 6 stitches in the center front of Uncle Sam’s body, that’s the space between the two arms. Adjust round 21 as needed to keep everything symmetrical.

21 rnd  [blue] 6sc, 1sc with the hand, 2sc, [white] 2sc, [blue] 2sc,   1sc with the hand, 4sc

• Stop here to add the yellow buttons.
With a piece of yellow yarn, embroider 3 small X’s in the center of the white section, leaving 2 rounds of space between each one. Once done, fasten off the yellow yarn.

• Now, cut the white yarn and fasten it off.

• Continue working with the blue yarn only.

• Before moving to the next round, add some stuffing to the body.

22 rnd  (1sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 12sts

HEAD

• Change to skin tone of your choice,

23 rnd  12blsl

• For the next round, you will work on grabbing the remaining front loop from round 22. Round 23 will be hiding inside the toy.

24 rnd  12inc Total 24sts

25 rnd  (3sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 30sts

26 rnd  (4sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 36sts

27 to 33 rnd  36sc

34 rnd  (4sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 30sts

35 rnd  (3sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 24sts

36 rnd  (2sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 18sts

• Stop here to finish adding stuffing material.

37 rnd  (1sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 12sts

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.

HAT

With blue color yarn start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

3 rnd  (1sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 18sts

4 rnd  (2sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 24sts

5 rnd  (1sc, 1inc) repeat 12 times Total 36sts

• Change to red yarn. Cut and fasten off the blue. From here, you will work with red and white yarn, creating the hat stripes

6 rnd  ([red] 2bpsc, [white] 2bpsc) repeat 9 times

7-11 rnd  ([red] 2sc, [white] 2sc) repeat 9 times

• Change to blue yarn. Fasten the white color and keep with the red.

12 rnd  36blsl

13 rnd  36blsc

14 rnd  (7sc, 1dec) repeat 4 times Total 32sts

15 rnd  32sc

• Change to red color, cut the blue, and fasten it off.

• For round 16, you will work with the front loop only.

16 rnd  FL(1sc, 1inc) repeat 16 times Total 48sts

17 rnd  (5sc, 1inc) repeat 8 times Total 56sts

18 rnd  (6sc, 1inc) repeat 8 times Total 64sts

• Cut the yarn and fasten it off. Leave a tail for sewing later.

• With white thread, embroider the stars in the blue part.

BOW TIE

With red yarn, chain 6. Skip the first chain and begin:

1 row  2sc, 1sl, 1sc, 4sc in the last chain. Turn your work and continue on the other side of the chain, 1sc, 1sl, 1sc, 3sc in the last stitch.
Join with a slip stitch.

• Cut the yarn, leaving a tail to shape the bow tie.

• Bring the yarn tail to the center (where the slip stitches are) and wrap it tightly around the middle to shape the bow. Tie a secure knot at the back to keep it in place.

• Do not cut the leftover yarn, you’ll use it later to sew the bow tie onto the body.

HAIR

With gray yarn, chain 10. Skip the first chain and begin:

1 row  1sc, 1sl, [(chain 2, 2dc in the same st, chain 2, 1sl) repeat 3 times], 1sc

• Cut the yarn and leave a tail for sewing.

• Make a second piece following the same instructions.

ASSEMBLY

1. Use pins to position the hair on both sides of Uncle Sam’s head. Once you’re happy with the placement, sew it in place using the yarn tails.
2. Attach the bow tie to the center of the neck area. You can either sew it on with the leftover yarn or tie a firm knot in the back to secure it.
3. With black thread, embroider the eyes on round 30leaving 4 stitches of space between them.
4. Finally, sew the hat to the top of the head, positioning it neatly and securely.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

You finished your Crochet Uncle Sam amigurumi!

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Happy crocheting!

Ana