There is something about a goose that makes every crocheter smile — that long neck, that waddling confidence, that look of mild judgement from across the farmyard. Geese have quietly become one of the most-loved amigurumi subjects of the last few years, and this collection of crochet goose ideas gathers the very best of them: squishy chenille toys, sleepy loveys, a realistic greylag, a whole dressed-up couple, and even outfits for the porch goose guarding your front door.
A few honest notes before you pick up your hook. Every pattern in this roundup is genuinely free, and each link goes to the designer's own page. Two of them, both from Amigurumi Today, ask you to sign in with a free account to read the full pattern text, and I have flagged those clearly where they appear. The Snappy Tots outfits are a different kind of goose project altogether: they are clothes made to fit a 23-inch porch goose statue rather than a crocheted toy, so I have said so in each of those entries, and one bonus pattern dresses the smaller desk goose instead. A couple of the loveys use embroidered eyes only, which makes them the safest choice if your goose is destined for very small hands.
1. The Big Squishy Chenille Goose
We are starting with the goose every beginner dreams of: a big, velvety, huggable friend worked in super bulky chenille yarn, with a rounded body, soft little wings and a bright orange beak that gives the whole toy its personality. The pattern is written for a 4 mm hook for the body and a 5 mm hook for the wings, with 12 mm safety eyes, and the finished goose stands about 45 cm tall, which is a proper armful of a toy. Because the stitches are basic and the yarn is so forgiving, this is a genuinely beginner-friendly make, and it works up fast enough to be a weekend project. One honest detail: the full pattern text on Amigurumi Today is free to read with a free account, while a printable PDF is sold separately in their shop.
Pattern: Plush Amigurumi Goose by Amigurumi Today — Get the free pattern
2. The Silly Goose With Porch-Goose Charm
Gwen the Silly Goose was designed as a soft, huggable tribute to the porch goose trend, and she carries all of that nostalgic charm without needing a garden statue to perch on. Nicole Chase wrote her in worsted weight yarn, but she notes that the same pattern looks just as lovely in plush chenille for a bigger, squishier goose, or in a thinner yarn for a daintier shelf version, with alteration notes included for a whole family of geese in different sizes. The pattern is rated advanced beginner, so it helps to have made an amigurumi or two before, and the assembly guidance is careful about pinning the beak, wings and feet in place before sewing so nothing ends up sideways. The complete pattern is free on the designer's blog, with an optional paid PDF for those who like to print.
Pattern: Gwen the Silly Goose by Nicole Chase — Get the free pattern
3. The Fluffy Goose Made of Single Crochets Only
Bruce the Goose is proof that you do not need fancy stitches to make a showstopper: this huggable goose is worked entirely in single crochet, with a soft fur yarn doing all the textural work for you. Ashley Parker at The Loopy Lamb designed him as part of a softie crochet-along, and the pattern is rated easy, with a head and body worked in one flowing piece, a long neck, and flat wings that sew neatly to the sides. The full pattern is free on her blog, and there is a companion video tutorial if you like to watch a tricky join before you try it. For a first amigurumi goose, Bruce is hard to beat.
Pattern: Bruce the Goose by Ashley Parker at The Loopy Lamb — Get the free pattern
4. The Tall Goose With a Granny Circle Belly
Maple is the most elegant goose on this list: a tall cream goose with a long neck, a granny circle sewn onto her belly like a little medallion, flat ribbed wings and webbed mustard feet, finished with a row of tiny picots around the base. The head, neck and body are worked as one continuous piece, so the neck flows into the shoulders without a seam, and the pattern calls for worsted weight cotton in cream and mustard with a 3.5 mm hook, 9 mm safety eyes and about 200 g of stuffing. This is an advanced pattern rather than a first toy, since you will shape a long tube with gradual increases, work a granny circle in double crochet, and join three toes into a single webbed foot. Take your time over several sittings and you will end up with a goose that looks like it came from a boutique.
Pattern: Maple the Goose by Hook Vibes — Get the free pattern
5. The Seventeen-Inch Chenille Showstopper
If you love a big finish, this fluffy goose stands about seventeen and a half inches tall, worked in super bulky chenille from beak tip to tail in one seamless piece. The pattern uses a 4.5 mm hook for the main body parts and a 6 mm hook for the wings, with 10 to 12 mm safety eyes, and the yarn suggested is a soft bunny-baby chenille in white with orange for the beak and feet. The construction is satisfyingly straightforward for such an impressive toy: legs first, then a head and body worked together, then wings, with clear assembly notes at the end. The complete written pattern is free on the Amigurumi Corner blog, with an optional paid PDF in their shop for a printable version.
Pattern: Fluffy Goose by Amigurumi Corner — Get the free pattern
6. The One-Piece Goose With a Beanie and Collar
Carla is a sweet, chunky goose with a clever construction: her head, body and feet are all worked in one single piece, so the only part you sew on separately is the beak, which keeps assembly blissfully short. Elisa's Crochet designed her in super bulky Lion Brand Re-Spun Thick and Quick yarn with 4.5 mm and 4 mm hooks and 10 mm safety eyes, and the pattern is rated beginner, which makes Carla a lovely first goose for a confident newcomer. The optional extras are what steal my heart: a little beanie and a delicate collar in a soft wisteria shade that turn a plain goose into a dressed-up lady in about an hour. The full pattern is free on the blog, with an ad-free PDF available for purchase if you prefer to print.
Pattern: Carla the Goose by Elisa’s Crochet — Get the free pattern
7. The Lying-Down Mini Goose
This gentle little goose by VikGoldFish is different from every other toy on this list because she lies down, relaxed and calm, in the pose of a goose resting in the grass after a long day. The pattern is beginner-friendly and written step by step in basic stitches, with a simple wire armature inside the body to hold that restful shape, and the eyes are embroidered with black thread for a soft, handmade finish. It is worked in a fine openwork yarn with a very small 0.9 mm hook, so the stitches are neat and delicate, and you will need fiberfill, a tapestry needle and basic sewing tools alongside the wire. The complete pattern is published free on the Amigurumi All Free Patterns blog, with credit to the designer.
Pattern: Mini Goose by VikGoldFish at Amigurumi All Free Patterns — Get the free pattern
8. The Dressed-Up Goose Couple for Your Scrap Basket
Why make one goose when you can make a matched pair? This scrap-friendly pattern from Amiloops gives you two dressed-up geese for about 250 yards of yarn in total: one in overalls and a flat hat, the other in a dress with a headband and bow, both built from a single white skein plus whatever colours are already sitting in your basket. The bodies are straightforward, while the little outfits have a few trickier construction rows, so the pattern is rated intermediate, and the finished geese measure about four inches without accessories and five to five and a half inches with their hats. You can work them in fingering cotton with a 2.5 mm hook or DK weight with a 3.5 mm hook, and the designer suggests them for wedding gifts, couple gifts, shelf displays and market sets.
Pattern: Goose Amigurumi Couple by Amiloops — Get the free pattern
9. The Little Goose in a Flower Hat
This charming little goose started life as a keychain design, and you can feel that small-scale sweetness in every round: a rounded body, a slim neck, tiny wings, an orange beak and a ring of flower petals worn around the head like a crown. The pattern is worked in continuous rounds in a light yarn of about 25 g per 70 m with a 3 mm hook, and the instructions are published in full on the designer's blog, from the magic ring of the head right through to the five petals you sew around the face. It is a quick, satisfying make, and because it is small it is ideal for using up leftover balls, for a bag charm, or for a spring gift when you want something handmade but not enormous. Sometimes the smallest goose in the flock gets the most compliments.
Pattern: Cute Goose with a Flower Hat by Under the Singapore Sun — Get the free pattern
10. The Realistic Greylag Goose
Most crochet geese are snowy white, so this greylag goose from Lucy Kate Crochet stands out beautifully: she is worked in a variegated yarn, which means you get all those soft grey and brown feather tones without a single colour change to manage. The pattern calls for orange and graphite DK yarns with 3.75 mm and 2.25 mm hooks, plus safety eyes, toy stuffing and a good needle, and it is written for a relatively experienced crocheter, since the shaping is more detailed than a beginner ball-and-tube toy. The result looks like a real farmyard greylag rather than a cartoon, which makes it a wonderful gift for a bird lover or a nature-themed nursery. The complete pattern is free on the designer's blog.
Pattern: Greylag Goose by Lucy Kate Crochet — Get the free pattern
11. The Velvet Goodnight Goose Lovey
A lovey is a different kind of goose altogether: part plushie, part blanket, with a soft unstuffed body made for small hands to drag around and cuddle at bedtime. The Goodnight Goose from Amigurumi Today is designed exactly that way, velvet-soft and comforting to make as well as to hold, with a round squishy head and a floppy body that folds into little arms. It is rated beginner, and like the site's plush goose above, the full pattern text is free to read with a free account, while a printable PDF is sold in their shop. If you are making this for a baby, swap any plastic safety eyes for embroidered ones, which is the designer's own safety advice across the site.
Pattern: Goodnight Goose Snuggle Toy by Amigurumi Today — Get the free pattern
12. The Goose Sitting Inside a Pumpkin
Here is the most characterful lovey on the list: a white goose with a long narrow neck, three little crown feathers, floppy wings and ridiculously long orange legs, sitting inside a pumpkin with six shaped grooves, a leaf, a stem and a vine. The pattern is built from twelve crocheted pieces, with the goose's neck secured inside the pumpkin's open top so she really looks as though she is sitting in it rather than wearing it as a costume, and the legs are left mostly unstuffed so they dangle. It is rated confident beginner to intermediate, and every facial detail is embroidered, with no plastic safety eyes, buttons or other hard pieces anywhere, which makes it a thoughtful choice for little ones. The designer is clear about safe use too: this is a supervised-play and shelf-sitting friend, not a crib toy.
Pattern: Pumpkin Goose Snuggler Lovey by Unique Baby Gear Ideas — Get the free pattern
13. A Football Sweater for Your Porch Goose
Now we cross over to the porch goose world, where the goose is a statue and the crochet is her wardrobe, and this football fan outfit is the perfect place to start. The Snappy Tots pattern gives you a football-shaped sweater in traditional brown and cream, plus a beanie you can work in your own team's colours, sized for a 23-inch porch goose with easy suggestions for adapting it to a larger 28-inch goose. It is written in worsted weight yarn with H and I hooks, and because the sweater is shaped like a football, it reads instantly from the street, which is exactly the point of a porch goose. The complete pattern is free on the Snappy Tots blog, with an optional paid PDF for a printable copy.
Pattern: Football Fan Goose by Snappy Tots — Get the free pattern
14. The Wizard Goose, Books Included
If your porch goose has literary ambitions, this wizard outfit is her moment: a long jacket, a pointed hat and a scarf, all crocheted, plus instructions for making the little books she carries, which are assembled rather than crocheted. The pattern is written in worsted weight yarn in black, cream, light grey and green, with H and I hooks and a one-inch button, and it is sized for the usual 23-inch porch goose statue. The jacket starts at the neck edge and is worked back and forth in rows, with the hood added last, and the designer includes her usual clear tips about stitch counts and turning chains. The full pattern is free on the Snappy Tots blog.
Pattern: Wizard Goose by Snappy Tots — Get the free pattern
15. The Thanksgiving Turkey Goose Set
This is the outfit for the goose who takes Thanksgiving very seriously: a full turkey suit, complete with the neck and feather features, plus a simpler fall sweater version made from the same pattern without the added details, so you can dress two geese at once if you like. The pattern calls for about 300 yards of brown worsted weight yarn with smaller amounts of orange, burgundy, yellow and green, worked with H and I hooks, and it is sized for the standard 23-inch porch goose. The designer notes that the turkey suit takes a little longer than her simpler sweaters, which feels fair for an outfit with this much personality, and she made one version for her parents' goose and the simpler sweater for her own. The complete pattern is free on the Snappy Tots blog, with an optional paid PDF in her pattern shops.
Pattern: Turkey Goose Set by Snappy Tots — Get the free pattern
16. The Cosy Goose Hoodie
Every goose needs a hoodie for chilly days, and this one is worked in a cheerful royal blue with bright orange accents, in about 300 yards of worsted weight yarn with H and I hooks. The pattern starts at the neck edge and is worked in the round down to the bottom edge, with the hood added last, and the finished sweater measures about eight inches from neck to bottom and thirteen and a half to fourteen inches across the bottom edge when measured flat. Because the instructions are written for colour changes and stripes, you can swap the sample colours for anything you like, from a school colour to a favourite sports team, without changing the construction at all. The full pattern is free on the Snappy Tots blog, with an optional paid PDF for a printable version.
Pattern: Goose Hoodie by Snappy Tots — Get the free pattern
17. The Striped Party Dress With a Ruffle
For the goose who loves a party, this striped dress with a ruffled hem and a little turtleneck top is pure celebration, worked in about 200 yards of worsted weight yarn with an I hook. The sample mixes white, spring green, turquoise, pumpkin and shocking pink in bold stripes, but the pattern is written with colour changes you can substitute freely, and the designer even notes that swapping black for the coloured rows and leaving off the ruffle turns it into a referee shirt. The finished dress measures about thirteen and a half inches across the striped section with a six-inch neck and a twelve-inch length including the ruffle, sized for the usual 23-inch porch goose. The complete dress pattern is free on the Snappy Tots blog, with an optional paid PDF in her shops.
Pattern: Snappy Goose Dress by Snappy Tots — Get the free pattern
18. The Goose Pouch Hugging a Pumpkin
This one is not a toy and not an outfit, but a sweet little drawstring pouch shaped like a goose, hugging a stuffed jack-o'-lantern, made for Halloween treats, small surprises or hanging up as a fall decoration. The designer created it as part of a Halloween crochet-along, and she points out a delightful bonus: leave off the beak and feet, stitch on a little round nose instead, and you have a ghost pouch from the very same pattern. It is a small, quick project, which makes it ideal for making a whole flock of them for party favours or a craft fair table, and the combination of a white goose and an orange pumpkin is instantly readable from across the room. The complete pattern is free on the Snappy Tots blog, with an optional paid PDF for a printable copy.
Pattern: Goose Pouch and Jack by Snappy Tots — Get the free pattern
19. Four Costumes for the Little Desk Goose
Porch geese are big, but desk geese are having their own moment, and this free pattern dresses the smaller bird in four different costumes: a butterfly, a duck, a turkey and a flamingo, all in one pattern. The designer made her own dress form by wrapping her goose in cling film and masking tape, then measuring and working out the maths, so the fits are genuinely worked out rather than guessed, and she notes that her mother collaborated on the pattern, designing the butterfly's wings. The gauge is four stitches per inch, and the pattern is written for the small desk goose rather than the full-size porch statue, so do check which goose you own before you start. The complete pattern is free on the Project Bonbon blog.
Pattern: Desk Goose 4-in-1 Costume Pattern by Project Bonbon — Get the free pattern
20. The Pocket-Sized Mini Goose
We are finishing with the smallest goose in the flock: a pocket-sized amigurumi with a rounded body, a slim neck, directly worked wings, a tiny tail, embroidered eyes and contrast-colour feet, finished with a ribbon bow that never hides the crochet detail. The pattern is worked in continuous rounds with a clear abbreviation guide, and the construction is clever in its simplicity: the body folds flat and closes with single crochets through both edges, the legs are worked directly from the body, and the wings are attached to the sides between the middle rounds. Because the eyes are embroidered rather than plastic, this little goose is a safe choice for a child's bag or a pram charm, and in classic white, soft grey or any favourite shade it makes a lovely stash-friendly gift. The complete pattern is free on the Penguin Hobbies blog, with no sign-up needed to read it.
Pattern: Mini Goose by Penguin Hobbies — Get the free pattern
Conclusion
And that is twenty geese, my friend — squishy chenille toys, sleepy loveys, a realistic greylag, a dressed-up couple, a pumpkin-sitting sweetheart, a whole wardrobe of porch goose outfits, a desk goose in four costumes, and a pocket-sized friend to finish. If you are new to amigurumi, start with Bruce or Carla, where the stitches are simple and the assembly is short; if you already own a porch goose, the football sweater or the hoodie will give her a whole new season.
Now tell me — are you team big squishy chenille goose or team dressed-up porch goose, and which of these twenty is going on your hook first? I read every comment, and I cannot wait to see your geese!
