This Cerberus was donated to Awesome Games Done Quick 2026 to help raise money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. If you haven’t seen it, BehemothSteve did an amazing run of Hades II for the event on January 10th, including a fun trick of turning to pet Cerberus while blindly fighting Prometheus!
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Reference Material
The best boy Cerberus from Hades and Hades II by Supergiant Games!
Pattern by: Son’s Popkes (with some modifications)
Materials Used
For his body and the black toe details, I used Yarn Bee Eternal Bliss in Red and Black.
For his nose, I used Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in Spring Green.
The eyes, collar, and skull dog tags were all yarns that I pulled from my yarn stash (and no longer had the labels for).
The tongue is a piece of yellow felt that I purchased at the local craft store.
More materials coming soon.
How I Made It
Unfortunately, I made this project a few years ago, and it was before I remembered to take pictures of my projects. (I say “before” but I still forget all the time.) This means that a lot of what I am going off of is from memory, and I don’t have close ups of the individual parts that I will be referencing.
The bulk of this project, was made by just following the pattern. This includes, the head, ears, as well as the both the front and rear legs.
Eyes
One of the limited modifications I made to his face were his eyes. The pattern uses safety eyes, but Cerberus’ eyes in the game are glowing. To replicate this, I crocheted a circle, using a lighter shade of teal, and did another row around it using a darker shade! For this, I used yarn that I already had and tried to color match to the game as best as possible. To look more menacing, I used the same yarn that I used for the bulk of this project, and embroidered on angry eyebrows, doing a couple stiches to make sure it covers the top curve of the eye.
Nose
For his nose, I free handed a triangular shape, and then crocheted around all of the edges to have a cleaner edge to sew onto his face. I did find exactly one note that I wrote down about his nose and all it said was “ch 10 turn, sc 9.” I have to assume this is the base width of the widest part of the nose and I just added a decrease on the edge each row. However, I can’t be 100% sure, and this might have been a test length that didn’t end up working out.
Mouth
In the game, one of his three heads typically had his mouth open with his tongue hanging out. This stumped me at first but the solution was staring me right in the face. The bottom part of his mouth, is actually just one of his ears! I simply followed the directions for the ear in the pattern and sewed it onto the bottom of his head. His tongue was a piece of yellow felt I got at the craft store. While it may have not been the most sophisticated of methods, I simply used a whole punch, put a few holes in the end of the felt, and sewed it to his head.
Collar
For his collar, I wanted something a little bit more interesting than just single crochet, so I used a basket weave stitch with some gold yarn I already had. His little dog tags are white circles with the next round of the circle only about a quarter finished to create the bottom part of the skull. I outsourced the faces to my dad. He has a Cricut, so to make life easier, he printed the faces and heat pressed them on. (Turns out the yarn was acrylic and did melt a little bit, but not enough that I felt the need to remake them. Be careful!)
Body (biggest modifications)
The main modifications that took place were to his body. I liked how the wolf in the pattern is sitting but if I followed the pattern for his body and then just stuck three heads on top, I was worried it would look unbalanced. I also wanted each head to have their own neck, and not look like it was one head with two heads coming off of the sides.
I found my notes for the body modifications and will add them below. I discovered them only recently and had to recreate Cerberus (in mini form) to make sure they actually made sense as this project was early on in my crochet journey. There are probably better ways to scale up his body, but I’m too lazy to remake him completely. Below is how I made his body. It might help to have the “Woolfie” pattern open while following along with my pattern to kind of see what I was going for. If anything doesn’t make sense, or you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me via email or Instagram!
Crochet Pattern
- Row 1: sc 8 in a magic circle (8)
- Row 2: (sc 3 in one stitch) x 3 (24)
- Row 3: (sc, inc) x12 (36)
- Row 4: (sc, sc, inc) x 12 (48)
- Row 5: (sc 23, inc) x 2 (50)
- Row 6: sc 34, ch 4, skip 3 sts, sc 13 (51)
- Row 7: sc 34, sc 4 in chain, sc 13 (51)
- Rows 8 – 12: sc 51 (51)
- Row 9:
I am currently in the process of testing right now and will add the pattern here (hopefully with pictures) soon!
Cerberus 2.0
This Cerberus was not actually the first version! I first tested him out on a smaller scale and was not happy with his size. I thought “he should be bigger.” To be honest, when I purchased the Yarn Bee Eternal Bliss yarn, I didn’t quite realize how much it would scale him up, and he came out bigger than I expected. But ultimately happy with how he turned out. Sadly, I didn’t take any pictures of the two together, but I will put pictures of both below so you can compare. It is a little hard to tell in the picture but the smaller one is more or less the size of a standard stuffed animal.
For both, I followed the exact same pattern and modification changes, except for making the nose, eyes, and collar smaller and using felt for the dog tags on his collar. I will say, the smaller version was also before I learned there was a “right” and a “wrong” side to crochet. AND the fact that, because I’m left handed, if I don’t remember to flip my projects inside out at the start of the project, then the wrong side will be out. So, needless to say, I don’t think the smaller guy looks as nice because he is technically inside out.