Amigurumi

Wiki - "Amigurumi (編み包み, Amigurumi^? lit. Knitted stuffed toy) is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and anthropomorphic creatures. Amigurumi are typically cute animals (such as bears, rabbits, cats, dogs, etc.), but can include inanimate objects endowed with anthropomorphic features. Amigurumi can be either knitted or crocheted. In recent years crocheted amigurumi are more popular and more commonly seen."

This is our new favourite thing (Bek and me). We spent all of last night frowning at low-quality YouTube videos trying to figure out how it's done, not talking to each other as we tensely counted each stitch and swore when we lost count and had to unravel again. Crochet and foul language - who'd've thought the two would be linked...?

So, as it's so fun, easy and inspiringly adaptable I thought I'd put some information here for anyone else who might be interested in giving it a try. I think I'm going to make some cute animal Christmas tree baubles... pandas, cats and polar bears...

Amigurumi tutorial (part one)
Amigurumi tutorial (part two)
Free patterns
Cupcakes and other animals
Amigurumi Kingdom
Amigurumi cactus pattern (and others)
More crochet cacti
Roxycraft patterns
Ana Paula Rimoli Etsy shop