How To… Make an Amigurumi (Crochet Animal Friends) Guest Post

  

I am VERY excited to bring you Clara from amieggs and her most adorable Amigurumi or Crocheted Small Things. She makes wonderful creations, that are normally available for purchase. But she has decided to be VERY generous and share two of her patterns with you. Below you will find the most adorable teddy and then hop over to her blog for a bunny (get it – “hop over”? ahem). She has inspired me to learn to crochet. I have never been interested before.. but now, my crochet hooks are on order! Woohoo. Over to the lovely Clara and her fabulous creations:

Hello! My name is Clara and I run the amieggs blog over at http://ami-eggs.blogspot.com/ =)

I love crocheting, and dedicate my blog to all my creations. The name of the blog, amieggs, comes from the name I’ve given my own little creatures:

Amieggs are little crochet eggs dressed up as a bunch of things… from animals to food! Here are some of my favorites:

The fox, the penguin, the elephant and the corn on the cob!

I also enjoy crocheting furniture. My first project was this tiny living room:

And I further on moved to slightly bigger furniture like the following armchair, in a 1:6 scale to fit my Blythe doll =)

I sell my patterns and eggs in my etsy shop, you can visit it here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/nayami

Today, I would like to share a free pattern with you all!!! It is part of the newest patern in my shop, the toy chest! 

As you can see, in my patterns I draw diagrams to explain the difficult parts of a project and include many pictures to make your work as easy as possible!!!

While the toy chest pattern is available in my shop, you can get the teddy bear pattern here totally for free and the bunnies pattern on my blog! Hope you enjoy it, and I love to see all your finished creations!!! Feel free to leave a comment on my blog (http://ami-eggs.blogspot.com/) or even share your pictures with me on flickr!!! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/clara_amigurumi/)

Teddy bear

You will need:

Tan cotton yarn

A number 5 crochet hook

A yarn needle

Head:

1 – make a ring with 6 stitches

2  – inc each stitch (total 12 stitches)

3 – sc 1, inc 1: repeat 6 times (total 18 stitches)

4 – sc 3, inc 1, sc 2: repeat 3 times (total 21 stitches)

5 – sc 1, inc 1, sc 5: repeat 3 times (total 24 stitches)

6 through 9 – sc 1 on each stitch (total 24 stitches)

10 – sc 1, dec 1, sc 5: repeat 3 times (total 21 stitches)

11 – sc 3, dec 1, sc 2: repeat 3 times (total 18 stitches)

12 – sc 1, dec 1: repeat 6 times (total 12 stitches)

13 – dec 6 (total 6 stitches)

Stuff and bind off

Body:

1 – make a ring with 6 stitches

2 – inc each stitch (total 12 stitches)

3 through 5 – sc 1 on each stitch (total 12 stitches)

6 – sc 2, dec 1: repeat 3 times (total 9 stitches)

7 through 8 . sc 1 on each stitch (total 9 stitches)

Bind off leaving long tail for sewing, stuff and sew to head.

Nose:

1 – ch 2

2 – ch 1 to turn, sc 1 on each stitch and one on the ends (total 6 stitches, see diagram)

3 – sc 6

Bind off leaving a long tail for sewing. Embroider nose, stuff and sew to the head.

Arms:

1 – Make a ring with 4 stitches

2 – sc 1, increase 1: repeat 2 times (total 6 stitches)

3 through 6 – sc 6

Bind off leaving long tail for sewing, stuff and sew to body.

Legs:

1 – Make a ring with 4 stitches

2 – sc 1, increase 1: repeat 2 times (total 6 stitches)

3 through 7 – sc 6

Bind off leaving long tail for sewing, stuff and sew to body.

Ears:

1 – ch 1

2 – ch 1 to turn, sc 3 stitches in 1 stitch.

3 – ch 1 to turn, increase 3 (sc 2 on each stitch)

4 – ch 1 to turn, sc 6

Bind off leaving long tail and sew onto head.

Finally, attach a brown ribbon around the teddy bear’s neck and cut the edges into a V shape.

 

Now hop on over to my blog to get the free bunnies pattern! =)

Clara @ amieggs

http://ami-eggs.blogspot.com/

http://ami-eggs.blogspot.com/2010/08/toy-chest-free-bunnies-pattern.html

I can’t wait for my crochet hooks to arrive… and to get learning!

 

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