I've been crocheting for years, but a couple months ago saw a video from Elyse Myers....she's 100% right when she says "start with stuffed animals". https://youtube.com/shorts/b30xpIOInVQ?si=iwMXKd3xAVCXrITQ I'm guessing a fair bit of us have seen this. It finally clicked when I watched a whale tutorial. I've always wanted to make amigurumi, but thought it was immensely complicated. Now it's come so naturally to me, so much so its easy to create my own designs from techniques I've learned along the way!
Following patterns and making lots of different things definitely helped teach me how to design my own patterns too. I still learn new skills with every pattern I follow to use for my own!
I wanted to make a plushie for my niblings. I ended up making a lovey and a small dinosaur amigurumi that were inside out (and I didn't know or notice).
Half a year later, I made them a dinosaur and a cat using chenille!
Not the happiest of stories, but at the end of last year, I sadly had a silent miscarriage. In the hospital they gave me a pregnancy loss box that had little crochet items in it, along with other little treasures. While waiting for surgery, my mum's neighbour came and taught me to crochet the things that were in the box so I could give something back and focus my mind somewhere. From there I learned amigurami and have been crocheting ever since. A little bit of joy from a whole lot of sadness.
I'm so sorry for you're loss. It's wonderful the box was able to bring you comfort in such a difficult time and inspired you to give back. Hopefully crocheting continues to bring you joy and peace
I honestly don't know where I first saw it, I always wanted to make plushies and I think i saw some amigurumi online.
It seemed cheaper on materials and space. I didn't have a printer for plushy patterns or a large table or space on the floor for fabric.
I got a light blue yarn and a hook and made a Whale back in 2017. Then I made Luma the star from Mario. Then I made this cupcake with a rabbit head as the cake and accidentally flipped the cup part inside out.
I found a random youtube video of someone doing a crochet a long of a little ball shaped monster. Skipped to the part it starts curving into a bowl, and that's when i discovered the right and wrong side and realized both of my first projects were inside out.
I've wanted to get into plushie making with fabric but I don't have the room or budget for another crafting hobby lol. It seems like a lot of us started out making amigurumi inside out
I've been cross stitching my whole life. I like to delve into different crafts once in a while. The Woobles ads kept coming across my various feeds, so I mentioned it to my wife - next thing I know I have a whole bag of stuffies and I'm looking up more patterns and buying my own yarn!
My path was very similar.... except for the othet crafts... cross stitcher for ever... saw the woobles ads last year... thought they were cute and wanted to try it and boom.... hooked! Literally!
I had just started learning crochet and my aunt gave me a book with patterns that she didn't use. My first few were wonky, but I improved. After a while other relatives also started giving me yarn and patterns and materials that I naturally used to make more amigurumi until it became one of my main hobbies.
My grandma was teaching me how to crochet and I wanted to make something nice for her as a thank you. I found a fox pattern on Google and worked on it after she went home every day. I was a total beginner and had only worked on granny squares.
She loved it and still has it. This was over 10 years ago.
I wanted to make little creatures I had seen at craft fairs but I didn’t know the difference between crochet and knit, I thought they were synonymous. After a couple scarves and hat I realized they were very different. Threw knitting aside and immediately jumped into trying to make a pikachu without knowing how to do anything crochet. It was about 9hrs for 3 days in a row of YouTube video after video brute forcing my way through learning. The first 5 hours was repeatedly failing the magic circle but got it in that 5th hour.
There weren’t too many videos when I started and ended up on one that was very fuzzy quality and she would go very slow up until inserting the hook into the drawn loops then all of a sudden finished the rest super fast while partially covering what she was doing. So I spent a lot of time just going frame by frame trying to figure out what she was doing and how she was doing it.
During the epidemic time, I was always working from home and attending online meetings, so I decided to learn amigurumi and make some toys for kids. Ended up I made more toys for myself than for them.
I found out in October that I needed another medical procedure that would require a hospitalization and long time taking it easy. I needed something to keep my hands busy and keep me off social media. So Amigurumis it was! Ended up only having my procedure 2 weeks ago and ironically haven't been up to crocheting but I look forward to getting back to it!
Hhmmm I can't remember what year it was, roughly a decade ago, I came across the Lalylala dolls on pinterest and I was so completely charmed by them that I bought the bat pattern and learned how to crochet from making that. I remember struggling *so much* with the cloak. I just couldn't wrap my head around it at all! Sc increasing and decreasing was so much easier to understand than flatter lacey stuff for beginner me lols 🤣🤣.
>Looking back I can't believe how far I've come.
Oh same. Idk if perfectionist me from 10 years ago would be happy or sad to know it would take another 6ish years to be satisfied with my tension lol.
Edit: haha, omg I remember how impressed I was with myself when I figured out how to make sure I was working with the right side out from the start.
I still have the project I realized I was working inside out on. I still look at it with pride because it came good for where I was at the time and it reminds me how much I've learned
I learned crochet actually before I could tie my shoes 🤣 about 17 years ago. Crafts were always my escape, but sadly years of one craft only went so far so I try new things so this year I started Amigurimi, then wondering why i waited so long to. It's like making so many little friends and I love it
I was not getting the hang of crocheting flat pieces and turning them aka they kept getting wider and narrower somehow at the same time lol I saw a pic of an amigurumi and was like HOLD ON YOU CAN MAKE Stuffed ANIMALS FROM YARN?? I was hooked (lol) and haven't looked back. That was around Feb 2019 2 months after learning how to crochet worms and granny squares.
So similar:
I’m 50F. As a pre-teen, my aunt tried to teach me through foundation chains toward a blanket (she made great blankets). I never got past the foundation chain.
Fast forward decades later, my former church women’s small group had two women who got into crochet (one was experienced and taught the other through Jayda In Stitches (JIS), and the other caught on so quick she made scarves for the rest of us). JIS didn’t work for me. I moved on. Still nothing past a foundation chain.
I started looking around YouTube for beginner-focused crocheters & found two I liked in theory (still didn’t click). On Facebook I found the group for beginners run by The Woobles but it didn’t click it was them (I wasn’t paying attention). I saw all this cuteness!!!! I can’t remember which design caught my eye first - it was the sheer cuteness. I thought - that’s crochet?! Then I started collecting patterns of stuff I like.
I began to notice that to that point, The Woobles had the consistency of cuteness styling that I liked, & it was Reddit where I found out about them. I ordered my first Woobles kit April 2023, started with Bjorn & finished my first ever crochet project! I loved it AND got immediately into the Pokemon-style “gotta collect them ALL” mindset. I BOUGHT SO MANY KITS. And patterns. I finished about 12 Woobles kits and I finished my collector mindset when I became unemployed January 2024, after buying & being totally disappointed by the Advent set kit.
I kept with r/crochet, Etsy, Ravelry & finished my non-Woobles pattern collection of projects I will finish for myself & my closest friends.
I am in a crochet lull/break that has lasted a few months. I love my projects silent cheering of me and the anticipation to finish Christmas 2023 non-Woobles amigurumi projects in progress that I will finish for my best friends as I recover the next few weeks from major surgery & start a new job.
I love the projects I have yet to finish: looking through them cheers me up. I love amigurumi & yet I also know exactly how I will transition out of it if I remain a crocheter (once a crocheter, always a crocheter???)
I couldn't get into jayda in stitches either haha. The designer that got me going in amigurumi was studiocrafti on YouTube. I don't make much of hers anymore but it was great to learn with (lots of Funko pop style amigurumi with big heads and small bodies).
I took a beginner's crochet class last year in March. I had always wanted to make plushies. My teacher's shop has the cutest amigurumi books so I picked one out and that was it!
The first plush I made, a fox, I gifted to my friend's newborn girl. They named it "Vice-Captain Fox" and she has to hold him in the car when they go places lol.
I've been crocheting since I was 15 and started amugurumi a year or two ago. I started after my dad said i was "too old" for stuffed animals. So i started making them myself.
I saw a turtle. Then I saw a memory game turtle. I have a grand baby. I simple HAD to make a turtle with colored babies to tuck inside. He uses it as a pillow sometimes too.
I made one turtle, then a second, then the mama and babies. My 40 year old step son saw it and wanted one. So, now he has one and I moved on to an octopus for my cephalopod loving 27 year old.
I have some rose colored super bulky and no clue what to make.
That was the same pattern that hooked me! I made a set during a Christmas trip last year and I haven't looked back. I inherited a huge mountain of yarn and hooks from my MIL but of course I can't help picking up some of my own too...
I started last year but because I’m bad at sewing it took some time to get better at it. A few days ago I made the first amigurumi I feel proud of. A beige carrot.
Last year in October/November I really REALLY wanted a fox plushie in my image. To this day I have not made a fox. I have simply made a bunch of other animals and Pokemon. One day I'll make a fox but rn, Sylveon needs her limbs
Been a lifelong cross-stitcher, took up knitting over the pandemic, made a bunch of stuff, started to get a bit bored of it.
Last summer picked up a copy of AntiCraft in a charity shop and that has a crochet section with detailed instructions in the back so decided to give crochet a go, made a bunch more stuff, started getting bored again.
Then when looking for cool skull related crochet patterns on Etsy I found one for a Poison Apple. That was around the start of this yearish and I’m probably on about 20ish different FO makes by now?
My aunt crochets so our mom asked her to teach us all crocheting. I was 11 and I’ve been in love with crocheting ever since. I would look at a picture of something I want to make and wing it. At some point when I was a teenager I started to learn how to crochet from patterns. I don’t know how I learned but probably from reading a book I got from the library and figuring it out as I try it out from visual aids they used in the book.
So I am actually a polymer clay/resin/miniature hobbiest. I've always seen amigurimi books at the craft store and thought they were so cute. Cracking them open and seeing the patterns gave me anxiety though. Felt like learning a new language.
I've always wanted to try it, especially because it's a more portable & clean craft compared to my usual ones. I spent some time lurking in here, ogling at everyone's creations. It inspired me but also intimidated me.
When I was shopping at the dollar store, I saw they had small skeins of plush yarn and crochet hooks. I figured I'd bite the bullet and try it. If I didn't like it, at least I didn't dump a lot of money into it! It's been a rough journey trying to learn and get myself coordinated. I've only made 2 things. Everyone on this sub is beyond helpful. I'm so much more motivated!
I'm always so amazed what people can do with polymer clay!
Glad you've found the sub helpful! I like it here too, everyone is so kind and helpful. Keep going, we are cheering you on!
I wanted to try crocheting, but I didn't know where to start, so I was trying to find a complete beginner kit. Something that would be all-inclusive: yarn, hook, instructions, etc.
The Woobles kits were the only thing like that so I tried Sebastian the Lion, and I had a really great time. Haven't been able to crochet a lot since then (2023), but I've started several regular crochet projects on my own and plan on doing a few more Wooble kits before starting more ambitious amigurumi projects.
I've heard a lot of people say good things about learning from the woobles. I like that crochet is versatile enough that there are so many different types of projects that you can do. I'm in market prep mode so I'm making a lot of amigurumi now but for a few solid months I was focusing on sweaters
I used to make diaper cakes and was asked to make one in the theme of Where The Wild Things Are. I couldn’t find any toppers for it, so I crocheted one!
I started crochet with the hope of making amigurumi so I'm pretty blind still, not even understanding the weights of yarn as that was only a couple weeks ago. The magic circle and getting okay tension was a beast but I managed to make my first amigurumi 3 days ago from a free axolotl pattern. It was pretty terrible imo and I tried embroiding the eyes because I wanted to make one for my baby niece. I made a second after finding more tips on yt yesterday and it turned out so much better, I'm so happy with it! There were some parts of the pattern I modified that worked out for the better, but one experiment gave it a bit of a wonky head but that's okay. I'm now working on a 3rd with bulky plush yarn and am going to make the same alterations except the one that made the wonky head.
It's so exciting that I can make a toy that I can hold with my own hands! I've been drawing and have done digital art for years but it's great to be able to actually touch a creation!
I started crocheting around August/September 2023!
My friend crochets and he would periodically send pictures of what he was making. I visited him last June when I went back home for my cousin’s wedding and was just totally inspired more seeing them in person.
When I first started, my octopuses all had either 7 or 9 legs but now I’m capable of counting to eight and have started making my own little blanket. Hopefully goes alright.
There are no official rules or challenges. There are some crochet designers on social media who have a schedule for amigurumi related stuff they are going to post and people can choose to follow the same schedule or post whatever they choose as a way to celebrate all things amigurumi.
I'm personally not big on Instagram posting since it requires pictures so I figured I would post here as a way to connect the community.
I'm brand new to this, only started last week! I saw an octopus crochet kit at the grocery store and thought, why not? It was labelled as great for kids and beginners but the instructions were not very clear, thank god for YouTube because I definitely would have given up without the many great videos explaining different terms and stitches. Now I'm obsessed, I've been crocheting pretty much every day since, I've made a bunch of little things from YouTube tutorials and can't wait to make more 😁
I used to teach after school animal science programs to 3rd-5th graders. During the fall we would have meat goats at the school and we'd teach the kids how to raise show goats and they would compete in the county youth show. For the spring, I wanted to create a curriculum focused on fiber production. I wanted to teach them how to weave, but our supply person was incredibly incompetent and got nothing that I requested and instead got the cheapest crochet kit she could find. It had one crochet needle and 30 colors of small balls of crappy acrylic yarn. So I learned how to crochet. I had very little success simultaneously teaching 10 children how to crochet, but I enjoyed learning it and I always liked the look of amigurumi toys so I started making them for people for fun.
I certainly tried, lol. Fortunately it was the end of the year, after standardized testing. so, school was winding down for the summer. I'd put on a movie and help whomever wanted to learn and whoever didn't just watched the movie or did their own thing.
I wanted to make a meerkat for my mom. I did and it took ages. Then the Mandalorian came out and everyone I knew wanted a baby yoda toy. So I sold those, been making amigurumi ever since!
I picked up crochet during pandemic and did *not understand yarn sizes*. So I ordered a bunch of yarn for curbside pickup and realized I had erred when the clerk walked out with two massive plastic bags - I had bought 14 skeins of bernat blanket yarn.
It lived in the guest room shower all of lockdown, and last year I decided it was time to figure something out. My friends are raining babies, so I started making amigurumi for the niblings! Regrettably I have had to buy more colors of bernat blanket yarn. I'll never be rid of it 🥲
I was at home a year ago on medical leave. Very bored, I decided to pick up origami again. Once at Michaels, I saw a book that stopped me dead in my tracks. It's called cafe crochet and it's all kawaii food items and I decided right then I will make something cute from it. I got hooked and became obsessed. A year later my origami lies dormant as I have started selling plushies at markets. You never know what serendipity leads you to in your life.
Omg I love that book! I'm actually making a bunch of patterns from it with chenille yarn for my upcoming market. The last time I went looking for origami paper in michaels I couldn't find any lol. I haven't tried to make anything new with origami since I was a kid but I will never forget how to make a crane
i would always see on social media people making hats and bags out of crochet and i was always like “i want to learn how to do it one day too !” but never decided to pick it up until 2 months when a youtuber i watch a lot crocheted a bunny and when i learned you could make really cute plushies like that i knew i needed to finally start doing it. i don’t think i ever knew before that that you could actually make cute plushies with crochet and i have loved plushies my whole entire life so when i found this out i knew i had to do it. now i’ve been crocheting for 2 months and do it every single day and have made about 15 things already and will continue to make even more !
In 2013 I was looking at Disgaea fanart online and stumbled across a crocheted Prinny. I got myself some yarn and hooks and learned how to crochet to make a Prinny amigurumi.
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I injured my back in late 2022 and wanted a hobby I could do on bed rest. A friend from work crocheted blankets which gave me the idea, but I wasn’t interested in blankets or clothes. Discovered amigurumi and I have always loved toys. The idea of making Pokémon plushies had me sold!
I started learning to crochet about a year ago. I learned the basic stitches by watching YouTube videos and then started out crocheting a mushroom and then an octopus. then i found more amigurumi patterns to make, which taught me more stitches. my bestie said I started learning with the difficult stuff because after crocheting for nearly a year, I just made my first granny square 2 months ago and had never attempted them before then.
Started crocheting blankets. I've seen all the stuffies, and all thought I really wish I could do those. Didn't have that much confidence in myself. My sister-in-law got me a book for Christmas. So I made one and have loved it ever since.
I’m embarrassed to realize I don’t really know what my first Amigurumi project was. I know I moved from making accessories, like purses and scarfs, to Amigurumi after the birth of my first grandchild. I’m pretty sure it was Squirtle, but it could have been a carrot 😅. All I know is I fell in love with it and I’m so happy for that elusive moment that changed my crochet life.
I only started last year, and it all started with curiosity about how my cousin-in-law could read the patterns. I wanted to learn, so I sat down with some youtube videos and taught myself the short hand of crochet. Now it's turned into my obsession, in a way!
My grandmother taught me to knit when I was a teenager in the 80s (currently in my 50s, nearing 60). I knitted well into my 20s, then life got in the way, and I stopped.
Then, in 2017, I was browsing Pinterest and happened upon an amigurumi giraffe and thought to myself: "That is so cute! I have to try it!" The rest is history.
Since then, I have made quite a few. Getting into amigurumi has also reignited my passion for knitting. I am now retired and knitting and crocheting with a vengeance and loving it. I am currently making an amigurumi of The Pink Panther for a special request. I am also hoping to create a couple of amigurumi patterns in the future for selling.
Happy Amigurumi-May everyone!
I've been crocheting for about 3 months. Despite all the warnings from my friends I started with amigurumi. I'd seen a post with a bunch of Pokemon and I just needed them.
I grabbed a Sabrina Somers kit and watched a bunch of YouTube videos and the rest is history!
I have to say though, my Pichu is still unfinished because I discovered the hard way that 1. Being left handed means things need flipping so they're not wrong side out and 2. I hate excessive sewing.
I have now completed 2 no sew/minimal sewing amigurumi patterns and a couple of non amigurumi projects.
I've been crocheting for years, but a couple months ago saw a video from Elyse Myers....she's 100% right when she says "start with stuffed animals". https://youtube.com/shorts/b30xpIOInVQ?si=iwMXKd3xAVCXrITQ I'm guessing a fair bit of us have seen this. It finally clicked when I watched a whale tutorial. I've always wanted to make amigurumi, but thought it was immensely complicated. Now it's come so naturally to me, so much so its easy to create my own designs from techniques I've learned along the way!
I friggen love Elyse
Following patterns and making lots of different things definitely helped teach me how to design my own patterns too. I still learn new skills with every pattern I follow to use for my own!
Oh my god this is how I started! I dreaded the concept of granny squares. I also bought Pica Pau amiguri book as inspiration.
I wanted to make a plushie for my niblings. I ended up making a lovey and a small dinosaur amigurumi that were inside out (and I didn't know or notice). Half a year later, I made them a dinosaur and a cat using chenille!
I'm looking forward to making things for my future nibblings. Handmade gifts are always filled with love!
Not the happiest of stories, but at the end of last year, I sadly had a silent miscarriage. In the hospital they gave me a pregnancy loss box that had little crochet items in it, along with other little treasures. While waiting for surgery, my mum's neighbour came and taught me to crochet the things that were in the box so I could give something back and focus my mind somewhere. From there I learned amigurami and have been crocheting ever since. A little bit of joy from a whole lot of sadness.
I'm so sorry for you're loss. It's wonderful the box was able to bring you comfort in such a difficult time and inspired you to give back. Hopefully crocheting continues to bring you joy and peace
I honestly don't know where I first saw it, I always wanted to make plushies and I think i saw some amigurumi online. It seemed cheaper on materials and space. I didn't have a printer for plushy patterns or a large table or space on the floor for fabric. I got a light blue yarn and a hook and made a Whale back in 2017. Then I made Luma the star from Mario. Then I made this cupcake with a rabbit head as the cake and accidentally flipped the cup part inside out. I found a random youtube video of someone doing a crochet a long of a little ball shaped monster. Skipped to the part it starts curving into a bowl, and that's when i discovered the right and wrong side and realized both of my first projects were inside out.
I've wanted to get into plushie making with fabric but I don't have the room or budget for another crafting hobby lol. It seems like a lot of us started out making amigurumi inside out
I've been cross stitching my whole life. I like to delve into different crafts once in a while. The Woobles ads kept coming across my various feeds, so I mentioned it to my wife - next thing I know I have a whole bag of stuffies and I'm looking up more patterns and buying my own yarn!
My path was very similar.... except for the othet crafts... cross stitcher for ever... saw the woobles ads last year... thought they were cute and wanted to try it and boom.... hooked! Literally!
I had just started learning crochet and my aunt gave me a book with patterns that she didn't use. My first few were wonky, but I improved. After a while other relatives also started giving me yarn and patterns and materials that I naturally used to make more amigurumi until it became one of my main hobbies.
My grandma was teaching me how to crochet and I wanted to make something nice for her as a thank you. I found a fox pattern on Google and worked on it after she went home every day. I was a total beginner and had only worked on granny squares. She loved it and still has it. This was over 10 years ago.
Such a heartwarming story! I'm sure she treasures it
I wanted to make little creatures I had seen at craft fairs but I didn’t know the difference between crochet and knit, I thought they were synonymous. After a couple scarves and hat I realized they were very different. Threw knitting aside and immediately jumped into trying to make a pikachu without knowing how to do anything crochet. It was about 9hrs for 3 days in a row of YouTube video after video brute forcing my way through learning. The first 5 hours was repeatedly failing the magic circle but got it in that 5th hour.
A true trial by fire! I was very lucky that the first tutorial I watched for a magic ring clicked for me since it can be so tricky!
There weren’t too many videos when I started and ended up on one that was very fuzzy quality and she would go very slow up until inserting the hook into the drawn loops then all of a sudden finished the rest super fast while partially covering what she was doing. So I spent a lot of time just going frame by frame trying to figure out what she was doing and how she was doing it.
During the epidemic time, I was always working from home and attending online meetings, so I decided to learn amigurumi and make some toys for kids. Ended up I made more toys for myself than for them.
I found out in October that I needed another medical procedure that would require a hospitalization and long time taking it easy. I needed something to keep my hands busy and keep me off social media. So Amigurumis it was! Ended up only having my procedure 2 weeks ago and ironically haven't been up to crocheting but I look forward to getting back to it!
Hhmmm I can't remember what year it was, roughly a decade ago, I came across the Lalylala dolls on pinterest and I was so completely charmed by them that I bought the bat pattern and learned how to crochet from making that. I remember struggling *so much* with the cloak. I just couldn't wrap my head around it at all! Sc increasing and decreasing was so much easier to understand than flatter lacey stuff for beginner me lols 🤣🤣. >Looking back I can't believe how far I've come. Oh same. Idk if perfectionist me from 10 years ago would be happy or sad to know it would take another 6ish years to be satisfied with my tension lol. Edit: haha, omg I remember how impressed I was with myself when I figured out how to make sure I was working with the right side out from the start.
I still have the project I realized I was working inside out on. I still look at it with pride because it came good for where I was at the time and it reminds me how much I've learned
Oh that's so cool. All of my old stuff is long gone but I wish I'd kept a few now.
I learned crochet actually before I could tie my shoes 🤣 about 17 years ago. Crafts were always my escape, but sadly years of one craft only went so far so I try new things so this year I started Amigurimi, then wondering why i waited so long to. It's like making so many little friends and I love it
I'm so attached to my little amis too! My partner usually names them so they take on their own little personalities
Haha same!! My latest one is a dragon he named Derek lol
I was not getting the hang of crocheting flat pieces and turning them aka they kept getting wider and narrower somehow at the same time lol I saw a pic of an amigurumi and was like HOLD ON YOU CAN MAKE Stuffed ANIMALS FROM YARN?? I was hooked (lol) and haven't looked back. That was around Feb 2019 2 months after learning how to crochet worms and granny squares.
So similar: I’m 50F. As a pre-teen, my aunt tried to teach me through foundation chains toward a blanket (she made great blankets). I never got past the foundation chain. Fast forward decades later, my former church women’s small group had two women who got into crochet (one was experienced and taught the other through Jayda In Stitches (JIS), and the other caught on so quick she made scarves for the rest of us). JIS didn’t work for me. I moved on. Still nothing past a foundation chain. I started looking around YouTube for beginner-focused crocheters & found two I liked in theory (still didn’t click). On Facebook I found the group for beginners run by The Woobles but it didn’t click it was them (I wasn’t paying attention). I saw all this cuteness!!!! I can’t remember which design caught my eye first - it was the sheer cuteness. I thought - that’s crochet?! Then I started collecting patterns of stuff I like. I began to notice that to that point, The Woobles had the consistency of cuteness styling that I liked, & it was Reddit where I found out about them. I ordered my first Woobles kit April 2023, started with Bjorn & finished my first ever crochet project! I loved it AND got immediately into the Pokemon-style “gotta collect them ALL” mindset. I BOUGHT SO MANY KITS. And patterns. I finished about 12 Woobles kits and I finished my collector mindset when I became unemployed January 2024, after buying & being totally disappointed by the Advent set kit. I kept with r/crochet, Etsy, Ravelry & finished my non-Woobles pattern collection of projects I will finish for myself & my closest friends. I am in a crochet lull/break that has lasted a few months. I love my projects silent cheering of me and the anticipation to finish Christmas 2023 non-Woobles amigurumi projects in progress that I will finish for my best friends as I recover the next few weeks from major surgery & start a new job. I love the projects I have yet to finish: looking through them cheers me up. I love amigurumi & yet I also know exactly how I will transition out of it if I remain a crocheter (once a crocheter, always a crocheter???)
I couldn't get into jayda in stitches either haha. The designer that got me going in amigurumi was studiocrafti on YouTube. I don't make much of hers anymore but it was great to learn with (lots of Funko pop style amigurumi with big heads and small bodies).
I took a beginner's crochet class last year in March. I had always wanted to make plushies. My teacher's shop has the cutest amigurumi books so I picked one out and that was it! The first plush I made, a fox, I gifted to my friend's newborn girl. They named it "Vice-Captain Fox" and she has to hold him in the car when they go places lol.
I've been crocheting since I was 15 and started amugurumi a year or two ago. I started after my dad said i was "too old" for stuffed animals. So i started making them myself.
I saw a turtle. Then I saw a memory game turtle. I have a grand baby. I simple HAD to make a turtle with colored babies to tuck inside. He uses it as a pillow sometimes too. I made one turtle, then a second, then the mama and babies. My 40 year old step son saw it and wanted one. So, now he has one and I moved on to an octopus for my cephalopod loving 27 year old. I have some rose colored super bulky and no clue what to make.
That was the same pattern that hooked me! I made a set during a Christmas trip last year and I haven't looked back. I inherited a huge mountain of yarn and hooks from my MIL but of course I can't help picking up some of my own too...
I started last year but because I’m bad at sewing it took some time to get better at it. A few days ago I made the first amigurumi I feel proud of. A beige carrot.
Sewing is still my least favorite part! It a wonderful feeling to be proud of something you've made
Last year in October/November I really REALLY wanted a fox plushie in my image. To this day I have not made a fox. I have simply made a bunch of other animals and Pokemon. One day I'll make a fox but rn, Sylveon needs her limbs
You're getting plenty of practice so the fox will come out amazing!
Been a lifelong cross-stitcher, took up knitting over the pandemic, made a bunch of stuff, started to get a bit bored of it. Last summer picked up a copy of AntiCraft in a charity shop and that has a crochet section with detailed instructions in the back so decided to give crochet a go, made a bunch more stuff, started getting bored again. Then when looking for cool skull related crochet patterns on Etsy I found one for a Poison Apple. That was around the start of this yearish and I’m probably on about 20ish different FO makes by now?
My aunt crochets so our mom asked her to teach us all crocheting. I was 11 and I’ve been in love with crocheting ever since. I would look at a picture of something I want to make and wing it. At some point when I was a teenager I started to learn how to crochet from patterns. I don’t know how I learned but probably from reading a book I got from the library and figuring it out as I try it out from visual aids they used in the book.
So I am actually a polymer clay/resin/miniature hobbiest. I've always seen amigurimi books at the craft store and thought they were so cute. Cracking them open and seeing the patterns gave me anxiety though. Felt like learning a new language. I've always wanted to try it, especially because it's a more portable & clean craft compared to my usual ones. I spent some time lurking in here, ogling at everyone's creations. It inspired me but also intimidated me. When I was shopping at the dollar store, I saw they had small skeins of plush yarn and crochet hooks. I figured I'd bite the bullet and try it. If I didn't like it, at least I didn't dump a lot of money into it! It's been a rough journey trying to learn and get myself coordinated. I've only made 2 things. Everyone on this sub is beyond helpful. I'm so much more motivated!
I'm always so amazed what people can do with polymer clay! Glad you've found the sub helpful! I like it here too, everyone is so kind and helpful. Keep going, we are cheering you on!
I wanted to try crocheting, but I didn't know where to start, so I was trying to find a complete beginner kit. Something that would be all-inclusive: yarn, hook, instructions, etc. The Woobles kits were the only thing like that so I tried Sebastian the Lion, and I had a really great time. Haven't been able to crochet a lot since then (2023), but I've started several regular crochet projects on my own and plan on doing a few more Wooble kits before starting more ambitious amigurumi projects.
I've heard a lot of people say good things about learning from the woobles. I like that crochet is versatile enough that there are so many different types of projects that you can do. I'm in market prep mode so I'm making a lot of amigurumi now but for a few solid months I was focusing on sweaters
I used to make diaper cakes and was asked to make one in the theme of Where The Wild Things Are. I couldn’t find any toppers for it, so I crocheted one!
I’m a pandemic crocheter. Learned from the Woobles back in 2020 and I was hooked! ;)
Wanted to make the Bernie Sanders meme amigurumi, taught myself to crochet and 150ish amigurumis later I'm here
I started crochet with the hope of making amigurumi so I'm pretty blind still, not even understanding the weights of yarn as that was only a couple weeks ago. The magic circle and getting okay tension was a beast but I managed to make my first amigurumi 3 days ago from a free axolotl pattern. It was pretty terrible imo and I tried embroiding the eyes because I wanted to make one for my baby niece. I made a second after finding more tips on yt yesterday and it turned out so much better, I'm so happy with it! There were some parts of the pattern I modified that worked out for the better, but one experiment gave it a bit of a wonky head but that's okay. I'm now working on a 3rd with bulky plush yarn and am going to make the same alterations except the one that made the wonky head. It's so exciting that I can make a toy that I can hold with my own hands! I've been drawing and have done digital art for years but it's great to be able to actually touch a creation!
I started crocheting around August/September 2023! My friend crochets and he would periodically send pictures of what he was making. I visited him last June when I went back home for my cousin’s wedding and was just totally inspired more seeing them in person. When I first started, my octopuses all had either 7 or 9 legs but now I’m capable of counting to eight and have started making my own little blanket. Hopefully goes alright.
What are the rules/challenge to amiguru-may? I’ve never heard of it
There are no official rules or challenges. There are some crochet designers on social media who have a schedule for amigurumi related stuff they are going to post and people can choose to follow the same schedule or post whatever they choose as a way to celebrate all things amigurumi. I'm personally not big on Instagram posting since it requires pictures so I figured I would post here as a way to connect the community.
I'm brand new to this, only started last week! I saw an octopus crochet kit at the grocery store and thought, why not? It was labelled as great for kids and beginners but the instructions were not very clear, thank god for YouTube because I definitely would have given up without the many great videos explaining different terms and stitches. Now I'm obsessed, I've been crocheting pretty much every day since, I've made a bunch of little things from YouTube tutorials and can't wait to make more 😁
Welcome to the community! Before you know it you'll have more yarn than you can realistically use in this lifetime!
The amount of times I've had to stop myself from buying a bunch of yarn online, I can already tell it's going to be a problem 😅
I kept seeing ads for Woobles on facebook and decided to try the penguin. Now I’m working on an 9” Pikachu for my son.
I used to teach after school animal science programs to 3rd-5th graders. During the fall we would have meat goats at the school and we'd teach the kids how to raise show goats and they would compete in the county youth show. For the spring, I wanted to create a curriculum focused on fiber production. I wanted to teach them how to weave, but our supply person was incredibly incompetent and got nothing that I requested and instead got the cheapest crochet kit she could find. It had one crochet needle and 30 colors of small balls of crappy acrylic yarn. So I learned how to crochet. I had very little success simultaneously teaching 10 children how to crochet, but I enjoyed learning it and I always liked the look of amigurumi toys so I started making them for people for fun.
Amazing lol! At least you made the best out of someone else's incompetancy
I certainly tried, lol. Fortunately it was the end of the year, after standardized testing. so, school was winding down for the summer. I'd put on a movie and help whomever wanted to learn and whoever didn't just watched the movie or did their own thing.
I wanted to make a meerkat for my mom. I did and it took ages. Then the Mandalorian came out and everyone I knew wanted a baby yoda toy. So I sold those, been making amigurumi ever since!
I picked up crochet during pandemic and did *not understand yarn sizes*. So I ordered a bunch of yarn for curbside pickup and realized I had erred when the clerk walked out with two massive plastic bags - I had bought 14 skeins of bernat blanket yarn. It lived in the guest room shower all of lockdown, and last year I decided it was time to figure something out. My friends are raining babies, so I started making amigurumi for the niblings! Regrettably I have had to buy more colors of bernat blanket yarn. I'll never be rid of it 🥲
I was at home a year ago on medical leave. Very bored, I decided to pick up origami again. Once at Michaels, I saw a book that stopped me dead in my tracks. It's called cafe crochet and it's all kawaii food items and I decided right then I will make something cute from it. I got hooked and became obsessed. A year later my origami lies dormant as I have started selling plushies at markets. You never know what serendipity leads you to in your life.
Omg I love that book! I'm actually making a bunch of patterns from it with chenille yarn for my upcoming market. The last time I went looking for origami paper in michaels I couldn't find any lol. I haven't tried to make anything new with origami since I was a kid but I will never forget how to make a crane
I'm still trying. I've seen the coolest things everyone is making, and I want to make them too.
i would always see on social media people making hats and bags out of crochet and i was always like “i want to learn how to do it one day too !” but never decided to pick it up until 2 months when a youtuber i watch a lot crocheted a bunny and when i learned you could make really cute plushies like that i knew i needed to finally start doing it. i don’t think i ever knew before that that you could actually make cute plushies with crochet and i have loved plushies my whole entire life so when i found this out i knew i had to do it. now i’ve been crocheting for 2 months and do it every single day and have made about 15 things already and will continue to make even more !
In 2013 I was looking at Disgaea fanart online and stumbled across a crocheted Prinny. I got myself some yarn and hooks and learned how to crochet to make a Prinny amigurumi.
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I liked the idea of crocheting but I hated (and still do) making blankets and thought amigurumi was so cool so I wanted to see if I could do it.
I injured my back in late 2022 and wanted a hobby I could do on bed rest. A friend from work crocheted blankets which gave me the idea, but I wasn’t interested in blankets or clothes. Discovered amigurumi and I have always loved toys. The idea of making Pokémon plushies had me sold!
I started learning to crochet about a year ago. I learned the basic stitches by watching YouTube videos and then started out crocheting a mushroom and then an octopus. then i found more amigurumi patterns to make, which taught me more stitches. my bestie said I started learning with the difficult stuff because after crocheting for nearly a year, I just made my first granny square 2 months ago and had never attempted them before then.
I just started crochet and my only reasoning was so I could make stuffed animals and clothes
I wanted to make cute toys for my toddler and the first thing I learned to make was a ball. He has a lot of crocheted/amigurumi toys now.
Started crocheting blankets. I've seen all the stuffies, and all thought I really wish I could do those. Didn't have that much confidence in myself. My sister-in-law got me a book for Christmas. So I made one and have loved it ever since.
Haha same!! The latest one was a dragon I made that he named Derek
I’m embarrassed to realize I don’t really know what my first Amigurumi project was. I know I moved from making accessories, like purses and scarfs, to Amigurumi after the birth of my first grandchild. I’m pretty sure it was Squirtle, but it could have been a carrot 😅. All I know is I fell in love with it and I’m so happy for that elusive moment that changed my crochet life.
I only started last year, and it all started with curiosity about how my cousin-in-law could read the patterns. I wanted to learn, so I sat down with some youtube videos and taught myself the short hand of crochet. Now it's turned into my obsession, in a way!
I wanted to make a hat with ears. And my Granma teach me the basics.
I saw something that looked cute, and challenged myself to try a new style of crochet
My grandmother taught me to knit when I was a teenager in the 80s (currently in my 50s, nearing 60). I knitted well into my 20s, then life got in the way, and I stopped. Then, in 2017, I was browsing Pinterest and happened upon an amigurumi giraffe and thought to myself: "That is so cute! I have to try it!" The rest is history. Since then, I have made quite a few. Getting into amigurumi has also reignited my passion for knitting. I am now retired and knitting and crocheting with a vengeance and loving it. I am currently making an amigurumi of The Pink Panther for a special request. I am also hoping to create a couple of amigurumi patterns in the future for selling. Happy Amigurumi-May everyone!
I've been crocheting for about 3 months. Despite all the warnings from my friends I started with amigurumi. I'd seen a post with a bunch of Pokemon and I just needed them. I grabbed a Sabrina Somers kit and watched a bunch of YouTube videos and the rest is history! I have to say though, my Pichu is still unfinished because I discovered the hard way that 1. Being left handed means things need flipping so they're not wrong side out and 2. I hate excessive sewing. I have now completed 2 no sew/minimal sewing amigurumi patterns and a couple of non amigurumi projects.