Dotty is a crochet basket formed by squares, the famous granny squares! The square creates a basic module that can be composed to form many different projects. I am making baskets to keep yarn and notions. The instructions to crochet Dotty - and also Mini-Dotty! - in DMC Natura Just [...]
The Moon Rabbit: from the legend to the cute crochet bunnies! The mythological legends of the moon rabbit are present in many countries of the Far East, with many different stories and meanings (you can read some of them on the dedicated Wikipedia page). For this amigurumi bunny I imagined [...]
Mini and Maxi are 2 amigurumi koalas in 2 different sizes to be made with the same yarn! These new amigurumi, I must admit, were born by chance. My sketchbook is full of quirky and fun animals that can't wait to become cute amigurumi, and every time I'm working on [...]
Amigurumi School of Magic is opening its doors for the second year! This year Irene Strange and I step into the woods in search of mysteries, magic and mischief! Are you joining in? Who knows what we will discover... The Amigurumi School of Magic is a 5-part Mystery Crochet-Along running [...]
Mark the rounds in a crochet work is useful to avoid mistakes, to keep track of work done and see how it’s growing. It also makes it easy to count the rounds! Safety pins, stitch markers, paper clips, bobby pins… anything can work. But using a tail of contrasting color [...]
Crochet oval shapes are used for amigurumi, to make the base of some bags, soles of baby shoes and wool slippers. Most amigurumi patterns start with a magic ring that allows you to make a round shape that widens round after round. Another very common crochet shape is the oval! [...]
Amigurumi Advent 2019 is here! Christmas is in the air and I can't help counting the days left! To be honest I've been doing it for a few months already. From December 1st we can start the countdown eating chocolates hidden behind 24 small cardboard windows or we can add [...]
This blog has been my diary from maker to crochet designer from 2010 to 2017, in recent years my posts had become less assiduous. First Facebook, then Instagram, had sucked all the “online time”. You may wonder what has changed now? I changed 4 flats in two different countries, 3 [...]
Some dachshund can fly, have superpowers, and wear a superhero cape. This can happen in the world of amigurumi, the video speaks clearly! Apparently our Super Sausage does not need a phonebox (like Superman) neither weird substances (like Spiderman), his powers are made out of cotton yarn and [...]
Bright coloured feathers and gold crowns for the amigurumi summer birds! Summer is just around the corner and I bet that your wishes include cotton yarn, colours and easy to follow crochet patterns (to alternate the big winter projects!). Temptations, when talking about yarns, are difficult to avoid... like a [...]
