Can You Say Amigurumi?
Ella has gone to the dark side. She no longer knits. Instead she has taken up crocheting Japanese Amogurumi.
Ella with her Amigurumi turtle. This pattern can be found at http://www.fortheloveofyarn.com/Issues/Spring06/patterns/spring06_seaturtle.shtml
Ella has also almost completed a hippo and camel. She said it's more fun than crocheting dishcloths and afghans.
What is Amigurumi? According to Wiki it is (Japanese: from amu [編む, to knit] and nuigurumi [縫い包み, 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 knitted, but the vast majority of amigurumi are crocheted.
Amigurumi are usually crocheted out of yarn. The simplest designs are worked in spirals. In contrast to typical Western crochet the rounds are not usually joined. They are also worked with a smaller size needle in proportion to the weight of the yarn in order to create a very tight-looking fabric without any gaps through which the stuffing might escape. Amigurumi are usually worked in sections and then joined (some amigurumi have no limbs whatsoever and the body and head is worked as one piece). The extremities are often stuffed with plastic pellets to give them a life-like weight, while the rest of the body is stuffed with fiber stuffing.
The pervading aesthetic of amigurumi is cuteness, or kawaii. To this end, typical amigurumi animals have an over-sized spherical head on a cylindrical body with undersized extremities.
Ella with her Amigurumi turtle. This pattern can be found at http://www.fortheloveofyarn.com/Issues/Spring06/patterns/spring06_seaturtle.shtml
Ella has also almost completed a hippo and camel. She said it's more fun than crocheting dishcloths and afghans.
What is Amigurumi? According to Wiki it is (Japanese: from amu [編む, to knit] and nuigurumi [縫い包み, 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 knitted, but the vast majority of amigurumi are crocheted.
Amigurumi are usually crocheted out of yarn. The simplest designs are worked in spirals. In contrast to typical Western crochet the rounds are not usually joined. They are also worked with a smaller size needle in proportion to the weight of the yarn in order to create a very tight-looking fabric without any gaps through which the stuffing might escape. Amigurumi are usually worked in sections and then joined (some amigurumi have no limbs whatsoever and the body and head is worked as one piece). The extremities are often stuffed with plastic pellets to give them a life-like weight, while the rest of the body is stuffed with fiber stuffing.
The pervading aesthetic of amigurumi is cuteness, or kawaii. To this end, typical amigurumi animals have an over-sized spherical head on a cylindrical body with undersized extremities.