Amigurumi
Midwest Crafts Category: Amigurumi
This is from wikepedia - I had to look it up - :-)
Amigurumi lit. Knitting a 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 hook 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, except for some amigurumi
which have no limbs, only a head and torso which are 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. To this end,
typical amigurumi animals have an over-sized spherical head on a
cylindrical body with undersized extremities.
Sounds like an excellent hobby! If you amigurumi - please contact us at Midwest Crafts Network Contact Form and let us know! We'd love to post some pictures of your prize pieces!
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