Crocheted Amigurumi Animals

Amigurumi is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals. Learn the basics of amigurumi by making a cute, quickly crocheted bird or a more challenging adorable dragon. This is a great skill building class for newer crocheters to learn how to work in the round, increase, decrease, and read a pattern, plus you get to have a fun friend to take home! Taught by Kira K.

Materials to bring to class:

• To make a bird, 70 yards, or a dragon, 160 yards, of smooth yarn in worsted weight to bulky weight (larger yarn will make a larger toy)
• a crochet hook that makes a dense fabric with your yarn in single crochet
• darning needle
• scissors
• safety eyes 5mm-12mm (depending on the size of your toy)
• removable stitch markers 

The sample bird was crocheted with worsted weight yarn, is 4" tall; and the sample dragon was crocheted with aran weight yarn, is 7" tall.

Prerequisites:

• You should already know how to chain stitch and single crochet.