Amigurumi

Several months ago I discovered something called amigurumi. Amigurumi is pretty much the crochet (and sometimes knit) version of plushies/dolls/stuffed animals. As soon as I learned about amigurumi I was eager to give it a try. After looking through several patterns, I found that I preferred the crochet amigurumi patterns over the knitted ones. At first, I was frustrated by this as I'm horrible and crocheting. After several months of working on my crochet skills, I was finally able to sit down this past weekend and create this little guy:

He still needs facial features, which should have been added before his head was stuffed but I was too impatient and chose to crochet on in order to see the whole body come together before the face. I made several mistakes in crocheting him and in sewing together the different parts of his body, but I think that I've learned a lot. At the least I enjoyed making him and think that I may be addicted to amigurumi. The pattern that I used to create him was from this year's Fall/Winter issue of Knit 1 Magazine.