So after messing around with different needles and stitches, watching various YouTube tutorials, I decided that the best thing to do was to leap straight into making amigurumi. Probably not as easy as granny squares and washcloths, but... I wanted amigurumi, dammit.
The first thing I made was this little guy, nicknamed
Rice Boy by Lisa after the comic character of the same name.
Rice Boy came about from my attempts at learning to make a ball in continuous rounds. I figured out the whole increase / decrease pattern fairly quickly, and translated that into the ball head and mushroom-stem body. The hat is a failed ball, folded over and made into a mushroom-cap-like hat.
Of course my son also wanted something, specifically a 'tube rat' - his name for a ferret. So... I made a tube and gave it legs , a tail, and ears, along with pony bead eyes and a length of copper wire embedded in its stomach so he could bend it into weird shapes and pose it.
At this point I was hooked on crochet, no pun intended. But I wanted to try some more complicated patterns, so... I looked for a crochet Cthulhu. (Cthulhu pics and story next time.)
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