You'll love knitting amigurumi. Here are just a few reasons why: It takes less yarn and far less time than knitting a sweater or blanket. Use up odds and ends from your yarn stash while you finish one squishy character after another It's great practice for building your skills. The details in these unique projects use a variety of shaping techniques: increasing, decreasing, short rows, picking up stitches, and seaming. Knitting thesec harming little guys is a great way to conquer and embrace these skills It's more fun than a crateful of critters. Knit up a menagerie for your favorite children ? they make wonderful toys. Perch them in unexpected places around your home, office, or car. Nothing starts a conversation like a hand-knitted praying mantis! Anyone can do it. Even if you've never ventured beyond a scarf, you can knit amigurumi. All the knitting techniques you'll need are taught with step-by-step photography, so you can get started right away.

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Title: Amigurumi Knits: Patterns for 20 Cute Mini Knits
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1589234359
ISBN 13: 9781589234352
Binding: Paperback
Edition: 3rd Edition
Condition: Good

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Amigurumi is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and anthropomorphic creatures. Typically they are kooky little animals but they can also be inanimate objects, like vegetables, that are given faces and limbs.

This book will have 20 designs, including animals and inanimate objects. A knitting basics section will provide instructions for all the techniques needed to make the projects.

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Hansi Singh began designing knit amigurumi creatures as playmates for her infant son. Hansigurumi, a shop she opened on Etsy for selling her amigurumi patterns, caught the attention (and needles!) of knitters in the US and abroad, and became an overnight success. Hailed "an amazing up and coming crafter" by CRAFT magazine.

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