Amigurumi Tips for Beginners
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15 Amigurumi Beginner Terms to Know
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When you begin crocheting amigurumi, you need to know these 15 techniques. Knowing these terms and their abbreviations not only helps you progress in your amigurumi craft, but will also help you write your own patterns in the future. -
How to Make A Slip Knot
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Making a slip knot for crochet is reminiscent to tying one's shoelaces. You pull a loop through a knot that tightens, locking it in place. You can determine the size of the loop you need when it's around a crochet hook. -
How to Price Your Amigurumi
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When I did my own deep dive research [and I highly recommend you do your own research as well] in finding out what to price your amigurumi, my findings were disheartening. There was a free craft calculator online that factored real supply cost and manual labor into its equation, and the results were either an unrealistic price, or a price so low you were paying yourself below the poverty level in hourly wage.
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5 Amigurumi Supplies for Beginners
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The five basic supplies that you absolutely need to begin crocheting amigurumi are a crochet hook, an aluminum yarn needle, scissors, yarn and stuffing. The following dives into suggestions on which types are recommended.
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Is Amigurumi Baby Safe?
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No, amigurumi is not baby safe. It all comes down to an amigurumi's components: the type of yarn, the type of stuffing, and what accessories did you use to make it with. -
Measure Your Amigurumi Like This
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When listing your amigurumi for sale, whether it's made to order or a digital pattern, this is how to measure your finished amigurumi. -
How to Find the Right Side of Amigurumi
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Using the wrong side of amigurumi, or essentially making it inside out, is a common mistake for most amigurumi beginners. Whether you're right or left-handed, here are some tips on how you know you're on the right side of amigurumi. -
7 Crochet Hook Sizes for Amigurumi
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Using this yarn brand as an example, we'll figure out what crochet hook size to use for amigurumi. The following photo shows the yarn size and weight, as well as the suggested hook size.
