Amigurumi Tips for Beginners

The chain helps build the structure for the piece to rest upon. It is also the first thing you learn when starting crochet. This will help you establish muscle memory in knowing the structure of a Single Crochet. Knowing how to chain can also expand your creativity with what is possible with amigurumi; like crocheting accessories for future projects.  

I highly recommend this technique to be a part of your amigurumi repertoire just for limiting gaps and loose stitches for your future work. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

When listing your amigurumi for sale, whether it's made to order or a digital pattern, this is how to measure your finished amigurumi. 

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.

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.