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Amigurumi Arms and Legs: Tube Sizes, Stuffing and Joined Legs
How to size, stuff and close crocheted limbs, an arm pattern and a leg pattern, and how to join two legs into a body with a short chain.
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Where to begin: supplies, reading a pattern, the first ball, and the basic shapes every crocheted toy is built from.
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Amigurumi Head and Body: Proportions, Construction and Patterns
How head-to-body proportions change a toy's character, when to work the two as separate pieces or as one, and a head and body pattern with matching neck openings.
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Common Amigurumi Mistakes and How to Fix Each One
A fault-by-fault troubleshooting list for beginner amigurumi: gaps, inside-out pieces, lost counts, bumpy decreases, lumpy stuffing and lopsided limbs, each with its cause and fix.
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Basic Amigurumi Shapes: Disc, Dome, Egg, Cone, Tube and Oval
Six shapes beyond the ball, each with the increase rule that creates it, a short example pattern and the body parts it usually becomes.
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Amigurumi Ball Pattern: How to Crochet a Basic Sphere
A round-by-round pattern for a 30-stitch crocheted ball, with an explanation of what each section does and a table for making it smaller or bigger.
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How to Read Amigurumi Patterns: Abbreviations, Rounds and Stitch Counts
A round line in a crochet toy pattern has four parts in a fixed order. This guide decodes them, lists the US abbreviations and shows how to check a stitch count.
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Amigurumi for Beginners: Supplies, Skills and First Projects
What amigurumi is, the seven supplies worth buying, the six skills every crocheted toy relies on, and a sensible order of first projects.