Cute & Cuddly Crochet: Learn to make huggable amigurumi animals

by Lauren Bergstrom

Overview

Crochet your own adorable, jumbo-size amigurumi animals with Cute & Cuddly Crochet, featuring 12 beginner-friendly, photo-illustrated step-by-step patterns.

Author and artist Lauren Bergstrom is your guide to creating great big, huggable crochet creatures—perfect for baby gifts, birthday gifts for kids, quirky home decor, and more. You’ll be surprised by how quickly you can create these cuties using bulky yarn and a large crochet hook!

Cute & Cuddly Crochet begins with an introduction to tools and materials and a review of basic crochet techniques, followed by tips and tricks for stuffing your amigurumi, adding eyes, trying different sizes, making your circles rounder, and adding embellishments. Then leap right into crocheting these supercute critters:

• Flamingo
• French Bulldog
• Dinosaur
• Elephant
• Fox
• Lion
• Llama
• Octopus
• Platypus
• Sloth
• Red Panda
• Narwhal

Get hooked on crocheting cute and cuddly creatures with this beginner-friendly book, perfect for crafters, makers, DIYers, teens, and adults.

The Art Makers series is designed for beginning artists and arts-and-crafts enthusiasts who are interested in experiencing fun hands-on mediums, including polymer clay and embroidery.

Also available from the series:Empowered Embroidery, Polymer Clay for Beginners, Papier Mache, Make Cute Stuff with Polymer Clay, and Polymer Clay Jewelry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760382905
Publisher:	Walter Foster Publishing
Publication date:	09/05/2023
Series:	Art Makers Series , #8
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	643,510
Product dimensions:	8.55(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Lauren Bergstrom was born and raised in South Africa and has been doodling and crocheting cute things for as long as she can remember. When she’s not drawing or painting, she spends her time designing crochet patterns for little stuffed animals at mohumohu.com and making video games with her partner at Studio Any Percent. She lives in Canada with her family, in a small home filled with cute and fluffy things. Lauren is the author of 101 Super Cute Things to Draw and Amigurumi Animals, both from Walter Foster Publishing.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Tools & Materials
Crochet Basics
Tips & Tricks
Abbreviations
Flamingo, French Bulldog, Dinosaur, Elephant, Fox, Lion, Llama, Octopus, Platypus, Sloth, Red Panda, Narwhal
About the Artist
 

Editorial Reviews

08/07/2023

This adorable outing by crocheter Bergstrom (Mini Crochet Creatures) shows how to make upsize amigurumi, or stuffed crochet creatures typically small enough to fit in one’s palm. Beginners will appreciate the overview of recommended tools and materials (tapestry needles, “super bulky weight yarn,” and 7mm and 13mm crochet hooks) and the illustrations of crochet basics, including how to make slip knots, chain stitches, and x stitches. The darling projects include extinct (dinosaur), rare (red panda, narwhal), and commonplace (fox, French bulldog) animals, each around a foot in length or height and designed with big eyes and tiny noses. Several of the animals sport crocheted accessories: the flamingo wears a crown, the elephant holds a flower in its trunk, and the sloth wears a bow tie. Bergstrom encourages readers to put their own flair on the designs, suggesting readers might create smaller versions of the animals by using thinner yarn, use buttons or embroidery for eyes, or adorn the creatures with a bow or ribbon. The instructions are thorough and the projects are irresistible. This charms. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

[An] adorable outing…The instructions are thorough and the projects are irresistible. This charms.”—Publishers Weekly

"An ideal introduction to the fun craft of crocheting!"—Midwest Book Review

"Perfect for amigurumi beginners...A good addition to any crochet collection."

—Library Journal

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