Crocheting Limbs onto Amigurumi without attachment
My previous blog article touched on 3 different methods I use to attach limbs onto amigurumi and the first technique was the seamless technique. From this technique alone, I had a bobble stitch method, an extended half double crochet method and an extended bobble stitch method.
This time, I’ll be talking about how I used the second method - the extended half double crochet method.
This little guy looks like he has some floppy limbs and it’s really only suitable if you are going to make an amigurumi which is sitting down. Alternatively, you could use this method to make the arms only and use the popcorn stitch method to make the legs (which I will cover in the next post). This will give you the 7th little guy in the picture above!
How to make a hdc bob st on a chain
(I recently figured out to make a double crochet bobble stitch on a chain which turns out even nicer, but that’s for another time!)
It starts off pretty simple, continue single crochet in a round and then chain 6. We will be inserting the hook into the 3rd chain from the hook. Steps 4-9 is basically making a half double crochet.
Then subsequently repeat making the hdc into the same chain again so that it gets all bundled up. I repeated it another 2 more times in steps 10-11. Invert it outwards so it looks like a bobble stitch.
Now to get back to the main body. Continue working into the side chain by using slip stitches until you reach the main round again. This is in steps 13-17.
Lock the chain back to the main round by either using slip stitch or single crochet back into the initial sc at start of chain.
In this particular case, I have decided in step 20 to form a slip stitch in the main round again. The final extended bobble stitch is in step 21!
These little guys are all using this method above to make their limbs (ok for the Hello Kitty, it’s bobble stitches for the legs, see you can mix and match them!)… Peter Rabbit, Baby Yoda (Grogu :) and Hello Kitty.
One little thing though, if there are some colour changes involved in the chain and the half double crochet, it can be tricky to hide the changing yarn strands but I tend to do that underneath the arm so it’s not obvious! Have fun testing this out!
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