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Quick Amigurumi Facial Hair

Making facial hair is a great way to add detailing to a face. There are many different ways to make moustaches, beards or both of them combined. Using simple yarn to sew on is the easiest. This time, I’ll be showing how to crochet it!

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How to Make a Stop Motion Animation in less than an Hour

I have a series of random stop motion animations I decided to make using my daughter’s toy furniture sets as props. They were mostly linked in my old blog but I haven’t had much time porting them over or sorting them out yet.

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Shapes Series - 2) Oval Series

If you have seen my previous Circular Series, this time it’s all about my Oval Series up next! I have broken it up into 2 parts - the first 3 tutorials are about making oval or ovoid shapes, the next 5 parts is about making pointy ovals (if that makes sense)!.

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Surface Crochet for Limb Attachment to Amigurumi

Surface crocheting is another one of my favourite techniques for making amigurumis, whether it be detailing or even the limbs. This method allows for attachment of separate pieces without the sewing involved at all! I have previously used it in various ways, read on more to see what I mean.

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Crocheting Amigurumi Feet without attachment

I love adapting random crochet techniques into Amigurumi making. This time I turned a popular textured crochet technique for blankets into feet for my amis! Using this special stitch allows me to make standing amigurumis! Read on to find out more.

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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.

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Free Crochet Doll Starter Guide!

Ok guys, so I’m super excited to reveal my latest series of videos (apart from the Shapes series videos)… and this time, it’s all about how to make this little guy - Ben in his swimming trunks! This time, I have decided to make it different, it’s my first time trying out something like this…

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My Crocheted Pouf experiment using Recycled T-shirt yarn

While we are on the topic on making spheres and cylinders, this was my biggest (and longest) experiment that I did back in 2016. I was trying to make a DIY furniture pouf for my new home back then. Cue the image just below was what I was hoping for. BUT the catch was I wanted to use old recycled T-shirts from my old home!

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Amigurumi Hairstyles - A Comprehensive Guide

Guys, I’m so exciting about showing you this! It’s been something I’ve been working on for a while. It’s basically an accumulation of all the different hairstyle techniques I used for all my past amigurumi collections!

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Attaching Hair to the Amigurumi Head

This time, I will be covering hair-head attachments. These techniques are more for attaching wig caps to the Amigurumi heads. I know some crocheters like to use glue but for the purposes here, it will all be sewing techniques.

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Crochet Easy and Fast Ponytail

Adding back ponytail or side pigtails is a great way to simulate a long tied up hairstyle. It involves crocheting a separate piece and attaching it onto the head at various different locations.

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Making a centre-parted fringe

Making fringes can add additional detailing to the hairstyle of the amigurumi. In this case, I am making a centre-parted fringe. This is arguably one of the most frequently used type of bangs because it is a frequently used hairstyle.

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How I sewed yarn on as Amigurumi hair

Thor on the left has a wig cap, whereas Thor on the right has yellow yarn hair sewed directly onto the head. There are different methods to make amigurumi hair and the final results can look quite different. Check out this old post on 5 ways to make amigurumi hair, if you have not seen it previously. 

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Using Tunisian Crochet in Amigurumi

My first attempt at doing Tunisian crochet! This time it’s for Tiana from Princess and the Frog. I was experimenting with making her dress and I decided to make 3 skirt layers. Read on to see how I used Tunisian crochet in her skirt.

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Making Popcorn stitches as Amigurumi Feet

I love adapting random crochet techniques into Amigurumi making. This time I turned a popular textured crochet technique for blankets into feet for my amis! Read on to find out more.

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Making mixed coloured bobble stitches

If you can see Rapunzel or Snow White’s shoulder pads more carefully, they are actually made up of bobble stitches which are made up of mixed colours. From making bobble stitches to making mixed coloured bobble stitches… let’s dive in!

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Crocheting Tall Stitches - how to do Treble Crochet

Making tall stitches helps to add height to your stitches, and in this particular example, I had to use tall stitches to make Belle’s dress. For her, I actually used quadruple treble crochet (qtc) or yarn over 5 times! This might sound complex but once you nail down a basic tall stitch, the rest is just about how many times you yarn over at the start.

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