Tiny Yarn Animals: Amigurumi Friends to Make and Enjoy | Tamie Snow

Tiny Yarn Animals: Amigurumi Friends to Make and Enjoy | Tamie Snow | Great Book! Adorable patterns!

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	Tiny Yarn Animals: Amigurumi Friends to Make and Enjoy Tamie Snow HP Trade, 2008 - 64 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

From the creator of RoxyCraft.com, a collection of adorable crocheted creatures.

This colorful guide presents twenty-one sweet and simple-to-make yarn creatures for crafters young and old. Each animal is assembled using several basic crochet stitches?stitches even beginners can easily master?and the results, from a winsome little lamb to a wide-eyed lemur, make for delightful yarn friends.

Super-cute!

These patterns are very cute, and very easy to make. Even better, they only require small amounts of inexpensive yarn and stuffing. Here's a gift idea: give someone -- a new crocheter, a crafty teen or kid, or whoever -- a copy of this book, a few balls of Wool-Ease yarn, a couple of crochet hooks and a tapestry needle. Put it all in a cute gift bag, and voila -- they're all set to make adorable little stuffed animals.

These animals would also make excellent stocking stuffers. Anyway, the book is cute, well-done, full of good patterns ... what are you waiting for? Buy it!

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Great Book! Adorable patterns!

This is the book that will FINALLY make me pick up my dusty collection of hooks and start crocheting! Tamie's fun and upbeat writing features clear, concise instructions--not to mention there's lots of critter eye-candy for inspiration. Her creations are cute, but not too cutesy. I like how the book won't break the bank, either. Wish me luck on my new hobby!

WONDERFUL BOOK! GREAT EASY PATTERNS

Easy, fast work up and great patterns -- Couldn't ask for better ones! I'm glad that I bought this terrific book! Amigurumi, crocheted toys - cute cute cute! I have 5 grandchildren and need things that work up FAST -- this is it!

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Has pros and cons..............

I bought this book because I LOVE amigurumi, I have just about every English crochet amigurumi book, and several Japanese amigurumi books.

Some pros:

1. Large full color photographs for each project.
2. The book is about the size of a magazine, so each pattern fits on 1-2 pages--I like that.
3. At the end of the book the author lets you know what yarn is used for each project.
4. The author uses different eyes for the projects--some are embroidered, some are safety eyes---gives you inspiration for using different types of eyes.
5. There are some patterns that are pretty unique---such as the lemur, koala bear, hippo, fish, fox and bumblebee. You do not see patterns for these all over the place like you do bears, puppies, owls, etc.......
6. There is a gauge given for each pattern, which is nice. That is not common in amigurumi books, and I like having a gauge for each pattern.
7. Very reasonably priced.
8. Lastly, this might sound odd, but I like that the author did not name the patterns with human names. The hippo pattern is simply called "Hippo", not "Jenny the Hippo" (or whatever...)...for me it is harder to really personalize or make an amigurumi project when it already has a name. I like when patterns are just called "Elephant" not "Elizabeth Elephant".

Okay the cons.....
1. The patterns could be written a little better. For example, typically in a crochet pattern whenever there is a round (or row) where there is an increase or decrease there is a stitch count given for that round (or row). This book does not have any stitch counts, so you never know how many stitches you should have per round. While this is not a problem to easily figure out how many stitches you should have while on Round 3, by the time you are on Round 18 after increasing and decreasing you really do not know how many stitches you should have.
2. I wish there were charts for the patterns--it would at least make up for the lack of stitch counts.
3. I have found some of the results to be quite awkward--especially the mouse. It seems that much of the shaping for some of the animals is accomplished not by the crochet stitches themselves, but by the stuffing.
4. As with a lot of English Amigurumi books you have to decide where to place the limbs by the photo. I wish more English pattern books would have illustrations used in Japanese books that will clearly show how many rows or stitches limbs, ears, eyes, etc should be placed from eachother .
5. Also, this has no bearing on my 4 star rating but the "mm" (move marker) abbreviation at the end of each round is a bit annoying. It is logical to move a marker, and does not need to be stated. And if you are going to state it, I wish the standard "pm" (place marker) abbreviation was used.

All in all I will keep this book for my Amigurumi Library, but if you are a beginner I would definitely suggest something that has a bit more logical and predictable shaping, and stitch counts such as Ana Paula Rimoli's "Amigurumi World".

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