Sprite Stitch Board!

I've been swamped with uni and no time for craft, but I finally got back in the amigurumi making spirit, starting with some Angry Birds!





Used the images floating the net around for ideas on how to make my own; they are so easy to make! (Start with a ball, and add on various accessories..) I think that everyone I know who likes Angry Birds will be getting a pig or a bird as a present for the next few months
Its so good to craft again, I'd forgotten how much I love making things!

Oh my gosh! They look so good! Have you thought of maybe selling them online?? = ]

Ooh so cute! I want to learn amigurumi! How did you learn?

kasura_iome wrote:Oh my gosh! They look so good! Have you thought of maybe selling them online?? = ]

I don't have enough time to make all the things I want for myself, let alone enough time to make things to sell online! Maybe I'll look into making various little things to sell once I'm not a time-poor student.

pinkcatflower wrote:Ooh so cute! I want to learn amigurumi! How did you learn?

I just looked around ravelry.com for some patterns I wanted to try, and I started with this one cos it was cute and easy: http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/20 ... a-feather/ and I watched youtube clips for how to do the different stitches (magic ring and single crochet, increasing and decreasing) and the rest I just kinda went along with until it made sense! Its so easy once you get the hang of it!

Oh cool I didn't think of looking on Ravelry, I just got an account there since I'm learning to knit. I will have to check it out! Ahh love the internet, so full of free information!

Also I found this tutorial. I'll have to try it out and see if it's good for a beginner like me: http://nerdigurumi.com/2010/08/beginner ... ttern.html

Anyway- isn't this thing that person made freakin' awesome??: http://nerdigurumi.com/2010/08/legend-o ... y-set.html

That one looks great, with all the videos!

These are great!

Hi there, was wondering if you had the pattern for these? My nephew has asked me to make some for him while he's in hospital, but i cant seem to find a decent pattern anywhere, yours look really awesome!! if not, thats all good, thanks for you time. kind regards, audz

I don't actually have the pattern, I just made it up as I went along, but I'll describe what I did do if that helps?

The bodies are basic circles built from the magic ring of 6 sc up until it is 42 sc around (took about 8-9 rows if I remember correctly), the pigs ears and the birds feathers and tail are all magic rings with 6 sc, then sc2 in each of those six so you have 12 sc in the row, and sc in each of those until they are the right length.
The beak is a magic ring of 4 sc, then sc2 in each to get 8 and stitch until the right proportion.
The eyes are all a magic ring of 6, sc2 in each to get 12, and slipstitch one to get it to round out properly.
The pigs nose is a little more complicated, because its a small oval shape - its using this theory http://www.suite101.com/content/the-cro ... ipe-a37936, but its basically trial and error, because its really small and kinda fiddly. I used a magic ring with 6 sc, and went from there, but the little felt circles help cover up lots of the dodgy crochet increases
The eyes are all 9mm safety eyes.


I can try and answer questions, but I really just used trial and error for it all, played about until it looked right!