Jul 3, 2018 | Amigurumi, Crochet, Pattern
When I think of an animal mascot of the summer, I picture a flamingo. The image of that distinctive pink plumage and sassy bent leg just screams tropical elegance. This flamingo amigurumi pattern is fairly simple but there is a neat shaping trick that I used for the...
May 13, 2018 | Amigurumi, Crochet, Pattern
MATERIALS Yarns – Grey (A), White (B), Cream (C), Green (D), small amount of black for the nose 8 mm safety eyes polyester fibrefill size 7 (4.5 mm) crochet hook yarn needle ABBREVIATIONS ch = chain st = stitch sc = single crochet inc = single crochet 2...
Apr 15, 2018 | Amigurumi, Crochet, Pattern
Kero from Cardcaptor Sakura is bossy and gluttonous but oh so adorable. Crochet your own little guardian of the Clow Cards in his false form. MATERIALS Yarns – Yellow (A), White (B), small amount of black for the nose 8 mm safety eyes polyester fibrefill size 7...
Mar 29, 2018 | Amigurumi, Crochet, Pattern
Alpa-can you handle how adorable and squishy this thing looks? Alpa-cancel your plans so that you can crochet up your own amigurumi alpaca! Comment below or share your alpaca on Instagram (remember to tag @sirpurlgrey)! I alpa-can’t wait to see them! MATERIALS...
Dec 4, 2017 | Amigurumi, Crochet, Pattern
I try my darndest to keep my houseplants alive and well but I must admit, I’m not the best at remembering to water them. Imagine a plant that added much-needed greenery to your home, and requires no attention at all to keep it alive. That doesn’t exist, of...
Aug 31, 2017 | Amigurumi, Crochet, Pattern
I love the shape of pugs. That little loaf body and itty bitty legs is just too much! I set out to develop a simple and quick pug amigurumi pattern that epitomizes that adorable loaf shape. But I soon realized that all animals are cuter in loaf form. By changing up...
Aug 7, 2017 | Amigurumi, Crochet, Pattern
I have been playing a LOT of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and I’m finding that I often have to keep my road rage in check. To do that, I developed this pattern for the Koopa shells that you can use as items in the game to launch at your opponents. But now you can make...
Jul 22, 2017 | Amigurumi, Blog, Crochet, Pattern
I was very lucky to receive some Paintbox Cotton Aran yarn sent to me from LoveCrochet.com and I’m stoked to be collaborating with them by designing a Sea Turtle amigurumi with the Paintbox yarn. The colours on top from the left: Sailor Blue (col. 640), Dolphin...
Jul 7, 2017 | Amigurumi, Blog, Crochet
When I first started crocheting amigurumi, I tended to avoid patterns that required changing colour because I didn’t know how to do it properly. I figured that you would just drop whatever colour you were working with and start crocheting with the new colour but...
Jan 16, 2017 | Amigurumi, Blog, Crochet
I am incredibly excited to announce that my book, The Crochet Wildlife Guide, has now been released! This book was a project that my co-author, Jeff Wiehler, and I have been working on over the past year. It feels so surreal to be holding a book that we made together....