Okie Reads » Amigurumi http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads Looking at a little down home literature Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:49:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Looking at a little down home literature Okie Reads no Looking at a little down home literature Okie Reads » Amigurumi http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/category/craft/crochet/amigurumi/ More Amigurumi, this time from Lion Brand http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2009/02/27/more-amigurumi-this-time-from-lion-brand/ http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2009/02/27/more-amigurumi-this-time-from-lion-brand/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:35:19 +0000 kitty pittman http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2009/02/27/more-amigurumi-this-time-from-lion-brand/ I just opened my Lion Brand newsletter and more amigurumi jumped out. Here’s the Lola cartoon.

Lion Brand Lola cartoon

Hopefully they won’t mind if I posted this, since I’m directing them to their website and the free Amigurumi patterns and their new book.

]]> http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2009/02/27/more-amigurumi-this-time-from-lion-brand/feed/ 0 AMIGURUMI, Grim Reapers and Zombies http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2009/02/26/amigurumi/ http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2009/02/26/amigurumi/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:54:08 +0000 kitty pittman http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2009/02/26/amigurumi/ I need some cute crafts in my life right now, so Amigurumi may just be the trick. Ok you ask what is Amigurumi? Straight from the wikipedia, it’s the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and anthropomorphic creatures. The word is derived from a combination of the Japanese words ami, meaning crocheted or knitted, and nuigurumi, meaning stuffed doll.  Amigurumi are typically cute animals (such as bears, rabbits, cats, dogs, etc.), but can include inanimate objects endowed with anthropomorphic features. Amigurumi can be either knitted or crocheted. In recent years crocheted amigurumi are more popular and more commonly seen.

Here’s a picture from the book Amigurumi World. (notice the word cute seems to follow these critters around).Amigurumi World picture of Amigurumi

I personally want to make some of the Creepy Cute Crocheted critters from the book of the same name. There are several people on my Christmas list that need to get the Death amigurumi (the Grim Reaper in crochet), in their stocking.

Creepy Cute CrochetThis is my therapy, whether  I  crochet something, knit something, sew something, it doesn’t matter if it is creepy, cute or just plain ugly.

I just found this ZOMBIE pattern for free from http://qdpatooties.blogspot.com/! I may have a theme going here. Zombie pattern from QDPatooties

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