Amigurumi is the Japanese word which describes small knitted or crocheted stuffed toys, often in the shape of animals, cute characters, mini foods, household objects and more.
Amigurumi dolls are big news in Japan and quite frankly we aren’t surprised – cute, dinky and each one with buckets of personality. Make like the Tokyo cool-kids and learn the basics of Amigurumi in this lesson. You will learn to: to crochet in the round increase and decrease learn how to crochet the using the single crochet stitch (US) / double crochet (UK) 

What You Need: 
You will need a few grams of wool and the corresponding crochet hook. If you have a stitch marker that is useful too but if not we have a hack to show you what you can use at home. 

Level:
Improvers - You do need to know basic crochet techniques. Try our beginners class on the 4th May first. Details here
Duration:
2 hours
What You Receive:
You will receive our instructional booklet with the pattern to make all our amigurumi toys in the photos as well as a video recording of the workshop to keep hold of and refer back to.

Jane will also provide you with a host of information on where to find some free patterns, some great amigurumi websites and inspiration as well as a 20% discount code you can use at Lovecrafts to purchase wool, hooks, needles and all your others crafty supplies.