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I have finally finished it – a free dolphin amigurumi pattern! It’s a very simple and fun amigurumi to make, so I hope everyone enjoys it!
Dolphin Amigurumi Pattern
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- Sport weight yarn in baby blue and white
- Size F/3.75 mm crochet hook
- 1 pair of 9 mm solid black safety eyes
- Blunt tapestry needle
- Scissors
- Stuffing of your choice
Using baby blue yarn,
R1: Ch 2, 6 sc in second st from hook – 6 sts
R2: 2 sc in each st around – 12 sts
R3: 1 sc, 2 sc in next st (repeat around) – 18 sts
R4: 2 sc, 2 sc in next st (repeat around) – 24 sts
R5 – R9: sc in each st around – 24 sts
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Switch to white yarn.
R10: 2 sc, 1 dec in next st (repeat around) – 18 sts
R11: 1 sc, 1 dec in next st (repeat around) – 12 sts
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Insert the 9 mm solid black safety eyes into the head. Insert the eyes between R8 and R9. Leave 4 sts in between the eyes for the most ideal spacing. Fasten the eyes in place.
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Stuff the body with your choice of stuffing.
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R12: 1 dec in each st around – 6 sts
Fasten off, leaving a long tail.
Using a blunt tapestry needle and the long tail of yarn, sew the hole at the bottom of the body closed.
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Once the hole is closed, hide the stray tail inside of the body. Using the tip of your scissors gently stuff the tail end into the body.
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With that, the body is complete!
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Using baby blue yarn,
R1: Ch 2, 6 sc in second ch from hook – 6 sts
R2: sc in each st around – 6 sts
R3: 2 sc in the next 4 sts (leave the last 2 sts in the round empty) – 8 sts
Fasten off, leaving a long tail.
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Place the snout between the eyes and sew in place. Position the snout so that the wider bottom half faces down and the smaller top half faces up.
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Finish sewing the snout in place onto the body.
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Using baby blue yarn,
R1: Ch 2, 4 sc in second ch from hook – 4 sts
R2: 2 sc in each st around – 8 sts
Fasten off, leaving a long tail. Pinch each piece in half so that they form semi-circles.
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Using the blunt tapestry needle, sew the fins onto the sides of the body. I like to place the fins more towards the back of the body rather than exactly at the sides. It looks more like it’s swimming in this position!
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Once sewn, it should look like this.
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Repeat the same process with the other fin. Be sure to position the fin on the body as symmetrically as possible. Re-position as many times as needed to achieve the most symmetrical position.
Now, it should have 2 fins!
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Using baby blue yarn,
R1: Ch 2, 3 sc in second ch from hook – 3 sts
R2: 2 sc in each st around – 6 sts
Fasten off, leaving a long tail. Pinch the piece in half to form a semi-circle like the side fins.
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Sew the fin onto the top of the body. I staggered the fin slightly below the center of the top, just to give it a little more style.
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Using baby blue yarn,
R1: Ch 2, 3 sc in second ch from hook – 3 sts
R2: 2 sc in each st around – 6 sts
R3: 1 sc, 2 sc in next st around – 9 sts
R4: 2 sc, 2 sc in next st around – 12 sts
Fasten off, leaving a long tail. Do not stuff the tail. The shape should look like a cone.
Sew the tail onto the back end of the body.
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Once sewn, it should look like this.
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Using baby blue yarn,
Ch 2, 6 dc in second ch from hook. The shape should resemble a small fan. Fasten off, leaving a long tail.
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Sew the tail fin onto the tip of the tail.
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Weave in any stray ends.
That’s it! You’re finished!
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Enjoy!
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Posted February 22nd, 2012 at 10:54pm (Comments: 2)
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I know it’s way late, but Happy Dragon Chinese New Year – and now let’s celebrate with a Chinese Dragon Amigurumi!! I actually made this Chinese dragon amigurumi last year, and if you liked my Facebook page you’ve probably seen it already. Sorry if it’s a repeat for some of you, but I thought it just had to be a part of my blog too!
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Making this Chinese dragon amigurumi was like making a mini-Bowser. I never really realized it before, but Chinese dragons have deer antlers – did YOU know that? What do they need antlers for anyway? I just crocheted small tubes and sewed one perpendicularly in the middle part of the other and attached the combined unit to the head.
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What I like best about this Chinese dragon amigurumi is the felt work. My sister had to cut out so much felt for the dragon’s mane, eyebrows, and fins.
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The redness of the fins and mane make the dragon amigurumi look like it’s on fire!! It looks pretty fierce thanks to my sister who likes to put her own scary spin on my cute amigurumis…making it’s eyebrows slanted so it looks like it’s frowning, and giving it fangs. It’s ok, for this dragon amigurumi, a little bit of scariness is just what it needs so I’ll let it go this time around. 
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It almost reminds me of a dinosaur at this angle!
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Here it is posing with a Chinese girl amigurumi my mom crocheted. For the whiskers, I just crocheted a chain and attached it to the sides of the snout. Later, my mom sewed a golden thread into it too to give it some extra shine.
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I do have a pattern for this Chinese dragon amigurumi too, but just haven’t written it up yet. It will be up soon for sale on my Etsy. Please wait for it! 
That’s it for our Chinese dragon amigurumi! Hope everyone who celebrates it had a great Chinese new year, and we wish everyone a prosperous and healthy year!
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Posted January 28th, 2012 at 8:42am (Comments: 1)
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Since the first time I posted about my monkey amigurumis, I have received lots of positive feedback and interest in getting a pattern for them. Not knowing so many people would take interest in my monkeys, I actually submitted my pattern for them in Interweave’s 2012 Crochet Me Amigurumi Calendar Contest, and surprisingly got chosen to be a part of the calendar! I received my complimentary copy of the calendar in the mail about a month ago, and have been waiting since then for them to publish the ebook which contains all the patterns for the amigurumis in the calendar. They finally have, so I’m posting about it now to spread the good news!
Here are some pictures of the calendar I took myself:
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I also submitted a pattern for a polar bear my sister fondly nicknamed Polar Lucibear, and it got chosen for the month of December too! Never had the chance to take nice pictures of it before I had to send it in for the contest, but oh well, the professionals did a good job anyway!
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Visit here to take a look at the ebook.
Visit here to take a look at the calendar.
According to the site description, the patterns for the monkeys will be released for free download at CrochetMe.com during the first week of the month for which they appear in the calendar (my monkeys were chosen for the month of June). If you don’t want to wait, you can always download the ebook now with all the patterns in the calendar at the link above.
Can’t wait to order some more calendars myself! Definitely excited to give them away as presents to friends and family! Thanks to everyone who gave me such nice feedback and for showing interest in my monkeys, it really means a lot to me.
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Posted August 26th, 2011 at 4:24am (Comments: 6)
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It’s time for the Monkey of the Month, and this month I’ve made an Easter Monkey Amigurumi! What else would you think of for the month of April? I was actually thinking of a rainy themed monkey, because “April showers bring May flowers” but Easter is just too cute to pass up!
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What makes this Easter Monkey Amigurumi, well, Easter-y, is the nest of eggs on its head. The nest is just a small cap-like shape, and the eggs I crocheted out of that super thin yarn I got from Taiwan (the same yarn I used to make the baby whale amigurumis). My sister and I trialed with so many different types of eggs before we settled with that nest of eggs! We first tried a felt plushie egg, but despite stuffing it, it still didn’t quite look three dimensional enough to look like an egg. Then we thought about crocheting a big egg with worsted weight yarn, but found it hard to make the Easter Monkey Amigurumi pose with such a large egg! So, finally my sister suggested I crochet three small eggs and put them in a nest on the Easter Monkey Amigurumi’s head. I was hesitant at first, because that’s a lot of work!! It doesn’t look like it, because they’re so small, but it’s actually a lot of stitches…just to crochet some eggs…BUT it did work out the best, so I shouldn’t have been so lazy heh.
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Can you guess what else makes this Easter Monkey Amigurumi so special?? You probably can’t tell from the pictures so far, but…
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TADA! It stands!! All on its own…awww…kinda like seeing your baby stand for the first time, huh? Haha not quite, but something like that.
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As you can see, it relies solely on the garden wire stuffed in its tail to stand, which is amazing to me because this Easter Monkey Amigurumi sure is mighty plump! I used my original pattern to crochet the body, and after I finished I realized that the body is way too big for a standing monkey. Future note to self, if monkey is to stand, give it lipo…
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And, just for kicks, let’s make the Easter Monkey Amigurumi look like Godzilla!
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I told my sister to take nice pictures of the Easter Monkey Amigurumi for me because she usually takes really good pictures. I was thinking white picket fence, grass, nice sky blue backdrop, some flowers…I got most of what I asked for, but somehow I also got small buildings that make the Easter Monkey Amigurumi look more like King Kong than a cute Easter-themed monkey…what can I say, she always likes to put her own little “cute but dangerous” twist on things <slaps forehead and rolls eyes>…
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Although, after looking at them for a while, they are nice pictures after all. As I say this, I just know she’s rolling her eyes at me too and thinking that I have “such common taste” with that all too familiar disgusted look on her face haha!
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Nice houses too. The house on the left was a birthday present from my mom, and the one on the right was a souvenir from San Francisco. So random that we have these things lying around the house!
The Easter Monkey Amigurumi is available for purchase at my Etsy. That’s it for now! Thanks for looking~!
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Posted April 12th, 2011 at 11:51pm (Comments: 2)
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I know it’s very late, but Happy Chinese New Year nonetheless, and to celebrate it I made a rabbit amigurumi for the year of the rabbit!
Here I made the rabbit amigurumi celebrate against a Chinese New Year-inspired backdrop. The fancy decorations in the background are actually red envelopes, and to top it off I added a little Chinese chocolate gold nugget too. May the new year bring much luck, happiness, and prosperity to us all!!
I think the most important part of this rabbit amigurumi is the shape of its ears. I basically crocheted a test tube shape (please excuse the crude image comparison, lab geek talking here), pinched the bottom open end of it to create a concave shape, and sewed it in place onto the head. I wanted to achieve a 3-D effect, rather than just a flat shape for the ears. To finish off this rabbit amigurumi’s ears, I cut out a smaller test tube shape from pink felt, lined the inner ears with it and glued it in place. Sounds pretty simple, but actually sewing the ears in place with that concave shape is kind of difficult, so if you’re ever going to do something similar, it may take a few tries but it’s so worth it!
Which reminds me, someone once asked me what kind of glue I use for my amigurumis. The answer is Aleene’s tacky glue, which I buy from either Michaels or Joann’s, whichever store is having a sale or gives me a coupon. The only reason I use it is that’s what was lying around the house at the time I started crafting. It is definitely much better than using regular school glue, a mistake I once made when I used school glue to stick felt polka dots onto a mushroom amigurumi I made for a friend’s birthday, only to find that all the dots fell off within 2 hours (that, and my friend wasn’t exactly “gentle” with my handiwork either…)! Just a little bit of tacky glue goes a long way too, because when you slather on a bunch onto a small piece of felt it soaks through to the other side of the felt and doesn’t stick very well because it’s so wet. The felt piece also hardens as it dries with too much glue, and maintaining the softness of the felt is important for both visual and tactile purposes. I’ve always wanted to try hot glue, but never got around to it. If anyone has better suggestions, please share!
Ok, I’ll stop talking about glue now. You’re probably thinking, “Gosh how much can someone talk to me about glue?!” I know I can be pretty wordy, but I just wanted to share my experiences with glue with you. 
Back to the rabbit amigurumi…of course with Easter coming up and all, I couldn’t resist making this rabbit amigurumi an Easter rabbit too!
The eggs were cut from felt, stuffed and sewn together, and then decorated with some glittery glue. My sister’s handiwork – she’s so good with small details.
Oh, and the tail was crocheted from Joann Sensations Beautiful Yarn. It’s super soft, and so fuzzy – perfect for creating contrast with the worsted weight yarn I used for the body. I know it sounds wrong, but I find myself pinching the tail a lot because it’s so soft! Don’t worry, the rabbit hasn’t turned around to bite me yet so it’s all good.
Here’s a side view. Notice how the ears are sewn on in a concave shape.
After I made this rabbit amigurumi, I liked it so much I decided to make another type of rabbit – a floppy-ear rabbit amigurumi!
The body and everything else is exactly the same as the other bunny. The only difference is the ears. The ears on the floppy ear rabbit amigurumi are huge! If I were to ever make it again, I would definitely use a sport weight yarn instead of worsted weight yarn just for the ears. But it’s ok, the floppy ear rabbit amigurumi still has a special place in my heart, even if other people think it looks like a dog!
And here the rabbits are very happy together. All of a sudden, I can’t wait for spring to come! If you’re interested, you can purchase a plush rabbit amigurumi of any color you’d like at my Etsy.
As always, thank you for looking! Please stay tuned as I attempt to make all the animals of the Chinese zodiac! So far, I have more than half done and will be posting them as time permits. Oh, and one last bit of info – my monkey amigurumis were chosen for the 2012 Crochet Me Amigurumi Calendar! The patterns for the monkeys, and also a pattern for a polar bear (fondly named Polar Lucibear) will be included in the calendar! Thank you very much to all who have expressed interest in a pattern for the monkeys. Please wait patiently with me for publication of the calendar to get your copy of the pattern! I’ll be sure to update you on the calendar’s status.
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Posted February 22nd, 2011 at 5:28am (Comments: 9)
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A couple years ago, when my mom was into making polymer clay crafts and I stole some and played with it for fun, I made these little monkeys with tails that held bananas on their heads, backs, in the air…almost anywhere! Thinking back to those and how cute they were, I thought why not make a monkey amigurumi too? So, that’s what I did. Except, this time around the monkeys are 5″ tall, whereas the polymer clay monkeys I made back then were a mere 1″ wide at the most!
So, here are my monkey amigurumi.
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I even gave the monkeys different poses and faces. For the brown monkey I used safety eyes and gave it a waving pose. The gray monkey has those cute happy squinting eyes so characteristic in anime characters. It also hugs instead of waves. Same pattern, but both monkey amigurumis have a unique look – that’s what I really like about them.
I even got a special order on them from my mom’s friend for her daughter’s birthday (her daughter was born in the year of the monkey). That was exciting! She wanted a plush brown version of the gray amigurumi monkey, and a small plush monkey amigurumi cell phone charm. Here are the finished products.
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That’s a Nintendo DS by the way, because we all know how much monkeys like to play with DSes…
I put up these monkey amigurumi plushes for purchase on my Etsy. If you order one, I can make it in any pose, face, and color you want to make it uniquely yours! Even the bananas can be placed anywhere on the monkey to give it an extra cute edge!
I also entered these monkeys in the Interweave Crochet Me 2012 Amigurumi calendar contest. Let’s hope they make it into the calendar! That would be super awesome!!
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Posted October 28th, 2010 at 10:29pm (Comments: 11)
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So, when I say friend of R2D2, who comes to mind? C3PO? Luke Skywalker? …Yoda?? No – wrong, wrong, wrong! The obvious answer should be:
R5D4, of course!!
This brilliant idea wasn’t mine actually…it was a custom order! I would never have thought of making R5D4, but he definitely makes the cutest counterpart for R2D2!
Making him was pretty difficult. I had to start over so many times to get the head shape right. I even made an extra body using an off-white colored yarn, because for some funny reason, I thought R5D4 was an off-white color…but actually he’s white. It only looked off-white because of the reflection of the sand on his body. Ha ha ha…I should have looked at him more carefully before I started darnit….
AND…R5D4 is so much fancier than R2D2!! Look at all his fancy embellishments! Those decked out disco-light neck squares, 3 eyeballs instead of 2 (and a glassy crystal eyeball too!), fancy rectangles on his body, and 4 different colors instead of 2 ooooh so special! When I finished and compared him to R2D2, I almost felt sorry for R2D2 because he looked so empty and, well, naked all of a sudden! Maybe we got a little carried away with our decorations on R5D4. Oh well, it’s ok R2D2, you’re still our favorite!
Unfortunately, I didn’t write anything down so there’s no pattern, in case anyone’s wondering. He was too hard to construct, and making a pattern with nice pictures and step-by-step instructions just seems too daunting for me! Perhaps in the future when I have more time…
That’s all for now! Went through quite a dry spell of not posting for a while, but I’ll be making more posts soon, so please visit again!
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Posted March 16th, 2010 at 12:37am (Comments: 4)
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After crocheting my beloved boba, I’m on a drinks rampage now! I just feel like crocheting a bunch of drinks!
This whole rampage was spurred by coming back from In n Out milkshake-less, and regretting it! Something about sweet icy beverages makes them absolutely irresistible, right? So after making boba, I HAD to move on to a strawberry milkshake…with a strawberry on top too, please!
I like the last picture. The colors are so nice! That’s what happened when I used a hot pink colored background against the light of the setting sun.
You can find the pattern for the strawberry milkshake on my etsy.
And of course, a strawberry milkshake just isn’t complete without a chocolate companion!
Chocolate milkshake got to have a more dramatic look!
Now, both of them together!
Chocolate vs. Strawberry. Who’s gonna win?!
BOBA WINS!!
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Posted August 7th, 2009 at 6:52pm (Comments: 6)
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…so of course I couldn’t resist making an amigurumi of one! It was a super easygoing project that didn’t require much thinking. Getting the cup part to be the right shape was a little tedious, but it turned out well. What I liked most about this was the straw. Boba straws are so fat, so it was possible to make a life-size straw (unlike the neck of the martini glass Brian Griffin holds)!
You can find the pattern for it at my etsy.
My sister is a major boba fanatic – much more so than I am. When I finished making it she was ecstatic! Yet, as it sat around for a few more days, staring at her every time she walked by, tricking her more than thrice that it was the real thing, and constantly reminding her of her boba craving…she went crazy!! Now she resorts to holding it like she would a real boba cup and slurp invisible boba out of the straw. Maybe she’s hinting that I go buy her the real thing…I guess she deserves one, especially because she helped me cut out the felt pieces and arrange them. Noo…guilt tripping myself! Ok, off to the boba store!!
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Posted August 4th, 2009 at 1:49pm (Comments: 1)
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Since I had to make up a pattern for Artoo and I didn’t write it down the first time, I had to clone him.
- Twin Artoos!
And no, you are not seeing wrong. Indeed, one Artoo is bigger than the other. Let’s just say one is more "fit" for survival than the other in the womb.
Then, my dad asked me to make one for his co-worker’s son, so I cloned him again. Now, for the time being, I have 3 Artoos! And for some funny reason, Artoo 003 got even BIGGER! It’s ok, the bigger the better.
I must admit, it is kinda scary seeing so many Artoos. It’s like having an army of Artoos, except they’re made of yarn and their main weapon is their cuteness. Don’t worry, worse comes to worse, just throw ‘em at your enemies! That’ll catch them off guard for sure!
Tea party with Artoo anyone?
Here’s a dramatic shot!
What have I learned after making THREE Artoos? Just because you’ve made it “n” amount of times doesn’t guarantee you’ll get the same exact thing each time. I would say I like the later 2 Artoos better, because my techniques got better. Although my brother said he likes the original the best still. To each their own, I suppose!
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Posted May 18th, 2009 at 5:39pm (Comments: 3)
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