On January 15th from 2pm-4pm I will be teaching my first ever class on how to make amigurumi at Local Folk Creative Studio in Kutztown, PA. The class will include all the materials needed, patterns, instuctions and links to a video tutorials. In honor of Chinese New Year we will be making amigurumi dumplings and simple coin purses. The patterns are very basic, great for every level of crochet experience including beginners. Thank you so much to Kathleen at Local Folk for providing the space for the class, and please go to the website in the link to sign up. Any questions you can also reach me at my contact page or leave a comment below. So excited for another outlet to share the amigurumi joy!

I’ve been making several amigurumi presents for the holidays, but I can’t post pics because it might spoil the surprise. In between making all the holiday gifts I did have time to whip up a pair of cozy slipper socks for Sophia who’s on break from college. They seem to fit the bill quite nicely 😉

Christmas Pickle Myth and Legend

Seriously this is amazing! My love history combined with my love of amigurumi? It doesn’t get any better. Someone mentioned that there was a German tradition of putting a pickle in the Christmas tree. One, everybody in my family LOVES pickes. Two, I have always wanted to crochet a pickle, and I was curious about this tradition. Some digging indicates maybe this is not a German tradition, but German-American. The story that pleases me most, so that’s what I’m going with, has to do with a Bavarian American solider named John C. Lower. He was enlisted in the 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War. Legend goes that as he lay starving in prison and John Lower requested a pickle from his prison guard. Later Lower would credit that pickle with saving his life. And so each Christmas he would hide a pickle shaped ornament in the tree, and the first person to find it would have good luck in the coming year. Awesome amigurumi pickle and lovely Christmas story.

Crochet Amigurumi Gudetama- Mr. lazy egg With His bacon blanket!

This was a true labor of love, and some of my best work so far. A gift for my son for the holidays, by his request. He is getting some other handmade items to go with it but I could not wait to show this guy off. Love to hear comments, please leave them below and please subscribe above to see all my latest amigurumi and get information about free amigurumi patterns and the class I will teach on amigurumi basics at Local Folk Creative Studio in January, 2023.

It took me quite some time to land on the look, the pattern, it was a over a month. I finally hit on the pattern I liked, different from ones I had seen but similar. I worked up these two amigurumi gnomes today, for some reason I think of them as Sasha and Misha, I don’t know why ? 😉 Will be delivering them down to local folk creative studio so if anyone is interested you can find them at their new home there @local-folk.com. As always love to hear comments or feedback below.

Maybe both! These Amgurumi Donuts originally designed to be keychains would work equally well as Amigurumi Christmas Tree Ornaments. I will be delivering them soon http://Local Folk Creative Studio in Kutztown . Sharing the Amigurumi Joy. And subscribe to get upcoming information on classes I will be teaching at Local Folk in January on the basics of crochet and how to make your own Amigurumi.

I used a very basic granny square pattern and just built off that to make a baby blanket to go with my Amigurumi Luna Moth. I will be putting up some free videos, patterns and tutorials soon so keep a look out for that. I had left over yarn and kept going to make some cute crochet hair scrunchies. Love to hear any comments please put below and to get the upcoming free crochet and amigurumi patterns, and see my latest stuff please subscribe above.

Turns out with the right motivation and time to sit around at Thanksgiving after stuffing my face with turkey I finished a wonderful project for my new niece who was just born in in November. This is Luna the Amigurumi Moth. So much fun and so cute. Love to hear from you so please subscribe to the page and/or leave any comments or suggestions below.

My mushrooms and little snow owls are now out for sale at Local Folk Creative studio in Kutztown, PA. http://local-folk.com There are still one or two colorful candy corns left from the Halloween collection. And I’m super excited to announce that I will be doing a how to class for basic amigurumi at the studio in January. Stay tuned for all the details. As always would love to hear any comments or suggestions. #amigurumi