Super Easy Amigurumi: Crochet Cute Animals Kindle Edition

Let me start by saying that I’ve never crocheted or even picked up a crochet hook before using this book. Overall, I’m very happy with it Bc I wanted to learn how to crochet exclusively to make amigurumi. It does a great job of explaining techniques and stitches. Here are my tips:1.) All the projects are really small so you can just buy a cheap multipack or multiple colors of yarn (in small spools) to experiment and make the projects without having to buy a bunch of yarn.2.) Keep trying! I’m a very crafty person who’s good with their hands, but it still took me a while to learn. I didn’t pick it up right away. Do it over and over again until you figure it out.3.) Sometimes the book tells you to hold the yarn or the hook a certain way, if that’s uncomfortable or feels weird for you after you’ve tried it a bunch of times, try it in a way that feels natural for your hands. Other than that, the instructions and visual models of how to make stitches are really good. Like I said, be patient and keep going over your mistakes to see what you did wrong. I’ve had a lot of “break throughs” on my crochet journey.4.) USE ROW COUNTING RINGS5.) Write notes on what place/ round/ stitch you’re on so you don’t lose place.Again, I’m really happy with this and glad I picked this book Bc I’ve learned a lot.I’m on project 9 out of 11 and have had to repeat some of the projects (for improved results and technique). I would gladly buy another crochet book by this author.

Update: While I still like this book, I have noticed some errors in the printing as I have moved through. The diagrams for the bear/rabbit don't match the text instructions. Then the pages for adding the ears and noses on those ones seem out of order. There are a few little things that lack detail for beginners but I have been able to figure it out from other books. So I am a bit disappointed.Love this book, figures increase in difficulty building on previous instruction, mostly plain language. I am a new to crochet and this has been a fun way to learn.

NOTE: everything I know about crocheting/amigurumi, I learned online. And I'm not sure why my expectation bar for a book like this was really low.I honestly wasn't expecting too much out of it, but after skimming through the pages, I've found that not only does it provide (what I like to call) a quick review of how to do certain amigurumi (or crochet if you will) techniques, it is quick and easy to follow with even a picture guide to know what you're doing!

The animals are cute. There are lots of photos and "How to " instructions good for beginners. My problem is that the written patterns leave much to be desired. They don't indicate color changes and other details I am used to. I consider myself very experienced at amigurumi, having made literally hundreds of animals, but I do not like using charts. It is hard for me to keep track of my place. I found the book cute but frustrating. I will donate it to the library.

When my mom passed away 2 years ago I kept all her knitting and crochet supplies, and vowed to learn. The lock-downs seemed custom made to try something new. I have watched a bunch of youtube videos, but no matter how slow I viewed them, I always ended with a mess of what looked like garbage. I got this book, because I thought once I learned, I would make cute amigurumi. I started reading it, thinking it would be too advanced, but the way that the book is arranged, made it look easy, so I just jumped in.She starts with the most basic animal, the chick (which is really just a sphere) and each animal builds on the last with more advanced parts. The first lesson is 21 pages long because it has dozens of pictures for the steps, and the diagrams are very easy to figure out. In that first lesson there are no assumptions that the user knows anything, you learn to single crochet, how to increase stitches, decrease stitches, even make that blasted "magic circle" although it is not called that in the book.If you have never crocheted before, my only advice would be to practice with thicker yarn, bigger hook, and yarn that is not too dark or light, so you can see your stitches easily. After a few days of practice, I started using the thinner yarn, smaller hook for cute animals. A lot of the videos I watched went into painstaking detail about how to wrap the "feeder" yarn though your hand so you can go faster. Don't worry about that. This book never addresses it, so I never thought about it. Now I think I have a method after 4 weeks but I still don't go very fast.Since I have never crocheted before this, I cannot comment on how the instructions compare to other patterns, but I found the crochet chart and the stitch table very simple to understand.This book has given me a great foundation for crocheting. Now I have built on it and have used another book to master more advanced stitches and projects.

I did have to look up the magic circle stitch to see it done, but otherwise the book is awesome! Easy to follow instructions, very cute designs. I just started crocheting yesterday haha!

Instructions are inaccurate since they have the same instructions for the mouse ears, rabbit ears, and panda ears. It’s also frustrating that instructions for body of these animals are also not correct since you don’t decrease stitches to make neck smaller so I just sowed the neck hole small to fit on head.

Cute book! I've only made the baby chicks so far but I was able to make one even though I'd only previously spent about an hour of my life crocheting- ever.

So disappointed. The products you can make with this book are adorable, however there are no patterns in this book, only charts. This should be made clearer in the product description as if it had I wouldn’t have purchased. If you can follow charts though then it’s a lovely book.

I followed the rabbit pattern from listed instructions and couldn't understand why it looked so wrong. I then looked at the illustration that shows the stitches in each row and found it to be different. This book has been misprinted.

Haven't tried yet but they soon arrived. They look nice but have not done charts before hopefully I will be able to work them out. It shows you the stitches but not to understand charts. Crosses are stitches but not sure about the other signs yet what they mean. Would be better if they had something that shows the sign and the meaning like knitting patterns do for their work.

It would have been useful to know this book uses US crochet terminology not UK

Love this book. Even though it uses US terms theres a bit at the beginning showing you which stitch you need to use, which is great and makes it easier, amigurimi usually uses 1 stitch as well. The patterns have the stitches numbers in table form and in charts, I've never used charts before and as long as I keep track of which row im on I've been able to follow and understand the charts. I've made the chick and a penguin so far and look forward to making others and using the skills I've learned from this book. While it's not a beginners book it does have basic patterns which have been great for a beginner like myself