We’ve reached the final stage of our festive adventure! With the body and all four legs complete, it’s time to add those all-important finishing details. In this part, we’ll be working on the antlers and eyes, giving our character the expression and personality that bring the whole project to life. 🦌✨

We’re nearly there! With three legs in place, your festive friend is almost ready to stand proudly on all fours. In this part, we’ll be adding the right front leg, completing the full set. 🦌 Once this step is finished, your character will have all four legs crocheted on — a huge milestone in the CAL!

With both hind legs complete, our festive friend can finally stand tall — but now it’s time to bring balance to the front. In this part, we’ll be adding the front left leg, which has a slightly different contour than the back legs to give your character a more natural shape. 🦌

Your festive friend has already taken its first step — and now it’s time for the other! In this part, we’ll be adding the right hind leg, working it up just like the one you completed in Part 5. 🦌 Thanks to surface crochet, there’s still no sewing involved, so this section will be quick and straightforward.

This festive crochet Christmas tree cookie is the perfect holiday make — a sweet little treat topped with colourful “icing” and decorations. 🎄🍪 It works up quickly and makes a fun ornament, play food, or gift topper to bring a touch of handmade cheer to your holiday season. Remember to pair it with all the other christmas goodies too!

This adorable gingerbread man is crocheted in one continuous piece — no sewing and no stuffing required! 🍪 Using just brown yarn and a touch of white for the icing details, you’ll have a festive little cookie ready in no time. It’s the perfect quick-make for ornaments, play food, or holiday decorations.

This festive log cake roll is crocheted with a fun swirly design to mimic the cross section of a real cake roll. 🍰 Using half double crochet stitches, you can create the classic spiral look, and with just a few colour changes you can make either a rich chocolate log or a festive red velvet roll. Perfect for play food, ornaments, or a cozy holiday display!

With the head and body complete, our festive friend is really starting to take shape. In this part, we’ll be adding the left hind leg — and the best part is, there’s no sewing involved! 🎉 We’ll be using surface crochet to build the leg directly onto the body, making it quick, sturdy, and seamless.

Crocheting animals is surprisingly simple once you learn the basic shapes. Nearly every amigurumi animal—no matter how detailed it looks—is built from the same core techniques: easy ears, a small snout, rounded cheeks, simple limbs, and a soft body.

This candy cane works up in a continuous spiral with no sewing or wires needed — the natural bends are built right into the crochet pattern! 🎄 It’s a quick and festive make that’s perfect as an ornament, stocking stuffer, or holiday gift topper.

If you want to learn how to crochet dolls, this pillar guide will walk you through every essential part of a crochet doll—from shaping the body and head to adding hair, faces, and clothes.

Peppermint candies make the cutest crochet projects! 🍭 If you’re looking for a quick festive make, this peppermint candy crochet pattern is perfect. It works up fast, is completely beginner-friendly, and looks adorable as a tree ornament, gift topper, or part of a larger holiday play set.

We’ve been building piece by piece, and now it’s time for a big step forward. In this part, we’ll be finishing both the head and the body — the foundation of our festive character! With these two sections complete, the mystery will feel much closer to being solved… can you already guess who it might be? 👀

Look how far we’ve come! In Part 1 and 2, we began shaping the head of our surprise Christmas character — and now those features are starting to give the first real clues. 👀 Can you guess what this festive friend might be?

Crocheting involves creating various shapes to achieve different outcomes, 2D shapes like circles can be made into doilies or rectangles made into blankets. As for amigurumi, it often involves creating various 3D shapes, for instance spheres and cylinders instead.

Are you looking for a fun and easy way to create your own crochet balls? Look no further! In this post, I will not only be talking about the step-by-step instructions for how to crochet the different parts of the ball, I will also be touching on variations in the crochet pattern to create larger or smaller sized spheres! For each part, I also include suggested short patterns and accompanying pictures so they are easier to visualize!

With the simplest amigurumi doll head pattern, I will illustrate how to pick up the following 8 crocheting techniques that are essential to making Amigurumis. They include the following:

Magic ring| Single crochet | Increase in stitches | Colour change | Invisible decrease | Stuffing | Fastening off | Sewing eyes

You have managed to successfully start the amigurumi project and done up most of it and all you have left is to finish it. Think this part should be the easiest right since you are just ending it off? Read on about the 3 steps to finishing a crochet project, especially amigurumi and they include - ending off the stitches, fastening off and weaving in the ends. I talk about different techniques for each part and even using different instruments to end off.

If you have been wondering how do I start learning amigurumi, then this article is meant for you. I have broken it down into 3 different segments with 15 steps in total, hopefully to make this step-by-step guide in crocheting amigurumi easier to understand.

Let us clear any confusion with regards to whether amigurumi is the same as crochet. If you are a crocheter and thinking of trying out amigurumi, read on to see how similar or different they are.