Who likes amigurumi?

...I know I sure do If you don't know what they are:

Amigurumi (•Ò‚Ý•ï‚Ý, Amigurumi? lit. Knitted stuffed toy) is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and anthropomorphic creatures. Amigurumi are typically cute animals (such as bears, rabbits, cats, dogs, etc.), but can include inanimate objects endowed with anthropomorphic features. Amigurumi can be either knitted or crocheted. In recent years crocheted amigurumi are more popular and more commonly seen.

Amigurumi are usually crocheted or knitted out of yarn. The simplest designs are worked in spirals. In contrast to typical Western crochet the rounds are not usually joined. They are also worked with a smaller size hook in proportion to the weight of the yarn in order to create a very tight-looking fabric without any gaps through which the stuffing might escape. Amigurumi are usually worked in sections and then joined, except for some amigurumi which have no limbs, only a head and torso which are worked as one piece. The extremities are sometimes stuffed with plastic pellets to give them a life-like weight, while the rest of the body is stuffed with fiber stuffing.

The pervading aesthetic of amigurumi is cuteness. To this end, typical amigurumi animals have an over-sized spherical head on a cylindrical body with undersized extremities.


Here's a whole page full of them:

http://crochetpatterncentral.com/directory/amigurumi.php

And two that I'll be working on over my holidays:

Megaman! http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=274449.0
Squid! http://crochetme.com/patterns/amigurumi-squid

So, anyone else like to knit/crochet/fiber-art?

OMG! They're so cute!

I'm a knitter, so perhaps I'll give this a whirl. I was thinking of making a toy for my brother's cat anyway.

I found a knitting website that had patterns for crazy things like a human heart, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and pizza, thus I'm tempted to make one of them. First, I need to finish this sweater that I started almost a year ago haha.

I thought it was food.....

I'm not particularly a fan of Megaman, but the crocheted doll is just adorable! I so wish I could crochet (I can only sew...really badly) - I'd love to make DBF a crocheted Yoshi since he's a rabid fanboy.Or hell, even Megaman - he's a major game nerd.