Melting hearts and lifting spirits everywhere, these four adorable forest creatures are simple and stress-free to make. Stacey Trock, a pattern designer, author and guiding light behind the Fresh Stitches blog, specializes in crocheted toys in the Japanese style. In this class, Stacey shares her best tips for choosing yarns and hooks, marking and counting stitches, stuffing, assembling, and finishing with child-safe details. Even a rookie crocheter will enjoy this class, while experienced crocheters will love the four included patterns: a sturdy bear, winsome deer, mischievous raccoon and perky bluebird.
Amigurumi: Woodland Animals
Melting hearts and lifting spirits everywhere, these four adorable forest creatures are simple and stress-free to make. Even a rookie crocheter will enjoy this class, while experienced crocheters will love the four included patterns: a sturdy bear, winsome deer, mischievous raccoon and perky bluebird.
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Good Course to Try Amigurumi
The Instructor was very accessible (as in you feel like you could ask anything if this was in person). It was also nice to have the very first lecture go over most of the basics needed in the course, making it easier to go back to one video to review a specific skill (Although, it wasn't clear immediately that was the purpose.) In many of the Wondrium courses on crochet, the skills are scattered throughout making it harder to find a small section to review. So, this was helpful. Also, the size of these projects is more small to medium stuffed animal size, not tiny, making it easier to do the projects for a beginner.
One difficulty is that it is hard to say who the best audience is for this course. If you know nothing about crochet, I think the demonstrations of the skills were very, very fast and not all the camera angles were great. And, the Instructor isn't always clear. For example, in one instruction she indicates the viewer can put the hook under one loop or both, depending on whether the viewer is able to do that or not - as though it is about skill level. However, she also makes it appear that it is supposed to be part of the design. I am still not clear whether this was to make the project easier for newbies or part of the design I should have followed.
The other basic crochet courses on Wondrium might be better to start with if you are interested in learning all the basic skills in order. I am not sure I could have learned to crochet from scratch watching this. However, if you are more of an advanced beginner, there were not a lot of new skills (I did learn the sloppy slip knot and some other good tricks.).
For anyone who wants to jump in and get started with full projects, rather than the more classic style of learning basics by making swatches, this is course would be a good choice. If you prefer the slower building block style, I would take this course after some of the fundamental courses offered on Wondrium.
In the end, I managed to make all the projects and while they didn't look quite as cute as the instructors', they were recognizable!
Date published: 2022-04-29
01: Introduction
Meet Stacey Trock and her woodland friends. Learn about the Craftsy learning platform and go over the supplies used in this class.
5 min
02: Skills and Techniques
Learn the basics crochet techniques for creating woodland friends, including chaining, increasing, decreasing and changing colors.
20 min
03: Making the Bird
Crochet in the round to begin this bluebird beauty, beginning with the beak, then the wings and finally the body.
45 min
04: Finishing the Bird
Assemble your crocheted pieces and and add eyes and stuffing to finish your bluebird.
22 min
05: The Bear
Crochet all the pieces you'll need to create a complete cuddly bear, then assemble and finish your woodland animal.
53 min
06: Making the Deer
Begin the process of crocheting an antlered friend. Create the legs, the antlers and everything between.
40 min
07: Finishing the Deer
Finish your deer by attaching all of your crocheted pieces together and adding stuffing.
38 min
08: Making the Raccoon
Create the head, body and limbs of a cute, ring-tailed raccoon.
34 min
09: Finishing the Raccoon
Complete this complex little critter by crocheting all the pieces together into one cuddly raccoon.
27 min
10: Bonus: Baby-Safe Eyes
Learn to crochet baby-safe eyes for younger recipients of your woodland animals.
3 min
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About
Stacey Trock is a crochet designer and the author of “Crocheted Softies,” “Cuddly Crochet” and “Modern Baby Crochet.” She also designs her own line of cute and cuddly crochet stuffed animals for FreshStitches and is dedicated to writing patterns and providing tutorials that help her students crochet their own adorable creations.
