Take your crochet skills to the next level with this cute dinosaur plushie. Don't worry if you've never created amigurumi before. As long as you have mastered basic crochet stitches, you can make this little sweetie for yourself or a friend. While reinforcing what you already know, we will focus on developing new skills: reading both narrative and graphic patterns, color combining, consistent tension, attractive joins, and more. The pattern calls for fingering weight yarn, which results in a dino about 5.5" tall and 11" long. However, the size of your plushie will be determined by the size of the yarn that you choose, so if you'd like to experiment with a different weight, this is your chance.
Materials:
1.) Pattern: included in the price of the class (copyright Heidi Bears Designs)
2.) Yarn: approximately 350 total yards of fingering weight yarn (or larger) in at least 4 colors (more is better!)
3.) Polyfil stuffing
4.) Plastic safety eyes or glass wire-loop eyes
Tools:
1.) Crochet hook: 1.75 mm for fingering weight yarn (2.25 mm or B/1 for sport weight, 2.75 mm or C/2 for DK, 3.25 mm or D/3 for worsted)
2.) Scissors
3.) Yarn needle
4.) Curved sewing needle
5.) Long tapestry needle
6.) Stitch markers
Prerequisites :
Intermediate-advanced beginner crochet skills, at a minimum.
*This is NOT a class for those who need to learn to crochet.*
Students receive a 10% discount on materials they purchase for their class from The Knitting Tree, L.A.