Gwendy Elephant the Ami

 The idea to work on an elephant came to me when I was working on another character. When eventually I sat down and drew her sketch, I had fun at dressing her up and give her a look of a baby girl.

It took forever to finalize her pattern, from the shoes up to the ears I cannot tell how many times I have remade the various pieces, and funny enough every time I came up with an ami with the same personality regardless some of the features were different. I guess she had to be the way she is.

Don’t you think she is the sweetest girl with those big ears?

Julius Mouse the Ami

 As soon as I made Julius’ sketch I immediately fell in love with this adorable character and started working on it. The initial crochet version was not up to it, I messed up with the proportion of the body’s parts and the feature of the face. I was on the edge to give up when suddenly I got inspired and this time I crocheted a super cute mouse. I added a bear lovey to cuddle up when he goes to bed.

Julius was featured in Simply Crochet, Issue 112 in July 21

Rosie Piggy the Ami

After designing Enrico Dog I started drawing other small characters based on the same body’s structure. Rosie is just one of those cute little fellows.

It has been so much fun working on this little girl that I’m already impatient to start the next one: stay tuned!

Enrico Dog the Ami

 For this little dog I managed to make such a lovely sketch, me who is not able to draw!
My first crochet version was nothing closer to the cuteness it was supposed to be, off I restarted again and finally it turned out almost same as the sketch.

As I remade Enrico I realized that it would have been better to make him seamless for the tiny pieces of his body. At the end I came up with a super-fast pattern that requires little embroidery and sewing in the end.

Emilio Monkey the Ami

This monkey was a little devil as I worked on his design, I cannot tell how many times I remade some of his parts. I was so much frustrated with this character that I was on the edge to hide him in my projects bag and forget him for good.

Now that he sits in front of me with that mischief face, I feel overcome with joy and pride. I’m totally in love with Emilio, he is such an handsome guy and his smile is irresistible.

Emilio was featured in Simply Crochet, Issue 102 in September 20

Winston Panda the Ami

 I have seen many videos of pandas recently, they are adorable and at the end I could not help but design my own panda. 

Why I have chosen to make it in blue?

I hate working with black yarn and I wanted to make something different from the other crochet pandas you can see on the web.

I discovered only afterwards that I was not the first one to design a blue panda… but Winston is by far the cutest, don’t you think?

Archie Hippo the Ami

I never wanted a hippo plushie when I was a child because I was scared of them.
Now that I have designed my own hippo I’m totally in love with him. Archie is such a cuddly boy and he is not going to scare anyone with his smiling.