Francis was born on a cold winter Sunday afternoon. I was feeling a little bored, so I grabbed my drawing pad and pencil.
Reproducing this little guy perfectly was no easy task, his ears gave me so much trouble!
After a few failed attempts, I was ready to give up, but somehow, he finally came together just right. And now, I’m proud to introduce Francis the elephant, rocking his stylish vest.
Isn’t he just the most adorable thing?
Romeo is born from a phenomenal amount of mistakes. This character came to life through a painful process that I have to admit I really hated. Nothing I did was right, even the smallest detail looked wrong. I was about to give up when accidentally I fixed his face, then one after the other the remaining parts and in a matter of no time he was sitting in front of me with his sweet eyes.
Now that Romeo is all done I feel so proud and rewarded, I’m totally in love with this little fellow.
Is he not the most handsome cat in the Amigurumi’s World?
Romeo was featured in Simply Crochet, Issue 140 in September 2023
Who says that you always have to stick to a plan?
Some time it is good to go off the track and embark on a new adventure.
This is how Livio came to life, I wanted to design a different animal and when I was ready to prepare its sketch I drew a duckling instead.
I’m so happy I let my creativeness to be free as Livio is so cheerful and full of energy that you can’t fall in love with him immediately.
Livio was featured in Simply Crochet, Issue 134 in March 2023.
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?
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
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!
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.
