I'm in love with amigurumi too. Unfortunately, I can't crochet! So instead, I bought a amigurumi snowman off etsy. hee.

i love amigurumi. I have quite a few pattern books that I purchased from amazon.jp! it's so cute! I just taught myself how to crochet about 2 months ago, but I still haven't attempted one of the patterns.

i've been obsessed with amigurumi now for months!! it's the cutest. i bought a few books on it off of ebay and then when i was in tokyo last week i bought an amigurumi book with patterns for fruits and vegetables :) i may make a few and put faces on them. it's a very addictive thing to search for online. have you seen the flickr photo pool?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/amigurumi/

I love these, especially the Krabby Kat and Pink Ninja. I don't crochet, but I now see it in my future.

Hi Alison! Thanks for the mention! I'm so psyched to see more and more amigurumi around. My addiction continues...

I love Amigurumi! It's the reason I learned to crochet in the first place. There are so many amazing Amigurumi creations, and I haven't stopped making them since the day I learned to crochet (which was only about two months ago:P )

Oh wow. Um. They're cute.. I really wonder who's gonna buy Mr. Tampon.....

NO!!!! I will not be sucked into crocheting cute little Japanese style creatures. It's bad enough that this has me raiding the socl pile...

Those are so cute!!! I must remind myself that I hate to crochet...

hello knitters! this is the first mail from japanese knitter,nari:)
'amigurumi' is a coined word that means 'knit+dolls' in japanese.this crochet work is getting popular for biginners.because it need just simple crochet techniques and easy to arrange it like you do.so many knits tiny amigurumi-dolls for their mobile,bags,and so on.let's try amigurumi!

I'm just cracking up over Mr. Tampon. That would make the perfect holiday gift, don't you think?

looks like something that MIL might like to do. I'll send it to her. Thx.

Amigurumi!!!! I've been waiting for them to make it to mainstream America. Maybe this way there will be more patterns in english. I've been doing the Japanese patterns, which are mostly charts, but it would be nice to read them in English! I am glad that more people are getting into it here.

Those are so cute...I wish I knew how to read crochet instructions now.

I could get so easily obsessed with amigurumi! I've seen them before and had to look away quick. They are so friggin' cute I can hardly stand it! I learned to crochet before learning to knit so the patterns would be no problem.
For all of the knitters out there afraid of crochet - it really is not hard at all. Get a good teacher and practice. And for the snotty knitters that think crocheting is beneath them - get over it.
Alison, I'm glad you came across these! I'll need to find a reason to make some of these after the holidays!

Mr. Tampon is too funny. I just showed him to my husband who said, "what's that?" Oh brother!!!

Beth

Oh my! I usually think that type of thing is tacky, but those are SO cute! And I just happened to see the post the very afternoon my 9yo dd had said "Mommy, we don't need toys from the store, because Daddy can make anything out of wood, and you and I can make anything out of fabric or yarn!"

Awww, how sweet, Wendi. "We don't need toys from the store." Wow, you two must have made a lot of cool things for him to say that!