There are two ways to do colour changes, which one you want to do depends on where the colour change is. A regular colour change is…

Learning to pick up stitches is really useful, though it’s something a lot of crocheters (especially with amigurumi) may not learn for a while. Picking up…

Make a slip knot and put it on your hook. Yarn over (wrap the yarn around the hook from back to front). Pull the yarn through…

The popcorn stitch is a bit of a weird one. I haven’t actually seen it used elsewhere very much, but it’s great for creating little thumbs…

This stitch is the same as the front loop only stitch, except (as the name implies) we are crocheting into the back loop this time –…

The half-double crochet stitch isn’t used too often in amigurumi, but every now and then I’ll bust it out if I need a slightly taller stitch.…

Just as an increase is used to start making your amigurumi shapes larger, a decrease is used to start shaping it down again. I prefer an…

Loop your yarn like this – so the tail end (the end that is cut) is behind the working yarn (the end attached to the yarn…

The slip stitch is almost a half-single crochet, and the both start the same way. Insert your hook into the next stitch, yarn over and pull…