In the wonderful world of amigurumi, one of the skills you’ll likely want to learn sooner rather than later, is how to change yarn colours in…

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. How to…

To make a crochet chain, first make a slip knot and put it on your hook. Follow the link to a tutorial on slip knots if…

The popcorn stitch is the first of the crochet stitches outside the basics that I learnt. In amigurumi it’s a great stitch 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 (US terms) isn’t used too often in amigurumi, but every now and then I’ll bust it out if I need a…

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

Once you get the hang of the crochet slip knot, they’ll be second nature! Loop your yarn like this – so the tail end (the end…

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…