Amigurumi is the Japanese art of crocheting or knitting small stuffed figures. Animals, cryptids, wildlings and whatever strange thing catches my attention next. My crochet tends to wander wherever curiosity leads. Traditionally small, soft and charming, mine sometimes stray a little further into the weird. Made to hold, display, or quietly unsettle a shelf.
Each figure is worked in the round in separate pieces: head, body, limbs. Those get stuffed and stitched together, and that is where the character actually arrives. Two eyes set a fraction apart change everything about a face, so the last few stitches usually take the longest.