Return to Tiny World: Adventures in Micro- Crochet

I’m moving back into truly TINY world today after visiting “merely small” world with the mini-Amineko in my last post. This half-inch frog is from a pattern by @ami_miniatura, made with @sulkythreads 12wt cotton with a @tulipjapan_official 0.6mm hook. Eyes…

Today I’m sharing a classic amigurumi piece, the simple but expressive cat named #Amineko. He (or she) comes from a book published in Japan in 2005 by the author Nekoyama called “A Day in the Life of Amineko,” and in…

The Silkie chicken, at last, is complete, with several things learned and several things still to ponder. First, back to the topic of scale and abstraction. The chicken’s individual “feathers” (fuzzy teased plies from the original strand), though they have…

Micro-crochet Silkie chicken report: I’ve moved on to Plan C. This required plucking the chicken again. On the plus side, being able to remove hair/fur strands without destroying the crocheted structure underneath them is a useful skill. On the negative…

This is becoming a more complex project than I’d expected. But this happens so often that you’d think it’s what I would expect now. Anyway. The Silkie chicken is teaching me a lot. At this point I think I need…