[CR] Needleworkmonday | Alphabet Amigurumi

I have made it a point to make sure that I learn something new in my crocheting journey. Last week, I learned the starburst crochet. For this week, or might I say, this month, I learned how to do an amigurumi design. Several amigurumi designs actually.

Since I am new with the word amigurumi, I made a quick tour to the wikipedia page to look up what it's about. It said there that it roots from the words ami which means crocheted or knitted and nuigurumi which means stuffed doll. I looked up amigurumi designs online and I found a cute Picachu doll. Picachu is my favorite Pokemon. I actually had a collection which I needed to give up when I needed to move to a smaller apartment before. I am still feeling bad for giving up the collection but I made a promise to make an amigurumi Picachu once I'm done with my current project.

Moving back to the project I'm working on right now, I am currently teaching my kid how to read. She already knows the alphabet but she keeps on switching up the letters. So I bought her a little whiteboard, a whiteboard marker and eraser. The only problem is she is more fond of erasing the letters I write on the board than actually reading them.

Then I found this in one of the crochet groups I joined in Facebook. At first I was hesitant and I thought I might not be able to understand the pattern but aside from the meaning of the word amigurumi, I also learned a few crochet symbols. I found this as well and so far, I have used and understood I think four symbols from the chart. So YAY! A lot of new learnings in this project. I learn, she learns. Win-win!

I am actually making really really slow progress on this one but I don't want to rush it like I did the letter B. It did not curve the way it should on some sides but I'm glad my daughter still knows it's letter B. Letter A was a lot easier. I'm having the same curving troubles with letter C. I think I may not be following the instructions very clearly but I know I'll figure this out. One letter at a time. I'm two letters down, almost done with letter C, so I hope before the end of the month, I'll be able to complete the alphabet. I had a few fabric scraps from my sewing projects from before. I did not want to throw them away like garbage but I did not know what to do with them. This amigurumi project was the answer. So I just cut them to even smaller pieces so I can stuff them on the amigurumi. et voila! Recycling! Anyways, tomorrow's gonna be a new day. I should be finished with the Letter C and will go ahead and work with letter D right away. My daughter's getting a bit too familiar with letters A and B so I got to up my game a little bit.