Reddit reviews AmiguruME: Make Cute Crochet People

Average was about 15 hours each with all the details. Trinket took the longest at about 20 hours because I had to engineer the pattern in some places.

The majority of the patterns were based from a book called Amiguru-Me. I did have to make up some pieces though, which was part of the process.

Edit: Included an Amazon link for the book. I bought the grizzly bear pattern for Trinket from this seller on Ravelry

Also an edit: For Pike's armor, I used the armor making techniques taught by Evil Ted. Any old-school G&S viewers might remember him teaching Stef & Jess how to make foam armor for the giant Trinket plush waaaaaaay back when. The armor is craft foam, coated with some craft glue and silver sharpie. There are hooks and eyes for the pieces so it can come apart, and velcro for the body piece (cause I ran out of hooks & eyes).

This really made me hate "fun fur" it is not fun.

Super Cyd was created using basic body pieces from the book AmiguruME by Allison Hoffman.

Haha I used this book

The majority of it wasn't hard, it was just tedious. Most of the patterns were from this book but I had to modify certain elements. The hair was the biggest pain, but that's because every strand has to be threaded through the scalp and there are hundreds of hairs.

If you're a beginner who has never made amigurumi before you might want to try some other patterns first, but I didn't find it too hard, just time consuming.

This book has been in my Amazon cart forever, I finally bought it and made a Mr. T for my dad's birthday!
http://www.amazon.com/AmiguruME-Make-Cute-Crochet-People/dp/1454703970

I came across this cute, free Halloween pattern by Allison Hoffman the other day. She is well-known for her dolls, especially modeling them to look like characters/celebrities. I totally recommend her book "AmiguruME."

The pattern I linked is for a little girl trick or treater and 3 outfits to dress her up as. Very simple, but sweet!

Edit: Link to her book! I bought it the week it came out last year and love it. Lots of customization: choose male or female; head shape; pick and choose facial features/hair styles; so much variety in the clothing/shoe options too! It's basically set up like a choose your own adventure book. :)