Today, I’m sharing a tip that Mariana (from Chile!) came up with while taking my Amigurumi Woodland Animals Class. Is it a pattern for a crocheted sweater?
Nope… it’s way more clever than that! It’s a way of making your animal look like he’s wearing a sweater, by following the pattern and just adding in some color changes!
Isn’t this guy adorable?
To get this look, you just need to make a few modifications to the pattern. In fact, you can do this same trick with a whole variety of animal patterns!
- Pick a contrasting color of yarn (in the same thickness as your main ‘bear’ color) to be the ‘sweater’. The yardage will be about 40% of the total main color yardage specified in the pattern.
- Crochet the body using your sweater color.
- For the arms, crochet the first 6 rounds in the main color (as in the pattern), but then switch to your sweater color for the remaining rounds.
- Sew on a few buttons down the front of the body.
Now you’ve got a bear with a sweater!
Isn’t this a fabulous idea? And isn’t it great how you can modify a pattern, and come up with something that looks totally different?
Thank you so much, Mariana, for sharing your adorable bear and technique with us all!
That is such an awesome idea!!!!! Thanks so much for sharing!
This is genius! Thank you Mariana!!