Faunula

Original amigurumi crochet patterns

Small crocheted animals, released a collection at a time, and every one of them here to read in full.

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Illustration: eight small crocheted garden animals — ladybug, bee, butterfly, caterpillar, frog, snail, mouse and hedgehog — in two rows on a weathered plank in warm afternoon light.

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  • 8 patterns
  • 4.5–6.7 cm (1¾–2¾ in)
  • 3–7 pieces
  • DK cotton, 3.25 mm

4 of 8 are out · next: Pocket Frog, 26 October

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Who makes these

Anastasia Marchenko, who designs these patterns.

Crochet is how I give my hands a job and my thoughts room to wander. When I start a new animal I know its size, its colours and roughly where the ears go; the rest I find out a stitch at a time, and now and then the version I did not plan turns out better than the sketch. Faunula is where those animals end up, written down so you can make them too.

Anastasia Marchenko

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From the Pocket ButterflyForewing, every round

Yarn C Dusty rose B Muted lavender

  1. R1C6 dc in the magic ring.6 sts
  2. R2Cinc 6.12 sts
  3. R3–R5Bdc 12.12 sts
  4. R6B[dc 2, invdec] 3 times.9 sts
  5. R7B[dc, invdec] 3 times.6 sts

The whole pattern

Photograph: the crocheted butterfly on a plain pale ground, turned slightly to one side, its beige head with two black eyes and two brown cord antennae between four lilac wings tipped in peach.
Pocket Butterfly, crocheted from the pattern