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  • Publisher: Search Press
  • Edition: BC Paperback layflat with flaps; cover 4/4 colours on a 300gsm 2/s art card gloss laminated outer
  • Publication: 15 September 2026
  • ISBN 13/EAN: 9781800923782
  • Stock: Not Yet Published
  • Size: 204x260 mm
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: £12.99
  • Series: The Beginner’s Guide to

The Beginner's Guide to Amigurumi

£12.99

Easy techniques and 8 fun projects by Sarah-Jane Hicks

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Book Description

The essential beginner's guide to amigurumi from popular designer Sarah-Jane Hicks (@flo_and_dot), with 8 utterly adorable projects to crochet. 

This must-have guide contains all stitches and key techniques shown step by step and is carefully structured to get you crocheting something cute straight away! 

In this complete course, ideal for absolute beginners, crochet designer and author Sarah-Jane Hicks covers everything you need to get started, from how to read a yarn label and how to hold your hook to how to follow a pattern. You'll build up your skills project by project, learning new techniques as you go (from working in the round and changing colours to creating that all-important super-cute face).

  • An essential guide to amigurumi, which takes you from your very first stitches to techniques such as adding adorable eyes, creating stripes and adding surface crochet.
  • Learn techniques as you make, so you can put your skills into practice straight away.
  • 8 totally cute projects to make: from a sweet sausage dog in his festive party hat and a playful mermaid with pink spiral hair, to a cat, fox, cactus, bear, bunny and owl.
  • Clear step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions, with helpful tips from Sarah-Jane throughout.
  • A handy fold-out flap with crochet abbreviations allows you to quickly and easily refer to the stitches if you need a refresher.

Whether you're creating adorable amigurumi projects for the first time, or wanting to revisit the basics, this accessible, no-fuss course will get you sewing straight away.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6
Tools and materials 8
Getting started 18

Techniques and projects 36
Owl 50
Chick and Bunny 58
Sausage Dog 66
Cat 74
Bear in a Scarf 86
Cactus in a Pot 94
Fox 102
Mermaid 114

Moving on 122
Index 128

About the Author

About Sarah-Jane Hicks

Sarah-Jane Hicks has always enjoyed crochet and crafting in her spare time. She was taught to crochet as a child by her mum and grandmother. Previously she worked as a tax adviser and is now a freelance crochet designer. She has had patterns published in various popular craft and crochet magazines, and has over 113K followers on her Instagram account: @flo_and_dot.

She is the author of 6 other wonderful titles from Search Press: Amigurumi ChristmasAll-New 20 to Make Animal Granny SquaresAll-New 20 to Make Flowers to CrochetWallace and Gromit Cracking CrochetChicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget Im-peck-able Crochet and Mini Amigurumi Nativity.

Sarah-Jane lives in Norfolk, UK. For more information, visit Sarah-Jane's blog: www.floanddot.blogspot.com

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Mini Amigurumi Nativity

Mini Amigurumi Nativity

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Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Crochet

Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Crochet

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