Just caught wind of this very cute and very accurate version of my free dolphin amigurumi pattern. This one is from Twitter user bella2five and is posing quite nicely on a starfish! I love seeing others’ creations and I love showcasing them on my site (with permission of course–which was granted–thank you bella)!

On another note, my dolphin amigurumi pattern is now available on Amazon.com for Kindle users. I originally released it hoping to make it free but Amazon won’t let me set the price lower than $0.99. Anyways, consider it the price of convenience having it available on your Kindle wherever you go.

For those who have already tried out my pattern, I’d love to get your review of it on my Amazon page, even if you didn’t buy it. It would really help me out as I am trying my luck with my patterns there.

Crochet Spotlight: Bella’s Dolphin Amigurumi first seen on Cute Amigurumi!

Dolphin Amigurumi Pattern

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Materials:

• Sport weight yarn in baby blue and white
• Size F/3.75 mm crochet hook
• 1 pair of 9 mm solid black safety eyes
• Blunt tapestry needle
• Scissors
• Stuffing of your choice

• Body:

Using baby blue yarn,

R1: Ch 2, 6 sc in second st from hook – 6 sts

R2: 2 sc in each st around – 12 sts

R3: 1 sc, 2 sc in next st (repeat around) – 18 sts

R4: 2 sc, 2 sc in next st (repeat around) – 24 sts

R5 – R9: sc in each st around – 24 sts

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Switch to white yarn.

R10: 2 sc, 1 dec in next st (repeat around) – 18 sts

R11: 1 sc, 1 dec in next st (repeat around) – 12 sts

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Insert the 9 mm solid black safety eyes into the head.  Insert the eyes between R8 and R9.  Leave 4 sts in between the eyes for the most ideal spacing.  Fasten the eyes in place.

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Stuff the body with your choice of stuffing.

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R12: 1 dec in each st around – 6 sts

Fasten off, leaving a long tail.

Using a blunt tapestry needle and the long tail of yarn, sew the hole at the bottom of the body closed.

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Once the hole is closed, hide the stray tail inside of the body.  Using the tip of your scissors gently stuff the tail end into the body.

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With that, the body is complete!

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• Snout:

Using baby blue yarn,

R1: Ch 2, 6 sc in second ch from hook – 6 sts

R2: sc in each st around – 6 sts

R3: 2 sc in the next 4 sts (leave the last 2 sts in the round empty) – 8 sts

Fasten off, leaving a long tail.

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Place the snout between the eyes and sew in place.  Position the snout so that the wider bottom half faces down and the smaller top half faces up.

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Finish sewing the snout in place onto the body.

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• Fins (make 2 of these):

Using baby blue yarn,

R1: Ch 2, 4 sc in second ch from hook – 4 sts

R2: 2 sc in each st around – 8 sts

Fasten off, leaving a long tail. Pinch each piece in half so that they form semi-circles.

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Using the blunt tapestry needle, sew the fins onto the sides of the body.  I like to place the fins more towards the back of the body rather than exactly at the sides.  It looks more like it’s swimming in this position!

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Once sewn, it should look like this.

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Repeat the same process with the other fin.  Be sure to position the fin on the body as symmetrically as possible.  Re-position as many times as needed to achieve the most symmetrical position.

Now, it should have 2 fins!

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• Top Fin:

Using baby blue yarn,

R1: Ch 2, 3 sc in second ch from hook – 3 sts

R2: 2 sc in each st around – 6 sts

Fasten off, leaving a long tail.  Pinch the piece in half to form a semi-circle like the side fins.

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Sew the fin onto the top of the body.  I staggered the fin slightly below the center of the top, just to give it a little more style.

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• Tail:

Using baby blue yarn,

R1: Ch 2, 3 sc in second ch from hook – 3 sts

R2: 2 sc in each st around – 6 sts

R3: 1 sc, 2 sc in next st around – 9 sts

R4: 2 sc, 2 sc in next st around – 12 sts

Fasten off, leaving a long tail.  Do not stuff the tail.  The shape should look like a cone.

Sew the tail onto the back end of the body.

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Once sewn, it should look like this.

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• Tail Fin:

Using baby blue yarn,

Ch 2, 6 dc in second ch from hook.  The shape should resemble a small fan.  Fasten off, leaving a long tail.

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Sew the tail fin onto the tip of the tail.

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Weave in any stray ends.

That’s it!  You’re finished!

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Enjoy!

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Free Dolphin Amigurumi Pattern first seen on Cute Amigurumi!

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Here is our tropical island amigurumi!  Nice, happy coconut palm tree.

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Couldn’t make up my mind, so I posted both of them!  What do you think works better with the coconut palm tree?  No, what our tropical island amigurumi really needs is some friends!  Yes, animals..

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And maybe a wave friend too…

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And possibly some more…..coconuts?!

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The island is getting invaded with coconut friends!  Oh, how I would love for that to happen…think of all the pina coladas I could drink and all the coconut cakes…mmm…. No, I wouldn’t eat such a friendly looking coconut amigurumi!  Well maybe not, it’s their cute faces that really make you want to scarf them down.  Anyway, let’s get away from the subject of a crazy coconut eating frenzy and focus more on the waves.  :)

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Yes, this is a wave.  No matter how you look at it…it is a wave!  The top part is the bubbles that form on a wave as it comes crashing towards the shore.  He even arches over like a real wave too–although you can’t really see it that well from this angle.  Here you go…arch!

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Can you see how it arches a bit?  If I turned it any more sideways, then you wouldn’t be able to see his fierce expression.  Looking fierce!

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But anyway, another amigurumi I wanted to share…coconut amigurumi!

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Don’t they look so happy and inviting?  :>  As I was taking the pictures, I really wanted it to look like a coconut that you would see on a label on a bottle of lotion.  So I played around a bit with the positions and this is what I came up with..

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But now as I look back on these coconut amigurumi pictures…I feel like something’s missing…

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Ah, some greenery.

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Tropical Friends–like in one of my previous posts about Garden Friends!  :D

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Well that’s it for our tropical island and coconut amigurumi–hope you enjoyed it and had a good summer!

Tropical Island and Coconut Amigurumi first seen on Cute Amigurumi!

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My inspiration for these baby whale amigurumis was actually me wanting a new cell phone charm (because I am totally obsessed with cute cell phone charms…I have a billion of them but I just can’t get enough! Just like how a girl can never have too many dresses, a girl can never have too many cell phone charms! At least, that’s what I like to think…). That, and I couldn’t wait to make something out of these really really thin yarns and miniature crochet hook I bought from Taiwan last time I was there. I don’t even know the hook size of the crochet needle. All it says is “6” but it is very small, so I doubt that means 6 mm, maybe 6 micrometers haha yeah right!

Crocheting with this 6 nm hook was pretty tough. It’s really hard to see the stitches because they really are microscopic! It almost felt like I was crocheting sewing thread. Yet, the small scale was necessary to make a cell phone charm. Regular worsted weight yarn crocheted with even the smallest size crochet hook of 2 mm would give me a humongous cell phone charm. I may like cell phone charms, but I’m not crazy enough to lug around a whole chain of critters! I try to keep things low maintenance.

This is what I came up with:

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Then I started getting carried away about playing with colors and making couple charms!

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Back view:

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Side view:

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What a cute baby whale couple!  Chu~<3

Here’s a picture for size comparison:

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After a hard day’s work of crocheting cute baby whale amigurumis, I picked up my Nintendo DS to play my usual bedtime games, and realized, “Hey!  I can use those charms for my DS too!”

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Now, before I start sounding like an infomercial and claiming these baby whale amigurumis can be used as keychains, camera charms, purse charms, rearview mirror car charms (which they totally can!), and magic charms that can transform into a genie and grant you 4 wishes instead of 3 like those regular genies (which I’m pretty sure they can’t), I’ll stop.  Thanks for looking!

Baby Whale Amigurumi first seen on Cute Amigurumi!