Beginning to make patterns (Amigurumi)

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How far into your crochet journey did you begin to make your own patterns? Any advice on how to begin?

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Heyy I started making patterns early and some advice is:

1.Trust the process if it looks weird, you might need to just wait and see

  1. If a bit doesn’t look right and it’s bothering you take the step out and keep going with a different approach

  2. Think of patterns out side the box, whales,leggy frogs and ducks are always good but there are hundreds of other patterns you could make

  3. Good advertising if you are ready to publish the pattern then maybe think about decorating the picture

I hope this helps, :sparkles::teddy_bear::grin:

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I started to design approximately 7 months after I learnt how to crochet :wink:.

When you feel that you know how each useful stitch looks and how to use it you can start designing I think :thinking:

Before starting to crochet a specific make, I draw/write on a paper some important tips or techniques that I’m going to use to have a point of view of the result or to think about better techniques :smiling_face:

(Sorry if you found some mistakes because English is not my mother tongue and I don’t have time to correct :sweat_smile:)

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First and foremost - be unique. Please, don’t make anything that has already been done a 100 times over, like frogs, octopus, jelly fish, balls, pickles, ghosts etc, unless you plan on making yours substantially different to all the other versions currently available. :smiley:

Familiarise yourself with pattern writing by following other people’s patterns. Try doing some pattern tests here on Ribblr and get lots of experience.

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Certainly does help, thank you! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Do a lot of different types of patterns to help get used to how crocheting amigurumi works. Also, a lot of amigurumi patterns you will make will be very “trust the process”, especially when you get more complicated, but they normally turn out really nice.

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No worries, your English is great! Sketching out ideas and techniques is a good idea, thank you :blush:

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Thank you! Unique patterns have been mentioned twice, I better start sketching ideas :laughing::memo:

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Thank you! I’ll try familiarise myself and trust the process as you say :grin:

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i started design like a month after i began

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When first starting out, I like to use basic shapes for animals and ect. Tho I can’t speak Tho, I’m more on wearables and accessories :face_with_peeking_eye: (shhhhh…)

Also, just for any pattern really. Free hand it and write down what you did, then tweek what you dislike, keep what you do. Also as people said above, keep it unique!

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Also kinda forgot to mention you shouldn’t give up no matter how unsure you are a of your pattern! A lot of times when I’m making an original pattern up with little inspiration, sometimes something looks wrong, so I wait until I have all the parts and if it still looks weird then I’ll restart on that part.

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Your welcome, here to help!
See you

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Great advice, tysm! Maybe I should try making accessories some day :shushing_face::laughing:

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That’s really helpful, ty! I’ve started creating a pattern and I’m trying my best to not be too picky and undo everything; I’ll try going with the flow :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: :smiling_face:

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The accessory community would be glad to have you!

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One of my favourite ways to practice making my own patterns (or even just free handing for fun) was to save pictures of plushies on Pinterest (not crochet) and just try to recreate that plushie but crochet. It started REALLLYY wonky, but now I can genuinely crochet anything off of a picture or sketch!!!

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Thats a great talent to have! I’ll give it a try, thank you :grin: