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I made a super-sized Gingy, at over 8″ (21cm) tall, but, of course, you can also make a regular-sized Gingy using my pattern, or a super-sized regular gingerbread man – I just chose to demonstrate two options at once.<\/p>\n
Gingy Embellishments<\/h2>\n
I took the opportunity to demonstrate how versatile the Gingerbread Man pattern is by decorating my super-sized sample as Gingy – you really can decorate your gingerbread men\/girls\u00a0however you wish, just like you do with real gingerbread!<\/p>\n
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I chose to leave off Gingy’s ‘broken leg’ icing, because I wanted to keep all the embellishments crocheted so you can clearly see how upsizing my regular-sized gingerbread men will look with no other changes. But if you embroidered the embellishments on your gingerbread man instead, you could make much finer lines than with crocheted chains, and add as much detail as you like.<\/p>\n
(You can find the full details for the ‘Gingy’ embellishments I made on p9 of the Gingerbread Man pattern<\/a>.)<\/p>\n I worked the extra-large gingerbread man by holding two strands of yarn together, with a larger hook. (See my Resizing Amigurumi article<\/a> for my advice on choosing an appropriate hook size when you double your yarn.) This means you can make the embellishments using one strand of the same yarn (and a smaller hook) instead of the embroidery floss embellishments I used for the standard gingerbread men.<\/p>\n Making these amigurumi gave me the opportunity to take some measurements, so now I have a much better estimate of how much additional\u00a0yarn you’ll need if you hold two strands together. I already knew you’ll need more than just\u00a0the obvious twice as much (2 strands means 2x yarn length), because each stitch is also larger, so uses more yarn, but how much more?<\/p>\nUpsizing<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nA New Yarn\u00a0Experiment…<\/h2>\n
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