{"id":19495,"date":"2019-02-08T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=19495"},"modified":"2019-09-18T09:11:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:11:03","slug":"mini-giant-amigurumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/mini-giant-amigurumi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Giant Amigurumi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=37&#038;products_id=345\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/giantami_versions.jpg\" alt=\"The Complete Guide to Giant Amigurumi ebook by June Gilbank - available in right-handed and left-handed versions\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are you unsure about taking the plunge into full-scale Giant Amigurumi? Then <strong><em>Mini<\/em> Giant Amigurumi<\/strong> might be just what you&#8217;re looking for!<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to demonstrate with my cute purple whale:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/minigiantamigurumi1.jpg\" alt=\"standard, mini giant and giant amigurumi whales, using the Tiny Whale crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>Front:<\/strong> Standard (worsted weight) whale (silver)<br \/>\n<strong>Middle:<\/strong> Mini Giant whale (purple)<br \/>\n<strong>Back:<\/strong> Giant Whale (blue)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the Mini Giant whale bridges the gap between a standard amigurumi and a giant &#8211; it isn&#8217;t close to the size of a full giant ami, but is still <strong>over twice the size <\/strong>of a standard amigurumi.<\/p>\n<h2>Why Mini Giant Amigurumi?<\/h2>\n<p>There are lots of reasons why <strong>Mini<\/strong> Giant Amigurumi might appeal to you vs Giant Amigurumi:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You don&#8217;t have a 15mm hook<\/li>\n<li>You want to ease yourself gradually into sizing up<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t have the strength or mobility for the larger hand\/arm motions<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re short on funds for all that yarn and stuffing<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t have the space for giant ami!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let that be a reason to stop you trying to size up some amigurumi &#8211; you can still join in the supersizing fun and use all the techniques from <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=37&#038;products_id=345\">The Complete Guide to Giant Amigurumi<\/a> to great effect by making mini giant amis. <\/p>\n<h2>How to Make Mini Giant Amigurumi<\/h2>\n<p>To make a Mini Giant Amigurumi, instead of worsted weight yarn and an E US\/3.5mm hook, you&#8217;ll need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 strand of a super bulky (#6) yarn &#8211; I recommend a chenille-type yarn such as <em>Bernat Blanket<\/em><\/li>\n<li>an L US\/8mm crochet hook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/minigiantamigurumi2.jpg\" alt=\"standard sized whale and mini giant whale, using the Tiny Whale crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then use the techniques from <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=37&#038;products_id=345\">The Complete Guide to Giant Amigurumi<\/a> (especially my Secure Magic Ring, which works beautifully on this chenille-type yarn) to make and stuff your Mini Giant Amigurumi!<\/p>\n<p>To finish, you can either use one of my crocheted &#8216;glinting&#8217; eye patterns from the ebook, or you may find that you have plastic animal eyes large enough. For my whale, 15mm plastic eyes were just about large enough; for a larger amigurumi, the Small Eye pattern from the book would work perfectly.<\/p>\n<h2>Your Guidebook to Giant Amigurumi<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=37&#038;products_id=345\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/giantami_versions.jpg\" alt=\"The Complete Guide to Giant Amigurumi ebook by June Gilbank - available in right-handed and left-handed versions\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, between standard amigurumi, mini giant amigurumi, and full giant amigurumi, you have the choice of sizing up your amigurumi as much as you like!<\/p>\n<p>And if you haven&#8217;t bought my new ebook, <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=37&#038;products_id=345\">The Complete Guide to Giant Amigurumi<\/a> yet, <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&#038;products_id=345\">check out the reviews (here)<\/a> to see what people are saying about it &#8211; I think you&#8217;ll love it too \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you unsure about taking the plunge into full-scale Giant Amigurumi? Then Mini Giant Amigurumi might be just what you&#8217;re looking for! Allow me to demonstrate with my cute purple whale: Front: Standard (worsted weight) whale (silver) Middle: Mini Giant whale (purple) Back: Giant Whale (blue) As you can see, the Mini Giant whale bridges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","category-tutorials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}