{"id":21408,"date":"2021-08-20T17:45:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T21:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=21408"},"modified":"2021-08-22T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T16:00:33","slug":"amigurumi-maggie-maui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/amigurumi-maggie-maui\/","title":{"rendered":"amigurumi Maggie & Maui"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve avoided making any ‘small white fluffy dog’ designs to date, but now I have a fluffy white dog of my own I just had to give it a go and make an amigurumi version of my sweet Maggie, who’s (mostly) a mix of miniature poodle, maltese and bichon frise.<\/p>\n

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One of the problems with designing patterns for long-haired dogs is that they can look quite different depending on how their fur is clipped – for show, for practicality, or something in between. And lots of the small dogs I know are mixed breeds, so they may not look exactly like a specific breed archetype anyway… It’s a challenge to make a pattern that will please people, so I thought starting with my own pup as the model will at least make me happy \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

To make my ami-Maggie, I started with the closest parts from several of my existing AmiDogs designs, and then made a few tweaks to get a closer match to my little maltipoochon. I used mainly off-white yarn, with light brown for the ears, as Maggie is a little apricot-coloured in places, and not bright white anywhere! And here’s the result:<\/p>\n

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Aww! I debated brushing ami-Maggie all over to give her a fluffier look, but in the end I decided that the fluffy ears were enough to make her mini-me look like her. Do you agree? (I might still brush the top of her head a bit too…)<\/p>\n

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You’ve probably guessed what’s coming next, huh? I adore both my babies, and I couldn’t just make an ami-Maggie without making an ami-Maui to complete the set!<\/p>\n

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To make my ami-Maui, I used my AmiCats Tabby pattern<\/a>, with only basic modifications to make Maui’s white chin and unstriped tail.<\/p>\n

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Maui doesn’t have very defined tabby stripes, so I chose two similar heathered shades of taupe\/brown (Lion Brand Heartland<\/em> in Mammoth Cave<\/em> and Sequioa<\/em>) to give an impression of mottled tabby colours without modifying the pattern, and I think that was pretty effective.<\/p>\n

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\nMy amigurumi versions of my babies aren’t perfect matches for their real-life counterparts, but even at a glance there’s no doubt who they represent, and I just love them!<\/p>\n

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Crochet your own Cats & Dogs!<\/h2>\n

If you’re looking for cat or dog crochet patterns, look no further than my AmiCats<\/a> and AmiDogs<\/a> collections. With 8 cat and 24 dog designs, I have a wide selection for you to choose from:<\/p>\n

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So many options! And you can mix and match parts from different patterns to make a closer match to a specific dog or cat.<\/p>\n

I know I still have some gaps in my design collection though – do you have a little fluffy dog that you’d like to recreate in crochet? Let me know! Leave me a comment below with the breed of your dog and what you think of my ami-Maggie, and\/or email me (june@planetjune.com<\/a>) with a pic of your baby! If there’s enough interest, I may be inspired to create some more AmiDogs patterns in future…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve avoided making any ‘small white fluffy dog’ designs to date, but now I have a fluffy white dog of my own I just had to give it a go and make an amigurumi version of my sweet Maggie, who’s (mostly) a mix of miniature poodle, maltese and bichon frise. One of the problems with […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21408","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=21408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}