Edward's Menagerie: Over 40 soft and snuggly toy animal crochet patterns

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Projects at this level involve simple techniques and are a great next step for anyone who can understand a beginner pattern. Printed on high quality recyclable silk card, you will find your pattern wrapped up with the yarn required for your kit. If you are working with TOFT yarn or one of these patterns for the first time, we recommend starting with a leg (or a body if you're making a mini). Edward's Menagerie is a collection of 40 animal soft toy crochet patterns designed by Kerry Lord, suitable for beginners to advanced crocheters. Tension is the number of stitches and rows required to achieve a given unit of measurements using a specific pattern, yarn weight and needle size.

Edward’s Menagerie Animal Crochet Patterns Ed’s Index | the Edward’s Menagerie Animal Crochet Patterns

Kerry Lord demonstrates a great number of the techniques used in the Edward’s Menagerie patterns, as well as some other knitting and crochet methods. If not, we are constantly looking for opportunities to record more helpful videos, so please do get in touch and tell us what’s missing. All you need to get started is some wool and a crochet hook, so you'll be busy making Seamus the Alpaca, Clarence the Bat, Bridget the Elephant, Rufus the Lion, Claudia the Saddleback Pig and many more - once you've made one you'll want to crochet the whole menagerie! This hardback book is the sequel to Kerry Lord's international best-seller ' Edward's Menagerie' and brings many more of your favourite animals to life using the popular amigurumi crochet technique.If you can’t find the technique you’re looking for, please let us know as it may be within another video we have already recorded. Bringing traditional crafts and contemporary designs together using luxury materials, we specialise in beginner knit and crochet kits and have a wide range of pattern books and British wool. Some TOFT subscriptions may have an exclusivity period that covers a given time from the release date of a new pattern.

TOFT: British Wool Yarn and Patterns for Knitting and Crochet

A size chart in the pattern will give you the best idea of the garment’s measurements, or you can find our size guide HERE. However, on most occasions you will have the latest digital copy in your My TOFT Area that you can refer to.

Some patterns may retain exclusivity to a certain subscription or retailer, usually for a period of weeks or months. If you're wondering how big an animal will be once you have finished crocheting it in TOFT DK yarn, we've broken down each Edward's Menageriecollection for you in a handy table below. Please note that all measurements are a guideline and will vary with each garment dependent on style and fit. Most of our kits come with 75-100g of yarn for you to complete your project, allowing for techniques like loop stitch, and adding any features such as chain loops or slip stitch spines once the animal has been sewn up.

Ravelry: Douglas the Highland Cow pattern by Kerry Lord Ravelry: Douglas the Highland Cow pattern by Kerry Lord

Yarn: TOFT DK Wool - 75g of main colour (shown here in Fudge), 25g in a contrast colour (shown here in Oatmeal), and 25g in contrast colour two (shown here in Black). Projects at this level are suitable for complete beginners who have never crocheted before and just require learning one or two types of stitch. You can view our guide to TOFT yarns HERE, where you will find the standard tension across all of our yarn weights. The majority of our kits come with a digital copy of the pattern too, so if you’re keen to get started you can download the .Once you’ve made a leg, flatten it and hold it against a ruler and it should measure 9cm for a standard animal or 5cm for a mini. Many knitting and crochet terms are abbreviated to make patterns quicker and easier to follow, but it can look like a different language to begin with! Learn how to stuff your animal using synthetic high-loft stuffing to create the perfect cuddly animal, as well as howto sew your Edward's Menagerie amigurumi animal together.

Stuffing: how to stuff your animal - ToftUK Stuffing: how to stuff your animal - ToftUK

This is a contractual agreement between TOFT and the seller in question, and as such we are unable to sell the product through our own channels until the specified exclusivity period has ended. There are some characters from the Edward's Menageriecollection that do not fit in to the table below, such as Graeme the Octopus or Hope the Whale. These cute animals with larger-than-life personalities are made using simple crochet techniques and the step-by-step instructions enable a complete beginner to get hooking straight away.In this case you will find an approximate measurement in the product description, but they are still likely to be close to the approximate measurements we have given below. Your tension can be affected by a variety of factors including the way you hold your yarn, how you are feeling and whether you are using the correct yarn stated in the pattern, and it can ultimately affect the amount of yarn you use, resulting in running out on some occasions.