Product Description

*Combines two hot trends--crochet and Japanese style

*Crochet has made an amazing comeback, as reported in several fashion and craft magazines including InStyle and Lucky. The Stitch and Bitch crochet book, The Happy Hooker debuted at #1 on the Bookscan craft bestseller list the month of its release.

*Features amigurumi, which is Japanese for "knitted or crochet dolls," and fashionable, fun and uber-hip projects that will appeal to hipster crafters and indie knitters as well as tweens and teen knitters and beginners

Mr. Funky features 30 projects including stuffed animals (amirgurumi) and wearable accessories such as scarves, hats, crochet flowers, headbands, a water bottle carrier, fun kids stuff and more. Readers who love Hello Kitty, bohemian 70's inspired fashion, and Japanese style will love these supercute projects. All of the projects are easy, super-hip and quick to make--perfect for teen knitters and beginners--and all feature inexpensive craft store yarns (i.e. Bernat and Lion Brand).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #261230 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781581809664
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

About the Author
Narumi Ogawa, has been selling her crochet animals and accessories to hip, downtown Los Angeles boutiques since 1993. She started an online shop, called Mister Funky (www.misterfunky.com), in 2003. Her designs have been featured on pop princesses (Christine Aguilera), in hip, indie culture magazines such as Bust and The Face, on fashion/culture websites such as Daily Candy and Style Bakery, and featured on the CBS Morning News. She lives in Los Angeles, California. www.misterfunky.com

Customer Reviews

Super Wonderful Indeed
This is a really cute, fun book. It's half amigurumi patterns, and half wearables like hats, scarves, etc. I just finished making a water bottle holder from one of the patterns in the book, and the pattern was very easy to follow, and the item came out well.

I would recommend this book to any crocheter, even a beginner.

Not quite what I expected
After looking at the cover I really expected a lot of amigurumi patterns, but what you really get are a few basic amigurumi patterns of typical amigurumi animals that you can find elsewhere: bear, rabbit, cat, monkey and elephant and there's a whole part dedicated to accesories: scarves, hats, mittens. So if what you really want is to enlarge your collection of amigurumi patterns this is not the right book for you!

great charts and fun projects
I agree with other reviewers who say they wish this book included more amigurumi patterns, but I don't consider that a major flaw; the ones that are provided make great taking-off points for adapting.

For me, what makes this book great is all the charts. I have a really hard time visualizing a project from written instructions. I have to read through written instructions slowly and really concentrate to get an idea of what the project entails. With charts, I can tell at a quick glance what different stitches are used, and get a good idea of the difficulty level. Charts are not so essential for projects using only single crochet, but for doing things involving single, double and triple crochet, like flowers, charts make the explanation so much clearer. It's too bad such charts don't seem to be very popular...

It's important to point out, for people like me who are drawn to crochet because of amigurumi and therefore may not have much experience with crochet, this book does assume that you already know how to crochet; it doesn't spend any time teaching you how to do the various stitches.