Amigurumi, Crochet Patterns

Tony, the Amigurumi Bookmark Bat (US Terms)

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Meet tiny Tony, the amigurumi bat that sleeps upside-down in your bookshelf! For Christmas, my mother gave me Austin Wright’s best seller Tony & Susan. To say that I eat that book is just not enough. Not only my little fella amigurumi was inspired by this reading: the brilliant movie Nocturnal Animals by Tom Ford is a represention of this novel. It was thinking about “Nocturnal Animals” that Tony came out from my pencil. Given that I recommend to you the book and the movie, I think it’s time to get started with Tony, shall we begin?

PRELIMINARY NOTE

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Suggested Materials (US terms)

These are just suggestions about the materials. Keep in mind that increasing the hook size the amigurumi will not fit a regular book and it won’t fit as a bookmark!

B hook (2.25 mm)
Cotton black (or pink :3) thread
Safety pin (to keep count of the rounds)
2 small eyes (they can be safety eyes, but I used 2 little black beads)
Scissors
Tapestry needle
Polyfil fiber
Felt (black or pink or whatever you like)

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Stitches US terms (and abb.)

Magic Ring (MR — nice and neat tutorial > QUI)
Chain Stitch (Ch)
Single Crochet (SC)
Slip Stitch (Sl;St)
Stitch (st)
Increase, 2 SC in the same SC (INC)
Decrease, work together 2 SC from the previous round using just backloops (DEC)

The amigurumi pattern

Work in rounds. I place the safety pin in the last stitch of every round so I have to keep count just of the current one.

HEAD

Begin with a MR
1° round: 6 SC in ring [6 stitches]
2° round: 2 SC in each stitch around [12 stitches]
3° round: *1 SC in next st, 1 INC in nex st* repeat around [18 stitches]
4° round: *2 SC in next 2 st, 1 INC in nex st* repeat around [24 stitches]
5° round: *3 SC in next 3 st, 1 INC in nex st* repeat around [30 stitches]
6° round: *4 SC in next 4 st, 1 INC in nex st* repeat around [36 stitches]
7° round: *5 SC in next 5 st, 1 INC in nex st* repeat around [42 stitches]
8°, 9°, 10° round: 1 SC in each stitch around [42 stitches]
11° round: *5 SC in next 5 st, 1 DEC* repeat around [36 stitches]
12° round: *4 SC in next 4 st, 1 DEC* repeat around [30 stitches]
13° round: *3 SC in next 3 st, 1 DEC* repeat around [24 stitches]
14° round: *2 SC in next 2 st, 1 DEC* repeat around [18 stitches]
Add the eyes in the low half part of the head. If you don’t use safety eyes, you can sew eyes on after the stuffing.
Begin to stuff the head
15° round: *1 SC in next st, 1 DEC* repeat around [12 stitches]
Stuff again with polyfil
16° round: *1 DEC* repeat around, close the head [6 stitches + closing]
Weave in the ends and let’s continue with the amigurumi

BODY

Begin with a MR
1° round: 6 SC in ring [6 stitches]
2° round: 2 SC in each stitch around [12 stitches]
3° round: *1 SC in next st, 1 INC in nex st* repeat around [18 stitches]
4° round: *2 SC in next 2 st, 1 INC in nex st* repeat around [24 stitches]
5°, 6°, 7° round: 1 SC in each st around [24 stitches]
8° round: *2 SC in next 2 st, 1 DEC* * repeat around [18 stitches]
Begin to stuff the head
9° round: *1 SC in next st, 1 DEC* repeat around [12 stitches]
Stuff firmly the body
Leave a long tail to sew the body to the head

LEGS (you’ll need 2!)

Begin with a MR
1° round: 6 SC in ring [6 stitches]
2° round: 2 SC in each stitch around [12 stitches]
3° round: *1 SC in next st, 1 INC in nex st* repeat around [18 stitches]
4°, 5° round: 1 SC in each st around [18 stitches]
6° round: *1 MB, 1 DEC* ripetere per 6 volte [in totale 12 punti]
7° round: *1 SC in next st, 1 DEC* repeat around [12 stitches]
Stuff firmly with polyfill
8° round: *1 DEC* repeat around, close the head [6 stitches + closing]
Weave in all the ends

BOOKMARK CHAIN

Simply work a chain that is long double the size of your average book, adding 1 inch just to fit better! I made 160 chain stitches: leave a long tail on BOTH sides of the chain to sew the feet to the body.

ASSEMBLING AND FINAL TOUCHES

Now you can sew the body to the head and weave in the relative end. Done? Good! Take the bookmark chain and insert it at the bottom of the body, just like in the picture below. Be sure to have 2 equal segments on both sides.

If you want to be super sure that the legs won’t move, make a simple knot on the chain (pic below).

Sew the feet to the chain.

For the wings and the ears I didn’t make a drawing: I just freeformed them with my scissor until I was 100% ok with them. I used a single stripe of black felt (about 6 inches) for the wings. Just fold it in half and cut out the profile of a single wing.

When you are completely satisfied with your shapes, pin them to the amigurumi in the right position and just go for the final assembly. I use hot glue because it harden the felt and I like it much for amigurumis. You can use whatever tecnique you prefer!