Mr. Funky's Super Crochet Wonderful [Paperback]

Narumi Ogawa (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2, 2007

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. If you love Hello Kitty, bohemian 70's inspired fashion, and Japanese style you 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).

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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

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books (July 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581809662
• ISBN-13: 978-1581809664
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #722,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Wonderful Indeed, July 8, 2007

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Miranda Prince "Punky Monkey" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mr. Funky's Super Crochet Wonderful (Paperback)

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.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite what I expected, August 2, 2007

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This review is from: Mr. Funky's Super Crochet Wonderful (Paperback)

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!

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great charts and fun projects, October 13, 2007

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Amelia (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mr. Funky's Super Crochet Wonderful (Paperback)

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.