Crochet Taxidermy: 30 Quirky Animal Projects, from Mouse to Moose
By: Taylor Hart
Rating: 5 of 5
This is a cute and different type of amigurumi. Rather than crocheting a whole animal, the idea is to crochet just its head and mount it on a block of wood. It is a humorous take on taxidermy. While I would not have an animal head mounted in my house for a variety of reasons (not least of all is the wall space), I would be happy to make some of these to place in spots (such as the powder room) or to make as gifts for others.
The projects are cute and cover a wide range of animals. The photographs are very well done and presented the projects well. The chapters are broken into types of animals: Woodland, Farm, Zoo, Safari and Under the Sea. The ocean creatures were full body rather than just the head.
The projects are set up around worsted weight yarn (4) but I could not see where the exact yarns used for the projects were listed. It may be because I received an advance copy and some of the last pages in it were blank. The hook size was included but there was no gauge reference. That is not unusual for amigurumi. As I have loose tension in my crochet, I generally go down a size in hooks but that is my own personal preference.
The instructions are written in US crochet terms. There are no visual charts. There also were no conversion charts to European crochet terms. You can generally find those in a search on the internet but it would have been nice to have included it in the book. Otherwise, the instructions are well done and complete with lots of photographs and illustrations to provide step by step stitches for crochet as well as how to build the wall mount and complete the projects.
I was provided a temporary digital advance reader copy of this book by the publisher, Storey Publishing, LLC , via Netgalley.
This is a cute and different type of amigurumi. Rather than crocheting a whole animal, the idea is to crochet just its head and mount it on a block of wood. It is a humorous take on taxidermy. While I would not have an animal head mounted in my house for a variety of reasons (not least of all is the wall space), I would be happy to make some of these to place in spots (such as the powder room) or to make as gifts for others.