Yoshi!

Yoshi Inspired Amigurumi 
Pattern by
Elysia McWatters

Available on Ravelry for about $3.29

​This is a written crochet pattern for a finished Yoshi-inpired creation of approximately 2.5" in height (if  you follow the designers hook and yarn suggestions.)

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Featured in KnitPicks Brava acrylic worsted weight yarn.

I do not crochet, unless I do.  There are occasions that call for me to put down my needles and pick up a hook, and this little Yoshi was one such occasion.  My son recently acquired the Nintendo game "Yoshi's Wooly World," which is a fiber inspired adventure of little knitted and crocheted creations.  (Perhaps it makes me a bad parent, but it was the only way I could get him to sit on the potty long enough to poo.  Now the opposite problem is true and I have to set a timer so he doesn't stay on the potty indefinitely.) My son, hands down, loves this game.  Mostly because it is just a fun, well-made game.  However, he also enjoys that it is yarn themed. Sometimes he leaps off the potty to run and show me some new yarn creature or puzzle he has found.  

Well, now, how could I not find a pattern to make him his own yarn Yoshi?  A quick search on Ravelry produced this gem.  My son got to pick all of the colors for his own, custom Yoshi.  He went with an orange body with blue and yellow shoes.  I stuck with the traditional red shell and white accents.  However, as it often happens when you want to do something fairly fast, the yarn colors he wanted were not available in the prescribed yarn weights...so I went up a size to worsted weight with a bulky weight white.  My Yoshi probably sits about 4.5 inches instead of 2.5 inches in height.  I was sort of bumbling around to figure out what hook size would then be appropriate, and I think I might have chosen wrong.  I went with a 6.00 mm size J hook.  This was right in the middle of the recommended hook sizes for the yarn I purchased.

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While the Yoshi is still adorable, I think the crochet holes (I'm not sure what to call them) are a little big.  If you look closely, you can see the stuffing.  I think had I chosen a smaller hook, it would have tightened up the stitch and made a more solid Yoshi.  This is good to know, my son wants more Yoshis in different colors now...I'm preparing to create a rainbow Yoshi army.   

The project itself was very fast.  I finished the Yoshi in two days with only evening, casual crochet sessions.  This is pretty good, considering I do not crochet.  This means if you do crochet, you could probably whip up this little guy in no time at all!  I know there are mistakes on my Yoshi, but I think, by and large, it turned out really well.  (Really well meaning you can tell he is Yoshi.)  

Summary:  This was a quick, cute crochet project with a solid set of written instructions.  As I have said many times, I do not crochet, so if I could create this little cutie, you have to know the designer did a good job explaining how to put this Yoshi together.  If you have a Nintendo fan in your family (or you yourself enjoy Yoshi) this is a great, fun project that is sure to make you smile.