Hello, I’m Nick (they/them), an avid knitter and crocheter based in Bristol, UK and it’s Day 3 of #amigurumay: introduce yourself, so here’s a close up of me covered in crochet friends!

I’ve been knitting for about 14 years and crocheting for just 1, but I tend to crochet more than knit these days because it’s easier to do on the go! Amigurumi are probably my favourite things to crochet, and I make a lot of octopuses/sea creatures (the tentacles are so much fun!), Pokémon (currently working on designing a few of my own), fantasy things and queer stuff.

Projects I’m working on at the moment include:
• A little Spinarak bag
• Drifloon
• Spheal (this one is basically done, I just have to sew the spots on!)
• Duplicat (Fakémon from Pokémon Uranium)
• A One Ring Scarf (this one is a knitting project)

Outside of fibre arts I’m a professional photographer (amongst having a few other jobs), and I like using that as an excuse to take overly artsy photos of everything I knit and crochet. Amigurumay is kind of a treat in that regard, because it kind of feels like it gives me the opportunity to combine two of my major creative outlets in fun ways.

✌🏻🧶 📸 🏳️‍⚧️

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Amigurumay Day 2: My crochet place. For me that's basically just the corner of our sofa. I periodically tidy the shelves next to me but within a week they're usually piled up with random yarns again!

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Another octopus for your Wednesday morning!

I've done this pattern a few times because I really love it, but for this time around I decided not to do the bottom half of the tentacles because I thought they looked so pretty as they were! 😊

Pattern: Ingrid the Octopus buy offthebeatenhook

#amigurumi #crochet #fibrearts #offthebeatenhook #crochetoctopus #ingridtheoctopus #amigurumioctopus #tentacles #tentacleart #octopus

An angry little octopus made for a friend's birthday last year, photographed on a different friend's drum for some reason???

Pattern: Fayni Toys

#amigurumi #crochet #crochetoctopus #octopus #amigurumioctopus #tentacles #kraken #crochetkraken

Another of my favourite octopus makes! This one's called Claude and I made them during pride month last year, so they're the colours of the asexual flag!
🖤🩶🤍💜🐙

Pattern by Kate E Hancock.

#amigurumi #crochet #fibrearts #fibrecraft #crochetoctopus #amigurumioctopus #tentacles #tentacleart #bobblestitch #octopus #asexual #asexualpride