Cotton Candy Pink Chameleon Amigurumi Free Crochet Pattern
Frontispiece Plate 35 — Cotton Candy Pink Chameleon Amigurumi Free Crochet Pattern

Crochet Addiction · a crochet pattern book

A pattern book,
set in type and proofed by hand.

Volume I35 plates

Crochet patterns set out plate by plate — every round in order, the stitch count in brackets at the end of each — and set in type only after Wren has worked them at the bench. Every leaf is free to read.

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Crochet Addiction Press · edition of 2026 · indigo, madder and leaf on vellum

Contents

Plates are numbered in the order they were set and keep their number for good. Chapters are by subject; editions by how much the plate asks of you.

Chapters

  1. IAmigurumi11 plates
  2. IISmall motifs11 plates
  3. IIIBags & makes4 plates
  4. IVFlowers & blooms4 plates
  5. VLattice & geometric2 plates
  6. VISky & garden2 plates
  7. VIIAnimals & creatures1 plate

Editions

  1. The first leaf beginner12 plates
  2. The middle of the book intermediate23 plates
  3. The fussy plates advanced0 plates

Apparatus

How a plate earns its place

The proofing bench

Nothing is set until it has been through all three. A plate that fails the third step goes back to the first.

  1. Worked

    Wren makes the piece herself, in the yarn and the hook the plate names, before a word of it is written. A pattern that has not been worked is a guess.

  2. Counted

    Every round is counted as it comes off the hook and the count goes in brackets at its end. That number is the checkpoint you work to.

  3. Set

    Only then is the plate set in type, in US terms, with its abbreviations on the same leaf. If the photograph and the counts disagree, it is not set.

How the press works And when a plate is wrong anyway: the errata →

Twelve from the book

Selected plates

Twelve plates hand-set for the title page, the newest first. Each card opens the whole plate — materials, abbreviations, every round with its count, the finishing.

Every plate, in order →

Corrections, dated

Errata

A proofed plate can still be wrong. When one is, the correction is listed here with its date and the plate is reset, so a square you worked last month can be checked against the book as it stands today.

No errata yet for this edition.

When a count or a round on a plate already set turns out to be wrong, the correction is dated and listed here, and the plate itself is reset. If you find one before Wren does, write to her with the plate and the round — that is how the book stays honest.

The full errata →

Four sorts, pulled from the case

From the type case

Every abbreviation a plate uses is spelled out on that plate. These four are the ones you will meet first; the case holds the rest.

chain Yarn over, pull through the loop on the hook. The foundation of nearly every plate; in a round, the chain that stands in for the first stitch. single crochet The shortest, densest stitch in US terms. A UK book calls the same stitch a double — the type case notes every such trap. double crochet Yarn over, insert, pull up, then through two loops twice. The stitch most granny-square plates are built from, three to a cluster. the count The number in brackets at the end of a round is how many stitches that round holds. Count yours; if it matches, carry on.

The whole type case →

When a plate is set

The next leaf

One letter goes out each time a new plate is set: the plate, its count, and nothing else. No digest, no offers, no second list. Stop it with one click.

Addresses are kept for this one purpose and nothing is read back from them. The privacy page is the whole account.