There are many ways to keep yourself busy during the quarantine. One of the best ones is to start making crafts. Not only can making things by hand ease your anxiety and lower stress levels, but you can also create some cool stuff to make your surroundings look much cozier and prettier. So why not take out some yarn, a hook, and start crocheting?
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If you don't know how to keep yourself busy during quarantine, you can try out making amigurumi
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In case you don't know where to start and what to make, the Etsy store NansyOops has a great idea—miniature animals.
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One of the cuties whose patterns you can get is this adorable dragon.
Amigurumi is the art of crocheting stuffed yarn animals, which originated in Japan
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The little mythical animal is only 20 mm tall and would look adorable used as a keychain or placed on your desk. The only tricky part of it is that you'll have to make it yourself.
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The pattern requires at least an intermediate level of crocheting skill and materials such as embroidery floss, sewing thread, a crochet hook, glass toy eyes, a beading needle, scissors, oil pastels, and a toothpick.
As offered by the Etsy store NansyOops, you can get a pattern to make this tiny and adorable dragon
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The key element here is using embroidery floss instead of yarn, which helps to achieve such a small dragon.
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You can make your tiny creation in whichever color you like and even make some for your friends.
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The technique used by Anastasia, the creator of the NansyOops Etsy store, is called amigurumi.
If you're interested in making other animals, you're in luck—NansyOops has a variety of adorable creatures you can make
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The term is made of two Japanese words: ami, which means crocheted or knitted, and nuigurumi, a stuffed doll.
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The works of amigurumi are often tiny fantastical creatures and animals, made to look as cute as possible, or kawaii.
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The style is very popular among creators on Etsy and those interested in crafts.
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If you're not up for a tiny dragon, Anastasia, the creator of the Etsy store NansyOops, has many other miniature animals to offer, such as foxes, raccoons, bears, etc.
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