Off the Hook: Ron Weasley

When I was at one of the craft groups I go to a few weeks ago I admired a beautiful granny square blanket that was being finished off by one of my fellow crafters. It was in shades of pink, purple and turquoise with white. She told me that they were unicorn colours, as requested by her granddaughter. When I said that she’d love it, my friend said she wasn’t sure as said granddaughter is no longer into unicorns – she’s now a Harry Potter fan.

“She wants me to make this,” said my friend, pushing a box across the table towards me. It was a kit to make Harry Potter’s best pal, Ron Weasley, amigurumi style.

This style of crochet is not my friend’s thing, so I offered to make up the Ron kit, as long as I could hang on to it as an example on my “Introduction to Amigurumi” workshop last week. I’ve been getting quite behind with my projects so I only had the head finished in time for that.

It was quite fiddly, to make, as many of these amigurami projects are, with the eyes, ears, hair and fringe crocheted separately and sewn on, then I had to embroider the mouth and freckles! I have to say that the pattern wasn’t exactly the easiest to follow.

I pushed on to finish Ron for Tuesday so I could give him to my friend. She’s really happy with him. Let’s hope her granddaughter is too!