I finally made a second pattern from my Japanese amigurumi books, one of the ostriches I was so enamored of. I made it a nest of eyelash yarn filled with mini Cadbury eggs and gave it to my husband. However, although it was cute, it was not like the original. The kinds of yarn they used must have been much more disparate in size, because the body of my ostrich was exceedingly small proportionally.
Book versus mine:
Assembly instructions versus actual sewn neck and legs:
So much for crochet diagrams breaking the language barrier! Though to be fair, I knew I had no idea what yarn to use going into this scheme; I decided to soldier on anyway. One more set of pictures:
That nest had a dozen eggs in it originally…
This made me wonder what baby ostriches look like.
I looked it up.
They’re cute!