Make your first amigurumi in 7 days

“Left-handed, and I had already given up on one course for this reason. The stitches here are demonstrated so you can mirror them, and when I still couldn't get the treble right someone in the group posted a flipped clip for me the same evening. That was the moment I decided to keep going.”

“Two kids and a full-time job, so I do about twenty-five minutes after they're down. It took me nearer nine weeks than six and I stopped feeling bad about that around week three. The point is I'm still doing it in month four, which has never happened with anything else I've picked up.”

“I nearly asked for the refund in week two. My tension was awful and everything came out curling. I wrote in expecting a form letter and got a voice note back the next morning telling me exactly what my hands were doing wrong. Two days later it clicked. I'm glad nobody talked me into staying — they just fixed the actual problem.”

“Four stars only because some lessons are longer than they need to be and I found myself skipping ahead, and I'd have liked one more colour in the kit. The teaching itself is the best I've found in any language — I've made eleven things now and given most of them away.”

“I made eleven gifts before Diwali — keychains for my team, two bags, a set of coasters for my mother-in-law. The yarn cost me under six hundred rupees. I stopped doing the maths on whether this was worth it somewhere around the fourth keychain.”

“I'll be honest, I hesitated because I'd never heard of them and I was paying up front. Access opened the second the payment went through, the kit had a tracking link the next day, and every question I've sent has been answered by a person. That's more than I get from companies I've bought from for years.”

“The safety eyes had me nervous — my sister's cat is a menace — and there is a whole two minutes on attaching them properly which I did not expect. Small thing, but it is the sort of detail that tells you someone has actually taught this to real people.”

“My hands ache from typing all day and I was worried crochet would make it worse. The section on grip and hook position genuinely helped — I hold it differently now and can go forty minutes without stopping. Nobody on YouTube mentioned any of that.”

“Course is excellent, three stars is for the delivery — mine took nine days, not the three to eight it said, and the tracking sat unmoved for a while. Support answered the same day and were straight with me about it. I'd still buy again, I just wouldn't order it the week before someone's birthday.”

“I am the person who buys the yarn, watches the video once, and never opens the bag again. Something about being told exactly what to do on day one, and having the thing arrive with the right hook already in it, got me past that. Four pieces in.”

“Hindi mein poori class hai, that is what sold it for me. I understand English fine but my hands follow instructions better in Hindi, and I did not know that about myself until I tried this.”

“I am 63. I mention that because every course I looked at seemed to be made for twenty-year-olds with good eyesight. This one is filmed close, lit properly, and repeats slowly. I have finished a scarf and started a second.”

“The amigurumi half is much stronger than the beginner half, in my opinion — the beginner section moves a bit fast in the middle. But the amigurumi lessons are worth the whole price and I have made five now.”

“Bought it for myself during a bad month. Sounds silly but having something to do with my hands in the evening that wasn't a screen made a real difference. The bag was a bonus.”

“My eight-year-old watches over my shoulder and now does the chain stitches for me. Not what I bought it for, but it has become the thing we do on Sunday mornings.”

“I had tried twice before with library books. The difference is being able to see the hook go in from the angle my own eyes are at. That one camera position is doing more work than any explanation.”

“Everything in the bag is good quality — the hooks have proper grips, not the thin metal ones that leave a dent in your finger. I have bought supplies separately since and paid more for worse.”

“Started selling small pieces at a stall two months in. Nothing dramatic, about four thousand rupees so far, but I made it with my hands and someone chose to pay for it, and I did not think that would ever be true of me.”

“Ordered on a Sunday, arrived Wednesday in Aligarh, everything wrapped separately and labelled with which lesson it belongs to. I have bought yarn locally for years and this is better yarn than my shop stocks.”

“The hooks have the soft grip, which I did not realise mattered until I used a metal one at a friend's house and my hand hurt after ten minutes. If you have any wrist trouble, get the kit rather than the cheapest hooks you can find.”