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CROCHET REN awkward, but my daughter is still
playing with him. When Star Wars:
The Force Awakens came out, I
had noticed online that no one
“Get the yarn dyed. Knit it, if you have to.” had attempted an amigurumi Kylo
Ren, so I decided to fi x that.”
rustrated, unpredictable, starts,” the 23-year old mother of Amigurumi is the Japanese art
more than a little angry… two from Ukraine says, “And now I of knitting or crocheting small,
FKylo Ren is a man prone to don’t know how anyone cannot stuffed yarn creatures, and Yevl
emotional outbursts, so what like the Star Wars universe!” has used the technique to create a
would he make of being knitted Yevl learned how to crochet at collection of Star Wars characters,
into such an undeniably cute toy? school, but had forgotten all that including Rey, Luke Skywalker, and
Viktoria Yevl was aware of Star she had learned when inspiration Darth Vader, in addition to her
Wars before she met her husband, took her to create her very fi rst Yoda and Kylo Ren amigurumi.

but hadn’t seen any of the movies crocheted Star Wars character. “I can crochet a figure in two
until they sat down one day and “Master Yoda was my fi rst one,” evenings,” Yevl reveals. “The
watched them all. “That’s how it she says. “He was big and a little details can sometimes take a lot

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