About the Author

Ilaria Caliri is a crochet and amigurumi designer from Italy. She stumbled across amigurumi and became fascinated by three-dimensional crochet and the geometry behind the shapes. Ilaria started sharing her patterns on her website and began collaborating with magazines and book publishers. In addition to authoring Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Crochet, she is the author of Crochet Puppies and Crochet Dinosaurs, and co-author of Trolls Crochet Finger Puppets.