Ten monsters in one family, and why a set with this many members is ordered a few at a time.

Who is in the set

Ten in the Henry Hugglemonster crochet doll set: Henry, Momma, Dado, Summer, Cobby, Ivor, Gertie, Grando, Estelle and Denzel.

A family has to look related

The difficulty in a family set is not the individual doll, it is the resemblance. The bodies share a shape and a stitch, and only the colour, the horns and the size change — which means any unevenness shows immediately when two of them stand together. They are crocheted in batches for that reason.

Horns and hands

Every monster here has shaped horns set into the head rather than sewn flat, and hands that are crocheted as separate pieces. At 6 inches those details are simplified; from 8 inches up they are all there.

Collecting the set

Ten dolls is a lot to buy at once, and almost nobody does. Most orders are two or three, then more later — which works because the patterns do not change, so a Henry ordered this year matches a Momma ordered next year at the same size.

Where they come from

An entirely ordinary family who happen to be monsters — school runs, sibling arguments, grandparents visiting. The monster part is never the problem in any episode.

That is why this set is a household rather than a cast. The ten are built to look related, and a family that does not look related is the one way a set like this fails.

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