The Kakamora crochet doll

The Kakamora crochet doll set is one character in three styles — Kakamora 1, Kakamora 2 and Kakamora 4 — each with its own markings. A round coconut body, painted markings worked into the yarn, and almost no limbs: which sounds easy and is not.

Small coconut-armoured pirates who travel the ocean in numbers and cause a great deal of trouble for their size. They are almost entirely a round shell with a painted face, which is exactly what makes them a hard doll and a good one.

A doll that is essentially a sphere has nowhere to hide a mistake. The increases and decreases have to be spaced evenly all the way round or the body goes lopsided, and the face markings have to land square on the front. There is no dress or hair to distract from either.

The one that sits anywhere

No legs means no falling over. This is the doll that ends up on a desk, a windowsill or a shelf edge where a standing doll would not stay.

Handmade to order in five sizes. More in cartoon crochet dolls, or see the seated Digital Circus Sit crochet doll.