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Cursed Crochet

Create Unhinged Versions of Your Favorite Cartoons, Characters, and Animals with Amigurumi Patterns Crafted by ChatGPT
By Editors of Ulysses P and Editors of Ulysses Press
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Cursed Crochet offers you the unique opportunity to crochet hilariously upside-down versions of cartoon characters, video game heroes, and childhood toys. This is the first-ever AI-generated crochet book that showcases the extremely weird, yet delightfully bad-good patterns made by a computer. What happens when you ask... Read More
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"In early 2023, we asked the groundbreaking AI platform to create adorable crochet patterns of beloved characters and our favorite animals. Instead, we were left with charmingly strange versions of these creatures that delighted and horrified."--Provided by publisher.

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Cursed Crochet offers you the unique opportunity to crochet hilariously upside-down versions of cartoon characters, video game heroes, and childhood toys. This is the first-ever AI-generated crochet book that showcases the extremely weird, yet delightfully bad-good patterns made by a computer.

What happens when you ask ChatGPT to write an amigurumi pattern? In early 2023, the groundbreaking AI platform was tasked with creating adorable crochet patterns of beloved characters and our favourite animals. The results were charmingly strange versions that will both delight and horrify you, including:

  • Squooshward, a confused adaptation of Spongebob's grouchy neighbour
  • Beige Space Baby, a flesh-coloured horror in the general shape of beloved Baby Yoda
  • Burfy, an even more terrifying version of the cursed '90s children's toy
  • Oopa, a deranged interpretation of Aang's trusty flying bison
  • And more!

Whether you're a beginner crocheter or an advanced yarn worker, grab your copy and stitch along with these patterns that are completely wrong, slightly strange, but above all, hilariously fun.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781646046294

Publisher: Ulysses Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 June 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Ulysses Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 96

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About the Author

Ulysses Press is a pop culture book publishing company with offices in Brooklyn, New York, and Berkeley, California.

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