Help! The internet is sucking me in!

I have spent far too much time today looking for amigurumi after looking at July 23, 2006's Cute Overload...and the real bummer is they are all crochet patterns! Does that add something else to my list of things I have to learn how to do?

I did teach myself some crochet a while back when my first few hats turned out too short...I think it was single crochet. I also learned how to chain as a child. Perhaps it would not be too hard, and I can do it in my copious free time? Ha!