🧶Found a Crochet Kit...
I love crochet kits. I have one with plants (my mother in love gave me) saving it for Sping, found this one and a Wicked with glinda and elfava at my local ross (saving the Wicked 2 witches for next Halloween 2027).
There are a lot of kits available. Some come with QR codes for videos others have photos only.
This was was $9 at my local Ross but it's about $14 on Amazon. It's a great deal because on Etsy you won't get a good (real not AI ) pattern of 10 creatures for that price and this comes with some supplies.
4.5
Will kids be able to do it? If they know the switches yes, this is not a teaching kit, it is a doing one. I would recommend to always learn first the basic stitches.
Sc, increase, decrease, half double crochet, double crochet, how to close, how to do a chain, how to do a magic ring... i still don't know all by heart and check my notes for how to.
It's like a calligraphy kit. It doesn't teach you to write or the alphabet.
This is a puzzle to put together and many kids approach them as simple solving problems, the paragraph for each stich still describes it, we can still learn from it. I am not a kid, I am going through perimenapause and I started crochet to deal with brain fog and stress. This dragon is my 6th plush.
I like this box. Found it by chance at my local Ross store and the box indicates that comes with 4 colors, I assumed I could do 1 or two of the creatures from the box which is usually the norm the books always show more patterns and the kits only have yarn to finish 1 or 2 from the books. It's not tricking us, the excitement may lead to not read the box contents and be disappointed sfter.
Even watching online instructions or getting a PDF it doesn't come with yarn, hook or safety eyes. This one has them.
The misleading is the title: everything you need to do mystical beats (not all)
The yarn is acrylic which is very slippery which for beginners it may be frustrating, cotton or even t shirt yarn is the best to learn. I used a smaller hook (1.75) to make my dragon because I like tiny amigurumi but the box comes with 2.75 which makes a larger plush. Yes I do need my glasses so I can count those tiny Vs
The fill is like cotton balls very soft.
Comes with small safety eyes (for 2 creatures).
What I love most about this box (book) it has 10 designs that I can use as base to change (with respect to the artist but mostly we amigurumi lovers like to make little changes to the designs to make our own) , color, size, decoration...
I made my own wings (from my head not following a patern just thought to make a chain and a decrease in the muddle, makesca V went from there. ) but I could have used the gryff wings instead by following that pattern for this bit. I had some dark purple so I used that instead. Added a tail (used and repurposed the instructions of 1 of the horns to make it longer and larger) instead of a pink belly used the rest to make lines (my bad could have done it looking better) to the belly.
The book has design for: bird, person, girl, horse, 4 legs standing animals, a person with hood, and each one of these offers instructions of different parts. So I can make a mushroom (one hat from one) girl (one hat from another ), fae wings (wings from another ), with flowers or a dress... lots of possibilities.
I am a beginner, and when I don't know what a stitch is, I google it. The book has instructions at the start for each stitch, but not enough photos. It still describes the steps for each stitch.
*p.s I should have put my glasses on when I wrote this review on amazon , I don't use AI so the phone auto corrected and left a bunch of typos oh well at least you see it's honest. I write very fast so it makes editors hate me when it's time to edit my books.
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