I went to Dollar Tree to buy crochet items. My mind totally went blank went I got there! I didn’t know what to buy so I grabbed a bunch of random things that would hopefully work out. I bought two colors of acrylic yarn (I thought of my newborn niece and nephew so I bought magenta and teal), two crochet tools (5.0 mm and 5.5 mm) and a “crochet/amigurumi animal kit.” (I linked the definition of it).

I start on the animal kit because I thought “since it has instructions, I’ll start with this one.” Let me tell you that if you’re beginning to start like I did, maybe start with a blanket. (Not that I know if that one is easy, I’ll get back to you on that after I try to finish this one.) Anyways if you began with the animal kit like I did, the directions were crazy to me because I couldn’t tell how the yarn went in the photos.

This is where I couldn’t tell how the yarn went:

I searched online for videos on if there was a tutorial and luckily, I found the video! It got me to my first step. I literally said “this is hard!!” after a couple of tries. I did it! I guess “the finger” was still supposedly there but it’s not like that in the photo. I overcame my first step and it just continued getting tricky every step of the way. I don’t know what to call them but here’s a progress of my 1st loop, 2nd loop and third loop:

I managed to make a foot and finished that part, then I made the second foot and it came out short. (haha.) I kept the momentum by starting another foot, but I had to stop. My toddler tugged at my yarn and when I asked him to stop, he became upset and cried, seeking comfort from me. So hard to learn a new project with a toddler by your side. (haha but I love him.) Here are my finishing projects for now: