Dreams Really Do Come True

Hey, everyone! Another crocheting update for you here. Last week, I left on joining the two sides of the purse together. After many failed attempts, I managed to get all the pieces into one body of work. Here’s the result:

The last thing that I needed to do for this project was to make a simple strap to tie it all together. I decided to go with a nice pink shoulder bag length strap to complement the cream colours and the petite size.

I am so incredibly happy with the final product and feel like I finessed my technique through this project tenfold. There are of course mistakes here and there, but you would never know if you didn’t know the pattern by heart. I can confidently say that I completed one of the goals that I set out at the beginning of the class. But, I why stop there? The next project I wanted to tackle was amigurumi.

Amigurumi is a Japanese crochet technique to make crocheted plushies. This is different from what is typical in most crochet patterns where you would work in rows. In amigurumi, you work in circles to create spherical or cylindrical shapes. Here’s a picture I took at a local shop that I visited for some yarn recently of an amigurumi plushie.

From what I’ve heard from friends that also crochet. amigurumi is quite difficult especially when you want to make smaller plushies. I didn’t want to go head first and choose something complex or seemingly simple, so I decided to practice first by crocheting a simple ball. You’ll be surprised to hear that I didn’t use YouTube as my guide this time and managed to find a great tutorial on TikTok Here are pictures of my process

You’ll notice that there was no final product image in there and that’s because my yarn snapped when I tried to go back on a mistake I made. So, for my next post I’ll hopefully be posting a finished crocheted ball and an update on my next project. See you then!