This little blanket came out super cute, but working with this kind of yarn can be super difficult when you’re new to crocheting. I actually found it pretty fun to use. I’ll talk you through some tricks that I did that made the project easier for me to tackle that you might find useful.
Firstly, the pattern I followed for these cute little blankets can be found on Youtube for free. There’s also written PDF copies that you can purchase ad-free from the creator.
The pattern was super easy to follow, and like she says, this yarns difficulties are it’s greatest highlights. Since you can’t see anything, they can’t either. That takes a lot of the pressure off. As long as it feels like it’s the next stitch, it’s probably the next stitch. shrug emoji If you get to the last supposed last stitch and there’s two stitches left, just shrug, skip it, and keep counting. Nobody’s gonna see the decrease.
Something that I found to help me differentiate stitches was using my fingers to find the body of the stitch instead of trying to look up top for a V you’ll never find. Even just feeling around for it on top of the stitch can be hard. That’s why I just stick the tip of my finger through the space between stitches– and sometimes my thumb through the other space to make sure I’m holding one stitch– and I make sure that stitch doesn’t already have a stitch on top of it. That way I don’t increase or decrease by accident.
It’s kind of hard to explain in text, but I hope I painted a clear enough picture. Don’t worry, though, I have actual pictures, too.
Crocheting like this made it way easier to keep track of where I was through all the fluff. While doing the blanket portion, I made sure to count every couple of rows just to make sure I still had the right number of stitches. If I ended up with less, just add an extra stitch to the last one and shrug it off. If it ended with too many stitches, continue to the next row, skip a stitch, and keep it pushing. The blanket is gonna be cute.
The bunny head was a little harder cause of all the intentional increases and decreases, but as long as you count on each row and know what number stitch you need to end on, you’ll be golden. And please PLEASE use a stitch marker. Preferably the safety pin kind. There’s a chance the spiral one’s might fall off while you’re crocheting, and that would suck.
When it comes to ending the round, it can be hard, at least for me, to find where to stick my hook so it goes through the entire stitch. With this yarn, I don’t really care, cause nobody’s going to see it. I put the hook wherever I damn well please, and guess what? That bunny head still came out cute AF.
What was truly difficult was putting on the eyes and nose! They came out okay, but I feel like they could have been better. Maybe I should get into needlework…