My New Star Wars Mandalorian Crochet Kit

I have been collecting Star Wars crochet kits for a few years now since I like crocheting too. It's more challenging for me than quilting, but still fun nonetheless.

It was my Mom who taught me how to crochet. We had one book where we followed patterns and that's what I did one whole summer vacation. I didn't reach my Mom and Titay'a level where they made huge crochet blankets. I found them when we cleared my childhood home.

Anyway, I'm quite excited to try my hand making a Grogu crochet. I made a Yoda one a few years ago and I hope to make a few for our Christmas tree. Let's hope my hand and arm would be cooperative!

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Gave Up On the Santa Crochet Project

Oh-kay... I usually don't give up on projects, but the Santa Crochet Project got so gnarly. It wasn't giving me any joy and it was giving me pain. 

The issue was both the plastic hook and the yarn. I'm more adept at using steel crochet hooks and smaller yarn. The yarn was also prone to unraveling. I'm no expert with crochet, but I did quite a lot of projects when I was younger. I thoroughly enjoyed it back then 

Anyway, it is what it is, maybe I'll obtain better yarn and use my crochet hook. It's probably in one of my sewing kits. In the meantime, to recuperate from the disappointing turn out, I've started working on a Christmas cover for my KitchenAid mixer. 

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First Few Days Crocheting

I brought the crochet set I bought to the hospital. Once Miggy went to do his test, I hunkered down and started to work on the project. I told myself I should finish the project in a few days. The manual said to start with the head. 

The first hurdle was to understand how to make the magic ring. We were taught in school to make chain stitches to form a ring. Apparently, that has changed to allow you to pull the string to close the hole. Oh boy, it took me several tries to get it. A senior lady was watching me intently across the room. She was probably trying to see if I knew what I was doing, hahaha. 

I only managed to finish one row when Miggy suddenly showed up. He was done with his test. Both Sweetie and me were so surprised. Sweetie wasn't even able to finish the forward yet, haha. I kept my stuff and off we went.

I've been working on the project for a week now. I finished the head, the hands, the legs, and I'm now stuck with making the body because the legs are noticeably uneven and even with counting the body isn't adding up to the required stitches. Hahahaha. 

I rested during the weekend and have yet to pick up the hook again. I really had a hard time making the legs and I'm waiting to be brave again to finish the project. In the meantime, I've been distracted with organizing my sewing room. It's just hard to work on projects when things are all over the place. Haha.

Wish me luck!

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Gonna Try Crocheting Again

It's been awhile since I did a crochet project. Last crochet project I made was a Yoda figure. It was hard and I planned to make more to use as Christmas tree decor. I never got around to making any since I got so busy at work.

Anyway, I saw boxes of crochet and felt projects yesterday at SM department store. Miggy parked me in front of it. There were four options for Christmas and a number of animal crochet projects (no cat option though!). I still have a Christmas felt project from Flying Tiger waiting to be done, so I got a crochet project.

I got a Santa crochet box and will try to make it today. I realized belatedly it's an intermediate level project, so let's see how I work this out. Hopefully, it will be easier than the Yoda crochet project I did years ago.

Happy crafting!

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