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Last Month in Crochet

I made this cute lemon yellow amigurumi bear while trying out Hobbii's Honey Bunny Shine yarn for the first time.

I crocheted this throw out of thrifted Sweet Roll yarn.

I crocheted an amigurumi giraffe for my grand niece, who collects them.

Actually I crocheted two giraffes, but the first one passed away from what I think was either bubonic plague, or my own ineptitude. :)

I crocheted a toiletries basket out of thrifted bulky flecked yarn.

I made a granny square while solving the identity of a thrifted mystery ball of yarn.

I crocheted a child's winter hat, complete with pom pom, from a thrifted Keppi kit.

I made another winter hat, adult size this time, from a thrifted skein of Caron Cupcakes.

I worked on three projects I have not finished, the first of which is this scarf from fingering weight yarn. I expect it will take me another month to complete.

I also worked on a throw from a very light worsted acrylic yarn, which was requested by a friend. It will likely take two more months to finish.

Finally I've almost finished making a mesh market bag, but I did not read the pattern correctly and have to frog the entire thing and start over, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

In May I used 24.75 skeins of yarn, and donated 20 skeins to our local church thrift store, bringing my total for 2026 to 187.5.

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