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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On the Beach

Last week my guy and I went to walk Daytona Beach, which was mostly (and eerily) deserted. This is what our beaches used to look like when I was a kid. It was a beautiful day, cold and breezy but calm. It feels like 2026 is getting off to the right start.

Eight Plus Numbers

When I was looking up the retail on the small lot of yarn plus a tapestry kit I got a lot of surprises. This Red Heart Roll with It Sparkle skein in "Diamonds" was actually a cake that sells $10.99 on Yarnspirations. The lot included two Red Heart Super Saver Jumbo skeins, which retail for $8.99 each, and stuck in the center of the buff color I found a 5.5 mm crochet hook. This is a skein of 100% Icelandic wool, which can be really expensive. It's marked with a price tag of $7.00, and I found it selling for $8.00 online. The needlepoint kit is the biggest surprise of all. It makes a pillow, and hails from the UK, where it sells for £45.00 ($60.76 US). Since it's flamingos I definitely have to finish it if I can. Altogether my eight plus lot retails for $125.04; I paid $21.30 total for the lot with the buy-it-now option and one penny shipping. I indeed got a very nice bargain.

Halfway Month Blues

Last week I realized on the 14th that two weeks of 2026 flew right by me, and right now I'm writing during the third week. I wanted to be finished with more projects by now, but life and work have to come first. I think this might be when most crocheters start a new shiny project to boost their spirits. Not me. I kept working away at my first project for the year, and here's why: I don't like being surrounded by unfinished things. I also tend to get fatigued and abandon projects more easily if I've left them by the wayside to do something else. Finally, the payoff of the finished project gives me a much better spirit boost than messing around with several projects at the same time. I have a couple of strategies for sticking to working on one project at a time, which I can use to keep myself focused on reaching the finish line. Planning my next project is probably what I do most often by pulling the yarn from my stash, getting out the printed pattern for the...

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