Making the best out of a crap doo doo kit

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For christmas my mother got me a pokemon crochet kit for 30 dollars. and I’ll be real with you
it sucks.
its supposed to be for beginners but i dont think crocheting with literal embroidery thread is a good start. because just by trying to make the head of the pikachu i felt like my hand aged 40 years and was getting stiffer than smacked oobleck.
so i stole (not really i asked lol) some of my my mothers other yarn to make it a little bit more managable. Mostly caron and red heart specificly. I still ended up using the thread they gave me for detail work and so far its looking pretty cute

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i screwed up on some bits and had to tweek the pattern in the end but i think it looks p good!! its for my grandma to put in her china closet before she heads home from my house

the pamphlet didnt say how to make the cheeks so i just did a mr of 8 out of the kit thread since it was more detail work and i didnt want the cheeks to be too bulky

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Oof yeah most crochet kits are really bad, i also tried to start with a pokemon kit “for beginners” that used tiny yarn

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honestly you did great, i love his cheeks and eyebrows!

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@genderdynia ty!!! he kinda ended up looking like toro inue after i did the mouth so i ended up rolling with it by adding eyebrows xD
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OMG I HAVE THAT KIT!!! ive never done it but like thats besides the point

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@Mossypaws my mom also does crochet but doesnt venture into amigirumi so i cant really blame her.
the yarn i ended up using was suppossed to be the same size but even then it was acrylic and had more “grip” (idk if that makes sense lol)

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i mean, for a bad crochet kit, you did rlly good!!

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i mean the thread they give you is pretty good as embroidery thread, hell ive been using it for other projects.
but ive looked up the pattern and i believe they may have just ripped it from 53 stitches.
my mind has been a big funky lately so my ability to count has been… blah but the pattern is really cute.
youd be better off looking up 53 stitches on youtube though because the video they link with a qr code is just text to speech
and for under 40 bucks you might as well get a woobles kit at that point… it is 4 bucks more but it looks like the materials ARE geared towords beguinners

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