Ok so hereās a story of when I failed horribly at crocheting amigarumi for the first time 
At this time I already knew all the stitches and how to crochet. I felt like I was ready to make a small easy plush! I found a YouTube tutorial on how to make an octopus and I thought āthis will be so easy! It says you can make it in five minutes!ā Oh how I was wrong. I watched YouTube videos on how to crochet 3D objects and it kinda gave me misinformation. It told me to work in rounds where I chain 1 and slip stitch to the end instead of working in a spiral. So I made the magic ring and started crocheting. Then I tightened it and came to a problem. I had no idea where my stitches were 
. Cuz when you close the mr the stitches can be to the side and upside down so I was confused lol. Eventually I figured it out and made my first round! (But of course I chained 1 and sl st so it didnāt look good 
) I kept on going and was severely struggling. I also didnāt know invisible decreases existed so I had giant holes from doing the normal ones. And my tension was all over the place 
. The hardest part was definitely the tentacles. (I also never checked the stitch count for each round so that was a problem). After making the tentacles there wasnāt enough stitches left for the last one so um I just sl st it to the first tenticle? Yeah that was bad. I also couldnāt see the stitches for the next round where I was crocheting under the tentacles to close it up. It was a giant mess. At that point I looked at it and it was SO UGLY. I just gave up and frogged the whole thing. Since then I have never crocheted an octopus again cuz of that moment. It will forever be my curse (until I make some for a market). Now I defenatly have the skills to crochet it easily Iām just traumatized. Well I hoped u liked that story! How was the first time crocheting amigarumi for you? (Or first time crocheting in general?)
Peace out 
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PUSHEEN
my first crochet project was my no - sew long - eared bunny. (yes it is in my shop)
why i did it so terribly:
- I crocheted them inside out
- I dec 6 before I did (sc, dec)
- I also didnāt know where to put my sts under the ears
- the ears were just 2 rows of sc and for some reason my ears turned into a oval while for others it was a rectangle
- one of the set of 15 I made, one eye was flatter and slightly smaller than the other (I used safety eyes)
- another one of the set, I forgot to put on the backside of the eye so it was loose
- I crocheted loose for most of them
- some were bigger than others bc I also did (sc 2, inc) as well
- my dec sts were terrible too. look at the bigger pink and yellow bunnies shown in the pic
Hereās a pic of all of them:
Overall they were super cute tho.
srry is this reply too long?
No your reply is definitely not too long! my topic is probably too long I mean at least you finished it! It looks cute but I can see how it is a first project. (Iām gonna get the pattern now hehe)
ty!
my first amigurumi was horrrribleee
i used one of the starter sets from hobby lobby and completely lost the instructions. so i used youtube and the videos were good i just didnāt have that 
crochet comprehension yet. then when it said to put the safety eyes in, i realized i lost them. then when it was time to crochet the accesory (fish bag) i found the safety eyes and used one on it. the washer was pokin out the back.
overall it turned out rly wonky and i think i did it inside out and it lost an armā¦
idk where it is rn or i would send a pic
My first(or I think my first)was a bunny. Why it was bad:
-The color was too dark(navy)
-There were more than 1 bobble stitches in the round so I got confused which one I was at
-It was faceless
-I crocheted it inside out
Ty for reading but yea I was like āhuh? Since when did bunnies look like curses?ā
I see a popular trend is crocheting inside out. I have also struggled with it but I always flipped it but thought I was doing it wrong. (But doing bobbles as a beginner is impressive!)
I learned invisible decreases AS decreases, so I had no idea there was a different type. Then I saw invisible decreases in a pattern and Iām like, well, better learn thatā¦ and it was what I was doing the whole time.
Oh no lol I donāt count my rounds still after like 2 years ssoooo I have been trying to do that more recently though
My first ever amigurumi project was a woobles kit. Bjorn the narwal. It was pretty easy, the head looked a bit weird though but I thought it was okay. My second project was a green snake for a classmate. It looked like a deformed worm
(my skills improved over time) he likes it even though it looks very bad.
My first amigurumi was a snake. I didnāt have too much problem, but I did still have some..
The head was quite annoying, like the incās and stuff, but when that was finished it was not too bad. Some color changes here and there, it was kinda nice.
Had some problem with the decās as I wanted it to be like the video shows, and my piece was inside out.. a mistake every beginner do~
The snake turned out too short, so I made it some legs and called it a lizard.
It doesnāt have any eyes either.
Iāll get pics soon :>
My first was a wooble. Then I found some red heart that had been laying around our house for ages. I had a single safety eye left from the wooble kit so I used the remnants and the red heart to build a winky octopus.
Those are so cute!