Yeah, chunky yarns skeins are very deceiving. It’s good to make a habit of checking how many yards it has.
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Haha, I love it though. And it was my fault for choosing a yarn that I almost didn’t have enough of. Your creature design is beautiful.
Are you still planning to make your version of it? I have been keeping my eye out for it.
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RIGHT?! 
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Yeah, at some point, I have a lot of stuff on my plate and I’m not sure when it’s going to let up.
But you won’t be disappointed, I like putting a lot of detail into my work.
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I am so excited to see it! I know I botched some of the details.
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I think I’m going to use tiny yarn to mini crochet it. If I use normal yarn and put all the detail, I want it would probably end up being giant and hard to play with. (I love mini crocheting something crazy and having other crocheters go: HOW’D YOU DO THAT?!) It’s so much fun. XD
Here’s something that I mini crocheted so you know what I mean:
(I made this a while ago; I needed more practice with a glue gun. 
)
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Wow! You are going to blow that dragon design out of the cosmos!
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HOWD YOU DO THAT?!
Hehe 
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i so badly wanna do mini crochet but i am so dang scared of it and i burnt myself out on making amigurumi. 
i’ve been toying with the idea of trying irish lace crochet. 
equally as scary to me.
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I made a blanket once and the color pattern was stripes. So I was at the second to last stripe, and the last row of that stripe and I was abiut to run out of yarn so I decided to make my stitches super tight because I was not about to go get more yarn and I lost yarn chicken by THREE STITCHES 
I ended up just using the next color and continuing on but the tight stitches made it look super wonky. I hate yarn chicken 
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Oh no That’s horrible
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I was testing a pattern that was written for beginner yarn and haven’t used beginner yarn in a very long time. It was a small pattern and I really like the projects from the creator though, so I applied and got it. I ran out of black about 80% through. I had another skein of it, but a different brand. Figured I was safe. Nope. Not even close. The new skein was double the thickness and a slightly different color black than the original that I was using. I had to run to Michael’s (they are only a mile from my house) and hope they had something comparable, in their limited supply of stuff.
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Well, in case you want to try it I use artist crochet thread. Very cheap at Hobby Lobby. And start with light colors… Mini crocheting with dark colors is brutal.
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i’m bound to try at some point so thank you for the pointers!
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I had an extra skein so I know many don’t think it’s yarn chicken, but my most frustrating situation, even after frogging and attempting to tighten up the row, I technically had enough yarn to finish stitching, but not enough to have a tail to weave in. I was so close to being able to return my third skein.
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