What is Reddit's opinion of Crochet Characters Soft & Snuggly Cacti: 12 Succulent Designs?

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I go thru phases with reading (Brandon Sanderson is <3), playing video games, listening to music, watching Netflix and/or Youtube reviews on anything from albums to make-up. I also love decorating my planner with stickers. I just got a craft set on how to crochet succulent characters.

Come early spring, I'll be into gardening and working out.

I picked up a cheap kit at a bookstore — it contained a book of patterns (for amigurumi cacti), enough yarn for two projects from the book, and a crochet hook. EDIT: here’s the kit on Amazon, and there’s others if cacti aren’t your thing. I still had to use youtube to understand how to actually do the crochet movements (the book had written instructions for single crochet, slip stitch, etc but it’s much easier to learn those from a video). I liked the kit because it was self-contained, so I wouldn’t have to worry about leftover yarn if I ended up not continuing.

I wouldn’t focus too hard on how long it will take you to learn. Everyone learns at different speeds. Once I figured out the basics I just picked projects that I wanted to complete. It wasn’t about how long they took to finish, just about finishing the project. I think my first project from the kit took me at least a week. And the main project I had been eyeing (the reason I wanted to learn crochet) took a few weeks.

EDIT: okay so I recalled making a post on reddit in my early amigurumi days so here’s my 2-month progress post.. I had zero prior experience in crochet/knitting and was able to create the above in 2 months. I was crocheting every single day for those two months though because I really enjoyed it. You can see the cactus that I made based on the kit in the top left.

If you want to learn then pick a project (try to start with something smaller and simple) and complete it. And don’t worry if your first finished piece looks terrible lol. I kept my first completed amigurumi for sentiment I guess, but it’s hideous and it hides at the bottom of my yarn bucket. The first one is allowed to be ugly because that’s how you learn.