#woobles

4/5/26: Crochet Day Four

Captain Kirk has hair!! He's finished, except I might make him little feet. We'll see.

I tried crochet for the first time! I'd been talking about being interested in it for a while and my sibling asked if they bought me a couple of woobles kits if I'd make them for our niece for her birthday and I decided to give it a shot!

It was really fun and I was able to figure things out without too much difficulty. I made Sussie first and had to restart a couple of times but the worst part was the beak! 😫 Once I got that done it was pretty smooth sailing.

I didn't really have any problems with Derpy and I loved doing all the stripes! And I added his tongue. That wasn't part of the pattern but I feel like he needed it. I just used the same pattern for the smaller teeth but made it one stitch longer.

I ordered the Beetlejuice Wooble kits before this summer, and it took me forever to work up the courage to actually get started, but look at my babies!

No. Absolutely not. Look, I understand that with that you get everything you need to make the little guy, and they give you a hook and you get the pattern and a walkthrough and the first round done for you when you open it, etc. But no. Absolutely not. Especially when the hook size is the same for every one of their projects, so getting the hook in the kit must get annoying pretty fucking quick.

And no way are these meant to be a one and done sort of project. They are clearly marketed at beginners who have seen amigurumis and want to try their hand at crochet, and by going for the ultra-cutesy look of them all, they are banking on at least some customers buying a lot of these kits.

But. 30 bucks? Do I spend 30 bucks on yarn in one go? Yes. Of course. For a single project? You bet. But 30 bucks for just enough yarn to make the thing right? And if you fuck it up (a very common thing to do when learning something), what happens? Do they offer replacement yarn if you have a bad time of it? And the type of yarn they use frays like a bitch on the ends.

Look, if you enjoy making the little dudes and don't care about the price point, cool. But also 30 bucks for probably 20 yards of yarn, a hook that looks very much like every hook I've ever ordered off Amazon, and a set of safety eyes is a fucking wild price point. And, if you end up really liking making them, a giant pile of hooks you won't use because you HAVE the single hook size they use thanks to the first kit?