Does anyone know good amigurumi patterns on YouTube that require very little yarn? I’m currently making a dinosaur on a road trip and I know by the end I’ll have some yarn left (have two rolls, one is almost gone) and I can’t go the whole way back home without crocheting (I freak out in highway traffic). So if anyone has any suggestions please lmk!

A little about me:
→ My name is chantale, but you can call me whatever you want I don’t really mind. Im 14, but turning 15 in two weeks!! Im from New Zealand, which is not part of Australia if you didn’t know. We don’t usually show up on maps so just need to make sure you know. I can speak a few languages, but only one fluently. I can speak English, Fiji Hindi (basically the younger and cooler sister of Hindi), a bit of French (Ive taken classes for a few years) and I’ve just started arabic!
→ I like to do a lot of things like crochet, gaming, coding, reading and playing badminton. I especially enjoy crochet, and have been doing it for about 2~ years now. I also knit, cross stitch and finger knit. I guess you can tell that really enjoy doing crafts 😭. Anyway, I also like to do gaming in my free time! I often play Minecraft, Roblox, genshin and the sims but I’ve had basically no time recently to do anything so I haven’t touched them in a while. I also have very recently picked up reading again, since i had to drop it when i was younger bcs it gave me bad vision. I like most genres apart from heavy romance books. Im pretty bad at badminton, but i still play it. I play for my school, but i usually lose my games because they put us against very high ranked teams 😭.
→In my free time i dont really do much because i barely have any 😭😭. I will try to respond to letters and emails fast but honestly im already buried in homework so it may take a bit of a while. In the spare i do have time, i like to watch tv and crochet or annoy my mum.
→ my music taste is kinda all over the place so the artists I like are kinda random. My favourites are probably: grentperez, laufey, skz, bts, Weezer, Metallica, jack stabber, and arctic monkeys.
→ favourites !
food: pasta
Animal: sharks (they r the best idk why ppl hate on them so much) + dinosaurs
show: girl from nowhere + bojack horseman
film: gangubai kathiawadi + borat
book: fantastic mr fox, matilda, anything from roald dahl
song: clementine - grentperez (will probably change in a week)
subject: digital technology or geometery
Im willing to have any sort of penpal (snailmail, email, postcard, etc) as long as they are under 18! :D

JNMIL has been obsessed with trying to find out the gender of our baby this entire pregnancy, as we aren’t telling anyone (I found out on accident). My shower was this past Saturday and she has been slaving away over 3 crochet blankets for a few months, and brought them along with a ton of clothes. Am I appreciative? Yes. But they’re all boy clothes, and because I was pressured to open gifts at the shower (I wasn’t planning on it) the impression of seeing 3 blue blankets, and tons of very boy-ish clothes (think suspenders and button up shirts 🙄) left all the guests thinking that it was indeed a boy and she must know because she’s the grandma. I’m livid. We ARE having a boy. But i really didn’t even want to know myself, let alone have anyone else know. I just hate that when people hear a gender they start buying all the crap THEY associate with that gender and I didn’t want that. I didn’t want the sports/dinosautruck themed clothing because I think it’s lame. I didn’t want people promoting gender stereotypes onto my unborn child. I just wanted people to experience the mystery of it since it’s rare people don’t find out what they’re having. But everyone is just obsessing over it until yesterday. Everyone left saying they can’t wait to meet the baby boy. One person told me they thought it was a cool way to do a gender reveal and I’m just like… what the f@ck? I hate my MIL so much. She has the most smug look on her face when gender related topics come up and I feel like this was the last thing to make me realize I genuinely hate her. It may or may not have been her intention with the blankets and clothes, but it’s hard not to feel like she just had to take a jab. She couldn’t just buy the neutral toned clothing I would ACTUALLY use. I also just remembered that she told me my tan looked “trumpy” (she hates him so it was in a bad way) and to be fair it wasn’t the best looking self tan, but like maybe don’t tell your DIL she looks gross in your opinion? Like I don’t know in what situation that would ever be okay. Idk maybe I’m just being sensitive about things but I just feel like I need much more distance from her and don’t really want her in my life at all frankly. I’m so mad. Am I over reacting?

I’ve posted in here before about my MIL. She’s been obsessed with trying to find out the gender of our baby this entire pregnancy, as we aren’t telling anyone (I found out on accident). My shower was this past Saturday and she has been slaving away over 3 crochet blankets for a few months, and brought them along with a ton of clothes. Am I appreciative? Yes. But they’re all boy clothes, and because I was pressured to open gifts at the shower (I wasn’t planning on it) the impression of seeing 3 blue blankets, and tons of very boy-ish clothes (think suspenders and button up shirts 🙄) left all the guests thinking that it was indeed a boy and she must know because she’s the grandma. I’m livid. We ARE having a boy. But i really didn’t even want to know myself, let alone have anyone else know. I just hate that when people hear a gender they start buying all the crap THEY associate with that gender and I didn’t want that. I didn’t want the sports/dinosautruck themed clothing because I think it’s lame. I didn’t want people promoting gender stereotypes onto my unborn child. I just wanted people to experience the mystery of it since it’s rare people don’t find out what they’re having. But everyone is just obsessing over it until yesterday. Everyone left saying they can’t wait to meet the baby boy. One person told me they thought it was a cool way to do a gender reveal and I’m just like… what the f@ck? I hate my MIL so much. She has the most smug look on her face when gender related topics come up and I feel like this was the last thing to make me realize I genuinely hate her. It may or may not have been her intention with the blankets and clothes, but it’s hard not to feel like she just had to take a jab. She couldn’t just buy the neutral toned clothing I would ACTUALLY use. I also just remembered that she told me my tan looked “trumpy” (she hates him so it was in a bad way) and to be fair it wasn’t the best looking self tan, but like maybe don’t tell your DIL she looks gross in your opinion? Like I don’t know in what situation that would ever be okay. Idk maybe I’m just being sensitive about things but I just feel like I need much more distance from her and don’t really want her in my life at all frankly. I’m so mad.

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Stranger gave my toddler £1
Originally posted to CasualUK
Original Post Apr 24, 2024
We were in the post office and a lady in a motorised wheelchair was waving at my son. He's a friendly little boy, and the lady seemed keen to engage, so my mum and I encouraged him to say hello and show her his new dinosaur. He gave her a nice big "rawr!" to let her know how fearsome it was, and then gave her the odd little wave as he toddled about near the queue.
She was asking his age, and was generally very kind and friendly.
When she was leaving she called my little boy over and handed him £1. She said she loves children but often when she tries to say hello, the parents move their kids away. She told us that we'd absolutely made her day, and she was beaming. I promised her I'd get my boy a treat with the money, which we did.
It reminded me of a time when older people would often give children they came across little gifts or coins - It definitely happened to me as a child.
A lovely memory, and I'm so pleased we made her day. It cost us absolutely nothing. (Although it did cost her £1!)
RELEVANT COMMENTS
Own-Lecture251

Get him a collection tin to carry around. For his future.

OOP

Now that's a plan!

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Junior-Mud-7187

It’s nice to be nice

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Xanyla

My dad has dementia, when he first met my son, he wasn't AS bad but I don't think he quite grasped who he was to him, but he gave him a pound coin and told him to sleep with it under his pillow! My son was 3 weeks old so that hasn't happened yet haha, but I have the coin ready and waiting for when he's old enough :-)

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LewisMileyCyrus

Just have 999,999 more toddlers and bosh, you're a millionaire

OOP

That's genius! And toddlers are notoriously easy to care for...!

sybiriya

My kid 4 at the time fell over some grass and bashed her nose up, looked worse than it was of course. Some jolly old bloke was walking his dog saw the whole thing came over and gave me a fiver to 'buy her some sweets'. So now thinking about tripping my kids up in front of old people for a nice money making opportunity

Update Apr 29, 2024
To follow on from my post the other day, this morning an older lady in a wheelchair gave my toddler a hand crocheted puppy in a garden centre. The woman with her said that she carried around a pocket full at all times, just in case she gets the opportunity to give one away to a kiddo. The act of sitting and making these just to spread joy is gorgeous.
Isn't the world lovely ❤️
Note: we've just moved from London to Lincolnshire. We never experienced anything like this in London, so maybe its a small town thing. Either way, it's adorable.
Another note: yes, yes, I know it's not appropriate for an 18 months old to play with, but it will sit on one of his higher shelves in his bedroom until he's older.
Picture of the crocheted puppy
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Ok-Camp-7285

There's nothing wrong with your 18 months playing with it. Just be sure the ribbon/collar doesn't come off

OOP

It's actually quite a loose crochet, with some gaps in the stitching. My little boy would have it ripped apart and all of the stuffing pulled out within seconds of getting hold of it. I'm not a particularly worrisome mum, but I'd rather we wait until he's a little older to play with this one, even if its just so that the work that went in to it gets to be appreciated for a little bit longer.

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Hello!! My boyfriend got me a crochet kit and this is my first time learning how to do it. The kit has YouTube videos for each little thing you can make and I am currently working on a dinosaur, will link the video below. I’ve started over like five times over the past few months and don’t know what I’m doing wrong!! The video is less instructional and more watching someone do it. I’m wondering if anyone has any good resources on how to read patterns. Also I will include my progress so far. Any help making sense of this would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK_xwfMoPGE&t=487s

Hi! I am very new to crocheting and made my first dinosaur with a woob kit. YAY! I bought the woob bundle with the monkey, lion and elephant and will be making a moose out of the monkey kit, and a dragon out of the elephant kit if I can make it that far. LOL!! Just wanted to share! :)