Good morning and happy Monday! Well, you know me, I gotta Google everything. I found a "my first Hooks & Needles crochet box" video from April 2024, and it was the same box that you received in August. I double-checked against your video, and KZbin is being weird. It says your video has 13 comments, but only 12 are showing up & the comment I made is missing. Very strange. Oooh, that yarn is lovely! The colors look very spring-ish, although if you were to pair it with an off-black or dark grey, you'd get some nice Halloween vibes going, always a plus in my book. Don't know how it will look when it's been crocheted, but I can tell it would be gorgeous knit up in stockinette stitch. (Polyamide - pronounced PAW lee uh mide - is a fancy-pants word for nylon, and adds tensile strength to the wool.) A bucket hat! I love it. I've been wanting to sew one for quite some time now, and this crochet version looks so fun. The shawl is a little short for my taste, although of course one could always do additional rows to lengthen in. The stitch used for the bag is very interesting. It's a bit disappointing that there's no recipe this time (unless two pages were stuck together & it just got missed? OH! Did you ever try the cocoa??). This is a really good box; the best of the three you've received so far, I think.
@fredmakesthings2 ай бұрын
Good morning! I know everyone gets the same first box, that way you are set up for their next boxes that require that same crochet hook, but I'm wondering now if you are on a number schedule rather than a monthly. More evidence to this would when I was looking at cancelling (not that I'm planning to) it said if you want to come back think about pausing so you don't start over if you come back, which makes me think maybe their not a traditional monthly thing. But I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually 😁 As for KZbin, they've been hiding comments, mostly yours, I often have to go searching for them. I think you can filter the comment section and that usually resets it for you to see. I figured that out the other day, when your comment on the SB was hidden from me. The yarn is beautiful, I'm excited to uae it but don't know if it's going to be a bucket hat, maybe a shawl? We'll see. Thanks for the pronunciation, I'm usually pretty quick with it, but I'm going to blame the head cold for that one. There is also no recipe this month, but I have every intention of making the cocoa when my tastebuds return to normal and not everything needs salt. It's weird how much salt I crave when I'm sick.
@sherrithornhill6762Ай бұрын
Are the patterns beginner friendly?
@fredmakesthingsАй бұрын
They have 3 levels of patterns in each box . The first is beginner friendly, the second is a bit harder and I haven’t tried the third 😁 so far, I have t had any trouble with the beginner patterns and I’m on my third box. Before this I only made one crochet project ever.
@DG092059Ай бұрын
I received my first kit a few weeks ago. I decided to use the yarn to crochet one project, the woven storage basket. The instructions say to “work the 4-row basket stitch pattern 6 times or until work measures 8”. I was only able to complete the 4-row stitch pattern 3 times, measuring 6” with the 3 balls of yarn provided. Not only is the basket 2" short, I don’t have any yarn to crochet the handles. I'm very disappointed with this kit. I don’t want to buy another skein because the kit instructions claim the 3 skeins is enough to complete the basket. Also, I paid $15 extra for 2 more skeins of yarn thinking they would be the same yarn as in the kit. I had been hoping to be able to crochet all 3 projects in the book, but I was sent 2 extremely small skeins of pink cotton yarn which I have no use for. I wasted my time crocheting a project that I can’t complete. I reached out to customer service several times but they have not responded. This is very disappointing from a company that has very good reviews and is endorsed by some of my favourite KZbin creators.
@fredmakesthingsАй бұрын
That's very annoying and I imagine super frustrating. I had been thinking about adding the extra yarn to my box too, but I'm glad that I didn't if it's some random yarn. I know 3 skeins won't cover all three projects but to not even get to finish one is very disappointing and poor pattern planning. I'm also sad to hear about your customer service experience, I wish it was the first time I was reading it, but I've seen a few other comments like this too. I'm not sure if you've watched the review for this box, but I am working on the shawl. It's quite small and will require me to use all 3 skeins too, if I want something a bit more substantial. I'm hoping it's just a glitch but I'm beginning to feel that they have a very good marketing team promoting a substandard product.
@DG092059Ай бұрын
@@fredmakesthings That's what I think, too. I still haven't had a response from customer service and it's been a couple of weeks. I've sent four emails to them.