This crochet jellyfish is really cool if you make it in glow-in-the-dark yarn. In my previous review of a crochet dragon, I went over the designer Megan Lapp of Crafty Intentions and how much I adore her. In this review, I want to talk about the patterns she publishes outside of her books: There are so many options. In each pattern I’ve bought from Megan, she offers you so many ways to ‘customize’ your piece like a menu. There were various lengths of jellyfish. Different types of heads. Different types of tentacles. Jellyfish — Crafty Intentions is really many patterns in one, so it’s a great deal. I also really like how clear Megan’s instructions are.
Megan also maintains an excellent Facebook group that I’m in: Crafty Intentions Amigurumi & Crochet Community | Facebook
Difficulty: Intermediate. There is a lot more stitch variation here, and knowing how to read a stitch glossary is a valuable skill here. I didn’t find any of the instructions confusing, though. Megan’s directions tend to be straightforward.
Time Taken: 10 hours
Yarn Used: Lion Brand DIY Glow Yarn: Amazon.com: Lion Brand Yarn DIY Glow Yarn, Natural
I found this yarn really difficult to work with physically. This is really common for glow-in-the-dark yarn: whatever chemical they use to make the yarn glow also tends to make it really stiff. It’s a really fun outcome, but I don’t recommend it if you’ve got stiff fingers.
For Megan’s patterns, there often isn’t really one particular reference photo to compare because there are so many different jellyfish you can make, so I will simply show off reality of my glow-in-the-dark crochet jellyfish:
This was a gift for my fiancé and I had a lot of fun offering him the menu of various crochet jellyfish parts. He loves that it glows in the dark and has it hanging from the ceiling of his room.
