How To: Pattern vs Reality 3: The Woobles Unicorn

Amy Reviews Crochet Patterns: The Woobles Unicorn

The Woobles: Unicorn Crochet Kit
Link to Pattern: Unicorn Crochet Kit for Beginners | The Woobles
Cost of Kit: $25 w/out crochet hook, $30 with crochet hook

I bought the Fantastic Woobles & Where to Find Them bundle and did the Narwhal first. I also reviewed the Woobles Dinosaur.

Difficulty: Best for absolute beginners with 0 hours of experience.
The Woobles Unicorn pattern is rated as Beginner+ on their website. I’d recommend it as your second project. Out of the three in the bundle (The Narwhal, the Dinosaur, and the Unicorn), I think this was hardest in terms of difficulty.

Stitches Used: Single Crochet, Increase Stitch, (Invisible) Decrease Stitch, Chain, Slip Stich
Time Taken: 5-10 hours

Pattern vs Reality:
This was my third project, and I did a much better job with the symmetry placement of eyes on this one than I did with the dinosaur! I gave this away to a little girl long before starting this blog, so I’ve only got the photos I took while I was working on it.

I was pretty proud of this one! My horn was a little off, mostly because I was still struggling with magic circles at that point. Also, because I intended to gift this to a child, I embroidered the eyes for the first time. (Safety eyes are, weirdly enough, not necessarily safe for small children). I discovered that I actually preferred the look of embroidered eyes over safety eyes for some patterns anyway.

Tips:

Magic Circle. If you find your self struggling with the magic circle, you can try the alternative method of starting a round piece with a chain for a while. It leaves a tiny donut hole in a way the magic chain doesn’t, but I tend to crochet pretty tightly so if you look at my finished pieces, the two methods are fairly indistinguishable. I can’t actually remember which method I used for what, and I can’t tell. If, however, you tend to crochet more loosely, it might matter more. It took me over six months to get skilled enough to do reliably good magic circles, and so I used this method instead whenever I felt frustrated.
Start a round piece with a chain – The Woobles

Eye Placement. If you’re struggling with eye placement, try switching to embrodiery over safety eyes. The one major advantage for this method while learning is that usually for safety eyes you have to commit to placement long before you’ve finished the piece. With embroidering, you do it at the end when everything else is finalized. Eye embroidery is now the *last* step I do for my pieces