Last month I was so excited about a new crochet pattern I’d found.  (Here).

I can be a bit cocky when it comes to crochet – if I have a pattern I can usually follow it without problems and if I don’t there’s a bit of trial and error but mostly things turn out ok.  These fidget hedgehogs were a whole new thing though – I’ve never crocheted beads into anything –  and it took hours to do, undo, do, undo do and undo until I got to these…:

And I wasn’t overwhelmed by them.  They seemed a bit ‘meh’.

But I popped one in my bag when we left for America (no idea why) and it turned out that as a calming fidget toy when you’re having a five hour delay and are stuck on a boiling hot plane in a self heating long sleeved thermal vest, it’s pretty effective.  I just need to work out a way to…well I’m not really sure.  What do you think?

Maybe I’ll have another go this weekend.  Since these though, I’ve been making Christmas presents and decorations and having small internal panics that it’s all creeping up a bit too fast – there were even Christmas songs playing in Matalan this morning (Urgent storage solutions weer needed.  My life has taken a weird direction recently – you should have seen my excitement over a new hoover!).

For now though, Happy Hedgehogs 🙂

(PS:  Just looked them up on Etsy and they are selling for £15.84 plus postage.  Here’s the link to the pattern if you’d rather perfect making them too 😉 https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1814125963/beaded-fidget-hedgehog-crochet-pattern )