I leveled up!

After I made my Game of Thrones blanket, I feel like I was always trying to find ways to get rid of the scrap yarn leftover from that project. Thankfully, I found this project pattern that seemed like a good way to say goodbye to these guys:

I chose crochet on purpose because I want to improve on that skill, and what better way to do it than to practice on yarn I don't really care about?

 

Well, first I learned the magic circle (pictured below):

And then I got treble crochet and half treble crochet drilled into my brain, and learned how to attach multiple colors, as my project soon became this:

To this (Left: back, right: front):

To finally, this:

 

I'm aware of how it looks not like a flower and sort of ragged looking compared to the Ravelry projects of this cushion. I'm also quite aware of how the colors don't really match, but I just used what I have! However it turned out, I'm still proud of it because I feel like my crochet level went up! Not to mention it was my first time reading a crochet written pattern (that wasn't only single chain this square a billion times). Hopefully it will catch up with my knitting skills!

This project is actually very fast - people were right, crocheting is much quicker than knitting (once you get the hang of it anyway). So why did it take me such a long time to finish? Well, notice how its a circular cushion? Yeah. Apparently those are impossible to find anymore. I went to every store that would potentially sell cushions, but they all just had only square cushions (squares are totally overrated). However, this realization only came about after I've already finished half the project, and I didn't want to frog it so I desperately looked even harder for a circle. Luckily for me, my mom, the expert seamstress, made a cushion for me after days of begging her to help me.

Maybe I'm an eensie bit biased, but the cushion was worth the wait. It was better than any cushion I could've found in the store since it was exactly how I wanted it to be- plain white, round, and stuffed to the exact amount that it is (well, and also that it's free)!

The last thing I learned, was seaming up two crochet pieces together with a simple slip stitch.

In conclusion, my mission was accomplished. I'm better at crochet than I was before, and I got rid of a ton of scrap yarn. And now I even have a cute cushion!