😂 I have the exact same problem with buying too much art stuff. You should see my entire cabinet of wood panels and wooden boxes 😆 the turtles are adorable ☺️
Hello Genna , great vlog !! I love both , turtles are just cute ❤ Thank you for taking us along , the sun flower green turtle is gorgeous . See you next time 😊❤
I’d love to see the sunflower turtle with the original sunflower colours and the dark green that you used for the shell on the new colour order for the body! I think it’d look a lot like a real sunflowers colour palette with the thick dark green stalks! ❤
I love how I'm watching while I'm almost done crocheting a mini sunflower turtle and so glad to hear you've sewn the heads on crooked before I literally just had to fix one 😂😅
I live in Houston. I remember those storms when you were traveling. It was intense. Houston has two major airports so not sure if you were at Bush or Hobby. I live closer to Bush and we got some serious rain around that time. Glad you're home safe and do update us on your lost luggage. No way could i decide between the turtles. I love the jumbo turtle for the hugging factor but the mimi is just so dang cute! If i had to choose i would go with the jumbo because hugs are important 🙂
haha oh my gosh, so for my replacement flight, I ended up flying out of Hobby!! Bush shut down all flights that day, crazy!! Thank you so much ❤ Yes, the hugging is such a big factor!! I love jumbos for that reason too :)
@@crochetbygenna i kinda thought that when you mentioned Southwest because i think they only fly out of Hobby. It's been a long time since I've been through Hobby because we're so close to Bush.
I have a really good sewing needle set that I got from Walmart! They come in a pack of like two big ones and two small ones or something like that, but I always only use the big ones because they actually work with just about any type of yarn
Thank goodness I'm not the only one who meows to my cat 😅🤣. This video was so entertaining to watch! I crocheted a mini bag for my leggy frog while I was watching! I named my leggy frog Dalila 🐸 she's so cute!!
For a thicker metal yarn needle, I got some at Joann’s and Walmart for pretty cheap. Your work is super cute. I like both sizes of the turtles. People will have different preferences.
im a blanket crocheter, because im terrified of shapes, and im so happy i found your channel you make plushies approachable, which may be misleading (youll be hearing from my lawer (jk)) but inspiring!
i want to make ALL of the turtles..i cant decide either..i've been obsessed with your jumbo one..but now that baby one is just too friggin cute..i just cant with these adorable turtles🤣
Hey Genna I have been watching your Chanel for probably about a month now and I just wanted to say I love your studio vlogs so so much! You inspired me to start a chanel of my own keep up the amazing work!
My mom had a delta flight at 7am from South Carolina to Detroit. EST home roughly by 9am right sounds easy. Had to be there early she was. She got home at 11AM THE NEXT DAY. It was the only flight to Detroit so she couldn't switch. It was a full day of its been rescheduled for 2 hours, 3 hours to you'll get there when you get there.
When I was flying to Italy flight was delayed four hours, but haft of the passengers were already on and we waited another two hours just in the plane to go so we miss our train and we couldn’t find the place we were staying at
I had a worst situation I moved abroad and they lost the bag with everything, my clothes, my materials… so it was really stressful being without anyone from my family in a new place without my belongings. The worst week and a half of my life. By the way I love your videos☺
Hi Gemma. I love your turtles. The emerald green yarn was gorgeous. I would love to hear a comparison of all the yarns you use, as this is quite confusing to someone new to the craft. Keep well. T x 🇦🇺
Omg, I live near Houston and have to go to Houston airports and I've had SO MANY problems. Anyways, I love all the plushies, I was even crocheting my own while watching this video.😊
Since I'm a minor I never have to worry about flight issues; my parents deal with all that for me, so whenever a flight gets canceled, delayed, or anything like that I'm totally chillin' while my mother is dying on the inside LOL.
all those that sea glass color for the turtles is so freaking cute! maybe I'll need to proceed with caution next time i'm shopping for yarn before i buy their whole stock 😂
long story short. there were only two times i missed my flight because it was the 1st and 3rd time i ever flew and they were both solo dolo. i sat either at the gate or across from the gate at a computer area to charge and both times i didn't hear the announcement that the gate was changed. and both times by the time i realized and ran to the new gate, both times i was upgraded for free. once was to first class and the other was to business class. i was so heated. i missed out on such a great opportunity. it always takes me two times to learn a lesson so that never happened a third time. i now check my gate announcements like every 10 mins like a maniac.
Omg the mini turtle is my favourite! It is gorgeous! I stubbled across your channel yesterday and have watched nearly all your videos! You are amazing and such an inspiration! But I am curious though has your bag turned up? I would be gutted if I had crochet items in there and it got lost! 😢hope it has turned up! Can’t wait to watch more videos you make. I love your plushies ❤
Sometimes you can connect your camera to a laptop or tablet and use it as a monitor to see it bigger and check it’s in focus and the framing. I hear ppl do that. You should check it out and see if you can xx
I had one of those insane travel. Long story short i thought i missed my connecting flight because of a plane needing cleaning and bad weather when i arrived for my connecting flight itwas delayed. I had to move flight gates, while trying to update my brother on my new flight time. My phone was dying, my roaming wasn't connecting and my flight kept delaying every half hour. I was suppose to reach my destination at 7 pm, i reach after 11pm.
@CrochetByGenna Yep, another time I missed my connecting flight due to the Christmas season and had to room with 4 other females from the same flight because apparently I didn't qualify for hotel room, when my flight was the next day at noon. We were all friends for that brief moment. Still, traveling is the worst
Hi Genna love love your large turtles so need to ask do your change the hook size along with the XL yarn size and go by the same pattern? I have made like 6 turtles so far but normal size and will like to try your large pattern one. Will be jumping back on Etsy and purchase more from you because you doing it 😊
the mini came out absolutely precious!!! thank you for the top for stabilizing the head - I've only made two plushies so far but sewing parts together was the worst part for me, I'm so bad at it hahaha also, that travel story sounds like a nightmare! I hope they're easier from here on out and that your luggage turns up really soon!
Hi! I love your videos and find them a huge inspiration! I use sweet snuggles a lot and lately have been having looking for yarn replacements for some of the colors that are hard to find in my area would you mind telling me what the sweet snuggle color was that seaglass replaced so perfectly?
hehe thank you soo much!! ❤ So I replaced seaglass with sweet snuggles "mint" and it's literally a one for one match! I'm so happy premier parfait xl offers so many different colors and always has stuff in stock! ❤
Hey Gemma, I actually had a flight from Tokyo Haneda to London Gatwick, and this was at the time that the crash happened at Haneda airport. Because of this, we were on a shorter runway which meant that we couldn’t take off on it with all the fuel, so we had to divert to Narita airport. When we arrived we were an hour late starting the fuelling process, and we weren’t allowed to leave the plane. In the end, it took about four hours to fuel the plane fully, and by the end of the flight we had been on that flight 18 hours, and the air was so stale I felt sick for the last 5 hours of my flight. And then we had to drive four hours to get home 😭
Aww thank you! ❤ I usually have my Etsy shop open all month long, but ever since March, I've been traveling here and there so I shut my shop down for a bit. I plan on reopening in July and hopefully staying open! ❤
I hope they send you your luggage soon! That is awful! Haha maybe you guys should try road trips 😂. I’m sorry, I got so distracted watching Shea climb into these boxes! 😂😂 I felt like I was watching my cat and I really wanted to ask “What are you doing ma’am?!” 😂😂 I kept having to pull my attention back to you giving the best advice for sewing ever! I had never thought of using knitting needles or chopsticks! I tried using my moms straight pins but they don’t hold anything.
hahaha when I was editing I was literally like what are you doing ma'am !! 😂 So funny, she cracks me up! And aww thank you! so glad you like the tip, it's seriously helped me sooo much! ❤
I use Sweet Snuggles yarn and just recently found out about Premier Parfait XL.. I'm so happy to hear it's the exact same and if I'm not mistaken, there are more colors of Parfait XL than Sweet Snuggles? I've never found a nice beige or light brown at Michaels before 👀
Haha I was making my first mini turtle with the exact same mindset that it would take me less time to make and I could sell it for less 😂😂. Now wondering if I should have done a big one 😢
As someone who has been looking for this type of yarn thank you for sharing!! Roughly how much yarn does it take you to make one turtle if you don't mind sharing?
I had seen people use a curved needle, and tried it myself too. I HATE sewing things together but with a curved needle it's so much easier. Don't know if there are curved needle for thick yarn though... :/
For chunky yarn (all thicknesses, really, except maybe embroidery floss 'yarn'), I recommend using a crochet hook in about 2-4 sizes smaller than what the amigurumi was crocheted with -- there's a fair chance that most crocheters own a few hook sizes, but even the same size works pretty well. The hooks are designed to be worked through the stitches anyway, so I find just hooking the yarn and pulling through works wonderfully. Helps save a lot of money and frustration, personally.
Hey Genna! I love all the turtles! I bought the regular turtle pattern from your Etsy - are they just size hook & yarn down to make the smaller turtle, and size hook and yarn up to make the jumbo one? Or are they all different patterns?
Hey Lexi, thanks for purchasing my patterns ❤ I'd say the regular turtle pattern on my Etsy comes out to the same size as the strawberry turtle I showed you guys in this video! The jumbo turtle is a different pattern from rose and lily crochet (linked in description) and the mini is also a different pattern (linked in description)! It's also a combination of me using a larger hook (9mm) for the jumbo and smaller hook (2.5mm) for the mini! I hope that helps ❤
Genna you are very talented! I love these types of videos you have been making. I have a question do your hands hurt at all when working with the thick yarn?
hehe I hope you guys enjoy!! let me know what you think is cuter --- jumbo sunflower turtle or mini sunflower turtle?!
Mini sunflower
I love both you did a good job!
I love mini everything
I lovee the jumbo one sm but both r adorable
I love both sizes. You do a fantastic job.
There's something about your turtles that just warms my heart. Im a 33yr old mommy of 3,and if i feel like this i wonder how they'll make my kids feel
I crochet my first turtle while I was watching you crochet your turtle to! you were great company to have. your a huge inspiration to me!
This is so sweet, congrats on your first turtle!! My first plushie was a turtle too hehe :)
Omg 😱 I was dead on the floor with so much cuteness love the mini turtle 🐢 so adorable. I love them 😍 all. Have a wonderful day 😊🧵🪡🤗🤩
awww hahah thank you so much! Cuteness overload!!
This video is my inspiration to start putting turtles in my crochet shop. Thank you. I love you and your content
Aww yay!! Thank you soo much ❤️
I don't think I have a favorite they are both SO ADORABLE! I've made mini and large turtles before and I am just starstuck by the cuteness!!!
The mini one is so frickin adorable! I love it! I need one of those in my craft room! Great video Genna!
Aww thanks so much!! ❤ Yesss, they make the cutest lil desk buddies!
After you held them up together I had to vote mini. Too cute! 🐢 🥰
Awww thank you! I love the minis too❤️
😂 I have the exact same problem with buying too much art stuff. You should see my entire cabinet of wood panels and wooden boxes 😆
the turtles are adorable ☺️
hahaha I believe it!! buying art supplies is soo addicting! thanks so much
I love watching your videos while I crochet, feels like I'm crocheting with a friend, thanks for sharing, obsessed with your work❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Aww I'm so glad you feel that way!! thanks sooo much ❤️
I so love your turtles I can’t decide which one I love the best, they are all way to cute. Everything you make is adorable. You are amazing!🥰
Awww thank you so much Merle ❤ so sweet!!
I love them both, but there is just something about mini turtles for me. ❤️
Right!! I feel the same way :')
omg ive watched allll your videos twice now while i crochet haha! cant wait to watch this one :)
aww thanks so much for watching!! hehe you're the best
Omg same
Hello Genna , great vlog !! I love both , turtles are just cute ❤ Thank you for taking us along , the sun flower green turtle is gorgeous . See you next time 😊❤
Awww thanks so much ❤ you are too sweet, so glad you enjoyed!
I’d love to see the sunflower turtle with the original sunflower colours and the dark green that you used for the shell on the new colour order for the body! I think it’d look a lot like a real sunflowers colour palette with the thick dark green stalks! ❤
Aww oh my gosh yes!! I will have to give this a try ❤ love the idea, thank you!
I love the big and small turtle.
Aw thank you!
How many parfait XL skiens do you use for each turtle ? Like for the body and shell?
i love your videos and they are the best videos ever
Awww thank you so much!!😭❤️
@@crochetbygenna no problem
I love your videos. I sit down and crochet and watch you do the same. Thank you!!
Same! Her voice is so relaxing too!
I love how I'm watching while I'm almost done crocheting a mini sunflower turtle and so glad to hear you've sewn the heads on crooked before I literally just had to fix one 😂😅
I live in Houston. I remember those storms when you were traveling. It was intense. Houston has two major airports so not sure if you were at Bush or Hobby. I live closer to Bush and we got some serious rain around that time. Glad you're home safe and do update us on your lost luggage. No way could i decide between the turtles. I love the jumbo turtle for the hugging factor but the mimi is just so dang cute! If i had to choose i would go with the jumbo because hugs are important 🙂
haha oh my gosh, so for my replacement flight, I ended up flying out of Hobby!! Bush shut down all flights that day, crazy!! Thank you so much ❤ Yes, the hugging is such a big factor!! I love jumbos for that reason too :)
@@crochetbygenna i kinda thought that when you mentioned Southwest because i think they only fly out of Hobby. It's been a long time since I've been through Hobby because we're so close to Bush.
Mini turtle all the way. Love your crochet plushies
aww thanks so much ❤
My favorite is the Jumbo sunflower turtles. they would be easer to cuddle with :)
TOO ADORABLE!!! Loved hanging out with you & it happens to be raining where I am today too. HUGS!!!❤
Omg I looooooove the mini sunflower turtle
Hehe aw thank you!!
I have a really good sewing needle set that I got from Walmart! They come in a pack of like two big ones and two small ones or something like that, but I always only use the big ones because they actually work with just about any type of yarn
oh my gosh okay! thank you so much ❤ I'll definitely check out Walmart!!
Thank goodness I'm not the only one who meows to my cat 😅🤣.
This video was so entertaining to watch! I crocheted a mini bag for my leggy frog while I was watching!
I named my leggy frog Dalila 🐸 she's so cute!!
Awww thank you! I'm glad Im not the only one!! And omg the mini bag sounds so cuteee!! Hello Dalila :)
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That's a lot of turtles. I love them they look so cute. Good idea using knitting needles. Not sure which turtle I like more. I like both equally.
Aww thanks so much Julie!! ❤
Loving your new camera!!! I'd love love love if you do more tutorial videos,I found you octo one so easy to follow!! Lots of love
Aww thanks so much Amy! Definitely want to film more tutorials in the future for you guys ❤
Number one fan right here! 😊
Aww hello!! ❤ you are so sweet, thanks for tuning in ❤
These turtles are super cute!
Aww thanks so much
Small sunflower turtle .SO CUTE ❤❤❤
For a thicker metal yarn needle, I got some at Joann’s and Walmart for pretty cheap. Your work is super cute. I like both sizes of the turtles. People will have different preferences.
Thank you so much, I'll have to check out those stores! ❤️
Susan bates Steel Metal Sewing needles. The ones with the slight bent are the best!!!
omg thank you!! ❤ I need to get asap!! haha
Love crocheting with a friend!
Awww!! So happy you enjoy crocheting along ❤
I do meow to my kitty Luna he’s a ginger and white too. 😊
Awww twinnies! I'm glad Im not the only one hahah
I love your videos so much cuz u seem like more real and not media perfect you inspired me to start an Etsy shop where'd id sell crochet things too
Aww thank you so much ❤ good luck on your shop, you'll crush it!! :)
I love just hanging out with you while I’m crocheting! It’s so calm. Also may I ask how long you have been crocheting for? I would love to know.
Aww I'm so glad you enjoy crocheting with me :) you're sooo sweet! I started back in Jan 2022!
im a blanket crocheter, because im terrified of shapes, and im so happy i found your channel you make plushies approachable, which may be misleading (youll be hearing from my lawer (jk)) but inspiring!
Hahahaha Im glad you like!❤️ thanks so much!! 100% give it a try, I promise its not too bad hehe
24:03 not me crocheting in the rain watching you crochet in the raim❤❤❤🧶🧶⛈️⛈️
aww!! we're in sync! 💕
@@crochetbygenna ikr it was so cozy!💕
i want to make ALL of the turtles..i cant decide either..i've been obsessed with your jumbo one..but now that baby one is just too friggin cute..i just cant with these adorable turtles🤣
Haha thanks so much! I cant with them either😭😭❤️
Love your green Turtle..
Aww thanks so much! ❤️
Absolutely love this style of video!
Aww yay, I'm so glad you enjoyed ❤ thanks so much!
Aloha from Hawaii 🌴 I love the jumbo. The mini is cute for a desk buddy.
Aloha! ❤ Aww that's so true, I love a good desk buddy
I love this turtle and your channel! Can you please show how you do the sunflowerpart.? Which stiches do you use?
Aww thank you soo much!! I used a free video tutorial from rose and lily crochet to make the sunflower petals
Hey Genna I have been watching your Chanel for probably about a month now and I just wanted to say I love your studio vlogs so so much! You inspired me to start a chanel of my own keep up the amazing work!
Awww thank you so much! You're so sweet, I love you started your own channel! :)
@@crochetbygenna omg! You responded thank you so much!
Another tip is that you can take stitch markers and clip them on to it so it doesent move too
ohh love that idea! never heard of it, thanks for sharing! ❤
24:15 your office looks like a nostalgic film on vhs without the grain!
The needle you need is a tapestry need and you can get a metal one in Michals
Thank you!! ❤️
Thank you for this video please make more!
Aw so glad you enjoyed!! thanks so much, I definitely will :)
I made a turtle for my daughter❤ she really loves it and my stepdaughter saw it and she wants one too☺️ thank you for your tutorial
your videos have been such an inspiration to get me back into crochet when i lost the passion for it! 💓
Aww Im so happy to hear that!!! Thanks so much for sharing🥺❤️
omg my dog does the same thing!! she always goes to the window to see if anyone is outside and then goes crazy barking! Your dog is beautiful tho!!!!
thank you!! hahaha callie says thank you too ❤
My mom had a delta flight at 7am from South Carolina to Detroit. EST home roughly by 9am right sounds easy. Had to be there early she was. She got home at 11AM THE NEXT DAY. It was the only flight to Detroit so she couldn't switch. It was a full day of its been rescheduled for 2 hours, 3 hours to you'll get there when you get there.
AWESOME video!!! Loved it so much. 🥰💖
Awww thanks so much Audrey!! ❤
Omg, the turtle is so cute ❤❤❤
Thanks so much❤️
I love love your turtles!!!!
I think the knitting needle method is something i would not think to do! I will be using it thx!🐢🌻
Of course!! It helps out soooo much!❤️
When I was flying to Italy flight was delayed four hours, but haft of the passengers were already on and we waited another two hours just in the plane to go so we miss our train and we couldn’t find the place we were staying at
Hello, here with my peppermint tea catching up on your videos.
Aww hello! thanks for watching
Im litteraly bonge whatching your vids. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Aww yay!! Hehe thank you❤️
As someone who mostly crochets with thread... I'm on the mini side!
I had a worst situation I moved abroad and they lost the bag with everything, my clothes, my materials… so it was really stressful being without anyone from my family in a new place without my belongings. The worst week and a half of my life. By the way I love your videos☺
OH MY GOSH that sounds horrible! Im soooo sorry!! And aw thanks so much
Those are so dang cute 🥰
Aww thanks so much!!
Hi Gemma. I love your turtles. The emerald green yarn was gorgeous. I would love to hear a comparison of all the yarns you use, as this is quite confusing to someone new to the craft.
Keep well.
T x 🇦🇺
Hi Tracey ❤ thank you! And yes!! I want to do a yarn comparison video soon for you guys :)
Omg, I live near Houston and have to go to Houston airports and I've had SO MANY problems. Anyways, I love all the plushies, I was even crocheting my own while watching this video.😊
Hahaha Houston is the problem child! thanks so much ❤ so glad you enjoy watching hehe
Since I'm a minor I never have to worry about flight issues; my parents deal with all that for me, so whenever a flight gets canceled, delayed, or anything like that I'm totally chillin' while my mother is dying on the inside LOL.
that's amazing hahaha I miss those times ❤️
all those that sea glass color for the turtles is so freaking cute! maybe I'll need to proceed with caution next time i'm shopping for yarn before i buy their whole stock 😂
hahaha it's soo hard to discipline yourself not to buy 100 skeins 😂 but aww thank you!! ❤
I am in love with your channel and plushies. I am curious about yarn and hook sizes. BLESSINGS
Aww thank you so much !! ❤ I use 9mm hook and size 7 yarn for my jumbo turtles! For my mini I used size 6 and 2.5mm hook
New subbie... We do markets for sewing bags. We just got a huge shipment of fabric. It's just like Christmas!!!
Hehe aww thanks for subscribing ❤️ and it really is like Christmas lol!
This was a fun chat. Can you tell me what size hook you used? Thank you.
@sonny.crafts Thank you.
long story short. there were only two times i missed my flight because it was the 1st and 3rd time i ever flew and they were both solo dolo. i sat either at the gate or across from the gate at a computer area to charge and both times i didn't hear the announcement that the gate was changed. and both times by the time i realized and ran to the new gate, both times i was upgraded for free. once was to first class and the other was to business class. i was so heated. i missed out on such a great opportunity. it always takes me two times to learn a lesson so that never happened a third time. i now check my gate announcements like every 10 mins like a maniac.
ohh my gosh no way!! ugh I'm so sorry you missed out on that! traveling is so stressful :(
@@crochetbygenna yeah but lesson learner. Sadly, I haven't been upgraded for free since. 😭
Love videos like this!!🩷
Aww yay!! Im so glad❤️
Omg the mini turtle is my favourite! It is gorgeous!
I stubbled across your channel yesterday and have watched nearly all your videos! You are amazing and such an inspiration!
But I am curious though has your bag turned up? I would be gutted if I had crochet items in there and it got lost! 😢hope it has turned up!
Can’t wait to watch more videos you make. I love your plushies ❤
Awww thank you soo much, you're so sweet!! YES, the bag was found thank goodness!! I got all the crochet WIPs back :)
Sometimes you can connect your camera to a laptop or tablet and use it as a monitor to see it bigger and check it’s in focus and the framing. I hear ppl do that. You should check it out and see if you can xx
Ohhh this is a great tip, thank you!! Deff will look into that :)
I had one of those insane travel. Long story short i thought i missed my connecting flight because of a plane needing cleaning and bad weather when i arrived for my connecting flight itwas delayed. I had to move flight gates, while trying to update my brother on my new flight time. My phone was dying, my roaming wasn't connecting and my flight kept delaying every half hour. I was suppose to reach my destination at 7 pm, i reach after 11pm.
oh my gosh, what a nightmare! ugh, traveling is seriously the worst sometimes! glad you made it to your destination the same day (barely lol ) ❤
@CrochetByGenna Yep, another time I missed my connecting flight due to the Christmas season and had to room with 4 other females from the same flight because apparently I didn't qualify for hotel room, when my flight was the next day at noon. We were all friends for that brief moment. Still, traveling is the worst
I like jumbo plushies. Mini is more affordable but I like human sized toys I can hug
Yes!! Its all about the hugging🥺❤️
Omg! My dad is a pilot and he flys Southwest!❤
The miniiiiiiiiiiiii❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hi Genna love love your large turtles so need to ask do your change the hook size along with the XL yarn size and go by the same pattern? I have made like 6 turtles so far but normal size and will like to try your large pattern one. Will be jumping back on Etsy and purchase more from you because you doing it 😊
Shay is sooo cute!😇
the mini came out absolutely precious!!! thank you for the top for stabilizing the head - I've only made two plushies so far but sewing parts together was the worst part for me, I'm so bad at it hahaha
also, that travel story sounds like a nightmare! I hope they're easier from here on out and that your luggage turns up really soon!
thanks so much Nikki ❤ luckily I did get my suitcase back! and sewing will literally be the death of me haha
Small is super cute!!
Hehe I agree! So precious 🥺
Hi! I love your videos and find them a huge inspiration! I use sweet snuggles a lot and lately have been having looking for yarn replacements for some of the colors that are hard to find in my area would you mind telling me what the sweet snuggle color was that seaglass replaced so perfectly?
hehe thank you soo much!! ❤ So I replaced seaglass with sweet snuggles "mint" and it's literally a one for one match! I'm so happy premier parfait xl offers so many different colors and always has stuff in stock! ❤
Hey Gemma, I actually had a flight from Tokyo Haneda to London Gatwick, and this was at the time that the crash happened at Haneda airport. Because of this, we were on a shorter runway which meant that we couldn’t take off on it with all the fuel, so we had to divert to Narita airport. When we arrived we were an hour late starting the fuelling process, and we weren’t allowed to leave the plane. In the end, it took about four hours to fuel the plane fully, and by the end of the flight we had been on that flight 18 hours, and the air was so stale I felt sick for the last 5 hours of my flight. And then we had to drive four hours to get home 😭
If you want to be sponsored by a yarn company, send them an email 😊
I did, and I have been sponsored by Red Heart Yarn for over 8 years ❤
Oh my gosh that's amazing! I love Red Heart -- thank you so much! I'll definitely email them 💕
mini sunflower turtle fo sho
I REALLY enjoyed this video!!! Love you and i hope you find your suitcase lol 😂😅
Aww thanks so much!! My suitcase was returned thank gooodness!! :)
@@crochetbygenna yayy! Congrats lol
I cannot decide on jumbo vs mini… equally cute! This is making me want to make a bunch of turtles. How often do you open orders on your Etsy shop?
Aww thank you! ❤ I usually have my Etsy shop open all month long, but ever since March, I've been traveling here and there so I shut my shop down for a bit. I plan on reopening in July and hopefully staying open! ❤
I hope they send you your luggage soon! That is awful! Haha maybe you guys should try road trips 😂. I’m sorry, I got so distracted watching Shea climb into these boxes! 😂😂 I felt like I was watching my cat and I really wanted to ask “What are you doing ma’am?!” 😂😂 I kept having to pull my attention back to you giving the best advice for sewing ever! I had never thought of using knitting needles or chopsticks! I tried using my moms straight pins but they don’t hold anything.
hahaha when I was editing I was literally like what are you doing ma'am !! 😂 So funny, she cracks me up! And aww thank you! so glad you like the tip, it's seriously helped me sooo much! ❤
I use Sweet Snuggles yarn and just recently found out about Premier Parfait XL.. I'm so happy to hear it's the exact same and if I'm not mistaken, there are more colors of Parfait XL than Sweet Snuggles? I've never found a nice beige or light brown at Michaels before 👀
Yes!! There are sooo many more colors and they are always in stock!! load up :) ❤
Haha I was making my first mini turtle with the exact same mindset that it would take me less time to make and I could sell it for less 😂😂. Now wondering if I should have done a big one 😢
Hahaha crochet is so confusing, like you really would think the minis take a shorter time. I think its still making the minis :)
As someone who has been looking for this type of yarn thank you for sharing!! Roughly how much yarn does it take you to make one turtle if you don't mind sharing?
Thanks so much!! And it takes 2 skeins for the body, 1 skein for the shell, and around 1/4 skein for the petals :)
I had seen people use a curved needle, and tried it myself too. I HATE sewing things together but with a curved needle it's so much easier. Don't know if there are curved needle for thick yarn though... :/
For chunky yarn (all thicknesses, really, except maybe embroidery floss 'yarn'), I recommend using a crochet hook in about 2-4 sizes smaller than what the amigurumi was crocheted with -- there's a fair chance that most crocheters own a few hook sizes, but even the same size works pretty well. The hooks are designed to be worked through the stitches anyway, so I find just hooking the yarn and pulling through works wonderfully. Helps save a lot of money and frustration, personally.
Thank you!! This is super helpful Ivy!!
Thank you!! I'll have to be on the lookout for curved metal hooks, definitely need something better than plastic needles lol
I like the small ones more than the big ones
Hi Genna!! Any particular size knitting needles I should get? And is bamboo best or does it matter?
Hi Rebecca! 💕 I use 5.5mm for stabilizing my jumbo plushies, but honestly any size needle should do! Metal or bamboo would be fine too
Hey Genna! I love all the turtles! I bought the regular turtle pattern from your Etsy - are they just size hook & yarn down to make the smaller turtle, and size hook and yarn up to make the jumbo one? Or are they all different patterns?
Hey Lexi, thanks for purchasing my patterns ❤ I'd say the regular turtle pattern on my Etsy comes out to the same size as the strawberry turtle I showed you guys in this video! The jumbo turtle is a different pattern from rose and lily crochet (linked in description) and the mini is also a different pattern (linked in description)! It's also a combination of me using a larger hook (9mm) for the jumbo and smaller hook (2.5mm) for the mini! I hope that helps ❤
@@crochetbygenna Thank you, this is super helpful :)
23:00 does it allow for preprdering?
Genna you are very talented! I love these types of videos you have been making. I have a question do your hands hurt at all when working with the thick yarn?
Aww thanks so much Dina! ❤ Yes, they definitely hurt more using the thicker yarn vs thinner yarn. I make sure to take breaks!
How much yarn did you need to make the whole turtle? Does it use a whole skein or would one skein be enough for 2 turtles of this size?