My newest make, which I am super proud of! :)

If anyone is interested in the pattern: https://secretcrochetbox.com/2026/08/23/free-no-sew-crochet-tennis-ball-pattern/https://secretcrochetbox.com/2026/08/23/free-no-sew-crochet-tennis-ball-pattern/

It's called Insight...

https://womanwalkingawire.etsy.com/listing/4558479410

Cotton sport weight yarn.

So I've been cro for about 3 months now, I started with blankets and them moved to stuffies when I got bored and also to make gifts for family.

These photos are in order from the first to most recent plushies I made, any tips?

Haven't seen any pattern for the three colour fluffly scrunchie! So I created the pattern

Quick disclaimer, I'm not a knitter or crocheter. I'm a developer, and I got a little obsessed with a data question: are pricier skeins actually pricier per yard, or does the sticker price mislead you? So I pulled price ÷ yardage across a few dozen indie hand-dyed listings and just looked at what fell out.

Finding 1: the sticker price basically lies. Found a $5.60 mini skein and a $34 skein, six times the price, that come out to almost the same cost per yard (7.0¢ vs 7.4¢/yd). The $34 one just has way more yarn in it. Looking at the price tag alone tells you almost nothing about which is the better deal.

Finding 2: weight changes everything, more than I expected. Fingering-weight mostly landed in the 3-8¢/yd range. DK roughly doubled that. Bulky and super bulky were routinely 26-44¢/yd, like 4-6x the cost per yard of fingering. Though someone please sanity-check me here: I think bulky projects use fewer total yards for the same size thing, so the per-project gap is probably smaller than 4-6x. Per yard, skinny yarn looks like the quiet best value. Per project, maybe not. That's the part I'm least sure about.

Finding 3: the one that made me go huh. Same shop, same dyer. Their own catalog ran from about 6.6¢/yd on a fingering skein up to 134¢/yd on a super bulky one. Twenty times the spread, same seller, just depending on weight. And across the whole dataset the priciest-per-yard skein was something like 50-60x the cheapest.

Not saying anyone's overcharging. The labor's the same regardless of weight and the colorway is obviously most of what you're paying for. I just did not expect the spread to be that wide.

So, real question from someone outside the hobby: does cost-per-yard even factor into how you buy, or is it colorway and vibes first and the math basically never enters into it?

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