YarnPal - Crochet & Patterns

It may be too soon for me to review this app since I just started using it yesterday. I’m not a real beginner to crochet, I do know the basic stitches so it was slightly easier to understand what the videos are instructing me. I think the best instructions I’ve read on crocheting came from a beginner’s Woobles kit and from Yarn Pal. The pace is slower for most beginners to catch on with patience. It definitely beats trying to learn from a book. I do wish the ability to save the patterns you want to try becomes available soon. Also, the ability to search for patterns. There’s a lot of cute patterns I’d like to try on here. Still giving it five stars, hoping the app will improve in areas I find lacking. It’s a good app in my opinion.

I don’t understand this app. The first few lessons had very detailed explanations and videos and it was amazing. But once you’re past the tutorials and just go search for “inspiration,” none of those projects have videos or even pictures. What’s worse, they don’t tell you when to set aside once piece and start working another one separately. I spent 2 hours crocheting what I thought was the head and body of a bunny only to end up with a giant cone because the instructions did not specify to separate them- the way it was worded also seemed like it needed to work off the last row on the head, so I still don’t know how to make this. Every instruction in those projects is SO confusing with no video or photo or even accurate instructions. Then it told me the project was completed without telling me to or showing me how to attach the pieces. I have now spent two whole days beating myself up feeling stupid for not figuring out this crochet but the more I practice the more I see these patterns and instructions are just not beginner friendly at all. I was so excited about this and now I’m so frustrated.

this app is great for people to learn how to crochet which I am doing. I’m I know a few basic things, but I still need help learning to do things I came to this app for help and when I came on it I couldn’t like watch any of the videos that should be there when you try to crochet something also things are limited and I only had one use for something and I forgot to specify like it was the whatchamacallit. I don’t remember what it was called the AI generated photo of like a stitch that you want to do and I forgot to specify how big it needs to be and how I would like it and what hook I need to use for it and I tried to do it again and I need to pay for premium to do it again which I am not doing because I’m gonna forget that I’m paying for it and then I’m going to lose my mind because I’m losing money on something. I probably won’t even use the near future. I might use it in the near future, but I need to learn how to make this now because I really want it and since summer is coming up, I’m going to need it if you’re wondering what it is. It is a kind of cover-up, but like there’s some holes in it that make it kind of patchy and it was going to be really cute, but I can no longer make it because if I cannot find anything that’s going to allow me to make it so this app gets a three out of 10. It’s great, but I don’t know if it’s just a glitch for my thing.