Let's Crochet Bawnimals! - Live Crochet Along and GIVEAWAY

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Club Crochet Laboratories created the perfect companion, Bonimals, through crocheting, magnets, and biometric technology. Bonimals offer customizable features, happiness, and party fun, with kits available on their website.

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Bonimals, created by Club Crochet Laboratories, are crocheted critters with unique features crafted using magnets, yarn, and biometric augmented wibbly wobblies, ideal for parties and cuddling.
Kits for crafting Bonimals are available on bonimals.com, featuring interactive PDFs and video tutorials, requiring worsted weight yarn, safety bead eyes, mini magnets, and a size G crochet hook.
Club Crochet offers memberships for early access to patterns, exclusive libraries, and monthly kits, supporting the channel through likes, subscriptions, purchases, memberships, merch, and donations.
Viewers engage in livestream giveaways to guess the Bonimal hidden under a frog, with opportunities to win crochet kits, books, or gift cards, showcasing enthusiasm for various animal creations.
The process of creating Bonimals involves color changes, adjustments to patterns, and the importance of details like eyes, ears, and tails, ensuring a satisfactory outcome and potential for future creations.

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00:00

"Club Crochet: Bonimals - Crocheted Companions"

Club Crochet Laboratories conducted research to create the perfect companion, resulting in the creation of Bonimals, crocheted critters with unique features.
Bonimals are crafted using magnets, yarn, and special biometric augmented wibbly wobblies, replicating rapidly and offering cuddly companionship.
Bonimals are ideal for parties, baby companionship, and cuddling, with customizable features available on bonimals.com.
Kits for creating Bonimals are available on the website, featuring interactive PDFs and video tutorials for a seamless crafting experience.
Bonimals are known to cause happiness, giggles, and in some cases, extreme paranoia, cautioning against leaving them unattended near heavy machinery.
To crochet Bonimals, worsted weight yarn, safety bead eyes, mini magnets, and a size G crochet hook are required.
Club Crochet offers memberships for early access to patterns, exclusive pattern libraries, and monthly kits, including the Bonimals kit.
Supporting the channel can be done through likes, subscriptions, purchases of kits and patterns, memberships, merch, and donations.
A giveaway is held during the livestream, where viewers can guess the Bonimal hidden under a frog for a chance to win a Bonimals crochet kit.
Viewers can vote on which Bonimal to crochet during the livestream, with options including a panda, crocodile, hippo, and chameleon.

20:58

"Bottomless Crochet Kit Giveaway and Panda Project"

The giveaway involves guessing what is under the bottomless crochet kit, with the first correct guess winning the kit and the next 10 winning a free book.
Participants can guess in the chat or through a provided link, with the pattern not being free but available for purchase or through a free trial membership.
Posting a picture on Instagram with the hashtag #bonimals will display it on the Club Crochet page and potentially during the live stream.
Clues will be given throughout the video for what is under the bottomless crochet kit, with five clues in total.
The item under the kit has not been revealed before, and a rainbow pin will be added to the website soon.
Donations and new memberships result in Bonimals being displayed, with different placements based on the type of membership.
A panda crochet project is being planned, with off-white and black yarn needed for the body, ears, and face.
The panda's ears will be made using the Mini Bump pattern from page 12 of the e-book, with the face utilizing the Jowls pattern.
The eyes will be made with black yarn, with white yarn added for contrast, and potential color changes for the eyes' appearance.
The giveaway is free to enter, with prizes including the bottomless crochet kit, a free book, or a gift card to the Club Crochet store.

38:28

"Crafting Crochet: Updates, Tips, and Teasers"

The speaker is re-watching live streams to check for blurriness and plans to turn off autofocus to manually focus the camera.
Five mice are named Peanut, Cheddar, Ryu, Curiousnail, and Ellie, inspired by the movie "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West."
The speaker is updating an ebook regularly with additional features for crocheting animals and plans to include video tutorials for each new feature.
The speaker appreciates moderators in the chat and mentions upcoming crochet-alongs for bonimals from the ebook.
The speaker uses Lily Sugar and Cream yarn for crocheting and mentions the availability of the ebook on their website.
The speaker is working on a panda bonimal, experimenting with the nose design and considering adding bamboo to its mouth.
The speaker discusses the challenges of creating no-sew patterns and the importance of testers in refining crochet patterns.
Suggestions are made for preventing yarn splitting, including using a larger crochet hook and being careful when crocheting.
The speaker adds white around the eyes of the panda bonimal to enhance its panda-like appearance.
The speaker teases a hint for an upcoming project and encourages viewers to guess the answer, promising that hints will become easier over time.

01:00:46

"Panda Bonimal Creation and Audience Engagement"

Many animals have poor eyesight, prompting the creation of a panda bonimal.
Consideration for tail addition to the panda bonimal arises, with a bunny tail being a suitable choice.
The panda bonimal's completion nears, with the addition of black yarn for its arms and legs.
A bamboo stick is crafted using a pipe cleaner and green yarn, enhancing the panda bonimal's appearance.
The use of magnets is crucial in bonimal creation, ensuring polarity consistency for connectivity.
The panda bonimal is successfully sewn closed, showcasing a satisfactory first attempt at the pattern.
Suggestions for naming the panda bonimal are sought from viewers.
A vote is initiated for the next bonimal creation, with options including a wolf, red panda, tiger, raccoon, sloth, and seal.
A challenging hint is provided for the ongoing giveaway, teasing the identity of the animal hidden beneath a frog.
The audience engages in lively voting for the next bonimal, showcasing enthusiasm for various animal choices.

01:22:33

Crochet gray wolf project with big eyes

The animal in question is a herbivore, specifically an herbivore that doesn't see well.
The audience is engaged in guessing the animal, with suggestions like mole and llama being considered.
The final decision is made to create a gray wolf crochet project.
The process involves color changes and alterations to the original pattern to create the wolf's features.
Specific yarn colors like gray, white, and black are mentioned for the project.
Instructions are given for creating the wolf's ears and tail separately.
The tail is crocheted with color changes and specific stitch counts.
The eyes of the wolf are debated between big googly eyes and small googly eyes, with big googly eyes winning the vote.
Color changes are made in the face of the wolf project, including a bobble stitch nose.
The crochet project progresses with additional rounds and adjustments to ensure the wolf-like appearance is achieved.

01:47:29

Enhancing Wolf Appearance Through Detailed Stitching

The color changes in the stitching process are crucial for the final outcome, even if some parts will be covered up.
Adding big googly eyes is a requested detail for the wolf's face, with two eyes placed inside.
Tips for avoiding holes during decreases include using invisible decreases instead of single crochet two together.
Suggestions for making the wolf look more wolf-like involve adjusting the ears to be larger and more angled.
Practical advice includes cutting one end of the yarn shorter to thread both ends through a needle simultaneously.
Embroidering features like eyebrows and teeth can enhance the wolf's appearance, along with adding a tuft of hair at the top.
The nose can be created using black yarn and embroidering over the bobble stitch in the center.
Additional details like whiskers, tongues, or teeth can be considered to further enhance the wolf's appearance.
The giveaway hints include the animal being an herbivore, consisting of five different species, with three of them being endangered.
Making adjustments to the ears by creating larger versions can significantly impact the wolf's overall appearance.

02:16:32

Handmade animal creations with unique details

Ears were altered to match the pattern, taking the same amount of time as other parts.
A whole semester was spent writing the pattern with numerous corrections, resulting in a B grade.
Sewing the legs and tail was relatively easy, with the ears being the most challenging part.
Additional design elements like teeth and eyebrows were considered possibly excessive.
A beige yarn was needed for a specific step in the process.
A yellow bunny was made for a viewer named Teresa, who was given the opportunity to name it.
A pug was made for a viewer named Emma, who named it Lola.
A frog with glasses was made for a viewer named Carly, who named it Florence.
A frog with a bow was made for a viewer named Tishi, who was asked to name it.
A wolf was completed with alterations to the ears and a custom tail, with plans for future creations like a chameleon, squirrel, and hippo.

02:41:07

"Creating a Unicorn with Colorful Yarn"

The speaker expresses gratitude for encouragement to make a wolf with bigger ears.
The audience is thanked for participating in a live stream and for their support.
A vote is mentioned between a chameleon and a unicorn, with uncertainty about the outcome.
Specific colors and materials are listed for creating a unicorn, including off-white, pink, and rainbow yarn.
Instructions are given for starting with a pink yarn for the nose and using a pig nose pattern.
Details are provided on the color changes for a possum pattern, including white, gray, and black.
Cooper donates and receives guidance on color changes for the possum, with specific instructions on the pattern.
Treetop is asked to name a cow and receives suggestions for a YouTube channel name.
The speaker crochets the unicorn's body and discusses potential challenges with adding the mane.
The speaker shares details about their day and the time of day, mentioning preparation work and crocheting a bonnimal.

03:02:11

"Crafting Unicorn: Colorful Hooves and Rainbow Horn"

The creator plans to incorporate color changes in the bobble stitches for the feet to resemble hooves.
The next step involves making the face of the unicorn, with a focus on using large eyes.
The creator interacts with viewers, including someone from South Africa, and discusses accents.
The nose for the unicorn is crafted, followed by the addition of eyes and the decision to add ears higher up on the head.
The process of creating the horn for the unicorn involves folding a pipe cleaner and twisting it, avoiding cutting with scissors.
The creator wraps rainbow yarn around the pipe cleaner to form the horn, ensuring a colorful appearance.
Ears are added to the unicorn, with adjustments made to ensure they are positioned correctly.
The horn is further enhanced with additional yarn wrapping to create a thicker base.
A hint for a giveaway is provided, involving clues about an animal that communicates through honks, sneezes, and poop.
The legs of the unicorn are crafted using bobble stitches with intricate color changes to highlight the hooves.

03:30:08

Creating Colorful Unicorn with Fluffy Mane

The main goal is to create a unicorn with a colorful mane resembling unicorn barf.
Thread the mane yarn on a loop and knot it at the back, ensuring to go down and up through the loops.
Cut the mane yarn leaving it long initially, fluff it out, and repeat the process three times.
Fluff out the mane to create a vibrant look, possibly cutting it shorter later.
Consider creating a Harry Potter or unicorn finger puppet series in the future.
Stuff the unicorn with yarn, avoid adding a magnet on top due to the horn.
Decrease the unicorn's size gradually, ensuring it's stackable.
Name the unicorn and panda, with "Chewy" being the chosen name for the panda.
Name the wolf "Luna" and continue with the unicorn's tail, fluffing it out.
Consider creating video tutorials for individual characters like the elephant and unicorn.

03:55:11

"Lucky the Unicorn: Crochet Along Livestream"

The unicorn's name was chosen as "Lucky" by popular vote, with other names being Luna and Chewie. The patterns and kits for creating these "bonnimals" are available on bonnimals.com, with a book featuring sections, progress checkmarks, and links to instructional videos.
A crochet along livestream is scheduled for the upcoming Sunday at 1 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, with a playful exchange of "you hang up first" before signing off with "hasta luego" and "pasta la pizza."

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