Trying out the crochet bobble stitch-alien in a UFO

Super-galactic travellers,

I've been teaching myself different crochet skills recently, and one that looked really fun was the bobble stitch.

After practising the bobble stitch with the help of some how to videos, I went about making my first pattern to crochet up,

and after a few hours this is what the end result looked like.

My camera really didn't like taking a photo of this green...

And honestly? I was pretty disappointed with how it came out...but that was down to my design not being very good.

Not to be dissuaded, I went back to the drawing board to make my original design a bit more exciting. After some editing, and many hours of crocheting, this is how my little alien in a UFO version 2.0 came out:

Attempting to learn a language

 Hello fellow super-galactic travellers,

I've always been really...really bad at learning languages. However, this year I finally learnt how to crochet after trying on and off for probably twentyish years (yes it took me that long, don't judge!), and it's given me a new confidence to say hey, if I can learn to do that after so long, what else can I learn that I've always struggled with? And so I've gone with languages.

There are so many languages I would love to learn, but in the end I decided to go for German for the following reasons: