This is the first crochet project I ever tried. It's a hacky sack. It's done in the continuous spiral style. I really liked that. It also sort of taught me to crochet very tightly. You can see by the ridge lines, I used back loops only throughout. It wasn't part of the pattern, but it gave it a bit of a different look. It was hard to make the stitches as tight as I would have liked towards the end, but, I quite enjoyed this project! Plus, this project also gave my daughter the idea to start a garden. I had filled the sack with beans to give it a heavy, but still light feel my husband likes. My daughter ended up planting the leftover beans!
Some things I realized I would need in the middle of this project: Stitch Markers and a Row Counter! They are invaluable when you're working in the round and need to know where each row begins.
I used this pattern as a guide: Hacky Sack
