Is This $13 Temu Cat Bed Crochet Kit a Scam?

Why did they give me safety eyes for a cat bed? Okay, I have a question right off the bat. This is supposed to be a crochet cat bed kit, but this package is so small it's giving more of a mouse house. Um, I just feel suspiciously tiny. So if you're new here, I've been ordering these Temu crochet kits to see if they're actually legit or if they're a scam. Because the listings sometimes look too perfect and then sometimes the photos are just kind of off, I also purposely pick projects I wouldn't normally design myself. Just so I can go into this as kind of like a newbie for something and give an honest review on how the pattern is when I haven't made anything like it before. I already reviewed one kit before and I'll link to that if you want to see whether I actually got what I ordered on that one or not, so no spoilers. And now I'm kind of tempted to start trying the listings that look obviously like AI photos, so if you want me to test those next, let me know in the comments. Also, side note, I've been... been looking for knit kits too but I haven't found any yet so it's all just crochet so far. Let me know if you found any. Link them for me and I'll check those out. But let's open this up and see what we actually got. But first be sure to hit that like, subscribe, and notification bell so that you never miss out on reviews and patterns and all the other stuff I have on the channel. Let's go check the kit out. So according to the listing this is supposed to be a DIY crochet cat The cat bed kit, I actually like the stitch pattern they showed in the photos and it looks really chunky and cozy, which feels perfect for a cat bed. It's supposed to come with everything you need, yarn, hooks, tools, the whole kit, so you shouldn't have to buy anything extra. But after receiving this, I noticed something suspicious. They never listed the finished size anywhere, no measurements at all, and the photos make it look huge. One picture of it next to a bed and it looks massive. So I'm just trying to figure out how something that big fits into something this small. Either it's very aggressively vacuum packed or the cat is not going to get a very big bed. So let's see what's actually inside. Okay, it was vacuum sealed and I cut a little bit when I was cutting it open so the seal's already broken and it's starting to expand. So... So... It might be enough yarn. Let's check out the yarn and see if we think it'll actually make this. Okay, first I was like, they didn't even send the crochet hooks, but then I saw them tucked in. So the yarn itself of course has no label. It feels like a soft acrylic and it looks like probably a DK weight, which unless that stitch pattern is very dense. I don't know how this is going to stand up on its own the way the picture shows. So there's six balls of this. No clue on the yardage. I'm just, I'm not even gonna wind it to find out. I'm just going straight off the pattern to see is what they gave me enough to make what they show and does it turn out the way that it's supposed to. So with the yarn they also sent tools. They They sent safety eyes. Why did they send safety eyes? Quite a few. Okay. Let me open this up and see what's in here. So they sent two crochet hooks, a 5mm and a 2.5, very similar to like a Clover, a more rubberized kind of handle, so they should be comfortable to work with hopefully. Sometimes the cheaper hooks have weird things that catch, so we'll see how these work, but I'm always using what's in the kit, so that way you know if you buy it and you don't have these, you are set to go and you're not going to be frustrated the whole time. So with the hooks, I also got a yarn needle or two it's like a metal and a plastic which is cool because like I like metal better but maybe one of if you have a preference now you have both choices plus a little carrying case so that's cool you can put other yarn needles that you collect along the way inside. We got five locking stitch markers, eight plastic like amigurumi safety eyes. Maybe these are just special extras? I don't remember seeing eyes anywhere on the cat bed, so unless these are used to hold things together, I don't know. And then finally, some bendable wire. So that might be what gives it the ability to stand up. Because this yarn I don't think is going to do it by itself. So now I'm very intrigued. Safety eyes and wire, what are we doing? And then lastly, this is covering up some QR codes which I'm guessing are to a video. But there's like a whole little booklet. on the pattern so that will be interesting and looking through this pattern booklet this is actually more of a instructional how to make stitches so it's more of How do you do a single crochet? How do you do a slip stitch? So this is not the actual pattern of the cat bed, so I'm guessing we have to go to the QR code that is provided to either download or watch a video or both. So I'll let you know what's on the QR code, but let's get started. Okay, so I did not show you any progress videos of me making the cat bed and there was a very specific reason why I gave up. This is as big as it's going to get so this would fit a hamster comfortably or a premature kitten but this is not going to fit any size cat that I know of. So I was gonna attempt to make the whole thing, but the pattern fell apart in this area. It became incomprehensible, didn't make sense, so poorly written. However, if you'll notice as well, the stitches are basic single crochet. If you've done any crochet, you know that that's not single crochet. I don't even know what stitch that is. I wanted to know what stitch that was. I wanted to learn it because it looked like a really cool stitch. You know what stitch it is? It's AI stitch, that's what it is. It's not a real stitch. If it is a stitch, let me know which one it is because I want to learn it. So I had immediately known that this wasn't going to work out when the pattern told me to use a nine millimeter hook, which that did not come with. And two strands of the yarn. So I am thinking that they swiped someone's pattern, which the entire thing is single crochet, and then they just substituted yarn and they have no idea what they're doing, and they gave me worsted lightweight yarn, probably DK, and small hook. Like the hook was the right size for doubling this up to make it tight-ish, still floppy, but Doubling up with a 9mm, I'm guessing that would have been a bulky or maybe even a super bulky. That would have given me way bigger size and I was actually tempted to get some of my yarn and try to make it, but the pattern is so poorly written. If they took the pattern from someone, unfortunately that person did not write it well either and I couldn't figure it out. It had really strange descriptions that I had never heard of and it was just Too frustrating to finish. I probably could have winged it and done something but I didn't want to waste my time anymore. It seriously was such a letdown. I was hoping to have a really cool cat bed and I have a really floppy ugly bowl. So thankfully I found out Temu has some decent return policies that certain sellers may give you credit on part of your purchase if you Don't want to return the entire thing. They'll just give you a credit of what you paid. So I'm keeping the yarn. I got a little credit back. I'm going to use this yarn for something else, so you'll see it in a future pattern. So be sure to hit the like and subscribe notification bell. But on the scammometer, this is a 5 out of 5. I did get yarn though. I got some yarn, but that's about it. The crochet hook was good too though. That was a good comfortable crochet hook. But other than that, highly do not recommend. Anyone else has found a cat bed on Temu that I could make? Let me know in the comments. Let me know where. Send me a link. I have a com- a comment. I have a contact me link in the description. You can shoot me the link directly and I'll get it and I'll try that one. But this one was a bust so Don't buy it. I have many more kits coming up so be sure to stick around if you want to see if they were a scam or if they actually turned out well. But I'm Deja with Knit and Crochet Ever After and thank you for watching.