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I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

coppercranberry

this is probably my favorite crochet pattern i have ever used 🥹🥹🥹 LOOK AT HOW TINY AND CUTE THIS PIE IS!!!!!

i made this little guy following CauliCrochet's pattern (available on their youtube channel in both written pattern and demonstrated video!)

materials used:

aunt lydia's crochet thread size 10 in red and silver and cream

size 8/0 czech seed beads in red

1.5mm micro/steel crochet hook (i like the addi swings for their massive handles because it helps counterbalance when i'm working with tiny thread)

generic stuffing

a paper tag glued inside the pie tin (i won't do this again, it made it too stiff)

and little tapestry needles for sewing it all together!

i ended up working this whole piece in the round without joining rows to see how i liked it, but it came out a little wonky so next time i think i'll follow the pattern instructions to "invisible join and chain 1" at the end of each row :)