FibroFoggiest Crochet for beginners (me!) ...4

[Mrs_Somerset]

And the blanket of doom

this is side one - where i have nearly cut and woven in all the spare threads.

Crocheting it was fine - took about a week , but only because I cannot do too much at a time.

doing the threads has taken me a week so far and I am not even half done ( see ...5 for the reverse side!)

[Fibrofoggiest]

Wow wow and even more wow, the more you show me the more impressed I am. You really have given me inspiration. Like you I might have problems attempting too much at a time as I find it makes my hands hurt.

Foggy x

[Mrs_Somerset]

There are lots of guides online ( I used youtube to figure out what the stitches were that people refer to in patterns , but from what you have said you have the main ones down sc, dc, tc, sl etc)

I am not skilled in any way.

I was good at sculpting but cannot draw or paint.

I can do technical drawings - give me a ruler and a set square and I am away - but the patterns I have followed are all labelled easy or intermediate and I have bodged them to fit what I can do - it appears crochet is very forgiving and I can come up with something passable without me needing to have much in the way of skill, which is handy - LOL

I also made a hat for my husband - but he has put it with his winter things so could not take a piccy( because his head is too big for normal hats!) and that pattern for that was easy too, again just around and around - all in one colour.

I hope these give you some ideas.

I would love to see what you come up with

being stuck at home all day, in constant pain, we need a distraction or two

Big Hugs,

M

[Fibrofoggiest in reply to Mrs_Somerset]

I couldn't agree more, in the autumn winter and then rigged it's me with my nuclear reactor (woodburner) snuggles up in the living room with my felting, and this year it will also be crocheting thanks to you

[TheAuthor]

That is very beautiful, thank you for sharing this with us all.

Take care

Ken x

[Nanuuk]

Thats gorgeous! You are a very talented individual.

Despite numerous attempts to show me as a child, all I could do was daisy chain! My Grandma had the patience of a SAINT. My friend tried to show me a few years ago... I still can't do it!

[Mrs_Somerset in reply to Nanuuk]

My Granny also tried to show me how to crochet as a child - I could do a straight line, but whenever we tried to do a round it just curled up on itself and almost obtained the density of a black hole !

I think the problem is - 1, not understanding what the stitches do, and 2 - that my granny - as was yours I am sure, was utterly brilliant at it and did not even need to think about how to do it, so explaining this to a child is tricky as you have forgotten all the steps you take for granted

I can highly reccomend pootling about youtube and just looking at the basic stitches - single crochet ( referred to as sc in patterns), double crochet ( referred to as dc in patterns, and slip stitch ( referred to as sl in patterns) - once you see them done in slow mo and can see where the stitch goes ( through both front or back - all makes for a different effect and no one tells you that!) it sort of figures itself out from there

I started with crocheting a chain - as I vaguely remembered that - many christmases of crocheting long chains to hang christmas cards on ( had to do it each year as the cats and dogs would savage them when you took them down so needed new ones each year!)

then I figured out that I was doing a reverse triple - really badly - as that is what my granny ahd tried to teach me - thanks granny - could ot have started me with the single crochet eh? (luvvu granny!)

and a bit of faffing about with getting the stitches in the same place ( I started with through both loops - it is the easiest way to start with I think) and then back and forth - learnt you have to add a loop for each row when doing straight lines and away I went.

I had a square in no time.

and after that - I tried different stitches, learnt to crochet in round and t is trange but my hands just do it by themseles now - it has only been a few weeks.

There is a lot I need t work on for sure - tension of stitches, weaving in threads - and I started practicing on some lace as I had some single ply linen thread given to me by a freinds, but decided I was fr too blind for that sort of intricate work!

If you fancy it - please do not be put off by previous experiences, as I said I was terrible as a child - but I think that was because I just did not get what I was doing!

Love videos - make my life much better

Big Hugs,

M

[Nanuuk in reply to Mrs_Somerset]

I used to be chief coaster maker... daisy chain sewn into 'rounds'!!!