I tried to take up a new hobby. I looked it into crochet and knitting. I decided that crochet would be better to start out with. So I popped off and bought a small set of hooks that did not cost me too much and a couple skeins of yarn to practice with. Then the adventure began.
About an hour or two into my learning process, I realized that I felt very much like a kitten. I had gotten all sorts of tangled up in the yarn multiple times. I finally got the motions down and my fingers decided to cooperate. I made a chain! Go me! My pleasure was dashed away as two people, who should have been excited for/with me, told me that even they knew ‘how to chain’ and that it wasn’t that big of a deal. Well excuse me. Two hours into my learning and I’d made a chain of 200. Yes, 200. Because I was trying to get the motions down and the nice YouTube lady told me to. Then the hard part came. What do you mean I have to double back?! Can’t I just keep going on and on until I have a really, really long chain?? No? Damn.
That was several weeks ago.
I am looking for a better source material because I was definitely not doing something right. My attempts at doubling back became this terrible mess and I kept getting confused on which way I was wrapping the yarn around the hook. Was I putting the hook through the right link? Dammit, did I just skip one?
I have not given up. I just need to find a better tutorial source: one that works for me. I have added “crochet a scarf” to my Day Zero Project list.
Mar 05, 2011 • 11:37 pm