OK so I decided to take up crochet...I started yesterday...
Here are some tips for any of you who may consider this hobby:
1. Rethink this carefully
- you need the following in great measure
An excessive amount patience I have crocheted and pulled out
miles (OK feet) of yarn in the last two days
An ability to laugh at yourself and be laughed at as well - I have
been asked if I hired a monkey to do this for me
2. Go to the craft shop
- don't ask anyone for help as you will get four or five different and
conflicting suggestions that will leave you wandering around the
craft shop with arms full of stuff and no idea what to do.
3. Buy a beginners book one with real picture and words that make
sense - a book that says do 17 CS then a TS then 16 SS is not
helpful unless there is a glossary and pictures to show you what
these are!
DO NOT EXPECT TO MAKE ANYTHING YOU WILL LIKE at least not in the early stages
4. If you like a wool - don't buy it!
You need to start with some of the oddest colors - torquoise, pee
green or purple seem to be the easiest - believe me - I don't know
why but brown and beige are NOT GOOD!
5. Cheaper synthetic wools seem to be easier to work with than the
really nice ones you would like to work with.
6. Take breaks...if you don't you will become cross-eyed, stiff and start
counting everything you do...15 single steps to the bathroom, 1
spoon of suguar in a cup of tea....
7. Buy a good scissors, GUAGE thingy (so you know if your stitches are
even) and metal not plastic hooks...I only say that as I bent the first
hook I bought (plastic) in the stress of the moment. Buy a set with
different sizes as you need to find what is most comfortable for you
and to have more handy for when in your frustration you throw the
hook across the room.
8. Find the right holes for your second or third row of stitches...otherwise
you get very odd shaped squares...more like wiggly worms...this is
where the odd colors seem to make this easier. A really good source
of light is extremely helpful as well.
9. If at first you don't succeed...cry, cry again...LOL...save it anyway.
as you go forward you can look back and see that with practise you
actually do improve.
10. Don't give up too quick...Im all thumbs and I am sure that I have toes
for fingers, but I can actually see that I am about 10 percent better
after 5 hours of practise...
11. Set low goals...avoid dissapointment....I thought my first project
would be this really pretty multi-colored, multi-tectured throw....now I
am making purple and turquoise pot holders for all my friends an
family....I figred at my current rate I may have five that don't look like
they were dragged around by the cat completed by next christmas.
I am so glad I decided to try a new hobby to fill my days and reduce my stress.....Come on in the waters fine!
Nimble fingered I am not - Stephanie
Stephanie
Here are some tips for any of you who may consider this hobby:
1. Rethink this carefully
- you need the following in great measure
An excessive amount patience I have crocheted and pulled out
miles (OK feet) of yarn in the last two days
An ability to laugh at yourself and be laughed at as well - I have
been asked if I hired a monkey to do this for me
2. Go to the craft shop
- don't ask anyone for help as you will get four or five different and
conflicting suggestions that will leave you wandering around the
craft shop with arms full of stuff and no idea what to do.
3. Buy a beginners book one with real picture and words that make
sense - a book that says do 17 CS then a TS then 16 SS is not
helpful unless there is a glossary and pictures to show you what
these are!
DO NOT EXPECT TO MAKE ANYTHING YOU WILL LIKE at least not in the early stages
4. If you like a wool - don't buy it!
You need to start with some of the oddest colors - torquoise, pee
green or purple seem to be the easiest - believe me - I don't know
why but brown and beige are NOT GOOD!
5. Cheaper synthetic wools seem to be easier to work with than the
really nice ones you would like to work with.
6. Take breaks...if you don't you will become cross-eyed, stiff and start
counting everything you do...15 single steps to the bathroom, 1
spoon of suguar in a cup of tea....
7. Buy a good scissors, GUAGE thingy (so you know if your stitches are
even) and metal not plastic hooks...I only say that as I bent the first
hook I bought (plastic) in the stress of the moment. Buy a set with
different sizes as you need to find what is most comfortable for you
and to have more handy for when in your frustration you throw the
hook across the room.
8. Find the right holes for your second or third row of stitches...otherwise
you get very odd shaped squares...more like wiggly worms...this is
where the odd colors seem to make this easier. A really good source
of light is extremely helpful as well.
9. If at first you don't succeed...cry, cry again...LOL...save it anyway.
as you go forward you can look back and see that with practise you
actually do improve.
10. Don't give up too quick...Im all thumbs and I am sure that I have toes
for fingers, but I can actually see that I am about 10 percent better
after 5 hours of practise...
11. Set low goals...avoid dissapointment....I thought my first project
would be this really pretty multi-colored, multi-tectured throw....now I
am making purple and turquoise pot holders for all my friends an
family....I figred at my current rate I may have five that don't look like
they were dragged around by the cat completed by next christmas.
I am so glad I decided to try a new hobby to fill my days and reduce my stress.....Come on in the waters fine!
Nimble fingered I am not - Stephanie
Stephanie
