| | A few months ago I decided I wanted my mother to teach me to crochet (she had offered). I brought my hook and some yarn and she showed me a simple stitch and how to make pretty ruffles for the edges on flannel blankets.
Then I didn't practice.
I felt that it would be a good legacy for my oldest daughter if my mother also taught her how to crochet, a memory my daughter could keep with her her whole life. So last Friday we brought some bright blue yarn and a new package of hooks down to Grandma's house and they sat together on the couch for a while. First Mom wound it into a useable ball (while Daughter held the yarn in her hands the way the girls did on the Little House on the Prairie shows). There was a lot of yarn there and they ended with a ball only slightly smaller than planet earth.
Since then Daughter has been crocheting as she finds time. She is working on a pair of gloves, she says. She has already made a blanket for her little sister's doll house.
I thought after watching her that I would try some more. I did try and ended up with this:
It wasn't curved at first. My daughter (who is all of nine-years-old) peeked over my shoulder and asked, "Oh, is that how you do it?"
*laugh*
Turns out I was leaving out a pretty important step. And I had wondered why it was so difficult, painful and looked nothing like any crochet I'd ever seen. So after I learned the right way it turned into this:
Of course it still took a few more rows before I figured out how to keep it from shrinking every time. This is what I ended up with:
It's not really anything but practice and I'm sure it will be soon headed for the frog pond.
So I've been crocheting some simple dish cloths, just for practice and for fun.
I decided to try a dish cloth at an angle, which has worked fine through the increases. One problem. I realized (now that it is as wide as I would like) that I do not know how to decrease. Hmm. I may just have to look at some instructions...
Oh hey wait a second! I keep forgetting that I always only have ONE stitch! LOL no decreases! |
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). You just stop and turn before you reach the end of the row. 
