The ‘Aha’ Moment
(This is where I prove myself a liar, because I have actually been doing something crafty amidst all the clutter!)
Once upon a while ago (or ‘Back the days a bit’, as Finn likes to say), I taught myself to crochet. I think it was back when there were a lot of people joining in the 63-Square Crochet-along on The Wagon. I figured it couldn’t be as difficult as all that, right? Wrong! I just didn’t get it. I was splitting the yarn with the hook, and losing stitches with every row, and couldn’t figure out where. Being left-handed, it is always that bit more fun trying to interpret diagrams. (I know, I know - mirror-image the diagrams, then print them out - I just seem to like doing things the difficult way!)
Anyway, more recently, I have got my mum hooked (ha!) on amigurumi - crocheted stuffed toys. She gave me a lesson in crochet-ing in the round, and bought me some plastic hooks. And I was pootling along, crocheting in the round, and the plastic hooks made it so much easier to avoid splitting the yarn (though I did break a 4mm one on the way)… and, suddenly, I got it! I figured out where I had been losing stitches in flat crochet, and suddenly it all made sense. In about half an hour, I was happily single, double, half-double, triple, and twisted-double crochet-ing away. Whoo!
So I made Sweeney (Niamh’s Very Special Bear) a scarf (teddies are great for small projects). Not the most amazing ‘crocheted thing’ in the world, but a good start! Maybe now I’ll get back to the amigurumi-ing, and make myself a teddy cupcake, or… um… one of these (what the…?!) 
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October 04 2006 11:41 am | Other Craft and Yarncraft
3 Responses to “The ‘Aha’ Moment”
cathymk on 04 Oct 2006 at 7.39 pm #
Nice scarf! Congratulations on making the connection (knitting and crochet completely escape me!)
Love the teddy cupcake - so very cute!
Nicola on 04 Oct 2006 at 8.26 pm #
Aww, Sweeney is looking very snug in his beautiful scarf! Congratulations on mastering crochet!
Jenna on 07 Oct 2006 at 3.35 am #
Heads on a stick are just disturbing, regardless of the medium! Congratulations on having that perfect aha moment.