My Crochet story...

July 03, 2015

A year or two ago, I decided to learn how to knit... I was always amazed by all the beautiful things older people (specially women) make... and I have tried to learn it before, but I was always told "you're too young to be doing this" and that I might like it when I am older... much older.

Hmm... I have given it a try around two years ago... but I gave up as soon as I started. I felt like my arms were like an old typewriter... having to shift from one side to the other all the time... naaah, not for me!

So... I looked for something else. I tried needlebinding... the old viking knitting technique in which your thumb, a needle, and 1 meter long yarn is used at a time... then you have to splice a new piece and so on... the only thing that came out of that experience was 4 hours of struggling with the needle and thumbs, with yarn twirling the wrong way... but I managed to settle for a headband instead of a whole cap... (I had lost patience by the time I had finished the fifth row of stitches)... I have not given up on needlebinding yet... maaaaaybe I will pick it up again, wheeeeen.... I am older? Maybe.

With needlebinding out of the picture... I was stuck with Crochet... and boy did I get stuck to it!

To be honest, I had no one to teach me how to crochet... So I did what the fashion is nowadays... and I googled it... and stumbled across a simple tutorial video which got me started with the simple stitch... and that lead to a double stitch, which lead to decorative stitches... I learned the basics from the video, but after two hours I had made my first wool cap!

By the second week I had made 3 pairs of socks, without using any pattern or instructions...

I did make a few counting mistakes... and one sock did end up being tighter than the other... but hey, I was a beginner... and beginners don't make socks, do they? ;)

By the third week, I was making neck and wrist warmers...

And before I know it, I had two suitcases full of crochet items.

I took yarn to work with me, and crochetted during the long hours of traffic jam, met new people onv public transportation, I seem to have stirred their curiosity... Old ladies smiled at me... Young women asked me curious questions... and before I knew it, I was selling them on the bus before even finishing them!

I started making customized items, baby clothing... funny and weird caps... here are a few examples, in case you don't believe me :P

Just in the last 5 days, I have finished 5 pieces of baby clothing :