Team Hooker - One pointy thing is better than two

[SoupDragon]

Quiche-tastic.

Hello there Kinky

You don't have to marvel at me

Rather - I'll bet you are fabulous!

Thanks Soup.

Purple I need to find her super slow ones, she's already lost me with a traditional granny square!

Kinky, I started just being able to chain, then kept reading and watching LOADS of different things, and now I can do chain, slip stitch, single and double crochet.

What I CANNOT do yet, is make a square that's, erm, SQUARE!!! Grrr.

Hold on, I've got her on fb. I'll see if i can link here :)

I'm happy to talk you through it, but pictures are better for beginning.

One easy way to start would be to chain 3 then work 12 treble crochet stitches into the first chain...

Nice to see lots of new people getting hooked on crochet My first attempts were all wonky and looking back I realise I was very slow.
My first blanket took months to make, now I can make one in a much shorter time scale.

It is addictive, DH laughs at me because if we are going on a car journey longer than 15 mins I bring my bag of crocheting and make a few squares while we are travelling (obviously he is driving)

I'm also finding myself looking for wool shops in every town we visit

Uk and US terminology is different, so have a look at Double Crochet :)

Slow Granny

Lolli's done all that in the last week, she underestimates her own achievement

Making the initial circle - the hardest part - in slow motion

Dc (uk tc) on it's own

Thanks Purple. I just did a row of single stitch - slow mo is really useful.

Hello all. A woman at work has offered to pay me to teach her to crochet. No idea how much to charge! What are your thoughts?

JumpedUp, crocheting in the car makes me feel sick, which is such a shame, feels like wasted time!

I have no idea!

I can't crochet in the car as I'm always driving :)

I love long car journeys as I can get loads done! I have hospital appointments every 6 weeks and they are a 90 minute drive away so it's prime crocheting time.

I can crochet in the car but not read, but i only do a bit then look up iyswim

Dilly, how long will lessons be and will she bring materials or expect you to provide? I'd say minimum £15 for an hour for up to 3 people :)

And congratulations, KinkyD

I seem to be stalling making the central bit of the square. It is always round! I think I need to get used to seeing the stitches and the pattern.

I'm using a size 4 needle and standard wool.

Thanks Purple for all your help

It will look a bit roundy until the next row is in place to stretch it out, iyswim, that's completely normal - it's also how we get the squares to look uniformly square and the same size on the blankets. Woolly stitches seem to like helping their friends out!

It's the summer holidays so I have time to throw plenty of sheer determination at it! I should do something, I suppose, but have been sucked into sitting here crocheting centres and swearing a lot. Putting the kids in front of the telly all day whilst I hone my crocheting skills is fine, right??!!

How old are they? 6 is a good age to start learning :o

I tried to teach DS2 (11) a couple of months ago. It did not go well :o

I agree - they all look round until you start building up the straight sides and add corners. The star-in-a-square I've made up is a good example of this. After the initial "squaring off" it slowly gets more square as you go along, even though you do very little to adjust the stitches.

I had told Dds that I would teach them to crochet (i have currently given the k word bug and have mastered a variety of stitches/patterns).

Then I realised I hadn't crocheted since I was a teen and could only remember chain stitch.

Having recently found my only crochet hook and seen this thread in active convos I clicked on one of the first tutorial links for single crochet, picked up some random wool and my crochet hook and started.

It did not go at all well.

About to put a pic on my profile for you to laugh at...

Photo up.

Please don't laugh. I don't think I am ready for a granny square yet :(

Haunted, that doesn't look bad to me at all.

Was it meant to be a square? Everyone's squares start off like that. As someone said above, counting stitches is necessary. But it's not easy to count stitches when you're trying to hold the yarn with two fingers, the work with two more, and a hook with the other hand, and then you also have to manipulate the hook so you are doing at least three things at once... and then you have to count stitches AND rows!

I did quite a bit like that, so I was used to the movement before I went on to a granny square - which I found easier than rows and rows of doublecrochet as it's much easier to count.