I am going to attempt crochet...no, don't stop me...unless you think I shouldn't

[HowTheFillyjonkStoleChristmas]

I have the happy hooker

I have a crochet hook

I have yarn (I take it there's no special crochet yarn, you just use the same as for wool?)

I cannot quite see it as a hip and edgy craft as yet, unlike knitting of course, but I am going to do it.

My lips are sealed. Won't say another word.

filly, i have a book with lots of cool squares from dead easy to hard. doing squares is a good way to build up practice.

gotta go.

I like crochet, well with wool anyway. Have attempted the complicated stuff with cotton thread like my granny used to do and found that way to much hard work as there is no give in the thread.

But surely if you are spinning your own thread you should be naalbinding it rather than any of this new fangled knitting/crochet stuff Now theres a challenge for you.

i am with you - would love to learn crochet BUT have tried to follow patterns and always, ALWAYS get stuck. might try again soon

think you are right on the granny squares though, was in cath kidston's shop in covent garden on tues and she has lovely crocheted blankets in there [for about 500 quid or so] - it all depends on the colour choices - these were gorgeous and i would love to make one

also reckon you can crochet on buses easier than knitting...

let us know how you go

Squares are brilliant - can crochet on bus without lugging whole damn blanket around with you.

yeah, that's what i reckoned about the bus issue, just need to figure out HOW to crochet a square tho'

ok, is only £160 but is made from acyrlic [felt nice and soft though]

Crochet patterns can make it look MUCH harder than it actually is. This is where the old lady comes in. Those squares are very very easy.Trust me, I can't drive a car but I can make those squares!

ah yes, outed

OK, that blanket is why i want to learn to crochet

is that so wrong? is it?

is it lovely on rl also then jg?

oh filly it is truly lovely, truly truly - nicer than the photo in fact

so much so that i regularly go and pay homage in my lunchbreak

though i'd prefer it not in acrylic obviously

[if anyone has a simple pattern for such squares i'd love to give it another go]

Not crochet, but have you knitting people seen this knitted ring? . What do you reckon? Worth £20?

whoah

well materials...50p? ish? assuming you're using organic hand dyed mermaud hair of course.

dunno how much the ring bit is

time? Dunno. An hour? Am being very very generous here as I am not sure how to affix the knitted bit to the ring, i suppose it might take some ingenuity.

so...£10 ph time + 50p wool + dunno, £3 ring? = £13.50. And thats being generous...

Do you think anyone would wear them though? Not sure I would, tbh.

Well now you could crochet that ring for maybe £1.50. Has anyone seen that someone on Netmums is selling codpieces for babies? Could crochet thsoe very economically...

I think I would

yes i would.

I suspect you are rather more trendy than me, Fillyjonk (and I think my use of the word 'trendy' confirms that)

codpieces? . Why does a baby need a codpiece?

yes was wondering that

oh I am clearly very trendy. I am a dedicated knitter and now am onto crochet...oh yes so trendy

spent half and hour last night just staring at those patterns (also bf). think I need an old lady.

I think they are actually called something like a "weeweeman". They are to place over the baby's genital area whilst changing a nappy to prevent the changer being sprayed. One can see the desperate thought process behind this...
Fillyjonk, the patterns really do make it seem so much harder than it actually is.

Ah, I see. Not knitted then? Why not just use a muslin, or a bit of kitchen roll, I wonder?

Well because you couldn't sell a muslin or a bit of kitchen roll. I have some sympathy, there you are lying awake at night thinking "I don't want to go back to my fulltime job, what gap in the market can I fill?" but it's hard to see how that one survived an informal focus group. Has air of a Viz top tip

I am just scared I think

I need to get out of my knitting comfort zone

at 'Viz top tip' - it really does.

rather than crocheting on the round, you can crochet in rows and make squares that way. then turn it and crochet the other way like doing knitting rows. i remember that it was easier to do this when starting out than going round in circles.

i see a niche in the market to help avoid going back to work - provision of old ladies to interpret crochet patterns. or am i just getting really desperate now

anyway, can i borrow someone's, pretty please, i want one of those rugs [two, actually]

that sounds like a goer jg

now how do we make old ladies ? Do you have a pattern?