Learning to crochet if you're shit at most things crafty

[EllaMinnowPee]

I've never crocheted a thing in my life. Probably never held a needle (hook?) either so we are talking complete beginner

Anyway I suddenly decided that I wanted to crochet a cure animal using one of the Toft kits or similar

Just how impossible a challenge will it be? Are these things generally tricky for absolute beginners?

Would you recommend the book @Thunderface? I like the sound of your baskets, some the craft ideas I looked at, I thought "what would I do with the end result?". I'm hopeful that I can work up to making something I actually want to possess.

I used to knit but crochet does take practise. It's like doing a jigsaw

Definitely start with granny squares

The book i have is a DK one. Its My Crochet Bible. It's quite good.

Hook and wool arrived today, to much excitement. If a primary school child can make a Harry Potter doll, surely I can make a granny square? Going to try a video mentioned upthread, and maybe move onto My Crochet Bible from there (local bookshop gets almost anything in 48 hours, so preferred to Amazon prime, but I want to try it out quicksmart).

Great, good luck!

@Shehasadiamondinthesky

I'm great at craft stuff generally but crochet has reduced me to tears, I just can't do it. I can knit so whyyyyyyy. I think you need someone to sit with you and show you. Learning from youtube videos and books doesn't really do the job.

I was totally the opposite! Videos all the way rewind play rewind play Ad infinitum without passing anyone off!

You tube & search something (like single crochet) watch videos from different people and find your favourite, but gain some info from all of them.

[quote EllaMinnowPee]@Theunamedcat actually I do have some sampler thing I did when I was about 5! It's a Christmas pudding. Some stitching on some bit of fabric with holes in it

Maybe I am a lost cause [/quote]
@EllaMinnowPee

That sounds like cross stitch.

How are you getting on, did you get any wool hooks to learn to crochet?

I found crocheting much harder than knitting. I’ve been knitting for about a year and love it, it’s been mostly good from the get go. Crochet I have found difficult but am enjoying it now. Also I have realised it hurts my hands unless I concentrate on relaxing them.

My advice - use a hook 2 sizes bigger for your chain….

I taught myself from a book. Once I'd learnt the basic chain, double crochet and treble crochet I made a giant granny square blanket so that I was doing the same thing over and over again which helped get used to holding the yarn and hook and how to manipulate them both .

I tried to teach myself to knit a few years ago and, whilst I did succeed in making a basic square in one stitch, the muscle memory of how to handle the needles v handling a hook was all wrong and I just couldn't get to grips with it.