The Bluestocking: To the moon and back gerbil style.

[Boiledbeetle]

Previous thread of chat and general madness below

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5506124-the-bluestocking-womens-pub-spring-is-sprunging-and-mns-name-generator-can-do-one

Women: from an orderly queue at the bar or take a seat and grab a passing gerbil.

Men: turn left at the end of the road, keep walking until you find the Staunch Ally.

Bar gerbil a full fat coke please and a packet of Scampi Fries please.

This is the crocheted blanket I made DD that she took to uni. Each of them have one, because my gran crochet my brother and I blankets and they went with me everywhere.

I'm a slow and inexpert crocheter, but I am a dreadful knitter.

I'm with @Boiledbeetle on this. I have read and re-read the posts by @EmpressaurusKittyand @ifIwerenotanandroid and my brain refuses to understand them. Next time I feel inspired, I will put on some YouTube videos and try to make sense of things.

I really need someone to sit with me and show me but I don't like going to group things. I get all shy and nervous (which you would never believe if you knew me IRL).

I CAN'T DO IT.

whimpers

Made it!

The relatives in the Balkans used to do beautiful crochet work.

Somewhere, I have a crocheted cup and saucer, stiffened with starch made of melted sugar.

Do the chain 4 and connect the ends. I always do it that way. I did manage a magic ring a few times but it's really not necessary!

My mother tried SO many times to teach me how to crochet (and sew and use a sewing machine) and I just couldn't get my hands coordinated enough to do it.

At least I'm consistent in my inability.

"Do the chain 4 and connect the ends"

I don't know what that means

<cries>

I tried learning to crochet from a magazine, then a book & finally went to a course at a yarn shop where I finally learned & have been doing it fanatically ever since - so be careful what you wish for.

Boily, you must be really good with your hands in other ways (construction etc).

What Android said, @Boiledbeetle.

Make a chain of four stitches, then (keeping the yarn on the hook) stick the hook through the first chain, yarn round hook and draw it back through both loops. Hey presto, a ring. Much easier!

Hey guys I made it! <chugs slowly into view>

This new place is rather lovely isn't it? I like the snug. I may need to shrink in size a wee bit though..

I can only knit badly and I can't crochet at all. I should learn, sure I'd like it, but I'm another one who'd probably need a very patient person to show me, rather than figuring it out from a video or a book..

But, in a slightly similar vein, I bought myself some lego today as a treat to myself - never been remotely tempted by that before, but I fancied something to do with my hands and they had lego spring flowers! So nice! Feeling cheery just thinking about it. (Plus my lovely DH got me some real ones too, as it's my b'day 🌼)

Bella Coco on YouTube is good for the basics, though there’s nothing like someone actually showing you.

All my foster cats took crocheted blankets with them to their new homes. I fostered Kitty’s son, too, so he took a blanket that smelled of his mum.

Happy birthday @ShinyBlueTractor!

If you want some roof trusses or a replacement window I'm your beetle

@MyrtleLion , the "buy a goddamn vibrator" thread is in 'Mumsnet with Disabilities' and it's an American autistic woman with learning difficulties endlessly asking how to get men to date her. Well, to shag her on hook up sites. Her mother has medical guardianship and blocks her attempts to get her IUD removed

It's a disaster waiting to happen .

<stares blankly>

Happy birthday @ShinyBlueTractor . Are you having a lovely day?

You don't have to do crafting. We will still love you.

And Maud might get a bit stroppy if you are preoccupied rather than managing her socials...

It's a very important role 💙

Oh god, those threads.

It’s not just that she wants sex. It’s that she wants to have babies & seems to want MNers to tell her she’ll be able to one day. But she comes across as a teenager despite being (I think) about 30.

I stand with Boily. I can neither knit nor crochet and have lived for a vast number of years being unable to do either.
It matters not.

Boily would you like to join me in the "Not at all Woolly" room?

Oh god not her AGAIN.

She doesn't appear to have capacity to make good decisions.

YouTube

Bella Coco

Granny Square for Absolute Beginners

4 minutes in = 4-chain loop

She's very good & very clear. If she can't sort you out then you need someone IRL.

Yes please

<wipes nose on feathers>

These are a good place to start for beginner crocheting. I think being able to do roof trusses & replacement windows is bloody impressive.

m.youtube.com/@bellacococrochet

Realises Boiled is probably stringing us along & has finished a lovely yellow scarf this afternoon.

Happy birthday

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