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Today's Topic
I have wanted to learn to crochet for a long time. And all my attempts at teaching myself from a pamphlet or book ended in disaster. I have documented issues visualizing three-dimensional objects and movements. I had further yarn issues when I initially learned to knit mirror-image left-handed, and re-learned at age 35 to knit like a right-handed person.
My LYS, Blazing Needles, put a Saturday afternoon beginning crochet class on their schedule a couple months ago, and I made it yesterday. Ryan was very patient and helpful. He assured me that being left-handed would not be any kind of problem in any foreseeable future. I stared deeply into his eyes and decided to trust him.
Yesterday afternoon I was awake and kid-free, so I went over. I was the only victim there, so Ryan and I sat kitty-corner at a table corner, facing each other. That way I could mirror image him.
I learned to chain, make my base row with single crochet, make regular single crochet, and make double crochet. He offered to teach me half-double, but I wanted to get the first two stitches fixed in my mind and finger-memory first.
Have you learned anything new lately? Do you teach yourself, or use books or videos, or go to classes?
News in the Yarn World
justme2, kos-friend and twitter buddy, shared a few photos this week:
Not only is it a great season for yarn-art, yarn-bombing, yarn graffiti, it is
World Wide Knit In Public Days
and my own city is getting in on the action:
There is a Knit-In-Public taking place on June 11 at the Farmers Market and Art & Craft Fair
Random Acts of Art: Yarn Bombing will take place from June 18 to June 26.
Action note: if you are coming to NN11 in Minneapolis, bring something yarny to work on, we can have a knit-in-public event or two while we are there! I will hopefully have the project that I am donating to the Netroots Nation Holiday Auction ready to travel by then.
Diaries of Note:
ArtKos: Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.303 by boran2
DK Quilt Guild: Favorite Blocks by Sara R
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