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gilda_elise) wrote2017-04-26 03:44 pm
gilda_elise) wrote2017-04-26 03:44 pm
Something new and different…Crafts!
I figured it was time to branch out a bit, especially with many of my flist taking off to parts unknown (well, known, but you get my drift.) This could very well be too little too late, but I’m going to give it a try.
I was a little girl when my mom first tried to teach me to crochet. But since she’s right handed and I’m left handed, things didn’t go very well. I ended up crocheting a line of single crochets a yard long. Then I came up.
Fast forward several years. This time I decided to teach myself. I got a book and figured out the stitches just by reading. This time it worked, and I became an official crocheter. :-)
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After so many years, I guess you could call me a pretty experienced at crocheting, but I always seemed to pick patterns that required a simple to moderate expertise. Not this time. But I figured, how much more difficult could it be? Well, I found out. *g* With many stops and starts, it took me about two years to complete.
It starts with having to crochet 42 of this pattern. The first motif wasn’t a problem. But, as you crochet the last round on each proceeding motifs, you’re supposed to join it to the one before. Seven motifs would have 3 joins, the beginning motif of the next five rows would have seven joins. The remaining motifs would have nine joins. Except I couldn’t figure out how to join them. I tried at least a half dozen times, but it didn’t make any sense. I don’t know if it was me, or if the pattern left something out. Anyway, I finally thought, the hell with it, and crocheted all 42 like the first one and then sewed them together by hand. I think if I ever do this pattern again, I’ll be able to do it the way it’s supposed to be done.
Anyway, I had an easier time crocheting the thirty filler motifs. I even managed to figure out how to connect them to the larger motifs with the last round after only a few tries.
After that, all that was left to do was the border, which was the easiest part of the entire project. Done!
I was a little girl when my mom first tried to teach me to crochet. But since she’s right handed and I’m left handed, things didn’t go very well. I ended up crocheting a line of single crochets a yard long. Then I came up.
Fast forward several years. This time I decided to teach myself. I got a book and figured out the stitches just by reading. This time it worked, and I became an official crocheter. :-)
/After so many years, I guess you could call me a pretty experienced at crocheting, but I always seemed to pick patterns that required a simple to moderate expertise. Not this time. But I figured, how much more difficult could it be? Well, I found out. *g* With many stops and starts, it took me about two years to complete.
It starts with having to crochet 42 of this pattern. The first motif wasn’t a problem. But, as you crochet the last round on each proceeding motifs, you’re supposed to join it to the one before. Seven motifs would have 3 joins, the beginning motif of the next five rows would have seven joins. The remaining motifs would have nine joins. Except I couldn’t figure out how to join them. I tried at least a half dozen times, but it didn’t make any sense. I don’t know if it was me, or if the pattern left something out. Anyway, I finally thought, the hell with it, and crocheted all 42 like the first one and then sewed them together by hand. I think if I ever do this pattern again, I’ll be able to do it the way it’s supposed to be done.
Anyway, I had an easier time crocheting the thirty filler motifs. I even managed to figure out how to connect them to the larger motifs with the last round after only a few tries.
After that, all that was left to do was the border, which was the easiest part of the entire project. Done!