That's brilliant Paula!
Dolly - I couldn't get it for a while either, but I was lucky enough to have someone sitting with me to start with and then I had MH at the end of a phone!
That's brilliant Paula!
Dolly - I couldn't get it for a while either, but I was lucky enough to have someone sitting with me to start with and then I had MH at the end of a phone!
There's only us, There's only this, Forget regret, Or life is your to miss,
No other road, No other way, No day but today. (Rent. Jonathan Larson)
i first learnt from you tube. i miss crochet but having to wait until my wrist is better before i can take it up again.
I don't wish to brag ( what am I talking about, of course I do) but I rocked double crochet stitches today![]()
Epic!! Well done!!!
There's only us, There's only this, Forget regret, Or life is your to miss,
No other road, No other way, No day but today. (Rent. Jonathan Larson)
Paula (28-02-14)
I've started having a go at crocheting a blanket today
My mum tried to teach me crochet once. I didn't get very far cos she kept whipping it out of my hands every few second to tell me I was holding it wrong. But I just couldn't hold it her way so we got nowhere and I ended up flinging it at her (I was about 13 at the time)
Later in my early 20's I taught myself from a book and found my own way to hold it - I never really did much beyond basics though and moved on to X-stitch. Fast forward about 20 odd years and I've pretty much forgotten how to do it so I'm re-learning. Used a combi of online how-to's with pics.
I've got as far as a 4 inch granny square. The plan is to just keep going till I have a giant 'supergranny' square blankie. I have three colours. Have done my first colour change - yayyy!!
So far so good.
If I properly get the hang of it this time I may give those patterns of MH's a try - let's not get ahead of myself though![]()
Woohoo! That's epic! It's how I learnt too - just by making a large granny square!
There's only us, There's only this, Forget regret, Or life is your to miss,
No other road, No other way, No day but today. (Rent. Jonathan Larson)
Crochet was something that I was never able to learn. I'm left handed and when I was going to school, being left handed was something to be ashamed of. So when the teacher tried to teach me how to crochet I wasn't able to do it. Its a craft that I'd love to learn now, because its so much quicker than knitting.
I learned to crochet in Canada this year, I'm a very basic crocheter but I enjoy it and I can pick colours that I like![]()
I have a question: I'm trying to crochet a birthday present for my step mum, it's a scarf, the first row is:
Ch 41, 3 dc in 4th chain from hook (first 3 chs count as first dc), sk next 3 chs, [(sc, ch 3, 3 dc) in next ch, sk next 3 chs] across, sc in last chain, turn.
My questions is I get what's said in the first set of brackets about the first 3 chs counting as first dc but what about the second set of brackets? Can anyone help???
Ok in English it means:
Chain 41. 3 x double crochet in the 4th chain back from the hook. (This = 1st double crochet)
Skip the next 3 chains
Then
(single crochet, chain 3 and 3 double crochet in the next chain)
then skip 3 chain
Repeat from single crochet, chain 3 and 3 double crochet then skip 3 chains
Does that make sense?
There's only us, There's only this, Forget regret, Or life is your to miss,
No other road, No other way, No day but today. (Rent. Jonathan Larson)