Crocheters? (2)

[Celticflower]

Angel - the blunt needles are used for weaving in the ends when you finish your work and for sewing pieces together (like granny squares). So yes, you can get started learning to do stitches without them.

If your stuff has shipped it should arrive soon.

Lake Placid area - cool! I was closer to Watertown. Now I'm in TN.

 

[angel_wings13]

Well I recieved my yarn and hook in the mail yesterday. I thought it would be easy to teach myself by using instructions and watching youtube videos, but it is not. I think I'm going to have to either get a book or travel to a class.

I'm finding lots of good information online, but it is all geared to right handed people so I'm having trouble trying to imagine it into left-handed directions.

 

[Celticflower]

Angel - try this link Learn to Crochet - Free Instructions and Patterns: Crochet 101: Left Hand Crochet

It has tutorials for left handed crocheters.

Also, if you type "crochet instructions for left handed people" in you favorite search box you will get lots of links, just for lefties.

 

[angel_wings13]

Thanks celticflower! I'll check those out.

 

[angel_wings13]

Right now I'm having the hardest time figuring out how to "turn". Any tips on that?

 

[leytonstones]

Well I recieved my yarn and hook in the mail yesterday. I thought it would be easy to teach myself by using instructions and watching youtube videos, but it is not. I think I'm going to have to either get a book or travel to a class.

I'm finding lots of good information online, but it is all geared to right handed people so I'm having trouble trying to imagine it into left-handed directions.

If it is any help, the friend I am learning with is a lefty too and she is learning to crochet right handed and doing very well at it!

Because she has never crocheted before, she is finding it fine to be learning the right handed way.

Blessings

Ley

 

[leytonstones]

Right now I'm having the hardest time figuring out how to "turn". Any tips on that?

Hi again. You literally turn your work round and go in the direction you first started in.

 

[leytonstones]

Angel, I have found this link online which shows you how to crochet left handed. The main screen shows you how to make a chain and if you scroll down you can click on other links to see how to do other stitches left handed. The only problem with crocheting left handed is that you will need to reverse patterns. This is why my friend decided to learn to crochet right handed and she is doing fine - in fact she is ahead of me!!


How to crochet a left handed crochet chain | Video « Wonder How To


Blessings


Ley

 

[angel_wings13]

Thanks so much for all the advice and help. I can't wait to get back at it!!!!

 

[latebloomer]

It has been a long time since I checked in here. It sounds like everyone has been busy. Leytonstones & Angelwing13, how goes the learning process?

I've been busy trying to use up my stash. I have a lot of leftovers from projects over the past 20-some years. I've been making a lot of small projects and some larger ones. I have a scrap round ripple afghan in progress that is rapidly growing too big to be portable. I'm making a lot of small, instant gratification projects lately. Many will be gifts at Christmastime. Hats, gloves, cowls, dishcloths, scrubbies, fingerless gloves, etc. I get most of my patterns from Ravelry.

 

[NativeMainer]

Hope it's ok for a newbie to jump in--I wanted to say that Prayer Shawls are the most wonderful things, I got one when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I feel comforted every time I use it or even see it.

As a child my mother and both grandmothers tried to teach me to knit but I could never catch on. I can crochet just about anything, though, and love it. Has anyone done any fillet crochet? I can't wait to check out the sites that have been mentioned here, thanks to all for sharing.

 

[Celticflower]

Hope it's ok for a newbie to jump in--I wanted to say that Prayer Shawls are the most wonderful things, I got one when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I feel comforted every time I use it or even see it.

As a child my mother and both grandmothers tried to teach me to knit but I could never catch on. I can crochet just about anything, though, and love it. Has anyone done any fillet crochet? I can't wait to check out the sites that have been mentioned here, thanks to all for sharing.

Hi NM
Fillet seems to be my big thing at the moment - I'm on my 7th fillet table runner for Christmas (all different!)

 

[BarbaraJean]

Hi everybody! With the cold weather moving in what is everybody working on?

I just started a Terry Kimbrough baby blanket.

 

[leytonstones]

I am knitting at the moment. I can't wait to get started on some crochet but our daughter wanted another baby blanket and she preferred a knitted design. I have made things a little more difficult for myself as the first one was knitted in strips and I am knitting a border with this one as I go along.

 

[Lotuspetal_uk]

Hi everybody! With the cold weather moving in what is everybody working on?

I just started a Terry Kimbrough baby blanket.

To my shame I'm still working on a baby blanket that I started three years ago.

I go through phases where I'll have a burst of working on it and then I'd put it down for months

 

[Celticflower]

I'm working the last thread runner for Christmas before starting the 3 (?) scarves that have been requested by teens.

 

[Lotuspetal_uk]

Hello everyone!

I thought I'd break the news here - I have finally finished the baby blanket after working on it for close to 4 years . I just need to sew a satin border onto it, although I may just crochet a nice border pattern around it so that I can completely finish it.

I've been working on it recently more out of necessity because I need to work on a baby bonnet and matching cardigan. I have a habit of abandoning partly finished projects and so was determined that I would see this one through to completion. My family are all predicting that the cardigan will take me about 5 years to finish given the length of time it's taken me to complete the blanket

Pictures to follow - not sure what I'm going to do with the blanket now that it's done as it was initially a project of love rather than something being created for someone.

Anyway watch this space....

 

[leytonstones]

Hello everyone!

I thought I'd break the news here - I have finally finished the baby blanket after working on it for close to 4 years . I just need to sew a satin border onto it, although I may just crochet a nice border pattern around it so that I can completely finish it.

I've been working on it recently more out of necessity because I need to work on a baby bonnet and matching cardigan. I have a habit of abandoning partly finished projects and so was determined that I would see this one through to completion. My family are all predicting that the cardigan will take me about 5 years to finish given the length of time it's taken me to complete the blanket

Pictures to follow - not sure what I'm going to do with the blanket now that it's done as it was initially a project of love rather than something being created for someone.

Anyway watch this space....

Congratulations! Well Done! I am getting slightly better at finishing my projects. It helps to have a timeline to aim at.

I am learning to crochet

Blessings

Ley

 

[crochetninja]

Looks like my second post as a newbie here is reviving a month-dead thread.

Anyways, I've been crocheting about 9 or so months now, and my current project is shorts for my nephew's plush frog. Hard to get much weirder than crocheted frog shorts, eh?

 

[leytonstones]

It is great to have you posting here. I have been busy working in the house and garden so haven't done any knitting or crochet practice for a few weeks. If it rains again this afternoon then that will be the perfect excuse for me to start up again