When I first read this project description I thought about what I wanted to do. One of my friends had just recently crocheted her twins two baby blankets and I thought, I’ll learn to do that, how hard can it be? The answer? Hard.
Well, maybe not hard, but if you’re not coordinated with your hands like I am it was definitely difficult. But, I’m slowly getting the hang of it. The problems began when I did very little research on what I should buy before I went to Joann etc and bought just any yarn and a cheap crochet hook.
Mistake #1. I started watching the first Youtube video “How to Crochet for Absolute Beginners” (link here). She was using a smaller needle, but I didn’t think it would be an issue. I really liked this video because she repeats steps multiple times, goes VERY slow so you can follow along as you’re doing it too, and it is easy to hear and understand what her in the video. A few other videos I watched were dark and it was hard to understand the speaker, or they went so fast it was hard to follow along. (Examples: Link and Link) After consulting multiple videos, I stuck with the first one (linked above) and got out the yarn and hook I bought. The girl in the video made this look extremely easy, but for some reason, I couldn’t get the tension in the yarn right and it just wasn’t coming together. It took me almost an hour to do this much.
I figured it had to be how big my needle was and how small my yarn that was causing the yarn to keep slipping off the hook and out of the slip knots that make up crochet. After that I consulted the internet once again and found a website that said for beginners you want to start with a medium size 10mm needle and a larger yarn. (Link and Link). I returned to Joanns and returned my initial purchases and bought a thicker yarn and thinner needle. Once I got home, the process became a lot smoother. The needle was able to easily hook my yarn better and it wasn’t sliding off the hook. It was also a lot easier to handle and control what was happening. I started getting the hang of it and it began to move faster. The progress I made is shown below, but then I ran out of yarn. So back to Joanns I go for the final product! See this link to my twitter profile for my 15 second video (I couldn’t get it to upload to the post)
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