By Jove I think she's got it!

Huge shout of appreciation to Kathleen for leaving a link to some excellent crochet videos in my comments! Crochet definately seems less catered to on the interweb so if you have any funky links please please leave them in my comments.

The videos combined with this Craftster post made me sigh out loud. As Kathleen had suggested when I showed her my drunken 'v's, I was in fact crocheting slip stitches. Through no fault of my own I might add - the Happy Hooker book has a fatal flaw; the single crochet instructions are actually instructions for slip stitch.

So I have mastered slip stitch, and for those that wonder what happens if you crochet slip stitch: you get a sideways knitted fabric...


[above] You can literally see where the penny dropped. Thanks also to Ella at the Knit n' Stitch for keeping me right. Once I'd mastered the first basic stitch it was time to address those row ends and beginnings ...


Ta-da!!! 20 stitches of Single Crochet [Double Crochet UK], Half-Double Crochet [Half-Treble UK], Double Crochet [Treble UK], and Triple Crochet [Double Treble UK] - woohoo!


...and after that I began to run. A circle [bit of trouble with the row ends/beginnings though - Happy Hooker didn't mention whether to keep going round or to turn back]


The ultimate in crochet mastery; the Granny Square! I can't believe I made these! They are so funkylicious! Now I'm addicted to squares and will probably make enough for a blanket before to long. They are so quick and fab for using up spare bits of yarn. This is all cheapo acrylic for practicing.

I may need some help with sewing them together if anyone at the meet knows how to do this?

Comments

  1. Kathleen30 May, 2007 18:44

    I'm not trying to be facetious but you can slip stitch your granny squares together!

    I am so glad you got it, now that it's fallen into place you've been going great guns. Rectangles, circles, squares, there's no stopping you.

    Dead happy it's worked out :-)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous31 May, 2007 11:56

    I agree with Kathleen - slip stitch 'em together. I'm happy to show you on Tuesday although I haven't crocheted in agggges - have been taken over by the knitty bug (I seem to have done it the other way round to you!)

    ReplyDelete
  3. Amanda31 May, 2007 22:54

    Congrats! I also got stuck with the Happy Hooker directions. Glad you got yourself sorted out!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Twelfthknit01 June, 2007 17:06

    http://wendyknits.net/patterns/kimono.htm

    knitted kimono jacket pattern, don't know if you are strill looking.
    India

    ReplyDelete
  5. Anonymous02 June, 2007 13:50

    The book isn't wrong. GB and US crochet terms are different.

    ReplyDelete
  6. soCherry02 June, 2007 19:55

    Cheers but it wasn't a UK/US terminology issue - For anyone else using Happy Hooker to learn there was a message from Debbie Stoller on the Craftster board:

    "Turns out it's not your fault that you got confused, [...]. Unfortunately, when the publisher went back and thickened up all the arrows on the illos to make them clearer, like I asked them to, one of the illos got a bit messed up. The arrow on the illo at the top of page 31 shows that you pull the yarn through the stitch *and* the loop on the hook. It's wrong; just pull the yarn through the stitch (and not the loop on the hook) in step 2, so you wind up with two loops on your hook. I'll be posting a corrected illo to my site, www.knithappens.com, tonite, that you can print out and paste into your book. I'm so sorry about this particular error, it is a truly sucky one. grrrr"

    Cheers Ksthleen & Sarah - I'll bring some squares to the meet cos it'll be great to be taught how to sew them together properly.

    Elaine x

    ReplyDelete
  7. Twelfthknit03 June, 2007 13:18

    Hi Elaine - can you send me a note of your email again? Cheers,
    India

    ReplyDelete
  8. Twelfthknit04 June, 2007 12:46

    http://mylittlemochi.typepad.com/my_little_mochi/


    check out the 'polite' signs on today's posting.
    India

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A bit of culture...

Image
Well we're back in rainy Glasgow, and I think I'm sufficiently recovered from jetlag enough to be able to operate a PC, string a sentence together and complete my Japan blogging. Just in case you thought we'd spent our entire time playing in yarn shops, arcades and eating - a bit of culture was also had. These pics are from the Meiji shrine and surrounding Yoyogi Park. The top pic is a big pond full of koi karp, terrapins and massive dragonflies. We had our lunch there - it was very peaceful and relaxing. The above picture was the dwarfing entrance to the shrine. We walked around the gardens and had lunch but we never visited the shrine itself. [It was a Saturday so fairly busy and really humid hot, so we were looking for a bit of peace from the crowds.] This was me walking in the park - I used my umbrella to shade myself from the sun, but on this occasion it was up despite being in the shade ... due to the massive spiders that lurked. This was just at the entrance to the ...
Read more

Central Park Hoodie

Image
I can't believe it's Friday already. I've been trying to blog this since Monday, but Blogger and a cold have combined forces to make sure that it didn't happen until today. Thanks for comments and emails re; oiled yarn. Sorry I didn't hear you at the SECC Heather - I may have been a little delirious after having bought all that yarn! See this is why I do the SECC alone - I'm utterly unsociable when there are crafty delights all around begging to be purchased. Cheers Heather - I would love to get any help that anyone can give me on yarn goodies to be had in Tokyo, and also to see steeking 'live'. I have finally finished the back, 2 sides and 2 sleeves for Central Park Hoodie. Blocking was required in order to seam the shoulders and join front and back pieces for the hood. Now you all saw that I did a tension square right? It fit perfectly with the specified tension with no effort on my part. And I remained all calm and zen-like whilst knitting it - tryin...
Read more

Central Park and Apple Meringue

Image
Central Park Hoodie ... the sleeves are blocking ... ... the hood is finished... [not cast off, rather left for grafting later once the ribbing is finished] ... everything I can seam and weave in at this stage has been done ... ...only picking up the stitches along the edge of the right & left fronts and the hood and knitting rib for a few inches to go ... Can you see my problem? Click and enlarge if not ... oh yes. The picking up stitches knitty skill is sadly lacking here. I've been able to wing it with socks, but clearly winging it is just not going to cut it any longer. So I must frog *sigh* You have no idea how long it took me to pick up the exact 150 stitches needed. Frog and consult the knitting tomes in my craft room for help in this area cos I suck at it! I'm not quite ready to frog, and so I have put Central Park Hoodie down and continued with Earnshaw and Xboxing until I can face it. In the meanwhile - Apple Meringue with ginger and brandy. There was not enough m...
Read more