I have been trying to learn to crotchet for many years now. There are things that are easier to do with crotchet than with knitting and the multitude of small end balls of wool that I have in a stash are much more suited for crochet than for knitting.
So I decided that this year I was going to learn how to do it properly, even if it meant that I was going to have to pay someone to teach me how to do it. So when the local community centre ran a crotchet course for beginners I decided to bite the bullet and sign myself up.
Turns out that the reason no one in my family could teach me was because although I am right handed in everything else, I crochet left handed. You have to flip everything for me which is why it didn't make sense when they tried to teach me.
Nana! It wasn't your teaching, it was my learning cack handed!
And even more fun, I went to the Country Women's Association State Fair and was sitting with a bunch of ladies having an impromptu lesson in making crochet flowers and all of a sudden a lovely lady reached over my shoulder and corrected how I was actually doing it. Turns out I was "knitting crochet" instead of actually crocheting.
Expect crocheted items to start appearing - when I get my camera to work properly again and can give photo goodness.
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