Beginner Crochet May 5 - question
Signing up for THIS. Never crocheted, only quilted. Do we need to bring our own hooks or are they provided? 🌷
Cathy, bring your own if you have any leftover from a mother or aunt. Mine were inferior anyway before this hiatus.
Cathy, welcome! Margie's right, if you've got any hooks tucked in a drawer from your mother or an aunt, bring them, doesn't matter how old or bent! If not, don't buy a whole set yet! Get one size H or I aluminum hook and a skein of worsted weight cotton, that's it. Quilters have good hands for this, you're used to following a pattern and not arguing with it. See you May 5th.
Marilyn I still have my grandma's old aluminum hook set in a drawer, so excited to finally use them 🙈❤️ see you the 5th! 😅🙈
Lisa, that's sweet, your grandma's set will do just fine. I don't have any hooks so I'll grab an H like MARILYN said. 🌷 😊🙏
cathy I've got extra h hooks from a phase that didn't stick, happy to bring you one so you're not buying a whole set 🙈 😭
Lisa, an old aluminum set is a good find, they don't make the steel ones like that anymore and they work just fine. Cathy, an H is perfect to start, and April just saved you a trip to the store! See, this group's already taking care of each other before we've even met. Bring cotton yarn if you've got it too. May 5th, ladies.
Cathy, quilting hands really do help, Marilyn's right about that. I've been at continental crochet self-taught for thirty years now and let me tell you, taking Marilyn's class has already shown me I've been holding my hook wrong this whole time 😊 We're on single crochet this week and my tension is all over the place trying to do it "properly" instead of my old way. Humbling! April, that's so kind offering up a hook. I've got a whole drawer system of yarn by color and weight if anyone needs worsted cotton for practice swatches. Happy to share 🌞
Vickie, thirty years of a hook working for you isn't wrong, it's just yours! Fix the tension, not the whole method! Some habits earned their keep. See everyone the 5th.
Mariyln that's a good line, "some habits earned their keep." Stealing that honestly.
Carly, steal away, I stole it from thirty years of watching people who already know how to do things get told they're doing it wrong! Vickie's proof that "self-taught" and "self-taught wrong" aren't the same thing! This week's whole lesson is fixing what needs fixing and leaving the rest alone, in crochet and otherwise! See you all Wednesday, bring your cotton yarn.
Marilyn, that line about "fixing what needs fixing and leaving the rest alone" is going in my notebook. Finished my washcloth last week, ready for GRANNY squares! Hoping I don't cry during the fixing part 🌷
Cathy, nobody's cried yet in six weeks and I've had some criers in my day!! Granny squares are forgiving, that's the whole beauty of them, lumpy corners just look like character! Bring your cotton yarn and a hook, we'll fix what needs it.