I’ve been knitting for over 20 years, and I’ve learned to latch hook,
embroider, sew, do needlepoint, and a lot more. But I was undeniably
terrible at crochet. Really, really bad. I would love to show evidence
of some of my epically failed attempts, but I threw them in the trash
years ago. The trash never forgave me.
When we started getting more crochet books, and several of my
coworkers mentioned an interest in learning to crochet, I thought, hey,
why not? It’s been years now, maybe my old crochet hooks have forgotten
what I’d subjected them to. I decided that this time, I am actually
going to learn to crochet, and remember it. We were all talking about
goals with our crochet – everyone else is going to make things.
My goal is just to crochet something that is not utterly horrible. Like,
it looks like I meant to do that.
So, Nina and I signed up for a learn to crochet class! I could chain
when I got there, but that was it. I then learned how to single and
double crochet, and then it clicked – I was terrible at crochet because I
did it completely wrong. So, with my newfound confidence, I kept
going with my little swatch. In the class, the instructor suggested we
make a little bag out of it, so I began to crochet in the round
(correctly! …mostly). I realized that it was going to be a very ugly
bag. Very, very ugly. So… In my typical fashion, I completely ignored
what I was supposed to be doing.And the results…
Meet Carl!
