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some notes on crocheting - 06:03 AM
(filed under 'creative')
i've started on a fairly advanced crochet project. it's probably the most complicated one i've done since i started crocheting about a year or so ago.
before this, the only projects i'd done were fairly simple ones. simple stitches, just a whole lot of them all in a row. well, in quite a few rows, but you know what i mean.
as i've been looking through the book i bought (the one i made this brown top from), i was seeing some projects marked as 'advanced' & thought to myself, 'well, it's one stitch at a time. how hard can it be?' that is true to a certain extent, but as i've worked through the first two balls of yarn in making it, i'm learning what it is about a project that makes one advanced & another not.
with simple projects that are basically just one row of the same thing after another, it's very easy to tell if you've made a mistake. it's usually obvious straight away. with the more advanced projects where each row changes & you have to have the pattern book in front of you for each of those rows, it's not so obvious if you make a mistake. it might not show up, in fact, until several rows later.
also, to do these advanced things, you really need to have a pretty good idea of what it's supposed to look like & what each stitch is going to achieve once it's put together with the other stitches. someone who hasn't crocheted much of the 'boring' stuff doesn't have the experience to know how these things will look at each stage of the construction of several stitches that are put together to form a shape. thus why projects like the one i'm doing now are called advanced. i can see that i would have had heaps of trouble doing this one a year ago.
i certainly wouldn't say that i'm a very experienced crocheter. i would, however, say that i'm a very careful crocheter. more than one person has told me, unprompted, that my crocheting is very neat. with sewing & other creative things i've done in the past where a lack of neatness is fairly obvious, i've been told the same thing. it's not something that i feel i put much work into. it must just come naturally (for creative things, that is. anyone who's been to my house in its current state would know that neatness in other areas is not natural to me. lol!). i think that particular bent of mine really comes into the fore with my crochet. it helps a lot for doing tricky stitches, too.
getting the pattern established for the first ball of yarn on this jumper took me hours & hours. i looked carefully at the pictures & at the pattern & i had to pull it apart quite a few times when i spotted a mistake a few rows down. it took at least the first ball of yarn to really see where it was going & to see that it was working exactly as in the picture.
it's taught me a few new stitches, too, so i'm pleased to be learning new stuff with it.
by the way, if you want to see the jumper, go to this search inside link at amazon (takes a while to load if you're on a slow connection) & you'll see it on the second page in, on the lady with the most gorgeous dark skin. i'm making it in a similar colour to what she's wearing with yarn that's a blend of silk, lamb's wool & cashmere. if you're interested, the yarn brand is noro & the type is 'cash iroha' in natural.
you do great work. keep it
up. who knows were it will lead.
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