Ready? Set? Crochet!

Well, here we are.  I'll be posting pictures and stories regarding some of the crocheting I'm doing.  I learned to crochet in nursing school from my left handed roommate.  We had a tough time getting started, but then we came up with the great idea of putting her on the floor leaning against the sofa and I would sit behind her on the sofa.  We placed a good size mirror in her lap and I watched her hands in the mirror and voila!  I learned to crochet the basics!  I kept up with it for awhile, but soon tired of it.  I was in my early 20's and there were sooooooo many other fun things to do!  *G*

I later picked it back up again and made quite a few things.  Afghans mostly.  I made several actually and only gave one away back then!  I still have the very first 2 I made.  I tried to 'teach myself' new stitches and techniques, but my ADD and dyslexia were much stronger than my desire to crochet, so I again put it down after a few years. 

I hadn't picked up a crochet hook in more than 10 years, but now it's 2010 and I've picked it back up yet again and this time I'm enjoying it and loving it more than ever.  It's been a sort of therapy for me and it's also kept me from 'eating' when I needed something to do with my hands. 

I've purchased books that are helping me to learn those stitches I thought I'd never learn and new stitches I never knew existed!  I'm experimenting with different and more expensive and exotic yarns.  I've made things now I never thought I could or would ever know how to make.  I'm working on a practice tank top right now, before I try it out on a more expensive yarn I've been dying to try! 

I don't expect anyone to read this but me, but if you've accidentally found yourself here, then I hope you see something that makes you smile!  If you do, please drop me a note and let me know that it did! 

"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.”