Crochet in the beginning

Mums and YouTube are the best!!! I saw what my Mum was making and thought they were so cute I really had to try and learn to crochet. She was using a YouTube video to teach herself how to do it, so I did the same. I had never got to grips with how I was meant to hold a crochet hook and get the wool tension right. These videos showed me I could hold it differently (really more like a stabbing device!!!), and from then on I was ‘hooked’!!

Then there were more….. I ended up with most of these back, they didn’t sell at the school summer fair. It seems folk will pay all sorts for stuff, but not something hand made with love 🙁 Maybe crochet just wasn’t cool enough back then (2013), maybe still not now!!!

I went on to make a number of small ‘fun’ items to practise. The elephant snuggly was for my daughter’s teacher when she left to have a baby. The cake was just a bit of fun…. I would love to have a tea shop, and serve real cake on nice china, but until then it’s pretend cake!

Around this time I used to spend a lot of time ferrying my daughter to and from gymnastics, and I used to take my crochet with me. I made these minion hats there:

And then well before Christmas, we started on these lovely snowflakes and bells (naturally, as Mum & Dad are bell ringers). Again, I tried to raise money for school by having them on the stall at the Dickensian Day, but they didn’t sell. I had specified not to drop the price as I knew how long each one had taken. I was a) surprised and disappointed, b) happy that I could give them to my friends for Christmas instead! I am still slightly in disbelief at what people will pay for a cupcake (for example), but won’t pay for something similarly hand made.

That was how my addiction began…..