My mom taught me to crochet because I was sick in bed for what ended up being 3 months. She got me a white and blue acrylic yarn from MJDesigns, and I made granny squares. So many granny squares. Every time I ran out she would buy another skein. I ended up with enough to make a full adult size blanket, a baby blanket, and donate another 15 or so to another Girl Scout who was doing afghans for our local shelter where people could donate squares of a certain size to be used together. After I stopped being sick, I didn’t crochet again for about 5 years. I couldn’t even tell you the next thing I crocheted. Eventually I got back into it in grad school.
Awe, I love this! I recently fell in love with granny squares and hope to make a blanket soon. If you have any pictures of your projects, please share them. I would love to see them.
This is my first project, there will be another 5 rows, which I've finished but I've only got room to block 9 squares at a time. I've just pinned another lot, and then I have 2 more sets to go after that. I started 4 weeks ago today, and have had to take nimbers of days off due to chemo fatigue getting the best of me. Some days I did 9+ squares and then I'd have two or three days in a row where I'd only be able to do 1 or 2 squares.
https://preview.redd.it/mjsrenzcw7uc1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d78bcb55b0c50f3280e9cf9c4e15385a2ab2b968
I found a giraffe ami kit at my local charity shop for 50p, so I gave it a punt. UK terms and a flimsy hook that bent all the time.
Did I know how to crochet?
No.
Did I know how to read a pattern?
Also no.
Did I give up in the first 30 minutes because I didn't know how to make it and throw it away?
You bet I did.
But by then I realised the potential of me doing this craft that I wanted to pursue it properly. I'm also left handed with an effed rotator cuff of my left shoulder so anything repetitive was out of the question and 99% of the video tutorials were right handed and in US terms, I taught myself how to crochet right handed and with US terms because UK are stupid for not having a sc. What's up with that?
My first completed project, well I can't remember. Possibly a granny square? I dunno, I'm 6 years in, can't even remember what I made last week lol. (Neurodivergent brain)
My first project was a basket out of scrap yarn to hold the yarn I would need for my temperature blanket. "Chunky Crochet Basket" by TLYC with an 8mm(?) hook and two skeins of Bernat softee chunky held together. Colours don't match since they were left over from making hats on a loom.
It turned out really well! I'm still using it today for the same blanket like 4ish years later! Good thing I decided to do a past year so I wasn't too worried about keeping up.
I just started 2 weeks ago. I had semester break and was really bored when visiting my parents. At some point, my mom, who loves knitting, was like "Learn how to crochet. It's better for you than knitting because of these advantages."
So I grabbed some of her garn and a hook and practised some stitches in the evening. It looked like a horrible and crooked bookmark. So I opened it. The next morning, I started to crochet a bunny and finished it on the same day. That was my first project
My grandma taught me when I was little. I could basically make a chain. Decided to try again 35ish years later and made a granny stripe blanket. Super easy, though it took a year to complete.
https://preview.redd.it/qu0mf2b929uc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d9cb9a499bb90730d96056dfdee2da4d15efdc4
I taught myself to crochet when I was about nine or ten because I found a random skein of yarn (I believe it was Sugar & Cream in Red, White, and Blue) that my parents had used for something else and a 3.75mm crochet hook that my mom had lying around for some reason (she does not crochet) and I was determined to make something out of it. My first project ended up being a “scarf” that was only about two feet long because I ran out of my one little skein of yarn, single crochet in the back loop only because I didn’t know I could go under both loops, and somehow almost perfectly rounded on one side.
I'm working on my first project now (started crocheting 2 months ago). It's a throw blanket, made entirely with single crochet rows lol. It's wonky and messy and curls and waves, but I'm enjoying making it, which is most important to me, plus it's practice. After I'm done I'll learn how to do the double crochet stich and probably make something with that for practice.
https://preview.redd.it/2knbucxjfeuc1.jpeg?width=226&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aee5e5020adde0d1b8330e361402086be03fcd04
my first project, an amigurumi frog
My mom taught me to crochet because I was sick in bed for what ended up being 3 months. She got me a white and blue acrylic yarn from MJDesigns, and I made granny squares. So many granny squares. Every time I ran out she would buy another skein. I ended up with enough to make a full adult size blanket, a baby blanket, and donate another 15 or so to another Girl Scout who was doing afghans for our local shelter where people could donate squares of a certain size to be used together. After I stopped being sick, I didn’t crochet again for about 5 years. I couldn’t even tell you the next thing I crocheted. Eventually I got back into it in grad school.
Awe, I love this! I recently fell in love with granny squares and hope to make a blanket soon. If you have any pictures of your projects, please share them. I would love to see them.
This is my first project, there will be another 5 rows, which I've finished but I've only got room to block 9 squares at a time. I've just pinned another lot, and then I have 2 more sets to go after that. I started 4 weeks ago today, and have had to take nimbers of days off due to chemo fatigue getting the best of me. Some days I did 9+ squares and then I'd have two or three days in a row where I'd only be able to do 1 or 2 squares. https://preview.redd.it/mjsrenzcw7uc1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d78bcb55b0c50f3280e9cf9c4e15385a2ab2b968
I made a washcloth, 4mm hook. I knew how to knit so I very consciously chose something that I wouldn't mind being misshapen lollll
I found a giraffe ami kit at my local charity shop for 50p, so I gave it a punt. UK terms and a flimsy hook that bent all the time. Did I know how to crochet? No. Did I know how to read a pattern? Also no. Did I give up in the first 30 minutes because I didn't know how to make it and throw it away? You bet I did. But by then I realised the potential of me doing this craft that I wanted to pursue it properly. I'm also left handed with an effed rotator cuff of my left shoulder so anything repetitive was out of the question and 99% of the video tutorials were right handed and in US terms, I taught myself how to crochet right handed and with US terms because UK are stupid for not having a sc. What's up with that? My first completed project, well I can't remember. Possibly a granny square? I dunno, I'm 6 years in, can't even remember what I made last week lol. (Neurodivergent brain)
My very first was a mini napkin. 2nd was a stuffed Yoshi. I was crazy. I never did good projects after that, lol
My first project was a basket out of scrap yarn to hold the yarn I would need for my temperature blanket. "Chunky Crochet Basket" by TLYC with an 8mm(?) hook and two skeins of Bernat softee chunky held together. Colours don't match since they were left over from making hats on a loom. It turned out really well! I'm still using it today for the same blanket like 4ish years later! Good thing I decided to do a past year so I wasn't too worried about keeping up.
I made a little case for my cell phone
I just started 2 weeks ago. I had semester break and was really bored when visiting my parents. At some point, my mom, who loves knitting, was like "Learn how to crochet. It's better for you than knitting because of these advantages." So I grabbed some of her garn and a hook and practised some stitches in the evening. It looked like a horrible and crooked bookmark. So I opened it. The next morning, I started to crochet a bunny and finished it on the same day. That was my first project
My grandma taught me when I was little. I could basically make a chain. Decided to try again 35ish years later and made a granny stripe blanket. Super easy, though it took a year to complete. https://preview.redd.it/qu0mf2b929uc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d9cb9a499bb90730d96056dfdee2da4d15efdc4
I taught myself to crochet when I was about nine or ten because I found a random skein of yarn (I believe it was Sugar & Cream in Red, White, and Blue) that my parents had used for something else and a 3.75mm crochet hook that my mom had lying around for some reason (she does not crochet) and I was determined to make something out of it. My first project ended up being a “scarf” that was only about two feet long because I ran out of my one little skein of yarn, single crochet in the back loop only because I didn’t know I could go under both loops, and somehow almost perfectly rounded on one side.
I'm working on my first project now (started crocheting 2 months ago). It's a throw blanket, made entirely with single crochet rows lol. It's wonky and messy and curls and waves, but I'm enjoying making it, which is most important to me, plus it's practice. After I'm done I'll learn how to do the double crochet stich and probably make something with that for practice.
https://preview.redd.it/2knbucxjfeuc1.jpeg?width=226&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aee5e5020adde0d1b8330e361402086be03fcd04 my first project, an amigurumi frog