New to Crochet - Help!

Katiehound

ampersand said:

 She crocheted too, incredibly fine cotton and silk work - doilies, traycloths, beaded milk jug covers, christening gown edging/embellishment. 

🙂Does anyone remember any of those?

     I have made crochet edgings for pillowcases and a tissue box cover in shaded crochet cotton but.......the hook is so fine that I decided that if ' life was too short to stuff a mushroom ' it was certainly too short to create such fiddly things!  I made these long long ago...

I still have some tablecloths (which never see the light of day!) with very beautiful edgings & a few doilies too. these are family pieces made by an aunt. I think I turned a few doilies into fancy lavender bags a while ago. 

these days I like 'fast!' So knee blankets in an open V design using trebles.                     

twopenny

I inherited so much crochet, my GGrandmother was doing it constantly - even curtains.

I have some bed linen with the crochet lace edgings which I've attached and decided that I should have the joy of using them.

I was worried about the constant washing but I fold and wrap the top, securing with an elastic band and so far so good. 10yrs and counting. I guess they were made to be washed in a dolly tub so really well made.

I was going to try and create my own as a long strip is easy to carry around and roll up small and unable to find a pattern or work out the ones I had - I threw it out on a general forum and a kind lady scanned her 1940's ones and emailed them.

I must get around to doing that

hildasmuriel

I learned quite a lot from Youtube videos but it can be confusing if they are in the US as they use different names for the stitches,  Same with using US patterns.

Grandmama

Please don't get put off if.you find you cannot hold the yarn as on YouTube. I was struggling with arthritis hands, holding wool in left hand and hook in the right hand. On googling i.found.that as a knitter who.holds yarn in right hand and throws wool over the.needles that.i.could use the same.knitting procedure.for crochet. I bought.a set of ergonomic.crochet hooks with comfortable rubber handles and use my knitting way with yarn and hook in right hand. I use my poorly left hand to lightly hold the article. Some people have commentated I am crocheting.wrong but when I show them that the result is exactly the same, and the reason why, they stop commentating. Actually I find crochet quite fast with this.method and get no hand stiffness
Just keep.at it!

ampersand

hildasmuriel said:

I learned quite a lot from Youtube videos but it can be confusing if they are in the US as they use different names for the stitches,  Same with using US patterns.

Same with their hook sizes.
But none of this matters,
You'll work out your own way - and well, as Grandmama describes she has done.
I'm left-handed, so crochet is my preference over knitting.  
Good luck and don't give up.

Tryingmybesthonest

clodagh_trubble said:

Bella Coco on you-tube does some really good tutorials and at a nice pace too, I was really struggling with a magic circle and had watched multiple tutorials, got it after watching hers.

I second that Bella Coco is very patient and clear.just grab your remote and pause her to get to where you need to be . good luck ! 

sammyjammy

ampersand said:

hildasmuriel said:

I learned quite a lot from Youtube videos but it can be confusing if they are in the US as they use different names for the stitches,  Same with using US patterns.

Same with their hook sizes.
But none of this matters,
You'll work out your own way - and well, as Grandmama describes she has done.
I'm left-handed, so crochet is my preference over knitting.  
Good luck and don't give up.

Its funny though how it differs, I am left handed, nobody could teach me to knit from a family of knitters until we knitted squares for Africa and a left handed guide leader taught me, not a big knitter but can knit basic jumper etc.  

Crochet - so want to be able to, so frustrating, have lots of beginner books, even a lefty one. I can do double crochet but not anything that looks like a granny square, my biggest problem is knowing which hole to stick the needle in.  Haven't given up though!