Re: Crafts and Hobbies/

[Guest guest]

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Can you believe that I have zero patience for plastic canvas? I love

the way stuff looks, admire how creative it can be, but I think it

has something to do with my hands, which have carpal tunnel and so

maybe for me, the ache I had doing it took away from the enjoyment of

it all? My mom made a huge Christmas sleigh once.....it's beautiful.

I want one but she won't make another one and I have no

desire....lol....to put myself thru that torture!

(((Hugs)))

Darlene

> How difficult would it be to teach myself to crochet? Are the

books to learn pretty easy to follow? I used to do cross stitch, just

got away from it. I should buy myself a new project to begin. The

problem is that I cannot relax my back in a chair to sit and do it

for a while. I do OK in the computer chair, but don't want to spend

the entire day in it. I have my new TENS unit, now I just have to

figure out how to hook it up and use it.

> jeanne in wi

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>

[Guest guest]

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Thread crochet sounds pretty interesting - what kind of projects do you make

that way?

Teri (central WI)

Re: Re: Crafts and Hobbies/Darlene

>

> I crochet too, but only know a few stitches - about 4 or 5 which

> gets me by

> for making blankets. Don't think I could attempt anything harder

> than that.

>

I'm not Darlene, but what the heck. ;D

There aren't that many different stitches in crochet. If you can do

a chain, you can do a lacet stitch. If you can do a single crochet,

you can do double, half-double, treble, double treble. It's just a

matter of how many times you wrap the thread around the hook, and how

many times you pull up a loop. It's all variations of pretty much

the same thing. A picot is just a chain looped over on itself; you

just have to figure out which loop to put the hook in.

In my 20's, I crocheted a lot but was afraid to try thread crochet.

Now, I do almost exclusively thread crochet, and consider size 10

thread *big* to work with.

Don't be afraid to try new stuff. Nearly every pattern book has

diagrams of the various stitches in the back.

Z

(*ANYTHING* to take our minds off the pain!)