This week for my project, I wanted to practice more with crocheting smaller items and by using a different size of yarn. Originally, I was not planning on making something as small as a bookmark, but the size of yarn that I used prevented me from making something as big as I did last week, and I honestly ran out of time because the thin yarn also ended up taking a lot longer to crochet correctly. I used much thinner yarn this time, and it proved to be a lot more difficult than the thicker yarn that I used for my first practice item. It took me a little while to remember the correct steps, but I was able to get going after I jogged my memory and with a lot of help from my sister. I definitely was not expecting the thinner yarn to be so much more difficult than the thick yarn, and it was a little frustrating at first. The spaces to pull my string of yarn through were much smaller, which made the process a lot longer and more difficult. This yarn was also not as easy to stretch out as the thicker yarn was, which also made it more difficult to pull the material through the correct areas since they were not able to be stretched to a bigger size. The final roadblock that I faced was getting hung on and pulling the strands of yarn apart. This happened from both the holes being too small and from the yarn not being able to be stretched. As a result of that, the hook kept getting hung on other rows of yarn and it also kept pulling strands apart. My final bookmark looks a little rough, as some areas are more loose than others, but overall I am happy with it because it is only my second time practicing this skill. One aspect that I definitely need to work on is keeping a consistent length, because you can tell that in both my first practice piece and this one that the rows continue to get shorter and go at an angle. I am going to continue practicing with the thinner yarn to get more familiar with the tighter qualities of it, and I will keep working on my areas of struggle in order to gain the skills I need to make my blanket successfully.
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Hi guys! Welcome to my first blog post about my journey to learn how to crochet! This week, I wanted to focus on getting the materials to make small things like dish towels, coasters, potholders, etc. in order to practice my crocheting skills as I first started out. The yarn that I purchased to start out with is not yarn that could make something like a dish towel, so it will have to function as something like a coaster or potholder. Of course, I struggled to grasp different aspects of the task at first like simply holding the crocheting stick and getting the stick to go through the loops correctly, but eventually I got the hang of it with a lot of help from my sister and YouTube videos. I messed up several times and had to go back a couple of steps, but I quickly found out that it is luckily very easy to work backwards in crocheting. This definitely made me feel better because I know that I am nowhere close to perfect at this skill and that I am going to mess up a lot. Something that kept tripping me up was going through the correct loops in the yarn because it was very easy to skip one or go through one too close to my hand, which messed up later steps. It was also very difficult to learn how to make a new row because just as I would be getting used to the row I was on, I would have to flip over my work and start again to create a new one, and the way to make the alternating rows were different. I would say that it took me about thirty minutes to really be able to do a row by myself, and once I got it down I was able to work pretty fast with my sister's guidance. My final product is a little wonky, as I am not very good at keeping a consistent length right now, but for my first ever try at crocheting I was pretty pleased! I'm excited to continue practicing this skill on my own and to work towards my long-term goal for this project, hopefully gaining a new hobby along the way.
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