After 30+ years of NOT crocheting, I've picked up two magazines, 3 hooks and 13 balls of yarn. I'm delighted to be back at this wonderful work, and am thrilled to find this website.
I've just started on the Victorian Shrug+Wrap featured in the Crochet Me book (page 27). Of course, the yarn shop didn't have the suggested yarn, nor did it have the colors in other substituted yarns, so I'm jumping in with pure faith that my return-to-crochet piece will be as stunning as the photo on the book cover.
Right.
My grandmother neglected to teach me the terms and abbreviations used in pattern books. She was SO GOOD that she never worked from a pattern. She could just LOOK at something and make it.
Not me. :-) Thank GOD there are abbreviations and glossary in the back of the book, and in the magazine and in here... WITH PHOTOS!!
YES!!
- Wendy
Hi, glad you found this site.
Your "about" mentions different styles of crochet, European vs Continental. I've heard of different knitting styles but am unfamiliar with different crochet styles. Please explain, I'm so curious!
Pauline
As best I can tell, it all has to do with the way you hold the needles or hook and thread.
For crochet work, I hold the hook completely in my hand (not like a pencil); and the thread is laced through all my fingers and wrapped once around my index finger.
For knitting, well, I can't remember, but the way I worked it drove my mother nuts!
The stitches are named different too... what we call a double crochet in the UK is a single crochet in the US and a treble is the US double crochet. At first it confused me, but now I check where the pattern was printed before I start!!
thanks for the clarification. My grandmother never used a pattern nor did she every really use politically correct terms. She just told me to do this and then do that. And it always turned out.
I have SO much to learn and remember!
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