Today's Arts and Leisure: Crochet
Over the past few years I've become more and more proficient at crochet. And when I say over the past few years I mean eleven! I first picked up a crochet needle when I was on five weeks of bedrest waiting for my son to arrive. I was terrible at bedrest and worse at crochet.
Since then I have become better but it has been a slow process. I have gobs of yarn from all my attempts over the years so I decided a good use for it was to learn how to make a decent granny square. Of course this took me to ye olde YouTube which is so incredibly handy when you're learning a new skill. I happened to find one of my now favorite UK YouTubers and bloggers, Sarah-Jayne at Bella Coco. With her directions and her patient replies via Twitter, I was able to figure out how to granny square and connect them!
Last spring I became a huge fan of the series Call the Midwife based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth {a topic deserving at post of its own}. When I saw this pattern by Amy's Gurumis I knew that I just had to try it! Not long afterwards, I had my own version of Chummy! Amy was even nice enough to feature a picture of my Chummy on her blog {last photo - felt jacket}.
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| Tickety-boo! I crocheted Chummy! |
Do you like to crochet or are you a knitter? Anything particularly British that inspires you?
