Learning how to crochet

My great grandmother could crochet. She made the most intricate and delicate doilies and mats and dressed tiny dolls in beautiful outfits. She taught me how to do a chain, a double and a treble crochet but I never really picked up the skill.

I inherited all her old crochet patterns, needles, cottons and works in progress but they have been sitting in a box with no prospect of ever being even looked at. The fine work she did will, I fear, always be beyond me but, this past week or so I have finally given crochet a go.

To begin with I found a couple of needles and some cotton yarn and had a go at a granny square. I tried following patterns in a book, online tutorials and YouTube tutorials. Many squares were made and abandoned. I despaired of ever getting it right but then I made something that was reasonably presentable. I still hadn't mastered the pattern correctly but it looked ok.

I gained confidence and decided to try something a little more complex. Needless to say I have done little else over the past 2 weeks. I saw some star patterned blankets online and decided to have a go. I started and unravelled so many times but again, eventually, came up with something presentable.

Not prepared to cut my losses and run back to knitting I was determined to master something slightly more complex. A 12 point star blanket. I think it was probably a whole morning before I could get to the stage when I believed that it was going to work. Crochet could well become the new addiction and I read today in the newspaper that a crochet dress is the thing to have. Maybe not for me but I am clearly "on trend" as they say.