Encouragement and Testimonials

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Name: Tina Dancy
Subject: crocheting helps my hypertention
Comment: I've known how to make a chain since I was 10. But last year, I picked up some yarn, went to my Aunt (who can make anything!)and she showed me a few other stitches and off I went. I have made blankets, afghans, bath items, etc. I love it. It relaxes me and helps my blood pressure stay under control.

Name: Paige
Subject: I love crocheting
Comment: My name is Paige and I am 15. I started crocheting quite a few months ago, and haven't stopped since. I first came up with the idea to start crocheting when I was wondering around the store one day and just happened to spot some instruction books on crocheting, grabbed a cheap hook, and a couple skeins of yarn and I was off! I had a little trouble at the beginning, but I talked to my step-sister (who I found out crocheted blankets) and she helped me with a variance of a hdc stitch, and I started with that once she showed me. But I started looking on the internet and found a pretty cool purse pattern, and I have one almost completely finished (except for a decorative strap) and I just started one that I am half-way done with. And I can finish this one because I have enough yarn. That's been my only problem so far, is that when I first got my yarn, I got two skeins of different colors that didn't go together, and I didn't think to look for what i wanted to make FIRST then get the yarn (either of the three times I've been to the store to get yarn) so I have to get more yarn for the almost-finished purse, and then I'm going to finish this project and then I'm going to start on an a blanket or two...
Crocheting really relaxes me and I love to do it. My family keep asking me when I will finish something, but as much as I like crocheting I haven't had the materials to finish anything yet, until now. But, for me, it really isn't about finishing a project and telling everybody "Look what I made!!" But more just to relax me with something I like to do, and it suffices me just fine, even if I haven't finished a project just yet! :-D ...
But thank you for all the neat things to make on this site that I can choose from!!
~ Paige

Name: Deanna
Subject: Enjoying crochet
Comment: I taught myself to crochet when I was 19, but never got past the chain and single crochet.

This past Christmas we found out we're expecting baby #3 September 2007, and I decided to pick up crochet again to make some baby things. So far I've finished a gorgeous blanket, two hat and booties sets and a couple of sets of scratch mittens. Right now I'm working on another blanket as a gift for a friend who just had a baby, and I have several items I plan on donating to Afghans for Angels when finished.

I'm relatively young for a crocheter, but I've never worried about what is or isn't "cool" or "old-fashioned." It's enjoyable to share crochet with others.

Name: Rebecca
Subject: A Shawl
Comment: Wll at my school we were going to a convention where all the schools meet. There are many categories to compete in, such as athletics, board games, academics, and needle and thread. I competed in many categories and one of them was needle and thread. I started to make a blanket. But, it turned into a shawl. I but a button on it and got 4th place.
Thanks,
Rebecca

Name: linda
Subject: crochet
Comment: I learned to crochet from my grandmother as a first or second grader. Did a lot of crocheting things like afghans as a kid, but let it slip away once I got to college. I finally started really crocheting again a few years ago when my daughter and her cousins wanted ponchos. Since then I have found this site and used many patterns as starting points for my work. Started making baby blankets for my mom to give to friends and relatives too and even used the blanket Grama made for my daughter as a pattern for one I made for a cousin's new baby. I've even won ribbons at the county fair for my crocheting. Pretty good for someone who still holds her crochet hook funny nearly 40 years after Grama taught me to do a chain stitch, ripple and granny square.

Name: susan
Subject: teacher
Comment: I teach crochet here in Ks. I always tell the people I teach about your site. They all love it. One of the groups I teach are military wives. Your patterns have helped them make time go by a little quicker while husbands are deployed. Thank You

Name: Pamela
Subject: Crochet in the islands
Comment: I have been crocheting for more years than I care to admit. I live in the Caribbean and don't have much use for blankets, scarves or ponchos. Also, yarns are hard to find here. My friends are constantly amazed at what you can do with butchers twine (great rug material), jute (wonderful free form baskets) and even, lately, plastic shopping bags which make useful door mats, reusable shopping bags (cuts into your raw material though:-) and beach bags. Old clothes cut into strips make rag rugs. Have even made an interesting hammock using palm fronds split and braided for yarn. Keep an open mind when you are looking for a new project.

Name: Donadenese
Subject: So nice to be here...
Comment: I have been knitting and crocheting for years...I still remember my Nana Bea teaching me how to make slippers (the ones with the pom-poms on top)when I was a little girl. Anyway, I just had to say that I have never felt surrounded by more wonderful and generous people as I am while browsing though the pages of Crochet Pattern Central. I love you all!!

Name: Julia
Subject: gifts
Comment: Once I was in a craze of knitting (before I learned how to crochet) and wanted to make a present for my friend's birthday. I tried to make some earmuffs, but they wouldn't keep their shape. So I just gave her a giftcard.

The next time she came over, she saw the abandoned earmuffs and asked me if I had made them. I said yes and that I was going to give them to her, but didn't think she would like them. To my surprise, she picked them up and asked me if she could have them. She still does!

Name: ~Renee~
Subject: CROCHET
Comment: Hi, I am a Late Bloomer, I taught myself to Knit and to crochet by doing alot of searches for stitches online- I Find it very relaxing, and even though I can not hardly read some of the patterns out there LOL I am however able to look at a stitch and do it for some odd reason :) You might say crocheting keeps me sane with all the things going on out there in the world :)

Name: Juanita
Subject: crocheting
Comment: When making anything that has a duplicate, such as sleeves, I always make both at the same time. First I do a little on one and then the same amount on the second until both are finished. Booties are especially hard to keep even in size unless done in this fashion.

Name: Julia
Subject: teaching
Comment: Hi, I'm Julia and I'm eleven years old. I taught myself to crochet from some books a few months ago and I love it! I used to knit, but I like crocheting much better. I still have an unfinished scarf that my sister is offering to finish for me!

I am also teaching two of my friends to crochet. One of them is cruising with the basic single crochet and the other still only knows how to chain. I made up a whole plan with 12 lessons to teach them. I'll teach 1 every time they come over! It works great!

If you ever want to do someone a favor (or just make them be quiet and not give you a headache) teach them to crochet!

Name: lynne
Subject: patience
Comment: i learned as a child from grandma. she couldn't read patterns so i couldn't either. about 20 years later i picked it up again and taught myself to read patterns. i've never been a patient person but crochet has taught me that taking my time and working through patterns is a very rewarding thing. i love making beautiful things and the calm feeling that crochet gives me.

Name: Helen
Subject: Left Handed
Comment: My mother knit and crocheted beautifully and taught me when I was a little girl. Since she was right handed and I'm left handed, she sat across from me and had me "mirror" what she was doing. There was no awkwardness in learning to hold the hook or the yarn because I was doing it exactly how I "saw" it. It worked great and might be an idea for others who try to teach!

I stopped doing handwork for a number of years, but as I got older arthritis in my hands drove me to take it up again. I enjoy creating afghans with Aran style motifs, but have not been able to find much in the way of patterns. So now I make up my own patterns. Wish I could show a pic here. They actually come out quite nice.

Name: Donna
Subject: patterns
Comment: I taught myself to crochet when I was about 10 years old. About 20 years ago a friend got me hooked on the old crochet magazines. I'd go to yard sales, wonder thru thrift shops and flea markets looking for them. They have now become hard to come by. Then I came across this web site and have found patterns that I didn't have in all those pattern magazines I have. Keep up the work and I hope to be coming back to you for many years to come.

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