Encouragement and Testimonials

Here you can read or submit your own humorous stories and bits of encouragement, whether they be nostalgic, mirthful, or thought-provoking. Any memorable, true-life crochet story qualifies, so sit back and relax to read--or submit!

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Name: Ashley
Subject: Crocheting for relaxation...
Comment: I started crocheting last summer in August because my husband was sent to Kuwait and Iraq. I had absolutely nothing to do and in the first three weeks I had made two afghans, a baby blanket, four scarves, and a partridge in a pear tree. No, I'm just kidding about the partridge, but it is a great way to relax when times are rough you're down. I know it's the only thing that kept my mind off what my husband was up to overseas. I've been crocheting ever since and I can't tear myself away from it! I love it and I have EVERYONE in my family doing it!

Name: Susie
Subject: hooked on crochet
Comment: I learned to crochet slightly about 20 years ago. Not very well, I picked it back up after the kids were grown and my son went to Iraq awhile, any way the other day, i sat on a small crochet hook. Yow! Being a nurse, I removed it myself. I thought I was the only person in the WORLD to have done that!!! Thanks for the encouragement. I got the biggest laugh. Thanks, Susie

Name: James
Subject: A long absence
Comment: When I was a little boy (about 7 or 8), our Filipino live-in housekeeper taught me to crochet, simple squares and circles. I loved the rhythm of it and the fact that I was creating something. I ended up keeping an 8-inch square that I made for about 20 years. I stopped crocheting because I was embarrassed (being a boy!), but I re-discovered it when I saw a "Teach Yourself to Crochet" book/hook set at a craft store buying tiles with my wife. Now our apartment is covered in yarn and I have my old hobby back!

Name: Cora
Subject: free-form whee...
Comment: I have crocheted about 10 years on and off. Lately I have been playing around with free-form just grab your thread and hook and see what happens. I must admit I turned out some pretty designs one in green which looks like leaves with closed and open stitches going in different directions. This is great when you need a rest from the hundreds of patterns you print out lol! It's a wonderful relaxant.

Name: Dora
Subject: learning to crochet
Comment: hello i am a new crochet person 39 years old i have no one to teach me so i am teaching myself i find alot of problems with reading those patterns and find myself getting frustrated sometimes but i am not going to give up and i find it funny to read some of these stories and i get help from them also. i haven't tried the thread ones but i do see lots of pretty stuff from them i have found lots of encouraging stories from sites like this so i really just want to say thanks to the ones who set up theses sites and to the ones whom share their stories, its making learning a little more fun THANKS TO ALL OF YOU

Name: Jenelle
Subject: Nana
Comment: My Nana taught me to crochet probably about 35 yrs ago when I was about 3 yrs old! (I wish!).OK! OK! So I was about 15 yrs old!. She started me out on pillowcase edgings with thread! Yikes! What a way to start. But going from that to yarn was a cinch! I have had a hook in my hand ever since, it seems. I am the one at work who always has a hook and a skein tucked away in the desk drawer, or out in the lunch room. My family's favorite story about my crocheting is the time when I was learning with that teeny tiny hook and thread and my younger brother was rough housing and sat down hard on the hook that had fallen and was stuck standing part way up in the groovy shag carpet we had in those days. Much to his dismay, as well as my parents the teeny tiny hook went through his jeans and into his rear end cheek about 1 1/2 inches or so! Off to the emergency room he went (lying on his stomach in the back seat of my dad's van). My mother was afraid to pull it out and it was stuck on his jeans. The doctor got it out OK but my brothers butt and pride were extremely bruised. When he got home my Nana said she had seen a lot of things in her life but never anyone trying to crochet their butt together! I wonder if he thought that was as funny as we all did?

Name: Marlene
Subject: Crochetlover
Comment: My grandma taught me how to crochet the single and double crochet with the needle when I was a teenager. She crocheted everything and I had been watching her. I crochet now and then. I thank her for teaching me with her patience. She is gone to heaven in 1997 and wondering if she continues crocheting in heaven. smile, I love crochet with needle in my hands. It makes me relax, patience, love, and off worries! from crochetlover

Name: Trisha
Subject: Cardboard Crochet
Comment: Someone close to me once had the notion that tight small stitches would be warmer, because there were no airholes. Instead, the finished squares felt like stiff cardboard. It has taken me years of making afghans for sale for her to see that a larger hook with looser stitches is more warm and pleasant! I pity the Project Linus chapter that received her earlier "warmer" squares as a donation -- even though they were certainly donated with the best of intentions. Tension is the trickiest thing about crocheting by far. :) Happy crocheting and don't pull too tightly.

Name: Ruthann
Subject: The way it began
Comment: My mom taught me to crochet at a very young age. Then she only had 10% vision. I was an only child and we lived in isolated places it helped me pass the time. During my teen years I had a real pride in the groovy things I could make. As time passed I was married my husband went to Viet Nam we found out I was pregnant the day he left. I watched the news and did needle work lots of needlework it kept me grounded. Now it still keeps me level. My mom is almost blind now and I tell her often what a blessing her gift was to me and to others for I am a big gift giver.

Name: Ana
Subject: Then and Now
Comment: When I first started crocheting, I was extremely tense. My crochet pieces were so tight and small—sometimes I couldn’t even get my hook in the correct stitch because it was too small! Everything turned out the wrong shape and curled at bizarre angles. Ohhh! I remember one incident that helped me laugh and loosen up. It had recently rained, and I was inside working with brand new white crochet thread. Our little dog came in—he’s a pert little thing—and decided to come over and see what I was doing. He came and rested his nose on my work—“How’s it coming? Looks good to me!”—and, in the process, got my white crochet thread muddy. He had been outdoors poking his nose around. I had to laugh! Now, years later, I can crochet loosely and tight, depending on what I want, and I make sure the dog’s nose doesn’t get near my thread!

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