Encouragement and Testimonials

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Name: dana
Subject: thanks
Comment: hello i have been crocheting since third grade i am now entering seventh grade and i am still crocheting. i get most of my crochet patterns from this website and most of my insperation from this website. just wanted to say thanks!

Name: chaya
Subject: relax
Comment: when you crochet make sure you are comfortable and not working too hard. if you feel you are working hard that is because you (may be) doing it wrong.

Name: Vickie
Subject: Crochet
Comment: I have enjoyed these stories. My cousin taught me to crochet when I was little, while she was babysitting me. (Now that I'm grown, I realize she was trying to keep me out from underfoot..) Shell Stitch projects are my favorite. It is so comforting to work with soft yarn, and you can make so many useful and decorative things. Crocheting is a great way to "unwind" after a hectic day.

Name: Taylor
Subject: I taught myself to make rows
Comment: I am 10 years old and i bearly started crocheting 2 days ago. So far i like it i already started making a blanket. I didnt know crocheting was so fun Thank you for encouriging me, KEEP IT UP !!

Name: shay
Subject: plasic bag bracelets
Comment: at my skool we have a summer fair. in year6 we are allowed to set up a stall and im selling recycled plastic bag bracelets and other stuff cuz we are all about recycling now. hope i make lots of money!
shay

Name: chaya
Subject: think
Comment: When you crochet, sometimes you think it's hard. But think how nice it will be in the end. That will make you go faster, think it's easy, and love crochet.

Name: Shana
Subject: Decision Crochet
Comment: So, I recently taught myself to crochet over the months.

I decided today I want to crochet for charity! Wish me luck, I wanna see if I can do this. I'm particualrly wanting to crochet for premature babies, considering I was one at 1 lb. 9 oz. I'm now 19.

I also want to crochet for cancer patients and children. My mom's mom died of a type of cancer at 26. And, I just want to help people!

Name: cathy
Subject: love to crochet
Comment: when I was about 9 I watched a neighbor lady crocheting and seen all the things she had made and wanted to learn. but I was afraid to ask. but I know now she probably would have love to shown me how. now that I am older I have taught myself. and I still have a lot to learn. but I love making the things I have made

Name: shay
Subject: taking up crochet
Comment: my older sis started to make a blanket out of small squares. one day she showed me the websites she used (knitting pattern central) and i found cpc. then i went on eBay and found a set of 14 hooks. i used to crochet when i was 7 (im now 12) but i lost my hook. now im making a bookmark for my year 6 teacher, mr smith, and i am starting a blanket of my own out of samples of different stitches.
shay

Name: Carol
Subject: crocheting for music
Comment: Hi, everyone - I have picked up crochet again after putting it down a few years ago. I'm a Native American flutist and singer, and am excited because I have developed my own pattern for making flute bags! They are one piece - no seams, crocheted in a spiral, with ties or flaps, and beads, fringe, etc. can be added for decoration. I've sold a couple already and plan to sell more, and this has given me the courage/confidence to expand into hats and other bags. I love to crochet so much - Mom taught me. Now I can combine music and crochet! Now to think of something to make for my horse :)

Name: Marilla Shook
Subject: Crocheting
Comment: I used to crochet afghans and sell them and got BEST of Show with Ribbons and pictures in the local paper

Name: Peggy
Subject: crochet therapy
Comment: My grandmother taught me to crochet when I was just 11 years old. I still have my first granny square afghan, and I will never forget working on it in her house in Houtzdale, PA. When I woke up the morning after I started it, it magically grew during the night!! (Gram, of course, crocheted on it that night.) The most "distinctive" part of that afghan is the round of maroon yarn that Gram used in the night. Of course, when we washed and dried the ghan, the wool shrunk. I wouldn't get rid of that afghan for the world!!

I have adult ADD, and I have a hard time concentrating on conversation, television, and on and on. The therapy part of crocheting comes because it is a way for met to pay attention to what is going on around me. Crocheting gives me something to occupy that busy, distractable part of me in a useful way. I don't leave home without some small project!!

Thanks, Gram, for a lifelong hobby and outlet for my distractability!

Name: Hanna
Subject: crochet obsession
Comment: For many years I have been into hand crafts like bracelet making, sewing, etc. It's been a tradition for my mom to get me a crafty thing to make, since i was little. This year I got a book on crocheting, what a challenge. I wanted to learn this cause it wasn't like i could only make one thing. I can make almost anything i want. It started with small projects then i found Amigurumi. All my friends and family have requested something for me to make them. I enjoy seeing there faces when they get it. I am completely obsessed with it but nothing stupid to be obsessed over. Like video games, clothes, phones, friends,and the new boy flavor of the month. (which are the obsessions of most 14 year old girls like me) so mothers get ur daughters into this craft its one of the best things that has happened to me.

Love,

Hanni Ami

Name: Jana
Subject: toys
Comment: I am a teacher in Saudi Arabia. I am just now ending my third year teaching third grade! I started crocheting again (after over 30 years away from it!) when I first got here. At that time, the internet connection I had was so slow that it would take 20 minutes to load ONE email! I got so frustrated until one day I saw some yarn in a shop and decided to try crocheting again to have something to do while pages loaded. At first I just made scarves and some hats without patterns. Whenever I looked at a pattern, I would shudder and think, "No way can I do THAT!" The fall of my second year I decided to try again. This time I didn't give up. I now have five notebooks with patterns from the internet, as well as about ten other crochet guides and pattern books! My latest love is Amigurumi. I started with a little dragon, and haven't stopped yet! As a result, so many of the kids at school want me to make THEM toys! But the best thing happened today. A second little girl came to me with some money to buy a crochet hook (I ordered several from the States), and that was great, but even better was one of my BOYS coming to my desk asking for a hook, but he also had two balls of yarn! I knew he was serious and I spent about 30 minutes after school with him teaching him the slip not, holding the yarn, hook, etc. He picked everthing up in a snap! His motivation? He wants to make a frog like the one I made! This is especially heartening, because boys, as a rule in this culture, would NEVER be caught dead doing a "girls" activity! I just pray he doesn't get teased and end up giving it up, since he seems to have a natural talent for crochet. I will be working with the three children during recess these last few weeks of school, and then we talked about meeting in town at one girls house when school is finished to continue lessons! I am so glad that I can point these little people to wonderful web site to help and guide them when I am not around! Thanks!

Name: thecrochet
Subject: Some critics are hidden admirers
Comment: I've experienced this my self. One of my relatives kept giving me bad remarks about any project I was working on during her visits. She would say words like, "what's this. It isn't worth the time you're spending on...etc" Accidentally, through one of her visits, I told her that I am going to make her a gift. She immediately shouted "Yes, yes, please make me a small throw like the one you've made last week"

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