Now that it's clear I have a marketable skill**, anyone want to subsidize my lifestyle by paying me big bucks for my as-yet-non-existent wares? Or better yet, who wants to sell them for me, for a cut of the action? Hey, it works for the people who participate (and want everyone else to participate) in multi-level marketing programs.
*Crochet: a two-century old art that any fool can learn. Seriously.
**Half of the handle and the blue whipstitching on the sides were contributed by Julia, age 6. And actually, it's her purse.
4 comments:
I can't crochet with anything heavier than perle cotton, and frankly I'm not so great at that. I did the angel for our Christmas tree topper, so I'm not bad I guess. But it's not comfortable. I find I prefer knitting, I feel like I have more control.
Geeklady, Wikipedia informs me that the first crocheting was done with thread, not yarn, so you can just say that your talent is in "vintage" crochet techniques.
I crochet much easier than I knit, though I'm sure that has to do with the fact that I learned to knit in college, while I learned to crochet at my mother's knee.
Oh, I also learned to crochet at my mother's knee. I just never took to it like my sister. It felt unwieldy.
Mom tried to teach me to knit, but I had tension problems, I was casting on so tightly that it was just impossible to knit from. I had to try wooden needles in several years ago before I could knit loosely.
I taught myself from half remembered bits of my mother knitting and the videos from knittinghelp.com exclusively so that I could knit this really wonderful viking hat for my son.
Oh, that's lovely. Compliments to Julia as well on her fine work.
Grandma A.
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