Crochet Secret

I don’t know about you, but when I first started crocheting, and for the longest time, I thought that when you went to make another stitch you only went through the first “post” of the stitch. 

And I wondered why my fabric was zigzaggy:

I could not tell you where or when I found out how to actually do a stitch but I felt like a dummy.  You are supposed to go through both posts in the top of the stitch!  Unless! You want to make a more pronounced curve like in a slipper, or the pattern calls for it. 

And now it looks how it should! J Do you see the difference between the bottom and top halves of the swatch?

Oh, except if you are starting out then it is your choice if you want to go through one or two posts in each stitch of the chain.  It depends on my mood which I decide.

So anyway speaking of Crocheting, the gateway craft to me beginning Knitting, Here are a few pictures of things I have made over the years.

This purse is completely my design with a little help from my mommy when I was 9 on how to increase the size above a lipstick case.  The lace which creates the flower at the top is one of the first stitches I learned and practiced the most.  It is just simply Dc, *chain 3, Dc in next stitch,* repeat** across/around.  The green and pink is big enough for a phone or wallet as a wrist pouch for at concerts, fairs, etc.  The black and pink one is a backpack large enough for a book of novel size or so.

Here are a couple of intarsia pieces I have done, the skull being my first, the knight helmet my second, pillow my third, and batman hat my fourth. 

I know what you’re thinking, “That is intimidating and there is no freaking way I could possibly do that.” O.O  But in reality it is so easy it’s not even funny.  All you are doing is following a graph with the picture on it and counting how many stitches need the different colors, btw it works best in Sc.  Maybe in a day or two I will take pictures to show how it’s done. Anyway…

Good Luck on Your Adventures in Crafting!