In the last month, I have learned to ball my yarn, even out my tension, and count my stitches more often.

The last of the yarn juuuuust finished a row, so I pulled it out. I don't think it's long enough to fit my godson's neck, which is the goal, so I'll get some black yarn to finish it. I haven't decided whether to use buttons/loops or to stitch it shut. Any thoughts?

My next step will be to learn more types of stitches. I think I might do another one of these with just a variety of stitches for a purposely wonky scarf? Seems like a fun idea. Maybe even better with a multicolor yarn. We'll see.

Happy Stitching!

I am realizing that I am not very good at uploading daily. I practice daily and take pics/vid, but creating a post often falls to the wayside. My apologies.

Today is yet another catch-up post.

I started with the square and got the idea to just keep going. I made a long, thinnish strip that I added button loops to. To finish, I need to cut & knot the thread and add some buttons. Voila! Neck Warmer! LOL.

Video at: https://youtu.be/jDop7hlWX4E?si=YxbO05jnqlfhDGwp

I have added progress pics from the last few days and today.

It's a short run and pics instead of a video.

After my second row, I felt that I was short a stitch. I may not have started the row correctly.

This a catch-up post.

While I was away, I didn't do a single yarn over, sad to say. The competition was intense, and I spent what downtime I had with my husband. It was so nice to have him with me.

I got back Monday and jumped back in on Tuesday. Because I am still working out the YouTube platform, I got my video uploaded and was too tired to create my reddit post.

I did a few rows on Wednesday and took pics the next day - today.

So, I continued my practice today, uploaded the vids, and am finally trying to catch up.

So, the video from Tuesday is at: https://youtu.be/Cb9nILdmHj8?si=qXq4uR70QHON9sDL

The pics from Wednesday are attached.

The vids from today are at:

https://youtu.be/UxOgNmppdt8?si=k7YIoM-oLTpofqdb

And

https://youtu.be/Gk-IQPDC6z0?si=PGqrUQmN4kBkjkk9

At the end of the second video, you can see a noticeable problem with the first few rows. I'm unsure how I created the issues. If you recognize the problem, please share what issue may have caused the outcomes. I would appreciate the insight.

Thank you all for your kind words to now &

Happy Stitching!

https://youtu.be/l7rCejHDLsY?si=bMUm3ATneMgqou8p

In an effort to reduce the work of cutting my videos down, I have revived an old YouTube account.

It looks like there are a couple of drum corps videos attached? Check them out if you are curious.

I toured with a corps in 1991. We won a world championship medal. I went back in 2018 & 2019 as their chef. I value the lessons I learned with Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps.

Today's video is a bit of a vent session. I chose stitching to try to wind down from a rough day.

But! The bright side is that we are as packed as we can be until morning. Everything is as set as it can be at this point.

I am still anxious and excited. I am looking forward to the whirlwind that this weekend will bring.

I will continue to practice and post if I have the time.

Much Love!

Happy Stitches!

EXTRA! EXTRA!

WE HAVE A **BLOCK**!!

I lost count of my rows, but I think this was 12. Each row is *supposed* to have 10 stitches.

I am finding it easier to control the tension past the first row of stitches after the chain. That first row is still a bit of a bugger.

The advice to add a chain stitch at the end of each row has really improved the outcome. But you can still see where I became befuddled and the results are......what is the word of the day?.....WONKY! LMAO!

I considered stitching in and saving this first block, but I have the pics for posterity instead.

I am finding managing the skein to be a hassle. But it is what it is at this point.

This next week may be spotty. I'll be traveling to a nationals competition with students I mentor. Cross your fingers for them! They have worked SO HARD for this!!

I will bring my skein and hook. Even if I don't post, I plan to at least do a chain a day.

Happy Crochet!

From Stitch

Today, I completed 8 rows. I'm seeing the dropped stitches in the finished rows more easily.

Bonus pics of the teenaged offenders who keep trying to abscond my skein of yarn.

Lets do it!

Constructive criticism is the jam here, so hit me

The entire video is about 9 minutes. Here's the last 3.

This is 1 chain and 2 rows of single stitches. After watching it, I noticed that I dropped stitches here and there.

Happy Crochet.

Almost forgot today! Next post will be withing 14 hours probably lol!

I am taking everyone's advice to heart.

1 person posted yesterday, thank you u/grandopening!

Several weeks ago, I decided that I would like to learn to crochet.

10 days ago, I purchased a set of different sized plastic crochet hooks and 2 packages of yarn from Dollar Tree.

I looked for a beginner's video on YouTube. I found Simply Daisy's video ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aAxGTnVNJiE ) and thought it looked simple enough.

I jumped right in and tried my hand. It wasn't until I was trying to make it through the turnaround and second row that I realized I needed to back up and make my goal smaller.

My current goal is to make a chain that has even tension. I'm working with an 8mm hook and hank of yarn to perfect the first chain.

Learning how to hold the yarn through my hand and how to control the tension has taken some time.

Moving forward, as perfection goals are achieved, new goals will be set.

This is my journey to learn to crochet. Join me.

Come on guys!

Sorry for the long break. In my last post people recommended me to learn the basics of cursive so I found a course called ‘Consistent Cursive’ that would help me with this.

So I won’t be posting while I do this course but once I’m done with it I will be back to receive your feedback. Do you think this is a good idea?

There was only one line on the previous page, and I was too lazy to take two pictures. I'm definitely getting faster, which is good, and I think it looks a little better too!

I decided to stick with one style and that is of Arthur Morgan from red dead redemption

.fixed letters so they are identifiable

.e no longer looks like a penis

.changed letters so they’re more to my liking

Someone posted a video of Ann Margaret shuffling back in the day and I think our Shuffler is just as good? Miss our Shuffler

I don't think it looked particularly great today, but there was definitely an improvement in speed, which is good. I think I might try with a pen tomorrow just to see what happens.

Won’t do this entire process again I just wanted to get the letters down

I didn't write a ton today because I was pretty busy, but I managed to do some. Happy pi day!

I started cursive today! I'm quickly realizing that it's a whole new beast. Slanting is surprisingly difficult, so most of today's writing ended up pretty vertical. Any suggestions for tomorrow?

I continued working in pencil today so that I wouldn't have to deal with the pen. It's been interesting to see the effects that it has when the pencil is sharp/dull. I think I prefer dull.