Tuesday, March 17, 2009

I'm a new Hooker!

Ok.... before you react strangely to that, let me tell you a story. My Friend, Sharon, has been doing some awesome tutorial on crochet on her blog. I've always wanted to learn how to crochet, but when I tried it once, i always have tight stitches and was having a really hard time doing this. Last week, my co-worker and friend, gave me bunch of books from her collection. They are crochet/knitting books. She is awesome! =) So when I started browsing, i saw some cool crochet patterns that I want to make. Obviously, I cannot make it unless I know the basics. I found this site and started to look for some of my hooks. I found this headband and decided to make it. It has the basic single, half-double, and double stitches. The good thing I noticed with crochet is that it works faster than my knitting. Or maybe it is the size of the hook that I'm using. ;) The not so good part is that it hurts my hand! urgh! So yeah, I am a new hooker!

Here's my finished product:





I will try to find some nice, easy crochet patterns again. I think I will make some more. But i still love knitting and knitting will always be my first love in crafts... hehehe... So yeah as for my knitting, I'm going really really slow.. but it is going... I will post the finished product soon (I have 5inches more to go), but here's a closeup of the stitches on my knitting project: