Crafting, mostly

I know crochet. I just need to build up those muscle groups slowly do I don't hurt myself.

It just clicked Saturday morning and I made a smallish squareish thing that will be nice for dish cleaning. So that's single crochet, I'm working on half double crochet, which I mostly get, and double crochet, which I definitely get. I understand working into the same stitch and how to count stitches and gauge is almost a thing.

I also started frogging the Accidental Slytherin and winding the color changes into cakes as I go. So it's slow going, but it'll be nicer when I get ready to actually work it up again.

Diving in with an ambitious project? Me? Of course I will.

I got an early birthday present from my mom! A little book(let?) about How to Crochet (along with a note and some cash, which is super nice and I'm excited to use that on prescription sunglasses). So I picked up the cotton yarn and crochet hooks that have been chilling on the coffee table for a while and started working on that 'single chain to begin a project' thing. What even is tension? How do hold yarn? I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to be mucking about with how I'm holding everything as much as I am. And then I had to switch from the variegated green-and-white for a solid purple because I am not really good at determining where stitches are yet. So that attempt went slightly better because I could see the front and back of stitches. But tension is a thing for other people still and I skipped several stitches I should have worked so managed to decrease by about a third for the second row.

Well, at least the yarn isn't offended when I rip it out a thousand times and keep trying. :P