i crochet lots and lots of stuff. even learned how to handle the finer threads to make doilies. am working on a multi-colored daisy motif afghan these days.

I have knit just about everything it is possible to knit. Suits for myself, afghans, sweaters and mittens and socks in numbers I cannot even begin to imagine. I Perfer to crochet stuff I have invented and some have been really nice as place mats and seat cushion covers for baseball games. I do stuff like that because no one has ever taught me how to do anything other than double and single crochet, so I had to invent as I went. Not too hard if you have something someone else did and you can look at it carefully. Knowing how to knit also helps a lot.

the daisy motif has sat on the back burner awhile but, i've managed to make two baby blankets, an afghan for my daughter, an afghan for a friend who moved to colorado, and am putting together the strips of an afghan for me while working one for my son. needless to say, the cross stitch project that has taken a while is still gonna take a while!! still don't know how to knit. anyone know a good way to teach a leftie to crochet?

look in the mirror. That is how I taught a Girl Scout group with two lefties.

wow, this place has been empty. am currently working on 2 baby blankets--one blue and one pink (folks in my office). am also working on a barbie bed doll pattern my daughter fell in love with along with about 3 cross stitch projects!

my mom told me to just sit across from my daughter while teaching her crochet. she's not very interested right now but i'll be ready when she is. i also have a beginner's knit kit (thinner needles--the other kit i have has big fat needles and my fingers just can't get around them easily).

I wish someone had actually taught me to crochet. I watched a neighbor make granny squares one afternoon and went home to dulicate her work. It is easy and I can granny square anything just about. I just need a little fine tuning - but I have pictures of a great huge double bed blanket of granny squares I made over the years in Hawaii but never used there.

When I put the squares together I double reinforced the seams so the squares domed a little bit. It stablizied the afghan and make it more toasty since the heat was trapped in there like a big thermal blanket.

I can also show what that looks like when I get this all gotomeeting-ed.

yippee because i was going to ask when you were going to show us!

actually I did it to stablize it since it is such a large afghan and weighs considerably much. It not only works well for that reason but will be self blocking whenever it needs to be cleaned. I just did rows of single crochet over the joining rows and the thermal effect was just a happy coincidence.