Anyone who knows me knows that I love Ravelry . I am always referring someone looking for a pattern to check there among other sites. So the other day when I saw my baby sister, Jessica, finishing up these adorable hats, I asked her where she got the patterns, asking specifically if she found them on Ravelry. I was so surprised when she told me that she found the tutorials on YouTube. She explained that she browses for a project that she wants to crochet and then follows along, working the yarn with the tutorial. Cool! I asked her to send my a photo of the hats so that I could blog about them:
Jessica went through her scraps and crocheted a newborn hat following a video on YouTube at Baby Hat for our great-niece, Brooklyn.
Jessica then crocheted the hat below using Bernat yarn that I picked up on clearance, it had the cutest little yarn balls and I totally planned on crocheting this for a friends baby. Then, I actually began crocheting with it and it was a nightmare!!! I grabbed my stix and attempted to knit with it and Nightmare City again. So I did what all good big sisters do and I handed it down to Jess who is mother to four boy ranging from 15 to 8, obviously a woman with more patience than I.
I also learned that my other sister Romy enjoys browsing YouTube for tutorials on yarn projects and following along. I think they like being talked through the stitches and patterns, unlike me, I would rather blunder my way through, pulling out stitches and reworking until I think I have it correct.....which explains why I was so quick to give away my problem yarn. I am more driven to get on task and complete the project in a timely manner. My ADHD keeps my children from ever being able to say, "Mom worked on that for months!" Because, if it isn't done in a couple of days........it will end up in the corner of a closet.
Jessica and our sister Buffy are our lefties. I am hoping to sit with Jessica and Buffy soon to get some tips for overcoming obstacles with learning to crochet and knit in a mostly right handed family. I also hope to get some tips on video for others not of the right-handed persuasion. My sister, Buffy, is currently teaching her daughter, whom is also left handed, to knit and I'd love to get my niece on video too!
I have browsed YouTube and I have found a couple of projects that interest me. I will give them a try and post the results. Currently, I am knitting a project for a photographer friend of mine and crocheting items for Wyatt. Stay tuned!
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