Craft Corner

Hi @CheerBear,

Oh I SUPER love your pictorial tutorial (I also super love the fact that pictorial and tutorial rhyme).

I think your pictures will super help this little sea turtle get the hang of the crochet gig!

Hello @Former-Member, we haven't "met" yet, but I have seen you around in Forum Land. I have been hiding in my shell for a little while due to some super big brain mushing muddles. Hopefully my brain will get unmushed sometime soon, and then I will be out and about in Forum Land a bit more. It sounds like you have really found your niche hanging out here with CheerBear in the Craft Corner. As you might have gathered, I am VERY new to the crocheting adventure. I noticed that you mentioned in a post that you love helping people learn crafty things and seeing them "get" it. Yeah...you might be waiting a little while longer for me to get it. CheerBear's pictures are definitely going to help though.

OH that is astounding work @Former-Member

and what a superb stash organisation that is behind your work.

I've read about some of your awesome adventures here in Forum Land too @Phoenix_Rising nice to 'meet' you here. Sorry about the mushy brain, it happens to most of us at one time or another I think. Craft Corner is a comfortable place for me right now.

Be patient with yourself with 'getting' the crochet, there's no rush, it's nice to be able to take your time with it.

For me, there's joy seeing someone become familiar with a craft no matter how long it's taken. It took me 25 years to finally master the tatting knot, or at least I began trying to learn 25 years (before Utube etc) before I ended up sitting in front of my computer and trying over and over and over to make that knot happen. Took me a while, then when it hit, it's like, Oh, THAT'S what they meant!

With crochet, there's lots of things to find the way that is most comfortable for you, holding the yarn, holding the hook, and then where to find that pesky loop to put the hook through (how did it get so small?) , and how on earth am I supposed to get the hook WITH another loop of yarn, back through that pesky loop without hooking up all those pieces!? Yeah, I understand it's not really easy, but it's so good when you make that first line of crochet work! The rest becomes so much more fun.

I'd be honored to help if there's anything you or anyone else want to know.

Wow! I am in total love with that peacock tail rug! Pity my memories of crochet include my mother telling me (and rightly so) that I simply cannot be taught. LOL! I'll admire all your amazing work from afar though!

I'm so sorry your experience is of having been told you are unteachable. @Queenie I hope it's okay to say that I have real trouble believing that any one is unteachable, unless there are compromised physical capabilities or something like that. But that's not that they're unteachable, that's a different thing entirely.

In my experience, it's more often that the teacher has not found a way that works for the student. But I'm a bit biased like that 'cos I have something of a different way of seeing things.