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Well, Boston got hit with another big snow storm yesterday, so I again find myself with some time off work and itching to make it productive. Last week, I decided to devote my snow day to practicing my continental style knitting. This week, I decided, why not focus on “continental”crochet? Never heard of continental crochet? That’s because no one calls it that – everyone just calls it normal crochet. I crochet in a very abnormal style – holding the yarn in my right hand and throwing it over the hook, just like you do in English style knitting. No one ever really taught me how to crochet, I sort of just figured it out and it made sense to me at the time to hold the yarn like I do when I knit. I form the stitches correctly this way, so it’s not like I’m doing it “wrong” – I’m just doing it the slowest possible way. I need to learn how crochet “correctly”, with the yarn in my left hand. So I practiced yesterday, ALL DAY.
I was super excited when FreshStitches released the pattern for Spikey the Stegosaurus and I…
July 10, 2016
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