Hi! For a long time, I had this blog deactivated. I am now starting this blog all over again after five years of silence. Now I'm back, I'd like to write about one of my favourite activities ever: crochet.
I learned the basics of crochet while I was at school. Back then, I didn't really know all of the things that were possible to make with a crochet hook. Amigurumi and the stuff I now enjoy making were not popular, and apparently, everybody only worked with white cotton... sooo boring! lol This was the late 1990's 😅
My teacher at school only taught us old-fashioned crochet 👵, this is why I only learned to make dollies and cushion covers made out of two huge granny squares. I was good at the craft, but during those years, I was mostly focused on playing the guitar, so I didn't take crochet seriously. After I graduated, I kept focused on uni 🎓 and that sort of stuff so I was crochet-inactive for more than 20 years!! In early 2017, I remembered I was good at crochet, and I decided to make wool socks for winter. By watching different tutorials on YouTube, I realised how many different colourful projects were now available, and since then, I have never stopped crocheting.
I have to mention my mother tongue is not English but in this second stage of my crochet journey I started watching crochet tutorials on YouTube in English, so I actually learned modern crochet in my second language 😅
One thing I was not aware of was the difference between crochet US terms and crochet UK terms. I had no knowledge then about that. The funny thing here is that even though I use British English spelling when writing, I learned to crochet in US terms and I had no idea about it! I thought crochet terms were the same everywhere.
I remember I was watching a tutorial by some British lady about how to make a flat circle and whenever she said "double crochet" I pictured an American double crochet in my mind, but she actually referred to British double crochet which is an American single crochet, in other words, a completely different stitch than the one I was picturing... a little bit confusing when you're a beginner... 😰
The thing is, this lady was doing a tutorial with British terms, but I followed the tutorial by making the piece using American terms, so my circle turned out to be different from hers, lol. And I really needed to learn quickly because I wanted to crochet jar toppers as last-minute gifts for 2017 Christmas and I think it was November 2017 lol 😆
Fortunately, even though I made a different stitch, my items turned out ok, considering I had not grabbed my crochet hook for over 20 years. I made jar toppers inspired in Elmo and Cookie Monster and filled one of the jars with black tea leaves and the other one with biscuits.
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| These were the very first 2 jar toppers I made. They are inspired in Elmo and Cookie Monster. |
After a while, someone liked my jar toppers so much that he asked me to make more. Unfortunately, I did not write the step-by-step instructions for the first set of jar toppers I made.
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| Juan Carlos Bodoque, Doraemon, Kermit the Frog |
Around 2020, I was asked to make even more jar toppers, and just then, I realised how relevant it was to write a pattern for these because I wanted to make more Smurfs, but I did not remember the exact number of stitches and shape I did for the first Smurf's hat. Despite that, I made 2 more Smurfs but their hats were different than the first one.
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This was how that kitchen looked after the first stage of the project. |
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| And this is the final result with all of the jar toppers I made. |
I know I have random pictures of some of the steps I followed when I was making these jar toppers. Maybe someday I share a few of those. And definitely, I will be sharing pictures of more projects and some other things as well. This will not be an exclusive crochet blog.
