[NFB-Blind-Crafters] Classes

[Becky Frankeberger]

Here you go your first stitch to learn. Remember the tips I gave on this
list.

 

Slip stitch was one of those stitches I just did not get right away. I used
to have my mother start the chain row. She always used a slip stitch. So
practice a few times, soft smile.

 

Lay the yarn down with the little tail closest to you. This little tail is
called "the tail," smile. The yarn coming off your ball of yarn is called
the "working yarn." 

Now lay the hook horizontally across the yarn with the hook end of the hook
pointing to the left. 

 

Next Take the tail and bring it over the shaft of the hook moving away from
you, cross it over the working yarn, moving to your left towards the hook
part of the hook, then wrap that tail around the shaft of the hook so that
the tail is once again facing you. This will form a loop on your hook. Your
needle is holding this loop.

 

Now take your working yarn bring it forward towards you and lay it over the
needle closest to the hook end, to the left of the first loop on your hook.
. You have two loops on your needle.

 

Finally, the first loop on your needle needs to go over the working yarn
loop and then over the hook part of the hook and off of it.

 

Pull the tail and the working yarn together under the needle to tighten your
slip stitch. 

 

How to remove the slip stitch. Take the loop off your hook. Pull the tail
and the working yarn apart, voila, slip stitch disappears.

 

Practice making loose slip stitches and tighter slip stitches a few times. 

 

Tip: I like the looser slip stitches when I am making an afghan. I just
about always get to many chains on my row. Then when I turn to make the
first crochet row and measure it, the row is usually longer then I want it
to be. So instead of ripping the entire row, I just loosen the slip stitch
cut the yarn or simply take out the number of chains to get the right
length. This baby blanket called for a hundred and eight chains. But with
this yarn and needle size I chose, it took like twenty chains less. So I cut
the chain and then gently unwove the chains to get the correct size for this
blanket. Thus just taking out a few crochet stitches, as opposed to taking
out the entire row to get the right size.  

 

 

Becky 

 

 

 

 

 

From: NFB-Blind-Crafters <nfb-blind-crafters-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf
Of Sarah via NFB-Blind-Crafters
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Subject: Re: [NFB-Blind-Crafters] Classes

 

I would be interested in learning how to crochet if anyone out there is
interested in teaching a beginner crochet class!

 

Happy crafting,

Sarah 

 

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Subject: [NFB-Blind-Crafters] Classes

 

Joyce points out we don't have many classes anymore.  This is true.  I'd
love to have more classes.  

If anyone has an idea for a class they'd like to teach, please put it out on
the list.  

If you have an idea for a class you'd like to take, put that out there, too.
Maybe a teacher will pop up and say "I can do that!".

Tracy

 

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