[Nfb-krafters-korner] crochet help?

Sat Jul 16 17:34:00 UTC 2011

Oh I thought the yarn went the other way?
At 02:19 AM 7/16/2011, you wrote:
>Hi Lovette
>
>Make your slip knot on your finger so that the yarn faces away from you.
>Then take the yarn towards your body, and over your finger. Then pull the
>loop from the slip knot over the wool you've just put over your finger.
>There you go: your first chain stitch.
>
>Hope that makes any sense.
>
>Warm regards from a chilly South Africa
>Tracy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
>[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lovette Yewchan
>Sent: 14 July 2011 09:53 PM
>To: List for blind crafters and artists
>Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] crochet help?
>
>so how do you do it with just your fingers to make sure I am doing it right?
>At 12:36 PM 7/14/2011, you wrote:
> >Yes, to get this yarn to stay on your hook you have to get ahold  of
> >it and turn your wrist so the hook slit is facing downwards.  Pull
> >the hook with yarn attached through the look on the hook and quickly
> >flip your wrist so the hook rotates and the slit is back on
> >top.  You have completed one chain.
> >
> >Sometimes, I have people try to just use their fingers to do a chain
> >stitch so they get the feel of that they need to be doing and how a
> >chain should "look".  Then when they get the hang of a  chain I
> >switch them over to the crochet hook.
> >
> >Cindy Z.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
> >[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Theresa Taylor
> >Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 2:09 PM
> >To: List for blind crafters and artists
> >Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] crochet help?
> >
> >As you are holding the working yarn taught....the hook is going in
> >the same direction and you put it under the working arm and then as
> >Cindy mentioned you use your wrist to get a grabbing motion
> >going...my words...smile and this results in hooking the yarn and
> >then pulling it through the slip knot in kind of the same step.
> >HOpe this helps.
> >Theresa
> >
> >On Jul 14, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Lovette Yewchan wrote:
> >
> > > I don't understand which way to put the yarn around or how to get
> > it through the loop.
> > > I dreamed about this last night! *smile*
> > > No answers yet though.
> > > Lovette
> > > At 09:21 AM 7/14/2011, you wrote:
> > >> Lovette,
> > >>
> > >> What I tend to see when people are learning to crochet is they
> > put too much "Motion" into what they are doing.  It is more of a
> > wrist action.  You rotate your wrist quickly when you are using the
> > crochet hook.  When the hook is up (meaning the slit of the crochet
> > hook is up) the yarn is not able to fall out of the hook.  Make
> > sure you are doing a flip of the wrist rotating the hook up so the
> > yarn will not fall off the hook.
> > >>
> > >> Cindy Z.
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
> > [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lovette
>Yewchan
> > >> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:42 PM
> > >> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> > >> Cc: blindstitchers at googlegroups.com
> > >> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] crochet help?
> > >>
> > >> I am trying to teach myself to crochet. I get the slip knot but how
> > >> do you then pull the yarn through for another stitch?
> > >> I just don't quite get the motion needed here and hope someone can
> > >> use words to describe it.
> > >> Thanks.
> > >> Lovette
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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