[Nfb-krafters-korner] Crochet Class

[Cathy]

Hi Lovette,

When you have finished your chain, turn the work so that the front of the
chain (the part with the two loops on it) is facing you. your hook is on the
right side of the work with the hook itself at the back of the chain. The
work spreads from right to left in front of you with the end with the tail
at the end on the left. You have your last chain still on your hook. 
Now   feel the first stitch by locating the first two loops and the space
just behind them. skip that stitch and find the next stitch to its left, and
place your hook in the space between the two loops in the front and the back
of the chain. Two loops on hook now. Bring the working yarn around from
behind so it swings around in front of the hook to lay from left to right
heading back toward the ball. now there are three loops on hook.  Take the
first loop (the actual two loops from your chain) over the yarn just laid
over the hook, (I previously described this process as back out of the loop
closest to the hook.)   it means the same thing. Now there are two loops on
the hook. wind yarn around behind hook and lay it from left to right on the
hook between the hook and the two loops already on the hook. this time take
the two loops on the hook off over the yarn you have just laid on the hook,
or back out and pull the working yarn through both loops. ) same thing.) Now
one loop on hook. stitch completed. 

When you have completed that first row of SC, chain one, (this is what you
must do before turning to begin another row of SC. Turn your work so that it
is again facing with the hook on the right and the piece spread out to the
left of the hook. you should feel two loops with a space behind them running
the length of your piece. Count these to be certain you have nineteen
stitches. Crochet into the first loop after the hook this time, because that
turning chain is considered your first stitch. 

This is the process. Try it again.

As for your hands hurting, I suspect you may be gripping your work tightly
because you are tense and trying so hard, so try to relax. 

Cathy
  

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lovette Yewchan
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:29 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Crochet Class

so how do you actualy turn the work?
Lovette

On 2012-02-23, at 6:54 PM, Cathy wrote:

> Hi Lovette,
> 
> Crocheting in the round huh?
> 
> Well, if a person wants to purposely do that, what they do is to chain and
> when they have as many chains as they want, they attach the first chain to
> their last chain. So perhaps you inadvertently did that. another
> possibility, and I think the most likely,  is that you may have single
> crocheted in the front loops of the chain, and then instead of turning
your
> work, and crocheting in the front loops of the row you'd just crocheted,
you
> instead began to single crochet into the back part of the beginning chain.
> This also would create a sort of circular  pattern. Tanya, maybe this
would
> even create a quarter moon. Look at the instructions I have posted from my
> friend Faith and see if they will work better for you.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lovette
Yewchan
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:44 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Crochet Class
> 
> I think there'd be a hole if you missed the place to put the hook in.
> I am going to start over and chain two before starting a new row and see
how
> that goes.
> I showed my crochet to someone who teaches it and she said I was going in
> the round and could not figure out what I had done.
> But she said I am doing the stitches right just something at the beginning
> of the rows are going wrong.
> Lovette
> 
> On 2012-02-23, at 4:00 PM, Tanya Wheatley wrote:
> 
>> Hi Lovette,
>> 
>> I was thinking maybe I was missing one of the holes to put the hook back 
>> through to make the single crochet stitches. Hopefully we can figure it
> out 
>> on Friday!
>> 
>> Tanya
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Lovette Yewchan" <lyewchan at telus.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:49 PM
>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists"
<nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Crochet Class
>> 
>> I've had he same problem. Not sure where the problem starts but I suspect
> it 
>> is when starting a new row.
>> Lovette
>> 
>> 
>> 
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