Music, cinema and lots and lots of crochet. This is how I celebrate our desired solstice, as a finishing touch to the countless things we can be grateful for in our month of June.
The students finally find their rest, the warm temperatures give us all their benefits and the days lengthen, and with them a little extra vitamin D helps our bodies to cope with certain ailments.
Janelle Monáe's suggestive album "The age of Pleasure" serves as a wonderful, summery soundtrack to what I have to tell you about my beginner crochet adventures. And Shakespeare's comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream" brought to the big screen in 1999. Here he shares a little gem from the album, a short collaboration with the wonderful Grace Jones and of course the trailer for the film in case you want to see how me, how Shakespeare comically trivializes the human passions that he would take so seriously in his dramatic plays (while you passionately knit) :)
My practice in the previous post with the granny stitch and the wonders that so many crocheters share on Instagram (bags, cardigans, slippers...... made only with granny square have only increased my desire to learn how to make grannies, and being able to understand the instructions both in text and in graphics. So I got to work. I started by following YouTube tutorials, but in the end it was just imitating what the crocheters I visited did and I wasn't delving into the logic of what they were doing. In the end if you only copy someone else's movements you will only be able to repeat the same thing but not understand the fundamentals to be able to make your own grannies.
So after some frustration, I set out to find a quality book for both beginners and advanced users that not only showed the clear images of the grannie, but also the written and graphical pattern. Why? Well, because I have realized that my way of learning crochet. It is not intuitive or inductive but deductive and I need to understand every step I take, and for me graphics are vital when I do not understand the text. Maybe this will happen to you too, if you're just starting out.
Fortunately the gods favored me and I found the best book, unbeatable in teaching to learn how to make grannies.
The 2017 second edition of "The Granny Square book" by Margaret Hubert.
And...... I MADE IT!!!, finally!!!!! By following the instructions, you learn not only to make these models but to understand what combinations and how the geometric shape is produced.
So here I leave you, my humble beginner achievements:
They are patterns 75 "Savannah" and 95 "Angelica" from the book with 100% XL organic cotton from the Hilaturas LM brand, for crochets between 5-7mm. I will have this cotton on sale on August 7th in Fifi's store!!!!! :)
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