Okay… that didn’t go very well! Let me rush to say that that’s got nothing to do with the pattern, but then again: I’m a novice crocheteer, I have to translate the crochet stitches into Dutch and this yarn wasn’t the best yarn for this project.
You can find the lovely beginner-friendly pattern here:
Creativeyarn: Crochet Openwork Handwarmers
I’m a loose crocheteer and still being a novice I tend to start tight and end up much more loose in the stitches. Knowing that I already took a smaller hook, but I’m not happy with the upper end of the one glove I made. Still, I had lots of fun and this is the first somewhat bigger project in American English crochet so the learning part in dealing with all of this made it worth while! The beginner-friendly pattern made me not give up. Giving up would just have meant that I wouldn't have tried this on my own anymore. Instead I would have seen my local crochet guru and she would have worked it out, even though her English isn't great when it comes to crafts. Having had this experience I now feel quite confident: I did it all by myself! Okay, not quite according to the pattern....
One of the things I learned in the end is that I’ve been doing half double crochet all over the pattern instead of double crochet as I should have been doing. Imagine… it’s sloppy already… If I’d used double crochet this would have been one giant glove!
Tomorrow I’ll give it another try with different yarn and let’s see what will happen then :-)
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