Balls!

It was my turn to bring home the balls that we've been knitting, in my knitting class, and photograph them as part of a collaborative project. The photos will all be exhibited together at Dragon Hall in Norwich.

My brain is filled with crochet.

These are the things that I know now, but didn't know last week:

1) I now know what a turning stitch is! Most of the books say to make a foundation chain, which is easy, then tell you to make a 'turning chain' expecting beginners to intuitively know what this means! It took hours for the penny to drop and to realise that this was just another chain stitch. Grr, wasted hours!

2) I love that crochet language sounds like lines from Macbeth:

'Double, Double treble.
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.'

3) There are two methods for crocheting. By inserting the hook under both threads on a stitch, or by inserting the hook under just one thread. Only one book mentioned that there were two methods, leaving me utterly confused.

4) Apparently you can get a row counter phone app for your phone now! See: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1-2-3-knit/id375019165?mt=8 . I don't have an iPhone though. Perhaps I could knit myself one??!

5) It's really hard to learn crochet by yourself. Sue, my knitting tutor at Dragon Hall, taught me more in half an hour than I'd managed to teach myself over the course of a day.

What I still don't know:
1 - 99) I am at that stage where I don't really know what I don't know, but suspect that my lack of knowledge is immense!!

100) I don't know why I seem to lose one more stitch on every row that I crochet. I can therefore make triangles, but not squares at the moment...