Across the room was a gal who spoke up first. She liked my afghan project, yada, yada. I mentioned that I wasn’t doing roundi-round, but was doing this one by rows. She got up to see and really liked what she saw.
After making my initial long chain, I’d done double crochets all the way across. Then on the next rows I did 2 double crochets in every other hole. With no chain between anymore, everything goes very fast.
She’d not worked on anything in a long time and said she was going to go home and start crocheting something again. So I had an inspiring moment!
She also noticed that the yarn was not pulling from the end of the skein, but was going around the outside (I hate that). I’d tried to find the end but had given up. I told her she was more than welcomed to see if she could find it. She nodded her head and I threw the skein across the room to her, where she worked and worked to find the end. Meanwhile I kept crocheting, the yarn extending across the entire room. Luckily we were sitting on one end of the room where no one had to travel. After a while of pushing and pulling she got the right string!
That was good – it was the zebra yarn. As you can see, it’s intermittent, so next time I do variegated rows it will feed properly.
I hadn’t noticed until I took the picture, that the patterns (so far) are so different. I’d expected that, but to see the rotating one up top is really cool. Now, if I could actually figure out how to do that all the time – would that be cool or what?!
I ended up giving the girl one of my Eccentric Thrifter cards, telling her to go look at my hats…she’d never made one and they are so easy.
All toll, I had conversations with 3 different people about my crochet. It really made the usually quiet and somber waiting room a delightful experience. Always take yarn; it’s some sort of magnet, I think.
