Had To Be There

This was kind of funny, even though it was a "had to be there" moment. At the Crochet Club meeting last night I was helping a lady learn how to do a new stitch. It had been two weeks since we had last attempted this stitch, and we hadn't had much time before the meeting ended. On this night we had ample time for her to practice before we went home, assuring that she would remember what she learned.

She couldn't find the hook she'd used before so we chose one in close size and went to town on the new block. Everything went well and she's a quick learner (even though she keeps saying she's always messing up).  I crocheted the first row to get her started, since that is the hardest part to do. Then she began the next row and did very well with getting used to "loading" the yarn over her hand and controlling her loop sizes.  I went back to my seat to work on my own project.

She completed the second row and started a third, pulling more yarn loose from the skein, Then I heard "Uh-oh" as a big wad of yarn started coming out. I went over to help and suddenly we realized that the problem wasn't a simple manufacturing glitch.  A shiny pink size J crochet hook had just arrived from the center of the skein!

Oh my! That had been missing for two weeks! It seems that when we left two weeks ago our crochet lady had stuck the hook in the top of the skein which was promptly eaten by the skein during the ride home.

How many times have we all stored our hooks in the yarn? Well, that solves that mystery and reminds us to take the extra time to put our tools away when finished.