I remember seeing the Art of Crochet advertised on TV I think in the middle of last year. It sparked my interest as I love crafty things and my "want" is to be able to try my hand at many different crafts. I am severely lacking in time for craft but hey that doesn't stop a girl hoping and dreaming does it???
I guess I am what you could call a serial hoarder of recipes and craft project patterns that I stash away to try at some point. Currently I am in the process of printing my recipe collection and am making each thing and using my family as guinea pigs to try out recipes that have caught my eye over the years. The ones my family enjoy I put on my blog to share but also to keep a photo and the recipe itself in a place where it won't get lost or ruined etc.
My craft patterns are kept in our bookshelf just waiting to be utilised. I have knitting patterns, crochet patterns, christmas decorations, quilting, decoupage, felting, clothing, you name it, it is probably on my shelf! I am kinda embarrassed to admit it but I currently have over 200 things on my "want to make list" lol. Other than the crochet patterns from "The Art of Crochet" which will be a growing collection I have put a stop on my pattern hoarding for now. I usually flag things with one of those little stick it labels when it is something that I really either think I can do or want to give it a go. I will just go through one thing at a time, many of them I will probably change my mind on by the time I go to make them lol but hey who knows, I may just get there one day!!
Crochet was one thing that had always eluded me. I admired the finished results but I just couldn't quite grasp how to do it lol. So when I saw this advertised I knew that I just had to at least get the first one and give it a go. Hubby convinced me to subscribe to it and then if I decided after the first few installments that I was just not cut out to crochet, we would then stop it. So I subscribed and I must say I love it. I normally cringe at the idea of subscribing to this sort of thing because lets face it, it is darn expensive. But in this case I feel happy that it is money well spent as I absolutely adore the patterns that come with it and I have flagged the majority of them for me to attempt at some point in the future. Currently I am up to issue 31, not of course in crocheting the squares, I am way behind in that lol, but that is how many issues I now have. Which means there are still 89 left to go. That is going to be ALOT of folders worth of patterns and many balls of wool lol. Each week comes with the ball of wool for you to use to crochet that week's square which at the end of the series will be joined together to make the rug that is featured on the cover above.
To keep me honest and to ensure that I will in fact make use of this collection I have decided to put each finished square on my blog. I am pretty happy with my efforts so far. They aren't perfect by any means but I think for an absolute beginner they aren't too bad.
This was the square required for Booklet 1.
And here is my finished square,,,,this hasn't been pinned out yet.
I think I actually prefer crochet to knitting because it seems to come together so much faster. I look forward to making many more items.
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