Crochet Time!

My crochet and my life

[last-flight-of-dickarus]

oh i'm absolutely gonna cry

[last-flight-of-dickarus]

No you get it. This is it.

Poulin was 18 at her first olympics. Team canada wanted her to stay with a host family during training because she had never lived on her own before. So caroline ouellette, charline labonté, and kim st-pierre took in this teenage prodigy so she'd have exactly the mentors she needed, and 20 years later poulin is a five-time olympic medalist, captain of team canada, and captain of a champion team in a women's professional hockey league bigger than anything her mentors had. And caroline is on the ice to celebrate with her and be part of the future she worked for.

I love women supporting and uplifting and mentoring and creating the next generation of groundbreaking women in sports, and I love it when they're lesbians.

[poetryofmuses]

"what do you do for a living?" Oh I am a professional hopeless romantic and I read books and cry in my free time.

[tinyshoopuf]

If I ever knit, tat, or crochet something for you, just know that not only are you getting the item I made, you are also getting a piece of me. I mean that in the grandiose metaphorical sense and, unfortunately, also very literally. I apologize for the hair.

[gazapoindomito]

(cat)hair

[hearteyesilya]

imagine winning the walter fucking cup with your wife!!!

[stuckinapril]

They weren’t lying when they said that as an adult you have to fight for your life to practice your hobbies

[stuckinapril]

They also weren’t lying when they said that when you fail to do so your soul shrivels up inside your body and dies

[counting-stitches]

Tragic that the frost are my favorite color but FUCK YEAH VICTOIRE STOP THE THREEPEAT

[counting-stitches]

Nothing like a relaxing evening of watching the pwhl in the background while on a 9pm work call

[hearteyesilya]

stace with a "wife ❤️ line" bracelet!!!

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[the-iron-shoulder]

Hey crocheting tumblr, I picked up the basic-bitch “I taught myself to crochet” kit last night. My friend taught me some basics two weeks ago but I’ve basically forgotten it all because I can’t visualize shit (hell yeah aphantasia, or damn close to it at least), but I have a book now, so it’s cool. My fiber art of choice is cross-stitch, but I figure it might be worth expanding my gayness into other forms of handicrafts and seeing if they’re fun. Might end up making some little vidja-game dolls or something if this works out.

what do you wish you’d known when you started crocheting?

[counting-stitches]

Experiment with ways to hold your yarn. I picked one from the first video I saw, kept powering through until my hand stopped cramping, now the way I hold my yarn to keep tension is mildly concerning and basically impossible for anyone else to replicate.

I also have aphantasia but it has literally never been a problem for me when crocheting because I know what the stitches feel like. You should become familiar with the types of stitches, what each motion/part of crocheting creates, and then how to tell the different stitches apart based on that.

Also I’m sure a million other people have also said this, but never be afraid to undo your own work if you’re unhappy with it. On the flip side, don’t strive for perfection 100% of the time either, because then you’ll never finish anything. You need to find the middle ground of “this may have issues, but I’m happy enough to finish it”

[anxiousangerball]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

[knottybliss]

HOW DARE YOU

I WILL LEARN PEARL KNOTTING AND NO BEING SHALL STOP ME

[anonknitter]

I felt like making a doily

[yournewcryptid]

Math is really tiring, im so glad i finally get to relax and do some knitting and crochet and i oh god oh my what the fuck

[counting-stitches]

Throwback to the time when a group of us were trying to troubleshoot why one of my friend’s hexagon cardigan wasn’t coming out like the pictures. It wasn’t until the FOURTH person looked at it, that they counted that there were actually 8 sides, not 6 like everyone else counted

[melociraptor]

How to crochet a temperature blanket in eight easy steps (with pictures) :

Step 1: choose your colors and set the ranges

Step 2: get started crocheting!

Step 3: hmm. This is only a month and it’s pretty long.

Step 4: maybe a double crochet was the wrong stitch for this

Step 5: haha yeah it’s a little big

Step 6: stop looking at the blanket as a whole.

Step 7: keep crocheting. Ignore the fact that you can no longer easily lift the project. Stop taking pictures of your progress entirely. Keep the finished parts folded so you never really see it all at once.

Step 8: finish and gaze upon the titan you have created.

[ianmalcolmptsd]

The crochet version of writers block that is Wanting to Crochet, Having Time To Crochet, Having the Yarn You Want To Use, but every single pattern seems wrong

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2023??

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Beekeeping 101

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??

How to use and sew with a sewing machine

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that's okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece's black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

How to garden

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Ukrainian

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

[knithacker]

Happy National Bird Day! Here are 4 Crochet Bird Amigurumi Patterns Designed By Tanya Zhylyayeva to mark the day ... get the patterns: 👉 https://buff.ly/35c54cY 🐦