Hello Everyone!
First I want to say that this is the most recent item I have made using a pattern. I have been crocheting and knitting since I was nine years old. I have made many scarves, baby blankets, Afghans, etc,. without patterns.
My first project my grandmother taught me was a crocheted blanket in three pastel colors. Between my Grandmother and my own Mother, neither one was taught to read a pattern, but could look at something and then make it, so that is how I was taught. My Mom is Chinese and she also taught me to read a picture crochet book out of a Japanese book by looking at the diagrams.
I decided at the end of 2008 that I would start to read simple patterns and make something. My first item I learned to read was a knitted felted kitty pie (cat bed). At that time I learned the continetal knitting, which I picked up quickly. I then was taught to read a simple crochete felted kitty pie once again.
January 6th, I joined some great ladies at Fiber Friday, this is where a group of women meet to sit and share patterns, etc. I learned my first actual pattern project with determination. I wanted to learn how to read and incorporate the pattern into a design. I was almost done with my 1st gaunlet, realized I messed up, took it all apart. I got home started over and finished my first purple gaunlet on Friday, 13th of January 2009. I am very pleased! Enjoy!
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