My First Lesson in Crochet Instructions
I’m so excited to be doing crochet! And, as you might expect if you know me, I went off and impetuously bought some hooks and crochet cotton because I was itching to get started. I brought them home and tried to work some stitches. But it was awkward and didn’t flow. It seemed that the hooks were too large for the thread. And that was the first stage in my first lesson in crochet instructions.
Since I was having trouble, I consulted a book of simple crochet instructions. You know what they say, right? “If all else fails, read the instructions.” And I discovered that there are several types of crochet hooks. There are also different types of crochet material. Crochet cotton is like a thick thread or maybe a very thin string. It is much thinner than a yarn. And even within the categories of yarn, there is a variety of weights and sizes. I will write longer posts later that detail the different types of hooks and the different weights of yarn.
For now, it’s enough to point out that there are very small steel hooks and larger aluminum hooks. Within these categories, there are different sizes. The steel hooks are small enough to work with a fine thread, like the crochet cotton that I bought. The larger aluminum hooks are suitable for yarn. So my aluminum hooks were too large for my cotton thread.
Undaunted, I dug up some scraps of yarn that I had stashed and got to work with them, reading the crochet instructions to practice the single crochet stitch. My aluminum hooks work much better with them. Crocheting was fun. It isn’t pretty yet, but it was fun.
And that’s my first lesson in simple crochet instructions. You need to match the type of your hook to the type of material. Choose a steel hook for a thread and an aluminum hook for a yarn. And then get to work!
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