Hello everyone from Peggy54 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

[Peggy54]

I taught myself to crochet when I was about 12 years old after I found a crochet pattern book at a home where I was babysitting eight kids. I had the kids in bed and my homework done and was scrounging around for a magazine to look at and found a pattern for a doily that I fell in love with. When the children's mother came home, I made a bargain with her and went home with the 50 cent pattern book instead of the $3.50 I was owed for babysitting. I just couldn't let that doily get away from me. My mother found me an old hook and bought me a ball of ecru thread. With the help of the pictures in the back of the book, I worked, and ripped, and worked, and ripped and got about three-quarters of the doily made. By then I could crochet and switched to afghans, using my mother's hoard of yarn scraps to make granny squares. After spending more hours sewing them together than crocheting, I began making afghan patterns that were crocheted in one piece and have made dozens over the years. I also made sweaters, toys and doll clothes for my nieces.

I still have the doily but I don't know if I'll ever finish it. I think if it was white I might have, but I grew to dislike the ecru. It just looked pre-dirty to me. I haven't done much crocheting for the past eight years because my hands and wrists began getting very sore when I tried. Recently, I complained loudly enough and my doctor sent me to a specialist. She diagnosed me with inflammatory arthritis and now I'm giving myself shots once a week.....and managing to get back into crocheting. I'm now almost 60 and my search for smallish projects that I could get limbered up with led me to this forum. I still remember all the stitches, but I am looking forward to learning new things, like Tunisian crochet.

I worked for years as a writer of one sort or another but I'm hoping to semi-retire and only write fiction in a few years. That will give me time to pursue all of my hobbies -- crocheting, sewing, woodworking, gardening, etc.

I'm looking forward to talking with other forum members and learning new things. Does anyone out there crochet for tiny pre-mature babies? I'm thinking that is something I might like to get into.

[kl1000]

Welcome to the Forum. I am Larisa doily maker

[Barbara G.]

Hello,

Welcome to the crochet forums! It is nice to meet you and please make yourself at home here among friends! Thanks for joining us!

We do have members here who crochet for preemies which is a blessing! Looking forward to hearing more from you!

[Lynda Fey]

Hi Peggy and welcome. It's nice to meet you.

[blueeyes68]

Hello and welcome to Crochet Talk. It is great to meet you. We are excited that you are joining us.

Debbie