Greetings from the UK!

Hello All,

My name is Nikki, I'm 33, Married with three children (ages 7, 9 and 11: two boys and one girl, the girl being the eldest!) from the United Kingdom.

I have been crocheting since August 2015 after being diagnosed with Endometriosis.

In between housework, school runs and looking for an employed job (been bringing up my family for the past ten years, now looking to go back to work!), I'm never not with a crochet hook in my hand, making either things for friends or family.

I am a self taught crocheter.

I just searched up this morning crochet forums, as I was looking for a place to connect with other like minded crocheters, not many people my age or in my area crochet, they seem to think only old ladies do what I do or those with mental health issues etc, which I think is pretty harsh! I am a strong believer if it makes you happy and you enjoy it, who cares what anyone thinks or says. I did join crochet related Facebook groups to connect with other crocheters etc but in all honesty, Facebook groups aren't my thing when it comes to connecting with people on a crochet level.

So decided to go old skool and this morning and look for crochet online "proper" communities and found Crochet Talk!

I am looking forward to connecting with new people and I hope to make some new friends along the way too!

Nikki

Hello Nikki, Welcome to this forum.

This is a friendly forum you will enjoy.

Spoula

Hi Spoula,

Thank you x

Hi Nikki,
Welcome.

Thanks Jean x

Hello and welcome to the crochet forums! Nice to have you here with us and looking forward to hearing more from you when you have time! :cool:

Thank you Barbara

Welcome to the Forum. I crochet filet items

HI all,

Greetings from the Great Lakes. New/back into collecting cards. Had a deck of cards in my hand since I was young and I even try and do a card trick with them now and then. Still trying to figure out what my collecting focus will be and trying to take everything in. Please say HI. Open to learning and growing in this hobby.

Thanks

hello! I love to crochet. I made several items.

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Originally Posted by Kathrynbow

HI all,

Greetings from the Great Lakes. New/back into collecting cards. Had a deck of cards in my hand since I was young and I even try and do a card trick with them now and then. Still trying to figure out what my collecting focus will be and trying to take everything in. Please say HI. Open to learning and growing in this hobby.

Thanks

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Hi and Welcome Kathrynbow

Lovely to meet you all!

I wish you all a lovely day!

Hi Nikki Jayne and welcome.
I am also in the UK I’m in Devon and self taught with some help from you tube as I’m a lefty it was nice to see that I could find some help on there for left handed crochet as I’ve only been doing it myself for five years but have come a long way in those five years and I had a tendency to doubt myself but the things I have made say otherwise.
I do prefer to follow a written pattern if possible.

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Originally Posted by spoula

Hello Nikki, Welcome to this forum.

This is a friendly forum you will enjoy.

Spoula

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Thanks for the reply Spoils, I hope so as I plan on using it and sharing my experience with others too

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Originally Posted by Wolvesrule8

Hi Nikki Jayne and welcome.
I am also in the UK I’m in Devon and self taught with some help from you tube as I’m a lefty it was nice to see that I could find some help on there for left handed crochet as I’ve only been doing it myself for five years but have come a long way in those five years and I had a tendency to doubt myself but the things I have made say otherwise.
I do prefer to follow a written pattern if possible.

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I could never understand written patterns when I started to learn, but now 5 years on, I can use both and understand both