If you found anything odd from this photo taken for my recent crochet project, don’t laugh please! That’s the best what a person like me, a complete self-taught learner can get. Crochet , to me, is almost like something impossible and impracticable. I found it very difficult to manage right. Comparing to knitting, crochet is at the other pole of the difficulty level. Knitting is ranked as 8 while crochet is 2 (Note: this is a 1-10 ranking system. 1 means very difficult, 10 is very easy.)

However, I made it, even I could not clearly see the central ring hole at all, and even I can’t even say it looks like an equilateral hexagon…haha….who cares! It proved two things: one, crochet can be self-taught; two, crochet is not as hard as I thought. There is nothing really mysterious about crochet skills. The only thing to master it is to practice and more practice.

Another things is, crochet does grow quickly or quicker than knitting. I didn’t believe it when I was doing my first crochet project, a square basket. Now I totally buy it. It only took me a couple of hours to do this little cotton mat. And mind you that as a novice, my speed was very very slow:-(