blog post 13

hey guys, so I don't really know what to tell you besides the fact that its coming to the end of our blogs and although I haven't done a whole bunch with this, I have done a good amount of the work and I can tell you that during this process I have found it extremely hard to be able to do this. while I have tried to crochet I came across the fact that it hurts my wrists to much to be able to sit down for long periods of time and just crochet. Before when I was younger and I would crochet it would cause me pain to where I wouldn't be able to do much with my wrists. I have found that no matter how long of a break I take I can never not be in pain after I crochet. the most time I can ever take to sit down and crochet is just half an hour, any longer and I wont be able to do anything else like take a shower or do my laundry or homework, and honestly it takes well over an hour to do just one little square.

we have our TED style talks due in a couple of weeks and really how do I make what I have done into a whole thing about how this can better yourself, or a life lesson. the only thing I've learned from this is if I continue I could seriously cause a bad injury in my wrists, and that if I keep pushing myself to do something that I may enjoy but it turns out to make me in pain why continue? I think the only thing that comes out of this would possibly be try not to do something that could harm you, know your limits. if I had known this would do this to my wrists I would have chosen something else to do.

blog post 12

sooo this one as you can see didn't really turn out so great, I don't know why but I have such a difficult time making a square. like with the other ones it started in the middle and went outwards. this as you can tell started from the very bottom and I had to work my way up and at the ends it kind of started to curve? but this one is considered the "star stitch" and man was this one not easy to do. with how far I did get it took me well over an hour just to get there and I like how the middle areas look, it does look pretty nice and once I get more practice with the edges I should be able to make one of these and it should look pretty good. so next week hopefully I have 3 more of these to post, or upload pictures of. honestly at the end of the night, sitting down in front of my TV having the rest of my homework done and being able to pull up the videos on the TV and watching how they do these things, its relaxing you know? except when your family needs something and decides to talk to you when you are just trying to listen so you know which stitches to use and then having to go back in the video and trying to listen for the part again. In this one I used a half double crochet stitch, a single stitch and a stitch I for some reason don't really remember what it is called but when I remember I will update this post on what it is called. until next time guys!

blog post 11

so this is the second one that I created, this is also considered a "granny square" and honestly this one was a little bit more difficult to do. I was watching a video and the way they explained it was easy but hard at the same time. again I do wish I had used a different kind of yarn or at least a different color to make it easier and I would have probably had a more easier time creating this. this one I think took me around an hour? I had to back up the video I used so many times so that I could understand exactly what they were doing. again this kind of thing only used 2 kinds of stitches again, a single stitch and a double crochet stitch which yes did end up being so easy to do. this one was kind of cool learning how to make, like I was laughing because of the mess ups I made during the process but at the end I think I did a pretty good job. so the  next picture that I will be uploading, be ware that it did not go so well and I will more then likely be trying to create it again, but once I had different yarn completely.

blog post 10

so earlier this week I got around to taking a picture of something I made a little while ago. honestly this looks pretty decent for the very first one that I made. it took me about half an hour to create since it was pretty easy to make and while I was crocheting this I hurt my wrist (a previous injury from crocheting and moving my wrist to quickly) and it hurt for a couple of days so I was limited to what I could do. this is considered a "granny square", there really only about two kinds of stitches involved to create this. first one was a simple single stitch and the second one was a double crocheted stitch that may look difficult but once you do a couple of them it is super easy to do. what I think I could have done better was maybe use a solid yarn instead of one that goes from one color to another, if I did use a solid color, maybe like a light pink it would have been a bit easier to see the stitches that I used while going along. so this was my first one and I did use a YouTube tutorial but I cant find it nor do I remember which one I used to help me do this one so I am just going to say, if you want to re create this just look up granny squares on YouTube and you are 100% going to find a video that you will be able to use to crochet this. just a little fyi my next post will be the next "granny square" that I created. so see you in the next post!

blog post 9

hey everyone, so over the spring break I had huge plans to buckle down and crochet during the break. I had every day planned out to the T, and then I got a stomach virus. I was in so much pain I couldn't even eat for two days and couldn't get out of bed until Sunday evening it was completely horrible. So all my plans for everything I was going to crochet was ruined because I wasn't able to even move my hands very much besides grab my Gatorade.

Luckily I am almost better and can now follow through with my plans on what I am going to be crocheting. I was able to take a picture of what I already created but couldn't look at my screen long enough to be able to post it, since really anything made me sick to my stomach. I am really hoping that I can finish my plans by the end of next week and have at least 3? pictures uploaded. honestly this is a bit more then I think I am capable of doing like I thought that since I know how crochet that this would not be very hard to do and finish in a couple of week, and now here I am 6 week away from the due date and have little to nothing finished in the first place. hopefully I finish up in time, until next time, bye guys!

blog post 8

hey guys! so I have made a good amount of progress and during the break I'm going to be uploading images of everything that I have done, the name of all the stuff and such. I wish I had more time to do this project I really do, I am so swamped with homework lately that crocheting these things are becoming more and more difficult but its to late in the game to change my mind on my project now, plus what would I even do anyways? Any how, I have been drowning in homework to keep my grades up and I do hope that during the spring break I can make maybe 2 more? I think that will be my goal is to make two more and finish up the one I am working on currently and then make one big post with all the images and information, I was thinking maybe when I do upload the pictures that I should also do how long it takes me to create each one so that other people can get a good estimate of how long it would take them, a beginner or intermediate, if they decided to re create what I tried to re create.

During this process I have realized that this is a good amount more difficult then I thought it would be, the amount of concentration you need to have to remember which stitch to do next or how many links you need to make to continue the next section. I thought it would be way more easier since I had a good amount of experience with crocheting already but making all this? yeah no I am pretty much a beginner, good thing that I do understand a lot of the stitch names and remember how to do them. When I first learned how to crochet I started off by looking up all the stitches and information and that was a long time ago so you would have assumed that I would have forgotten but now coming back to it I do remember so much. I may have bit off more then I could chew with this project that I chose.
until next time guys.

blog post 7

hey guys, so not much to this post today...I haven't done anything and im going through a lot of stuff right now and I cant really get my mind straight enough to do any of the work. I wish you guys best until next week