blog post 5

So today is another day, I honestly haven't accomplished anything else. I have been so busy trying to catch up with my other classes that I haven't made any of the other squares, but since we have a 4 day weekend I will have so much time to catch up on my creating more squares. I also tried to upload a picture to my last post but for since my blog is attached to my Google drive on my phone I'm going to have to try and transfer the picture over to my phone so that I can upload it maybe next week.

honestly I wish I would have done something that would not require so much time, like I maybe trying to cook food and record my experience but instead I chose crochet which hurts my wrists. is it to late to change my choice on what im doing? oh well, I guess I can power through this and try and continue to create more stuff. I wish I was more interested in this at this time in my life but I with so much going on by the time I get home I am so tired that once I lay down I am ready for bed. Well this is my update for this week, hopefully this time next week I will have so much more content to post since I will have time to work over the course of four days, until next time.

blog post 4

hey guys, so I did manage to crochet some and I have fully completed one and although I do not have a photo to upload right now I can later tonight and that is what I plan to do. so when I looked up the granny stitch I did find some different versions of it and I found one that is pretty interesting so I did decide to crochet that one. it took me only about an hour to crochet it and it wasn't to difficult I had a good amount of fun creating it and if I could create more like that one I will have no problem getting them done.

I honestly am slacking in my project a little bit because I have been swamped in math homework and class work, but this week I do have some free time so I will have way more time to create more squares and then upload about them. So let me tell you about what I have created so far. so far with the square that I crocheted last week I made it with multi colored yarn, and I plan on using that as well as black for the rest, but with this it is really cute and the way the colors blend in with one another it kind of looks like it was supposed to be used for the exact reason I used it for, I really am hoping at the end of this that I will have enough squares to put together to make something even greater, but one can only hope.

elevator pitch!

blog post 3

hey guys its another week of my blog and I've done research and found some things I think I can make but so far I haven't been able to. I have attempted to create one called the granny stitch, I will link you to a video on YouTube that I tried to follow but it ended up being a bit to fast for me to keep up with so I am going to have to try again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npIsh-o9AM0
here is a picture of what it is supposed to look like. I got this picture at https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5soDIGjvgPVaJEEtVV3-5RkNdCh465YVIpCgkakCmBRFsVaPlKDuKBl71-XRmEzOeRM3Ft7hrUSMlr0yrNPxCZOHuQQh6BQ8gBmO0pbsCND-AeqcWfFDCZrEWiKwyiBbv2v7UL-dHT0pq/s1600/Granny+manta++(10).JPG
When I tried to create this stitch for some reason I couldn't get my hand on it and I messed up on the third row and then un-did it all to see if I can find a new video that might go a slower pace and make it easier to follow.

I would have taken a picture of what I did but I know it was so bad that it wouldn't have been worth it to post it or show you guys. I do have some other stitches that I am going to attempt later on and every week I should have an update on what I have done and hopefully I managed to create the granny stitch by next week and if I can, I will be uploading a picture later this week actually on my progress.

The next crochet stitch and pattern that I will be trying to accomplish would be "crochet in the round". It looks kind of complicated and I am not fully sure I am capable of doing it but I sure will be trying my hardest to. I am aware though that this one is not a square but a circle but I do not think it will matter later on. well that is all for this week, talk to you guys later!

  
 

proposal!

Shelby Fleming

Mrs.Newman

Senior English, Per. 4

Date-2/3/2016

                                                          Everyday Is A Good Day To Crochet
Help! I'm crocheting and I cant get up! so some background on my topic would be the reason why I chose this was because earlier in my life my mom started to crochet and I was so interested in it because she made this HUGE blanket for my dad and I was like amazed, like wow mom! you are so cool! WOW! AMAZING! and so when she finished this blanket which took her a good half a year to finish I asked her could you teach me how to crochet. She said yes! while I was being taught she told me about how my grandma crochet and how all the ponchos I had worn when I was younger she was the one who had made them, and that was just like holy moly why can everyone else in my family crochet but I didn't know how to? so I got taught and ive only progressed from that point, picking it up and stopping it every once in awhile. so some questions that I will hopefully answer during this would be, can I do this? how many stitches am I capable of learning in this? will I be able to keep up with learning a different stitch or pattern every week? hopefully I can!

 In order to follow through with this I will need to do research on how to do a stitch or how to do the pattern, watch videos learn when to cross over, which link I need to go through. So I already know how to start everything off, how to do a single crochet, and how important it is so go through the correct one when you are crocheting. So I will need to do more research on which stitch I will be doing each week, which level of difficulty it is and then I will be progressing on the stitching. What I will need to know is mostly just the difficulties of each stitch and how difficult it will be to do them and how long it will take me to do just one 8x8 square.

Where I will be finding all my information will be on YouTube and Google because I will be able to find online all the patterns or stitches and how difficult they are then go onto YouTube and then look them all up since I learn best with seeing a video and not reading on how to do something. I wont really be able to interview anybody except my mom since she is the only one I know that can crochet and since she made that big huge blanket when I was younger she knows the nooks and crannies of crocheting.

The outcome of my research will be having all of the stitches and patterns possibly printed out and put into a binder so that if someone looks, they can see them from easy to difficult and will be able to find every single site that I went on, all the videos I watched in order to learn how to do what they are looking at. including all the 8x8 squares that I will be able to show everyone that I could also put into the book so they can see an example of what I made that follows through with everything. My product will be a bunch of stitches and patterns possibly put together to create one big blanket that I could possibly gift to someone or donate depends on how great this turns out.

This topic is viable because it asked us what we do outside of school that is school related and honestly I do not know of any school that provides you with a course on crocheting and I do this sometimes on my free time and I took my own time at home to learn how to crochet in the first place, also it was in the suggested box on things people have done so why not start on something that I know and just further my knowledge on it making it a bigger learning experience.

blog post 2

I started to crochet and then I consulted with my teacher on ideas which means that I now have to start over from what I had originally planned to do and we came up with each week I can come up with a different stitch and pattern to do on an 8x8 square which I will hopefully be stitching together at the end. So when I did look up stitch patterns Sunday on YouTube, because there are so many tutorials on that thing, I found one that is just one step more difficult then a single stich and that is a double stich which is actually just one extra step more. I could still use some volunteers but if I cant find anyone that is fine, I will still be presenting everything that I have created in this process. hopefully later this week or next week I will have an update picture of some 8x8 stitch and patterns, also labeled so you know which one is which, so that you can see how far I am in the process :)