#Crocheting

[crochetmelovely]

Both 😂💗🤪 @anniescatalog

Link to my blog/website: https://crochetml.com/

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[ceaselessbasher]

I arrive at the yarn store and grab a skein off the shelf, the exact same brand, type, weight and color of the one I bought a week ago. Everyone in the store immediately knows that I miscalculated the amount of yarn I'd need for a project. They start booing at me. They are throwing crocheted tomatoes at me. The old lady giving knitting lessons in the corner is shaking her head. She had such high hopes for me. The cashier spits at me when I pay for it.

#aaaaand scene. this is a dramatic reenactment of what my brain is sure should happen. #mogologue #knitting #crocheting #crafts #yarn crafts

[daily-spooky]

#crochet #crocheting #goth #gothic #funny #lol #haha #humor #meme #memes #funny memes #wholesome #dark academia #aesthetic #alternative #retro #pale #grunge

[iknityounot]

(Long post, sorry y'all)

A little more than two years ago now, my grandmother passed away. She and my grandpa had moved down to my home town a few years before so we could take care of them. I brought them groceries once a week, helped them write checks, fixed tvs, and found lost things. I was really close with my grandma.

In addition to her hilarious personality and dry wit, one of my favorite things about her was that she was a painter and a crafter like me! She used to crochet, and I took her to the craft store a couple of times so she could get more yarn and books on crochet. But her arthritis and the shaking in her hands kept getting worse, so she eventually had to stop.

She kept her most recent project, a granny square blanket, safely packed away in a plastic bin. She told all of us she was going to finish it one day.

Her hands never got better, and when she got sick, and we found out it was cancer, she rapidly deteriorated.

After she passed, I went to work helping my mom clean out my grandparents apartment so we could move my grandpa in with her. In our frantic cleaning, I found that bin again:

DOZENS of granny squares, dozens of half used skeins. I asked my mom what she wanted me to do with it, and she said she didn't care. I set it aside and later took it home.

Maybe a month later, that tumblr post about the Loose Ends Project was going around. It felt like a sign--I was never going to learn to crochet in order to finish my grandmother's blanket. But they might be able to help!

So I filled out the interest form. They got back to me SUPER quick. And maybe 2 weeks later, I was paired with volunteer in my state (only 2 hours away!) and the box of yarn, granny squares, and my grandmother's crochet hook were in the mail. That was at the end of January this year.

Over the next couple of months, my "finisher" emailed me regular updates on her progress, and asked me questions on my preferences for how she constructed the final blanket.

At the end of August, the blanket was done!

I had always intended the blanket to be a gift for my mother. So I cleaned it up, put it in the only bag I had big enough to fit it, and drove to my mom's. I gave the blanket to her and she was gobsmacked. I explained to her all about Loose Ends, and how someone volunteered to finish the piece for us. She was speechless. (I was quite pleased with this, because I am not the best at giving gifts, so this was a pretty exciting reaction!)

She said that it was the most thoughtful gift she had ever been given. She said "your grandma would love this". To which I replied, "yeah, I know she really wanted to finish it a couple of years ago". But that was when my mom dropped the bomb of a century on me--she told me that my grandma had started making those granny squares OVER 30 YEARS AGO. She had started the blanket when my grandpa was staying in the hospital, but that was back when my mom was younger than I am now! My grandma had packed them all away, planning on finishing it, when my grandpa was sent home from the hospital. Then it went from house to house, from condo in Chicago to their apartment in my hometown. All that time and my grandma had wanted to finish it, but couldn't. First because she was busy, then because she forgot how to do it, then because of her arthritis, and then because of the cancer. My mom said she had given up on expecting my grandma to finish it. 

She said I brought a piece of her childhood with her mom out of the past.

And really, all of this is to say, if you have seen or heard about the Loose Ends Project and have an uncompleted project or piece from a loved one who has passed away--these are your people. They were so kind and treated my project with such care. That box probably would have been found by my own grandkids one day if I hadn't heard about Loose Ends.

Five stars, absolutely worth it!

(From what I understand, you can sign up to volunteer too! If you have time to share, it might be worth checking out!)

#loose ends #the loose ends project #joy knits #text #long post #knit #knitting #crochet #crocheting #craft #crafting #diy #crochetblr #yarnblr #yarn #knitblr

[rosyopal-eva]

finally finished my ghost files crochet sweater! 👻 🫶🏻🥹 @wearewatcher

#watcher entertainment #shane madej #ryan bergara #watcher #ghost files #ghost files art #ghoul boys #crochet #crocheting

[cupalali]

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#crocheting #craftblr #yarn #crochetblr #crafts #yarn crafts

[ashcadence]

Love how crocheting is just 99%, "Wtf did I do wrong???" and undoing the whole project just to realize that you didn't do anything wrong in the first place

#crocheting #crochet #there's probably some weird life analogy there

[carterthefrog]

idk who needs to hear this but if you knit or crochet you do not need to stress about it all of the time. that defeats the purpose of having a hobby. yes sometimes i do projects that require learning new stitches and making several runs to the craft store and searching for a specific brand of yarn and counting stitches and recounting stitches. but i also have a blanket that i call my "idgaf blanket" and it's literally just a giant gloriously repetitive chain stitch blanket made of a conglomeration of whatever yarn i happen to have scraps of. my rules are no undoing for dropped stitches, no overthinking color patterns. for just this one project, i simply crochet it because i like the feeling of crocheting. sometimes i just need to work on my idgaf blanket and that's okay and when it's done i'm sure i'll appreciate it a lot more simply because it never gave me anxiety

#crochet #crocheting #knitting #fiber crafts #i crochet but im sure that the spirit of the idgaf blanket can be applied to any hobby #yes you should challenge yourself and make beautiful art you can take pride in #but also you don't have to stop creating whenever you don't have to motivation to do so #don't be afraid to have an idgaf blanket #fiber arts #crafts #art

[sleepyfawn]

The pattern said "heirloom quality" and it did not lie.

#crochet #crocheting #crochet choker #crafts #needlework #handmade #the pattern is by KirstenHollowayDesgn on Etsy

[somnambulant-seraphim]

A few more pieces of my greyscale blanket. Some more of the granny stitch, hearts, crescent moons, and I even kind of made up my own version of a skull square! <|:^D

#crochet #crocheting #crochet blanket #granny square #my crafts #my post #my photos #yarn #handmade #sewing #sew #handsewn #hand sewing #cozycore #mothcore #moth aesthetic #grandmacore #crowcore #corvidcore #warmcore #fiber art #crescent moon #mooncore #forestcore #fairycore #cottagecore #cottage aesthetic #goblincore #autumn aesthetic #fall aesthetic

[jewellery-box]

Irish Crochet Tea Gown, c. 1912

Augusta Auctions

#20th century #fashion history #historical fashion #crochet #crocheting #lace #tea gown

[remitiras]

Friend of mine sent me this and I think this will really fit in my blog.

#i think this meme is originally from Facebook which makes this zo much funnier #crochet #crochet memes #crocheting #knitting #knitting memes #yarn #alt text #depression memes #memes

[iknityounot]

I am going to make this a separate post, since the other one got so long.

So, like I mentioned there, I sent my grandma's granny squares off to my Loose Ends "finisher" with the intent of giving my mother the blanket when it was complete. I had NO thoughts in my head at all for saving something for myself.

When I received the box in August with the completed blanket, it had two additional things in it. It had a letter and a bag. The bag had two and a half skeins of left over yarn (please peep the picture of all they yarn I sent this lady, I was SO surprised she was able to use so much of it!) my grandmother's crochet hook, and a single granny square. In the letter, my finisher, Katherine, wrote that she set aside one of the original squares my grandma made--she specifically said the one she guessed may have been one of the first--in order to put it in a central place in the finished blanket. But then she forgot about it when she went to put the blank together, so now there was one left over. She said she sent it along with the blanket, hoping it would still find a home.

So, like I said in my last post, I gathered up the blanket and brought it to my mom....but I kept that lone granny square for myself. I immediately knew what I wanted to do with it:

I bought this little shadow box on Amazon, pinned in the granny square, and added my grandma's hook. I plan on hanging it in my little crafting zone in my apartment ❤️

Just another reason why the Loose Ends Project has my heart in a chokehold. There was so much thought and kindness that went into what Katherine did--for both me and my mom.

#joy knits #text #loose ends #the loose ends project #knit #knitting #knitblr #craft #crafting #craftblr #yarn #yarnblr #crochet #crocheting #crochetblr #diy #granny square #i cant not shill for them now #i just wish i was good/consistent enough to volunteer?

[freshstitches]

Crafty memes inspired by the brilliant suit reveal from the @kidsuper AW24 show.

#knitting #yarn #crafts #crocheting

[cozycraftzbl]

The army is growing

#crochet #amigurumi #crafts #handmade #borzoi meme #borzoi plush #borzoi #floofy boi #floofy #borzoi army #didn’t i do it for you #art #plush #sewing #memes #meme art #cute #doggo plush #dogs of tumblr #crocheting #crochet plushie #crochet art #amigurumi plush #long nose dog