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Hi all <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I've just recently (as in... yesterday...) gotten back into crocheting. My grandmother taught me, way back when I was in the fifth grade, but I had dropped it till I was watching a friend knitting a token and I just got the urge to take it up again. >^.^<

So, thanks to Eva's wonderful hard work, I managed to find approximately the same pattern I loved so much before for the baby blanket I want to make(the lady who 'reinspired' me is five months pregnant, and I thought it would make a nice 'thank you'), and even (after about four hours) managed to decipher the crochet-shorthand.

All day long I've been practically giving myself a blister crocheting away (is crocheting even a word? lol)

I'm all of halfway through the first row of shells(if any of you are unfamiliar with a shell pattern, it's 8 triple crochets in one stitch, skip to chains, one single crochet, skip a chain, shell again). -.-

Is that a normal sort of speed, or am I ridiculously slow because I'm so out of practice? At this rate, my blanket and my friend's baby will be 'finished' at about the same time.. lol



(If this didn't make the greatest deal of sense, please forgive, it's fairly late and I'm in a goofy mood)

Sometimes when you take crocheting (yes, it is a word - at least on this forum it is!) up again after not doing it for a long time it takes awhile to get yourself back up to speed. Besides, the stitch you described is not a simple one, and not only takes a lot of time but a lot of yarn! As long as you get the blanket finished, it doesn't really matter if it is done before the baby arrives. Good luck, and welcome back to the crochet world. <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Hiya from vicksburg! If you need help, there's truckloads of experience around here. Just ask!

Remember when you learned how to ride a bike ? At first you wouldn't go so fast but once you got the hang of it you would go faster and faster. It's the same with crochet <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Soo... yes, I'm miserably slow. Hehe... good. I couldn't imagine how anyone could get anything worthwhile actually *done* at that slow rate of speed. Thinking of the kingsize afghan my grandmother made was practically making me twitch! lol

Slow or not, though, I'm enjoying myself immensely, and that's what counts. I love to make things, and even slow it's easy to see the progress I've made (which is important to someone like me with ADD and who gets discouraged fairly easily. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> )

And as to it taking a lot of yarn... yes, it is taking a lot. But after the first row and a half, you can't even really tell I've used any of the skein I got... I figure at most it will take two, *maybe* three. At $1.97 a skein, even my ultra-tight budget can take it. lol Especially spread out over the months this little project is going to take me! >.<