Jessie C

United States

I have just started to venture into the world of the more expensive yarns. That's why I like the loveknitting web site, it gives me a chance to try out the more expensive yarns that are on sale which doesn't cost an arm or a leg ( for example to make a sweater). I also crochet which I was taught at the age of 10 yrs by a sweet grandmotherly neighbor. She taught both my sister and I to crochet. She had the patience of a saint. She was so sweet and kind to us that my sister and I picked it up very fast and taught ourselves " to read a doily or whatever we wanted to make" before we graduated to the written pattern. What a gift that sweet woman gave to two little girls that summer. It has been a good memory to visit from time to time of my sister and I struggling to learn how to crochet and to learn how to control the tension of the thread with our small hands. This was the beginning of a long relationship with hand crafts in: knitting , sewing , quilting, tole painting and wood w

Knitting
19 Skills
Knitting: Over 50 years
19 Skills
- Cast on & bind off
- Knit and purl stitches
- Simple increase & decrease
- Picking up stitches
- Fair Isle
- Lace Work
- Knitting in the round
- Turn a heel
- Intarsia
- I-cord
- Ribbed
- Tubular cast on/off
- Short rows
- Garter
- Kitchener
- Stocking
- Slipped stitches
- Cables
- Provisional cast on
Crochet
20 Skills
Crochet: Over 50 years
20 Skills
- Chain
- Slip stitch
- Single crochet
- Double crochet
- Afghan Stitch
- Increase & decrease
- Surface crochet
- Half double crochet
- Bullion/Roll stitch
- Magic Ring
- Colorwork
- Front/Back post stitch
- Double treble crochet
- Lace Crochet
- Treble crochet
- Working in the round
- Filet crochet
- Hairpin crochet
- Freeform
- Broomstick crochet