When I was 8 months pregnant with my first son I wanted to crochet him blanket so he could sleep with it without me worrying about him suffocating. My problem was I had never crocheted before. I thought myself to knit scarfs when I was in college, but I hadn’t kept up with it. My friend talked me out of learning due to the fact that I was trying to become a licensed landscape architect and about to take my last exam, which I passed and probably wouldn’t have if I learned to crochet. Christmas came around and my son was 4 months old. I bought him a cute crocheted hat off of ETSY like I did for his birth announcements. The hat cost about $25 and I decided then that I was going to learn to crochet because it had to be cheaper than buying them. In January I taught myself to crochet hats and soon my friends were asking me to make hats, blankets and shoes for them. I eventually opened up my own ETSY shop, Hats and Knit Knacks.
Crocheting is really easy with practice and I taught myself how to crochet from youtube videos. I first found a video that I liked and then went and bought the supplies. What I have found is that most yarns and patterns use a G Hook (4.0 mm). So that is what I started with. I went to Michaels and bought 1 skein of yarn and a G Hook. This way you aren’t spending a ton of money on an entire kit if you don’t like it. I eventually went back and bought a set of hooks and have added larger hooks when patterns required them. Here are some of the videos I used.
Basic Double Crochet Hat with Ears
Granny Stitch Hat
Puff Stitch Hat
A great site to find patterns is ravelry.com Some patterns are free and some aren’t. You can usually find what you are looking for free, but you will need to know the crochet language. A list of terminology can be found at Lions Brand http://www.lionbrand.com/
I hope you find this information helpful. Just remember it may not come easy. My first hat probably took me 8 hours to make. I was yelling at my husband to turn the tv down and to be quiet. My stitches also did not look like hers in the video. It takes practice to crochet evenly and tight. My first hat was more of a bowl and couldn’t fit anyones head. I can now make a hat in an hour or two depending on the detail and size.
Happy Crocheting!
xoxo
-J
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