Lion Brand Notebook ®
Alisha Lucas from Puryear, TN
It was a long 16 hour day with my son at his doctors appointment at Saint Jude’s research hospital when I sat down next to this lady in the cafeteria. She and I started to talk about things to keep our minds off of the never ending days for our children when she asked me if I wanted to learn how to knit. So I asked if she would teach me and when knitting didn’t work out she taught me to crochet. That was 7 years ago and I have not stopped crocheting since. My son really enjoyed all the quality time we had together and he often asked me to make clothing to keep him warm. So I would make all his favorite tv/game characters for him and all his cancer buddies.
Tell us a bit about how you learned: Her name was Maria and she would come to the hospital every other week to teach parents/children how to knit or crochet. She would provide yarn and supplies and only asked that you come back and show her all your WIPS or completed projects.
I love to make it all; hats, scarfs, shawls, blankets, amigurumi and more.
Lately I’ve enjoyed the puff stitch and C2C blankets. I worked on this beautiful wine glass cover with the world’s smallest pattern and the challenge was accepted and they are so beautiful for my little brothers wedding.
I heard my little cousin was expecting a baby, so I was determined to learn how to crochet so I bought a sugar and cream cotton cone from Walmart and started to work it with a 3.5mm in a single stitch. It was a rookie mistake and the pain staking blanket was my very first project I finished and mailed to California just in time for her baby’s arrival
LOVE, Love, love my LBY. The color variations/variety are amazing. I enjoy looking for new textures, colors and patterns from Lion Brand.
My aunt Ellen is a left handed knitter and I thought to my self thats a challenge to knit since I rarely found left handed patterns and follow along videos for her to use. I explained to my Aunt Ellen that it would be easier to complete projects if she could crochet. I left after the holidays and couldn’t believe my eyes when she posted on Facebook about how much fun she was having on the crochet cruise. I called her and asked if she had learned to crochet and why is she on the cruise. She told me all the details and shared photos with me and I told her that it was my bucket list to go on a crochet cruise. She called me a week later and told me to pack my bags!
She booked us 7 day crochet cruise for 2022. I’m so excited and shocked to find out we are going to crochet together in the Bahamas.
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ABKlos
I love that you learned how to crochet to get through your son’s illness. I picked up my hook after many years when my beloved sister was dying. It was such a stress reliever to keep my attention focused and my hands busy during periods of great stress. Have fun on your cruise!!
Cecelia Mercer
A sweet German lady taught me the basics of crochet when I was 12. No pattern, just the math behind the stitches. I made lots of doilies. When I was 19 I taught myself to knit using the Coats & Clark Teach Yourself to Knit booklet. I spent so much time knitting that my fiance got worried that I was seeing someone else. I’ve crocheted shawls, sweaters, doilies. I’ve knitted a bunch of dorm boots (slippers), shawls, baby blankets, baby clothes, and felted purses. Crochet is faster but plain knitting is so soothing to my soul.
Ellen Johnson
Great story! I really enjoyed reading this piece!!
Mary m young
A yarn shop owner said to me once that you learn the most from the person sitting next to you.
I taught myself how to crochet from a magazine around 1970, A challenge because I am left handed and learned right handed. When I was about 40 a friend from New Zealand again taught me how to knit right handed, I could not master the English way but the cont8inental way worked well.
So I have been knitting and crocheting right handed ever since and loving it.
Germaine VanDerHeyden
I was ten and we lived without electricity. My
closest neighbor lady gave me a green book called Learn to knit and crochet.” After I got a green crochet needle for Christmas. I had to wait till my birthday to get the ball of crochet cotton. It was yellow. One hook,one ball of yarn and a book. No one nearby to teach. Seventy years later and I make sweaters, socks, mittens, wedding ring aphgan, every year. I know what I like to work with and it is lionbrand for me always
Denise Rose
In 1963 an older neighbor tried to teach another neighbor and I to crochet. I say tried, because no matter what I did, my piece looked nothing like theirs. Then the lightbulb went on and I realized that they were righties and I was a lefty. After some laughable mishaps, I learned to reverse my stitches. Back then there weren’t too many instruction books for lefties, so most of the things I made were by trial and error. Last year I made 75 hats and scarves for a local church; something I plan to do for 2020.