What I learnt from One Month of Crocheting
Making functional things takes patience, time and effort.
I often lack patience and time.
Crocheting is great for mental health - it’s meditative really. But I spend hours with terrible posture. Most times when I’ve successfully transformed a ball of yarn into something nice, I have a back ache, my legs have ants (that’s how we say ‘gone numb’ in Kannada) and my fingers are throbbing.
There is so much content out there that’s easily accessible. Truly grateful for the times we live in.
Making cute but non-functional things is fun. Not very useful, but aesthetically pleasing. Often faster than making something useful and functional.
There is no limit to what you can make. If you can imagine it, you can create it.
It is hard to find motivation to stay committed to the same project. Making things for other people makes the motivation part slightly easier.
It is okay to have several unfinished work-in-progress pieces.
It hurts to frog* two hours of work but it has to happen.
I also learnt what frogging means. Frogging is the process of unravelling a crocheted piece by pulling the thread. It comes from “rip it, rip it” which resembles a frog’s ribbit.
Color combinations are a human construct. Your flowers can be blue, your trees purple and your water pink.
You will constantly feel like you don’t have enough yarn. Even after you just bought yarn. And that’s okay too.
Buttons are massively useful. One of the greatest* inventions ever really.
I thought crocheting is one of those things that doesn’t get faster with time. I was wrong. Creating stitches does get easier and with time and at some point you can do it mindlessly.
*debatable