SECS20W1 Introduction to Crochet 🧶

ninapenda (75)in #crochet20w1 • 3 months ago

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Hello Teachers,

Your student is here to present her homework, but first, I would like to say thank you for bringing up this topic on the platform. When I learned crochet was when I was a teenager, and since then I've not practiced it again, but seeing it here gladdens my heart, and I decided to try it out.

It's fun and beautiful when you achieve something at the end. I just hope my best was good enough...

_{According to the suggested forms, explain how you hold the thread and needle, show us a photograph holding the needle with your dominant hand and the thread with your non-dominant hand}

Holding the thread

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The first step is to place your palm on a surface while it's facing you, then pass the thread over your index finger and that way, you gain support to start working.

The second step is to roll the yarn round the pinky finger, take it to the front and pass it behind the index finger to gain double support to work with.

The third step is to roll the yarn several times round your index finger, that way you allow the yarn flow as you work.

Holding the needle

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The first images shows the needle been held with the thumb and index fingers, allowing all the other three fingers of the dominant hand to be free.

For the second image, the needle is held with the dominant hand, Just as though you are holding a pencil with the thumb while the index finger rest on the middle finger.

The third images shows the thumb been placed on top,while the index finger is on the bottom as well as resting on the middle finger.

_{Practice the 3 ways of making the starter knot, tell us which one was the easiest for you, show us step-by-step photos of the starter knot or magic knot}

Form No 1:

Form No 2:

Form No 3:

The three forms are the steps to make the starter knot. They were all easy and simple to learn. I tried the first form and it was easy, the second was easy too as well as the third.

I didn't find it difficult to start at all probably because I had known how to tie my starter knot before now, but at the end, I enjoy using all the three forms.

_{Make 5 chains of 20 stitches, show us a photo with the 5 chains, identifying in order from the first to the fifth chain}

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Here, I have made five chains of twenty stitches, although I didn't know what stitches are until I researched to understand better.

_{Share a short video or GIF of yourself making a 10-stitch chain stitch and a selfie of your work or chain stitch}

Below is a video of myself working out a 10-stitch chain.

image of my 10 stitch work	A selfie showing myself	Having my work handy

_{Tell us if you had any difficulty completing the tasks assigned to you in your work or knitting}

Oh yes, I had difficult times, but it was fun. I had difficulty trying to knit. When I tried using the methods of holding the yarn that was taught here, I couldn't knit with that method. I had to use the old method I was taught in school, which is to roll up the yarn on my index finger and begin to work with it. I release the yarn as my work progresses.

It was also difficult for me to hold the needle in the ways taught here. To discover the stitches was so difficult; it was the most difficult time while working. I didn't know how to count my stitches, but I knew what a chain was. Although I am glad I finally got it right at the end.