1/17/2020 0 Comments Crocheting a Dish clothSince I was a little girl, I grew up seeing my Amma and Grandma knitting, sewing, crocheting and making jammies for their Grandchildren. My Longa Amma was a seamstress and always made my Mom beautiful pieces of clothing. My Mom in the last few years started to crochet dish clothes because she believes they make the BEST dish cloths for washing dishes. So, I decided about a year ago that it was my turn to start working with fabric and make something. So I followed my Mom's footsteps and wanted to start making some cloths that I could put into my "MOVING OUT" Tupperware container. My Mom and I ran to Michael's and she bought be a couple skeins of cotton yarn and a pretty teal crochet hook. From there, I began "making" dish cloths. I struggled. My fingers were sore. My cloths looked like "melted snowmen"(see the purple cloth picture...). I did not know where I was going wrong and I gave up after I made about 3-4 cloths that were uneven and unattractive. When I found out my EAE class had a Personal Arts Project assignment, it sparked my interest to pick up crocheting again. I began to start fresh and looked up a YouTube Video to see another method of crocheting. I realized my mistake. I was not counting how many loops I had in each row. I was also forgetting to add a loop at the end of each row to make it even and not have a "melted snowman" look. I successfully made about a dozen dish cloths (see the white/green cloths) that I can put into my "MOVING OUT" bin. ~ H.
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