Sunlight wrote:I knit and my mom promised to teach me how to crochet but she never did and now she's got arthritis so I doubt she ever will. Maybe I'll find a youtube video that can teach me. I'm currently knitting a hat, though. Slowly.
You could get a thimble to protect your fingers. I end up with painful calluses whenever I try knitting.
Korean people say a tiger must have gotten married if it rains while it's sunny out.
That is an amazing saying and I am going to use it as soon as I get a chance!
Did you mom used to crochet a lot or was it just something she learned because that's what women were expected to know, so she knew it? A few times when I want one of my elders to teach me something, they say they "know how" because they had to know how, but they aren't actually any good at it, and that I should find a better teacher. It always astonishes me. So much mostly these days is things you have to know that are intangible skills, and here is a group of people who were expected to know craft or trade skills instead. It's a big shift.
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