I'm a Happy Hooker

Before anyone freaks out and thinks I'm living some sort of scandalous double life, I don't mean THAT kind of hooker. I would be way expensive. No one would be able to afford me. No, I mean a crochet hooker. The last time I crocheted or knitted I was a pimpled early teen with no boobs. I have not managed to totally kick the acne, but at least I have acquired boobs since then.

After seeing all the adorable stuff my sister has knitted, I decided to pick it up again and see if it was my cup of tea after all these years. Not that I'm that old or anything. And then I remembered a booklet that my 7 year old daughter talked me into buying off of the booksale table at the library called "I Can Knit!" for pre-teen girls. I pulled it out. My husband enjoys mocking the title in a ridicules sounding voice. I let him. It is rather silly sounding for a 33 year old woman to be using, but I figured if it can teach a pre-teen girl, it can teach me. I made a headband from the book, and it came out ok, for my 'first' try. I do find knitting a little intimidating. Fixing mistakes it rather complicated. I'm going to push through and keep practicing though.

Then I pulled out a crochet hook I had floating around, why I had it, I have not a clue. I think I inherited it from an ancient sewing box that came into my possession years ago. So I tried it with my ball o' yarn and got "hooked". Haha! And the patterns I've found! So cute I could scream! And when I found a book called "Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker"? Well. Now I'm sold. The title vastly amuses me. So while I have a copy from the library, I headed over to ebay and got me my own Happy Hooker book, which is shipping to me as I type. Yippy! It appears that Knitting and crocheting are hip and cool again. How fortunate! In my experimenting, I found that I was able to crochet for long periods of time without my hand cramping up (as it did when I tried the knitting), and mistakes are very simple to fix, which I love, perfectionist that I am. So perhaps soon I will be posting pictures of some of my trial runs. First I need to learn to read the patterns. Good grief, I had no idea I would need to learn a second language. As they say, nothing worth while comes easy.

Oh fabulous, now I have a pattern to knit a vest for my stuffed bear.