Resources
Some Videos We Like
How to Slip Knot and Chain, video by Happy Berry Crochet
Single Crochet, video by Hopeful Honey
American Double Crochet, video by The Crochet Crowd
Magic Circle, video by Hopeful Honey
https://youtu.be/CMPPAfXez8Q
Hyperbolic Crochet, video by Benjamin Krudwig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz3t7YrCjxM
Crochet Abbreviations Master List (compiled by Craft Yarn Council)
https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/standards/crochet-abbreviations
Visible Mending Reading List
compiled by Heather Cameron
Modern Mending: How to Minimize Waste and Maximize Style
by Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald
Mend! A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto
by Kate Sekules
The Art of Repair: Mindful Mending
by Molly Martin
Darning: Repair, Make, Mend
by Hikaru Noguchi
Visible Mending: Repair, Renew, Reuse the Clothes You Love
by Arounna Khounnoraj
Repair: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World
by Elizabeth V. Spelman
Kintsugi, The Poetic Mend
by Bonnie Kemske
About the Japanese art of Kintsugi, by Naoko Fukumaru
Textiles practitioner Tom van Deijnen
Podcast with textile artist Celia Pym
https://harewoodhouse.podbean.com/e/celia-pym-textile-artist/
As you begin:
Be as neurotic as you enjoy, but please remember that living plants are messy, irregular, imperfect and odd. Also, anything you send us will likely be seen at a distance. It is truly impossible to screw this up. In fact, we personally find crochet perfection a little too cutesy.
It may be reassuring to know that anything that looks weird is probably just a different kind of stitch - if it works, it works.
More ominously - your next row depends on the present row (History!). Future You will be grateful if you keep your tension even-ish and maybe not so tight.
Pattern-shmattern. What if you improvise?
Everything looks good in dappled light. If you're frustrated, find some dapples.
Crochet and photo by Barbara Adler
