Sunflower Crochet Class

To treat myself for having completed my first semester of my teacher certification program at Northeastern Illinois University (whew!), I went to a sunflower crochet class at Sister Arts Studio in Chicago. I always look forward to taking classes here. On the corner is Wow! Pizzaria. They have some of the most oversized pizza slices in all of Chicago. I usually get one and then walk down the street to Sister Arts Studio. I have seen Toni of TL Yarns here as well as Krista Suh who wrote DIY Rules for a WTF World: How to Speak Up, Get Creative and Change the World. Fabulous book, by the way.

My maternal great grandmother was a master at crochet. I still have her afghans and doilies. I aspired to her greatness, but always felt disappointed by not asking her more questions when she was alive about what she was doing and my lack of success. I am forever indebted to the Whitney Young High School 50th anniversary yarn bombers who were much better at crochet than I was and gave helpful suggestions of YouTube videos to watch, such as TL Yarns, Crochet Crowd and Crochet Guru.

Before my class, I practiced my single, double and triple crochet stitches. Much like knitting, I found I was a loose crochet stitcher, as well. This meant that moving forward, I would need to drop down a crochet hook. This is what I thought.

However, there were other opinions about my crochet work:

“That looks good”

“What’s wrong with it?”

“Oh keep going! You’re doing great!”

 

I admit it didn’t look too bad. I used the Whitney Young High School colors of blue and orange in acrylic yarn because I am a yarn bomber through and through. Actually, I liked my crochet stitch a little loose. It would be different, though, if I were placing it on car for a yarn bomb, though…