It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. One of my favorite ways to relax is to make a cup of tea, play an audiobook, and crochet. Yes, I crochet and can’t think of anything more relaxing. I gave it up for about 20 years and took it up again during the winter of 2019.
There are so many patterns and free instructions on the internet. Video demonstrations of patterns are very popular partly because there are a lot of people who can not read patterns. The videos are too slow for me.
Many of the patterns I find on the internet are wrong. They leave out important details like how to turn or to turn at all and how to start or end a row. They rarely give enough information or all the information needed to complete the project.
I can’t imagine the frustration bad instructions must cause for beginners who probably think they are doing something wrong when they follow the pattern but do not get the desired result. The videos are not always all that great either. People have all sorts of strange and unusual ways to hold crochet hooks and yarn and hands get in between the camera and the stitches.
Sometimes I want to hurt the person who published the bad instructions. I have seen instructions that are so bad they make me want to cry.
I know people who actually believe most of what they read on the internet. They believe what they see on YouTube, which is very sad. There is a lot of good and useful information out there the trich is to learn to tell the difference between the good and the bad. Once I master that I’ll let you know.
