[Darcy Baldwin]

My grandmother crocheted very lovely things her whole life. She always wanted to teach me, but I could never be bothered. When I finally thought - man, I'd love to learn, she was no longer able to teach me. I still kick myself in the butt for not taking her act of kindness to heart and learning, even if it wasn't something cool for me to do at the time.

So now, I've set Christmas break to learn to crochet. I got a couple of books from the library and have conquered the chain stitch (though I find I'm a tight loop kind of girl), and have begun practicing the single stitch. But I need video. I need lots of video..and free patterns to get me started. My first project is just going to be a simple scarf for my little guy as something simple and easy to work through. But if I get like my grandmother, I"ll do banquet sized tableclothes of lacy crochet - just beautify stuff (thankfully, I inherited one of them!)