I have been crocheting since about age 8 when my mother taught me with regular yarn and larger crochet hooks.
A year or two later, she found a bag that had been her mother's which contained some gorgeous doilies her mother had made, along with some skinny crochet thread and some impossibly small steel crochet hooks. I fell in love on the spot, created my very first doily without any pattern by copying one of hers, and have been designing and crafting small articles such as doilies, coasters, snowflakes and angels ever since! (Although I do confess to using patterns too!)
Every time I make something I feel a kinship with the grandmother I was never able to meet, and so her spirit is alive in me- all these years later! I am even still using the hooks that had been hers...they really do just seem to work better than the newer ones I own!
A year or two later, she found a bag that had been her mother's which contained some gorgeous doilies her mother had made, along with some skinny crochet thread and some impossibly small steel crochet hooks. I fell in love on the spot, created my very first doily without any pattern by copying one of hers, and have been designing and crafting small articles such as doilies, coasters, snowflakes and angels ever since! (Although I do confess to using patterns too!)
Every time I make something I feel a kinship with the grandmother I was never able to meet, and so her spirit is alive in me- all these years later! I am even still using the hooks that had been hers...they really do just seem to work better than the newer ones I own!
The tools of my craft: tiny steel crochet hooks!
The one on the bottom is my favorite hook- it had been my grandmother's,
so it is at least 60 years old...
the imprinted price says 25 cents!
First Doily Ever!
Circa 1976, age 10