When I was little, my mother showed me how to crochet. I don't remember making anything though. I had trouble holding the hook and yarn at the same time.
Decades later (2021), I decided to try again. I would try to do a consistent chain and have trouble. I found a video about making a rug using your fingers instead of a hook, and proceeded to learn the stitches that way.
I somehow managed to get enough practice with the tension on the yarn so I could do multiple stitches in a row, and now I don't have a problem.
Here is the majority of what I've made.
my first crochet was multi yarn and no hook
rug made of old sweatshirt material
my first attempt following a pattern
fuzzy yarn was very hard to work with, so I added blue and purple
start of slippers
they fit!
hat started with the end of the boucle yarn
I later added a few more rows.
beginning of a vest
halfway
beginning a scarf with squiggly yarn
beginning of a shirt
multi-colored yarn, textured stitch
The bottom of the shirt was unbalanced and did not drape well.
The shirt was pulled apart and this throw was started instead.
textured stripes
beginning of a blanket, alternating yarns, back loop wave
