seems to be a skill I've inherited. I've always liked to sew and do
things with yarn - I can remember making bags and bags of hand
knitting when I was a child - though I didn't do anything more with
them than make them and store them in bags.
I got reintroduced to sewing when I was working on my masters - I
had always wanted someone to make me a quilt (because then I'd
know they really cared about me) and was looking at some at a flea
market with another student - she told me that they were time
consuming to make, but not hard - and she taught me how to make
them - my first one was for a good friend's first son - I figured that if I
made him a quilt he would know I cared about him. Then I made one
for myself, since no one else had done it.
Quilts get quite large quickly, so when I got my call center job I
realized I needed something to do with my hands while I took calls - a
couple of other people brought their sewing with them so I asked one
to teach me to crochet and she did - then later I asked her to teach
me to knit, and she did that too.
When I make afghans, I prefer not to use a pattern, though I can read
patterns, if you have one you really like. I prefer to have you describe
a concept to me and then we can design an afghan that meets what
you want. For example, I came up with the afghan at the top of this
page while trying to come up with a masculine pattern for Michael -
turns out I was wearing a pair of striped pants that gave me the
perfect pattern!
My afghan prices all have a + sign after them - the price will be
effected by the cost of the type of yarn that you choose
Knitting takes much longer and is more complex than crochet - hence
the increase in price - the blue and brown afghan is crochet and took
about 150 hours, the red one is knit and took about 400 hours
