module 4
Crochet
Crochet, one hook and one loop at a time — chains, rows, rounds, the granny square, and the blanket that takes a year on purpose.
10 articles
- 1
Crochet or knitting — which suits you
Two ways to turn string into cloth, and how to tell which one your hands are asking for.
- 2
Hooks, yarn, and the slip knot
A hook, some yarn, and one knot you'll undo forty times. That's the whole beginning.
- 3
The chain
A single loop pulled through another, repeated until the thinking stops.
- 4
Single crochet
A chain, a hook, four movements, and a particular kind of quiet.
- 5
Turning, and building rows
A narrow strip of fabric that didn't exist an hour ago — and the simple act of flipping it over to keep going.
- 6
Working in the round
There's a different way to make things — one that never reaches an edge.
- 7
The granny square
A shape that asks almost nothing, and gives back a kind of quiet your hands remember.
- 8
Reading a pattern
a pattern is just somebody's hands remembering what they did
- 9
Amigurumi, briefly
A small stuffed thing, made from one long string, and why it ends up on every shelf.
- 10
The blanket that takes a year
A big thing made of very small motions — and why that's enough.
