All hail beginnings! My first post, hurray! First things first, my name is Mariah (think Mariah Carey, but not,
definitely not). I'm into a lot of things (too many things, maybe) but I definitely have a passion for crafts, art, and music. A few weeks ago, I finished my very first crochet pattern. Of course, I was excited. But what I'm more excited for is what is to come. I'm just thinking of all the possibilities! For me, I prefer to create little dolls or animals, in example, amigurumi, as I see the "crochet crowd" have come to call them. However, that does not mean I won't ever make other things, but that's all up to when I crochet. ;)
I believe the first time I really fell in love with crochet was when I was browsing online to figure out my next craft. On random, I found some crochet patterns, which prompted me to look up some other things, specifically, a Totoro. It was love at first sight and I just thought, "That's what I want to do! Learn to crochet." I knew my grandma knew how to crochet (she knows everything, haha) so I asked her to teach me. Well, that Christmas, she got me all the things I needed and promised to show me how to crochet. Although I wasn't able to get that pleasure from her teaching me, I started on my own, but got frustrated because I was doing it so slow while other people seemed to work so fast. I gave up, but a few months later I eventually looked up some videos on youtube to help me and I was hooked! A lot of patterns looked daunting at first, but I was determined to work through them because of those difficult patterns I had saved. One in particular:
