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electric_blue68

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9. Yes, I'd seen the photo of Kamala in a yarn store...

Reply to yellowdogintexas (Original post)

Fri Oct 8, 2021, 01:12 AM

Oct 2021

and that made me smile - but I didn't know FL Michelle had taken up knitting. 👍

After 2x previous failed attempts at knitting over 2 decades+ I was reinspired to try after meeting some yarnsters that sold skeins, kits, some finished items from the sheep farm they managed at my then nearby Green market.
At around 48 found one of the 4 books I borrowed from the library worked perfectly between text, and drawings. 👍

Crochet seemed to scare/intimidate me so the grid-ness of beginning knitting appealed to me. Then The Crochet Reef Project; an eventually international endevor originating in Australia not that far from The Great Barrier Reef - to highlight their fragility & climate change was so fascinatng - I learned to crochet from on line photos, and text! This was when I was 54.

Drawing, and unique wire jewelry are my 1st and 2nd creative outlets, the yarnwork is my third. 🧶👍

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Did any of you know Vice President Harris is a crocheter? [View all] yellowdogintexas Apr 2021 OP

No, I did not know that! I'm also a crocheter, so this makes me like her PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2021 #1

Very! Michelle Obama has discovered knitting and is says she's hooked..and Kamala crochets! PortTack Apr 2021 #2

We have something else in common! Diamond_Dog Apr 2021 #3

I feel that too Unwind Your Mind Apr 2021 #7

Formidable! Mme. Defarge Apr 2021 #4

Does it all! Delarage Apr 2021 #5

I've crocheted since I was a around 8 years old. herding cats Apr 2021 #6

I got started very young, too wryter2000 Aug 2021 #8

one of my great aunts taught me to chain when I was about 8 or 9 yellowdogintexas Oct 2021 #10

Definitely! I also bake so I don't hit people nt yellowdogintexas Oct 2021 #11

my mother taught me at age 7 but I never got past knit, purl, cast on, cast off. demigoddess Apr 2023 #12

if you can single crochet then you can do any of the yellowdogintexas Jul 2023 #13

Yes, I'd seen the photo of Kamala in a yarn store... electric_blue68 Oct 2021 #9