No Whey, José!

A few weeks ago Josh and I got into a crochet craze and decided we wanted to learn how to do it. We went out and bought one of those “I Can’t Believe I’m Crocheting!” books and we found that Michaels has a pretty cool selection of organic cotton yarn and bamboo and soy blends. We were super excited about this. Soy yarn?! A vegan’s dream! So we went home, got out our ergonomic needles, and tried our best to learn to crochet. I’m one of those visual learners so even though there were illustrations in the book, I had a hard time figuring it out. I ended up kind of fudging it and made up my own way of doing it (hah).

Even though I knew it was the wrong way, I kept doing it that way because I wasn’t really following the instructions very well. After doing some research online, a lot of people say that it’s much easier to have someone show you how to crochet instead of trying to learn from a book. So the first person I thought of was my grandmother. She crocheted a blanket for me when I was a baby, which I ended up calling “Bonnie” for some unknown reason. So we went over to her house and I asked her to show me the ropes..it was much easier having someone show you. It was also amazing to see how easily she could pick it up again, I guess it’s like riding a bike. Then she pulled out some of her old patterns that she’s had for 30 years? It was insane. She even had the original pattern she used to make my Bonnie, which I still have!

Unfortunately there are no dishtowels or potholders or scarfs to post pictures of just yet, but there will be (hopefully) soon! Apparently there’s a big vegan crochet/knitting/crafty subculture out there, like these blogs we found, Vegan Craftastic ,Bittersweet, and our most favorite blog to read for comic relief, Shut Up, I’m Counting. We’re hoping to be able to make some little amigurumi animals..how can you resist those?