Friday, September 4, 2015
Save Your Photos #4 of 30
In honor of Save Your Photos Day at the end of this month, I'll be posting every day of September 2015 with inspiration for organizing your family photo collection. Read today's post here.
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Save Your Photos #3 of 30
Visit the Sher Your Scraps Blog to read how it's never too late to start organizing your photos!
READ HERE.
READ HERE.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Save Your Photos #2 of 30
In honor of Save Your Photos Day - check out post #2 of 30 over on the Sher Your Scraps Blog
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READ POST
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
SAVE YOUR PHOTOS MONTH - September 2015
After a long absence here - I'll encourage you to visit my other blog SHER YOUR SCRAPS. I will be posting daily during September with encouragement for you about photos, photo organization, photo preservation and photo management. Here's day one!
Enjoy.
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Crochet Basics - the Flat Circle
I teach crochet - a lot.
I've been teaching classes full of new crocheters for about 5 years on a regular basis. I find, that the students who UNDERSTAND crochet rather than just following directions about crochet have a far easier times making patterns and learning new skills.
One of the basic things that is helpful for crochet students to fully understand is making a flat circle. SO many patterns begin with a flat circle, rugs, hats, baskets, mandalas, etc. etc... Crochet pattern directions are written in all manner of ways - two people might explain the same thing very differently. It's extremely confusing for students who are just learning to follow a pattern. It's very helpful if a student can disregard badly written directions and understand - aha! this person is creating a flat circle... a lot of the poorly worded text can then be avoided and just the very necessary elements can be concentrated on - it's much less frustrating in the long run.
I've recently written a lot of hat patterns. I want to share the patterns but find it so tiresome to write out all the directions step by repetitive step of starting the hat pattern in a flat circle - sometimes I want to just say - make a flat circle with 8hdcs in the first round until it measures whatever... SO MUCH EASIER! and most confident crocheters will know exactly what I'm telling them to do.
I really want to teach my students to understand the flat circle so I came up with this basic lesson. Granted - this is NOT what I teach students the first week... we have a whole learning process - but by the time they are ready to tackle a hat, it's time to learn.
I hope this little write up and explanation might help anyone who has never had an "aha moment" about the flat circle.
I've been teaching classes full of new crocheters for about 5 years on a regular basis. I find, that the students who UNDERSTAND crochet rather than just following directions about crochet have a far easier times making patterns and learning new skills.
One of the basic things that is helpful for crochet students to fully understand is making a flat circle. SO many patterns begin with a flat circle, rugs, hats, baskets, mandalas, etc. etc... Crochet pattern directions are written in all manner of ways - two people might explain the same thing very differently. It's extremely confusing for students who are just learning to follow a pattern. It's very helpful if a student can disregard badly written directions and understand - aha! this person is creating a flat circle... a lot of the poorly worded text can then be avoided and just the very necessary elements can be concentrated on - it's much less frustrating in the long run.
I've recently written a lot of hat patterns. I want to share the patterns but find it so tiresome to write out all the directions step by repetitive step of starting the hat pattern in a flat circle - sometimes I want to just say - make a flat circle with 8hdcs in the first round until it measures whatever... SO MUCH EASIER! and most confident crocheters will know exactly what I'm telling them to do.
I really want to teach my students to understand the flat circle so I came up with this basic lesson. Granted - this is NOT what I teach students the first week... we have a whole learning process - but by the time they are ready to tackle a hat, it's time to learn.
I hope this little write up and explanation might help anyone who has never had an "aha moment" about the flat circle.
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