pissed offI am very, very bad at following written instructions for anything I have to do with my hands, especially needlework - faced with written instructions and a complicated interwoven set of threads I overthink and get completely confused. How do I know if the wool is on the right side of the needle when starting stitch X? When they say bring the wool foward, do they mean over or under? Am I slipping the stitch onto the needle from the right direction? Unless there are very, very clear diagrams I literally can't understand it. These videos are fantastic, and in fact that's how I really learned how to do double crochet, because La Stoller's instructions were not totally clear to a beginner, but thanks to the video I learned how to do it in seconds.
However, there is no video on that site showing how to increase or decrease, so apparently my crocheting career will be limited to doing squares and rectangles. Stoller's instructions for increasing are ludicrous - she simply says "just make two stitches into the same stitch." And that's it. What? How? What bits of the stitch do you make the stitches into? I have absolutely no idea, and as she doesn't elaborate and there's just one picture with arrows going in seemingly random directions, I will never know. I'm starting to think the book was a waste of money - the patterns aren't even particularly fantastic, even if I did ever figure out how to make them.
