Crochet Bandit

I've reached clinical crafting insanity. I've decided to teach myself how to crochet, (okay with heavy help from my Stitch n' Bitch ladies + and the SnB lady, Debbie Stoller), because I truly have an insane amount of leisure time to devote this. I've already torn apart the swatch that you see in the photo above and have made a new, slightly less wonky, more even little number. I now know how to chain, single, half double and double...whoo-hoo!

The reason that I'm doing this is that I've become obsessed with crocheted necklaces lately, like this one from Creative Yarn's Etsy shop.

Beautiful? Yes. Can I afford to pay $23.50 for it? No, but if you can, I've linked to the store so hop to it! Can I make it myself? Probably. Without swearing? Definitely not.

I'm so happy that I learned to knit first, because crochet is so fast! If I learned how to crochet first I would never have had the patience to knit anything. Crochet is definitely difficult thus far for me for two reasons: 1) I want to move my yarn around, and not let my needle do the work 2) Crochet directions have nothing to do with their names. For example "double crochet" implies to me, as a knitter that I have to make two maneuvers to complete this stitch. Wrong! Try...like five maneuvers. Throw in some swearing, okay six maneuvers. Wind, push, loop pull, loop wind -AHHHHHH! I'll get the hang of it, I'm sure. We'll see how it goes!