Hello! I was just thinking about how I started crocheting… goes into a trance thinking about crochet …and I was wondering how you guys started! How did you discover the craft? What inspired you? What were you working towards? I was at a local mall craft show with a friend and I was inspired to make a fox and a duck. I had tried to crochet before and gave up, and later on I learned to slip knit, chain, and slip stitch, but the craft show was when I really started getting into crocheting. How about you? Share your stories! 
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I was a little kid (I mean little), and for a while I had been begging my aunt to show me how to do “the yarn thing.” One day, she sat me down with a hook and ball of yarn and showed me how to do a chain, and Ive been hooked ever since! I even still have the crochet hook she gave me, its one of my favorites!
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There was a class in school. Hooked ever since.
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My mom and godmother have always loved crocheting all my life. I got bored during spring break in 2022 and decided to learn! Best decision I’ve ever made 
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Oh I can only wish there was a crochet class at my school. Sounds cool!
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You have youtube. That wasn’t a thing yet when I learned … ha
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As a kid cleaning out our family garage I found my late maternal grandmother’s steel crochet hooks. Taught myself how to knit and crochet from books. Over 50 years ago
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I love plushies and had never heard about crochet. I first saw crochet on my TikTok, and I was like "oh wow infinite plushies, love the idea ! 
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So I started to learn with youtube tutorial !
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literally the thing that maked me want to crochet was because i was like: hmm, im bored, why dont i learn something no one i know knows so i can be the center of inspiration…?
i was seeing a video of “hobbies to learn this 2023” and i saw “crocheting” so i tought: wait, doesent my grandma know how to crochet?
and then it happened 
my grandma taught me, im very grateful because my frist week i coudnt even do a chain 
but she was very patient and with her help and youtube tutorials, here i am now! ( im actually very young, thats why my grandma was able to taught me)
im sorry if this has some mistakes, english is not my 1st language.
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I was headed home from summer camp, and I saw someone teaching another girl how to do it. I asked what is was and if she could teach me, too! She was very nice and started a crocheting class for any grades. I joined the moment I had heard of it. I even got a free ball of yarn, lol.
She moved away a long time ago to be a missionary (as far as I remember). I’m currently in 9th grade and (think I) started crocheting in 3rd or 4th grade.
I gave up crocheting for a few years (maybe two), but I was bored one (mostly every) summer day. I opened my locker (yes, I have a locker at home) and had one ball of yarn, hardly used, and a 3.5 mm hook was waiting to be used. I started to chain and do all I remembered. I found a decent crochet kit on Amazon (my best friend : ) and crocheted more. Now I make little stuffed animals.
~and that’s my crochet story~
-Thanks for reading-
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My mum started going and then I went to a crotchet club at my school
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My mum taught me how to knit first when I was like 8. She tried to teach me crocheting. My brain got very confused when it came to doing anything other than a chain. Couple of years later, I found a YouTube video making mushroom bucket hat and I slowed down the video a lot and tried to teach myself the rest, I was confused but eventually got the hang of it. Lol. So my mum taught me and inspired me to craft!
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I got a crochet kit, and then never used it cause the instructions were so confusing, but then I got bored in the mid year school holidays and googled a youtube tutorial on how to crochet, and I crocheted a duck using the materials I got in the crochet kit.
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There was this one rainbow skin of yarn at my grandmas house, and I was around 7 when I asked her to teach me to knit. I got bored tho so I quit. Three years later I found an octopus pattern on yt and I wanted to make it but I got made and rage quit fast forward to summer 2023 I found that same skein of yarn at my grandmas house and I started from there!
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Like at the beginning of 2023 my friend started crocheting and she kept nagging me to try it. Eventually I gave in and asked my mom to buy Woobles! I got the slip knot and chain stitch but I didn’t understand the single crochet. I gave up.
Then in summer, I went on a camping—okay, glamping—and I brought the Fred the Dinosaur crochet kit along with me. He ended up a bit weird but so cute and I was so proud. Since then I’ve been hooked.
I totally recommend Woobles kits when you’re learning to crochet, and even if you already know how. They’re very helpful!!!
And then I took a summer school class at the middle school and learned to knit. Hehe.
So now I’m a very accomplished yarn arts girlie!!!
But seriously I’ve always loved yarn and the yarn arts and I took…I’m calling it an elective but I was in elementary school…an elective on yarn stuff and I made friendship bracelets and whatnot and THAT’S when I really started loving yarn.
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I’ve had 3 ‘starts’ to my crocheting
1.) When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to chain because I was bored or something
(5-8 yrs old at the time maybe?) but then I sorta stopped because I got bored again of making chains over and over again
2.) Somewhere around the same age I started making rainbow loom stuff and ended up crocheting with the rubber bands somehow? 
3.) The day after Christmas last year I used some crochet kits to actually learn how to do something
So I’ve been crocheting for possibly over 5 years, or just over one year? I have no idea honestly
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