Back in the Saddle

It has been a while since I posted here and since I even knitted.  When I got pregnant, I got tired.  But worse than that, I got carpal tunnel in my hands, which made knitting very hard.  I got back into it and my current project is to learn crocheting.  It's not going bad, but to say it is going well is another thing entirely.  I'm working on the Garden Scarf from the Happy Hooker book.  It's not really hard.  It's all me making it that way.  Knitting is so linear for me.  Even when working in the round, there's a linear design to knitting.  The Garden Scarf is crocheted flowers and crochet is so multidimensional for me compared to knitting.  And because of that, I try to make it so much harder than it is.  Here is my first, rejected attempt at flowers.  Notice that I did it really wrong.  It's not supposed to be that loopy.  I think I corrected my problem (which was making turning chains I didn't need) but we'll see on this next try.