My First Crochet Project

When I was younger, my grandmother patiently tried to teach me to crochet.  I did not understand it at all.  Knitting and crochet were the activities that my aunts and grandmother participated in and I just never figured it out.  I would say I was impatient, but I learned how to cross stitch and counted cross stitch, which requires equal numbers of patience.  For whatever reason, when my grandmother was alive, I never learned how to crochet.  As an adult, I started into yarn crafts with knitting.  It just seemed to click.  And still, I never learned how to crochet.  My grandmother passed away two years after I graduated high school.  The missing skill always bugged me as I came down our steps and landed on the rug that my grandmother crocheted for her own home.  After days of reading and researching and re-reading, I finally can say I learned how to crochet and I finished my first crochet project after numerous failed attempts over the years.  And with that skill, I feel like I can continue the tradition that my grandmother started.