Last night I accomplished something I've been trying to learn to do for years: making a granny stitch rectangle. I've tried about a dozen different printed versions that never turned out right; read blog posts that made no sense to me, and attempted it on my own a dozen different ways with no luck.
This is a beginner crochet pattern, too, so it really annoyed me that I couldn't figure it out.
I learn best by watching someone else and imitating what they do, so I found a video by a Canadian maker that showed step by step how to work this simple pattern. Following along proved ridiculously easy. Now I finally get it.
This isn't the time of life when I am happy abut what I can do. It's more about trying to hang onto what I can already do in the face of diminishing abilities and vanishing dexterity. Learning how to do this pattern really gave me a nice spiritual boost.
If you want to learn how to do the same, here's the video.
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