My First Successful Project

A model sewing, or swing? I'm not quite sure as I know it can be easy to mistype swing and sewing. In any case, congratulations! I am sure you took pride and enjoyed the results of your hard work! For me it was fun, much fun as I practiced before starting the project and it wasn't nearly as hard as I imagined! Happy Mylotting!

Model sewing as in using a needle and some wires. The thing is we had 2 teachers for workshop when i was in my 5th grade and the boys had a man, the girls had a woman as teacher. The man that i had was teaching us about trees and carpeting (sort of) but he got sick and suffered an operation and never came back in my 6th grade so all the boys ended up with the woman as well, so we studied sewing and cooking with the girls ^_^

Oh, that sounds like two different classes in the US. Workshop and something like Home Ec. Although there were guys in my home ec class... hmmm..

I believe I saw the discussion you posted about french knitting. I thought it was very intriguing, and if you can make teddy bears and stuff with it I might just have to give it a try. My mother has taught me a few things as well as my aunt, but I am really bad at not paying attention so I just ended up going home and looking online. There are several websites, including about.com, that have great tutorials on crocheting. If you know how to knit it appears they are almost one in the same, at least when it comes to the slip know and the slip stitch! Happy Crafting To You! I appreciate The Response.

Yes you did see my discussion on French knitting and you contributed to it too!! When I say you can make teddy bears you need like a bigger dolly to do it with. I knit with a four pronged dolly and for teddy bears I think it has like 10 or something. As you can tell I have never tried to french knit a teddy but I have seen the kits but they are very plasticy and really meant for kids. I might just buy one anyway and see how it goes. I might check out the website about.com or get my mum to have a look at it to help jog her memory!! Thanks

I hope that the website helps! There are many others out there like iamintheloop.com and etc, crochetnmore, crochet cabana, nezumi's world, a how slew of them. I like Crochetnmore the best, and their newsletters (I signed up for them, but have been looking through the archives) In any case... The crochet kit I got to make the purse out of is what you would call for kids or teens, as it's simple instructions. It's very helpful though, and came with yarn and a yarn hook. I don't know where you can get one, mine was a present one year! Enjoy french knitting! I'm looking around online all about it to get a better understand of it!

Maybe you are mistaken? I don't have a picture of it as our camera has no film, as soon as it does I'll make a note of taking a picture! I've looked at knitting and such but am not to thrilled with it as it appears there's a limit on what you can create! I appreciate the response!

doily's are such an elegant think to make, and it uses such small crochet thread, well most of the time, I assume any kind of yarn would work as well. I appreciate the response.