What my students want...

is someone to teach them to crochet. I need to study up, because I can barely crochet with two hands, a map, *and* a flashlight.

Edited later to add: I must say that Lion Brand has some great, free knitting and crocheting instructions. Very helpful.

Comments

[Birdsong]

You can do it! I crochet as well as knit and I would let people learn what they want, but do tell them that you need about a third more yarn to make a similar item in crochet than what you would need if you were knitting. I do have to laugh at Eileen's attempts at dissuading you.

[Pamela]

Pay no attention to those "only knitters"; I mostly knit, but I can also crochet, and would be glad to show you anything you need to know (although I'm not an expert. I'd have to study-up a bit myself!)

Crocheting is great for hats, toys, baby booties, and free form and sculptural stuff. And it is easy!

[Kate G.]

I agree with Eileen. Are the students thinking afghans?

[Eileen M.]

Really, you should tell your students to resist crochet with all their might. Unlike knitting, crochet is an unbalanced activity, leading to unsightly disproportional muscle development in one arm, which of course weighs one shoulder down more than the other and causes you to list to one side, which pulls your back muscles out of whack and puts more pressure on one leg than the other, which impedes and unbalances your gait... in the end you would end up with a herd of fibre-bearing Quasimodos, which would just be *sad*, and extremely unfashionable. And not a good thing for your reputation as an instructor.

Really, your lack of skill with the hook is going to save them a great deal of trouble and expense at the chiropractor's, as well as the ridicule of street urchins and the terror of more sensitive types. Better all around...