Cultivating Crochet: An Ornamental Expression

By Jessica Mordy

Learn to cultivate crochet with these ornamental projects. Jessica Mordy shares over ten projects for crocheting jewelry with a variety of bead shapes and sizes. With step-by-step instructions and photographs, these projects are for everyone and range from beginner to advance skill level. Enjoy the stylish expression.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9781387807819

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Cultivating Crochet:

An Ornamental Expression

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By Jessica Mordy

Copyright 2022 by Jessica Mordy

All rights reserved.

The written instructions, patterns, and projects in this volume are for personal use only and may only be reproduced for that purpose.

ISBN: 978-1-387-80781-9

Digital US Edition:  July 2022

For Amanda Wilson-Taylor, a kindred spirit in the cultivation of creativity and in the practice of loving kindness.  Your example strengthens and blesses me.  I love your dearly, my unfair weather friend.

An Adaption

The program didn’t have enough money to issue each child a belt.  I have an idea.  I’ll crochet bracelets for the children.  Every child will get a white bracelet on day one instead of a belt.  As they progress in the art of Wado-Ryu Karate, they will level up to a new bracelet color.  How’s that sound?  A hand extended, and I shook it.  Your students will range from grades 1st to 3rd.

My proposal to a local elementary after-school program for a Wado-Ryu style Karate class resulted in the creation of my first crochet bracelet.  I was well over 20,000 hours, having crocheted for 31 years.  Returning home, I closed the front door and put my paperwork in the file cabinet.  I grabbed my hook, crocheted a long chain link, wrapped the chain link around my wrist, unraveled the extra length, then crocheted the second row.  I can’t afford twenty latches.  Within an hour I finished the prototype, a white bracelet--the latch replaced with a button.

Creating a new product utilizes the reservoirs of practice developed during the 10,000 hours.  I didn’t need to visit the library or the world wide web to know what to do.  My 10,000 hours developed an archive of patterns I liked in books or finished projects.  Often, I told myself, That’s not what I remember, and I unraveled the row.  That is nothing like the picture, and I unravel the row. Adaptation is a skill set, like crochet, developed with hours and hours of practice: "Now what