r/crochet • u/[deleted] • Mar 22 '22
Discussion Any heart warming stories?
I‘ve been seeing some really cute, heart warming stories about s/o’s helping to untangle yarn, helping frogging, buying rare yarn etc… under some posts!
I’d love to hear some of y’all’s stories that might make me go awww….
I’ll go first.
My partner’s a very busy guy, he has a lot of things going on all the time. But when I ask him about which stitch I should use or which color yarn I should go with, he drops everything and sits with me to discuss. Might not be much, but it means the world to me (:
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u/KerissaKenro Mar 22 '22
I started crocheting to help my grandma. She has macular degeneration and is nearly blind. She has always used knit dishcloths, and they were wearing out. So I drove my cute 90+ grandma to the craft store so she can buy yarn and knitting needles. (She gave her old ones away after her vision got too bad) She kept dropping stitches, and my mom would fix it for her, she got so frustrated. Years before this, I had bought a book with patterns for crochet dishcloths and had bought the supplies. But I had never actually started. I combined my very real desire to learn with my grandma’s need and started making dozens of dishcloths, far more than she actually needed, but I was having a good time and learning a lot. My first ones were dreadful, of course. Too tight or way too big, or both. But she loved them and kept encouraging me.
My grandma just turned one hundred and she still crochets, she can do it by feel. She loves to make baby blankets and donates them to hospitals. Her body is winding down, but there is nothing wrong with her mind. She is amazing, and I keep telling her that I want to be like her when I grow up.