Making New Crochet Friends

[AmyS]

Have you made any new friends who share your love of crochet?

A good way to make a new crochet or fiber friend is to start a conversation with someone you meet in your local yarn store (LYS) or in the yarn aisle of your local craft store. Break the ice by asking if they know March is National Crochet Month.

Tell us all about it here!

[rashidah]

I learned about crochetville from someone at acmoores. Know every where I go and I see someone crocheting I give them this web site. I work at the airport and meet a lot of people that crochet.

[RaggedyAnn]

I always seem to strike up a conversaton with someone when I'm wandering yarn aisles. We compare projects, do we like this type of yarn or have you tried this, that sort of thing. I just met an older woman the other day at WalMart looking for yarn. She was 76, had a difficult time seeing & used a magnifying glass to see the labels. She could only crochet now because knitting got to hard to see the stitches. She can only use varigated yarn to crochet because it helps her see the stitches. I read some of the labels for her, reached the higher racks for some yarn while we chatted about what we had just finished or were planning to do next. Her husband was wandering the store getting what he needed & she was getting what she wanted - yarn! lol I can only hope that when my eyes are worn out & my fingers gnarled that I still keep hooking like she is! :hook

[Jempast]

I made friends with a fellow woman customer at my hobby lobby. She talked me into trying I Love This Yarn I tried it because of her & I love it. My husband & I ran into her days later at Walmart near the entrance she asked how I liked I Love This Yarn I told her I love it.

[omahabookworm]

Three years ago, I searched Meetup.com to find other crocheters in my city. Since then, I have joined the local knit/crochet guilde and have made some wonderful friends. We meet up to three times a week at different locations around the city and share our projects, our talents and our lives. It keeps me motivated to try new things and finish projects so I can show them off. It's been one of the best things I have ever done for myself.

[The_Virginia_Hooker]

I've taken small knitting and crochet projects to work to work on my break, and because of that i've found 3 people that knit and crochet, and two people that crochet. We talk yarn everytime you put any of us together.

[klhcrochetgirl]

I love to talk on my aim to crocheters I also go to a local group we have its a mixture or crocheters and Knitters.. I enjoy it a lot.

[~Elise~]

I'm becoming friends with my swap partner from here.

Elise

[happy stitcher]

Three years ago, I searched Meetup.com to find other crocheters in my city. Since then, I have joined the local knit/crochet guilde and have made some wonderful friends.

Great idea!! I saw your post and immediately went to search for a crochet group in my area. Unfortunately there isn't one listed. :(
I'm sure your suggestion will help some other people find groups, though!
:cheer

[a_stitchintime]

I have "met" so many really cool people here at Crochetville... it has been a blessing in my life.

I used to "demo" crochet at my local AC Moore store twice a week, and got to talk to a lot of sweet ladies about crochet. I sometimes would show a young girl a new stitch, but mostly it was fun to see the same people and talk about our projects. I would make different things that I hadn't seen before, so the store could display the items in the yarn department. Then, I saw tables full of those items at local craft shows... it was a nice feeling to know that I had helped someone find something that they enjoyed doing.
I still see a couple of the ladies now and again... we give each other a hug, and catch up on our families, and the mutual friends we made at the store.

There is just something about :crochetingfolks that is so very special, wonderful and kind!

I :manyheart all of my crocheting friends so very much, and each one is "stitched" into the afghan that is my life.

God Bless...

[~Elise~]

Oh...there is a local ravelry group that I meet with, as well!

[imanurse55]

I found a fairly local meetup group after seeing this post- in Metuchen, NJ- Twisted Stitchers-

[Princess]

I had a booth at a mall with my things in it. I left cards on the table with name and phone number. One day a woman called about some patterns she was looking for thought I might have them. We got together and she became one of the best friends you would ever want. Sadly she passed away a couple years ago. She had been sick a long time. I guess it's true what they say sometimes people come in to your life at just the right time for a while. I was going thur a rough time I had just lost my grandfather. Sometimes when I'm crocheting I'll still catch myself reach for the phone to call her.

[crocheter4jesus]

She was 76, had a difficult time seeing & used a magnifying glass to see the labels. She could only crochet now because knitting got to hard to see the stitches. She can only use varigated yarn to crochet because it helps her see the stitches. I read some of the labels for her, reached the higher racks for some yarn while we chatted about what we had just finished or were planning to do next. Her husband was wandering the store getting what he needed & she was getting what she wanted - yarn! lol I can only hope that when my eyes are worn out & my fingers gnarled that I still keep hooking like she is!

very nice story! :D

[jezzabell]

I met a friend thanks to my crochet,

one day I was on my first craft fair here in England (I am Polish and moved to UK 5 years ago and don`t have too many friends locally) and there came girl and she spoke to me (pointing on my crochet things on the table) that she knows those items because she reads my blog and she read that I am going to be there so she asked her boyfriend to go about 52 miles just meet someone who she didn`t even know... from then we started going to craft fairs together and I was visiting her recently and we are going to next venue in two weeks...
she likes crochet as well and actually we do it in a similar way and similar taste... I really like her and wish we can keep this nice relation for as long as it is only possible...:)

[Warm and Fuzzy Baby]

Like my mama would say, a stranger is but a friend waiting to be made. Wonderful story.

[Porcelana]

****! i want a crochet friend! I dont know anybody. My friends laugh at me because i crochet in every time i have free. They say is "an old lady hobby". I think that is just stupid! :crocheting is the best feeling give something made from you. And the crochet give so many possibilities!!!

Im in my twenties, pliss give an idea to meet crochet friends! :manyheart
:( where i live there is no crochet fair, and the only classes in crochet are in churches for the grannys, wich are were im in classes...

:clap i want to crochet with somebody!

[beth eathorne]

porcelana i have found joining a swap or offering to test something for someone here is a great way to make friends...if you dont have alot of extra money that isnt a problem either...look at the KISS--keep it simple swap going on right now...you only send one dishcloth to a picked partner...they have started this and i love it...

[judianne]

I found a fairly local meetup group after seeing this post- in Metuchen, NJ- Twisted Stitchers-
Wow...nice! Where do you meet?