I can whip out the hats quite quickly on the loom- it’s just these darn embellishments – sigh!

Though I have improved over the last 2 years on my crocheting skills, I am still not <even close to> satisfied with my current ability. I just wish I could quickly whip out the embellishments for the hats, whether it’s a flower or a nose. But I struggle, thrash it and redo, retry– back to the drawing board; maybe it’s the yarn, maybe it’s too textured — knowing deep inside exactly what the problem is. To fully illustrate this, on this hat, I tried 4 different flower type embellishments, from an i-cord flower that resembled an eye instead of a flower, a dark grey flower with ugly and uneven petals, a pale grey flower that was horrible. These were really horrible- it got to a point where I was considering just leaving the red hat plain- without a flower. If this off-white flower didn’t come out correctly, that’s exactly how this hat would be- bare.
I am glad that the flower came out “ok” and I sewed a little red strand along the center for interest.
I can’t dismiss the progress over the last year that I have made. Do you see the off white flower below?

My 1st Crocheted Flower from 2/25/2013
But I am very impatient that I do have feel like a pro yet, that I struggle, that I have to search for easy patterns. It’s very humbling, to say the very least. My expectations for myself after working on something for 2 years does not align with the reality of my actual “skills” and I use that word very loosely when it comes to the topic of crochet.
But I try and try again…
~Pali
PS Joined these link parties: Keep Calm Craft On and Yarn Along and Candle in the Night
Written
on 02/25/2013