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Homeschooling isn't always cupcakes and rainbows. It isn't all smiles and good times. There are days when it is a little bit more extra challenging. Not just for the parent, but for the kid as well. Today is one of those days when the drive is there but the distractions and difficulties are trying the little learner's patience.
Our Fridays have always been a feee day for us. This is the day for relaxation and fun. But Friday is also catch up day. A day we spend for catching up on keepings we weren't able to make, rehearsals we weren't able to do, etc. Today, my little learner decided she will make her Keeping of The Battle of Marathon then she would practice on her keyboards. She just finished reading and understanding the music sheet for Atin Cu Pung Singsing so she wanted to try out if she read it correctly. Just a brief background on the song, it is one of the many Philippine Folksongs we are studying.
Except for a few sharps add flats, she did great with the note reading. She needs a little bit of work with the tempo when she tried out the notez on her keyboard, but other than that, she did well. But then the neighbor started calling me downstairs for a little chat about this and that on some pipe here and there. I had to go up and down the stairs a few times, I think I burned all the calories I cheated on that morning.
Anyways, whenever I step away, the little learner would usually stop her practice and wait for me to come back. But this time, I could hear her play the keyboard from afar. I can hear her frustrated stokes when she does a key wrong but I would hear her continue to play. I'm giving her plus points for patience amd perseverance.
Then when I finally came back, I just observed from a distance and I can see she's really in the zone. So I let her be. I let her figure out what she needed to figure out. Then came the next struggle. Sungit, the cat in our house that loves to cuddle ONLY with my daughter, went to her.
Sungit did not approach her in a subtle way. She up and stepped on the keyboard, throwing Aya off the zone. Might I say, there were tears of frustration and anger. I thought my daughter would stop practicing already.
Ut she pushed through. She told me later on that she wanted to be able to play wothout looking at the keys or at the sheet that's why she wanted to practice some more. Needless to say, out little Sungit trained my daughter today in the discipline of patience, perseverance, and determination.
She still needs a lot of practice with her keyboard skills but this is actually more than I could really wish for. I'm not in that much of a hurry for her to memorize the keys or the song. I'm there for her journey. That is where all the lessons take place.
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April has been a busy month for me but I can foresee now that May won't be that much different. We squeezed in all of the exams and finished it all on the last week of April. I did not want to have anything hanging in my head during the HivePH meeetup so I made sure exams will be done so that all I have to worry about was the grading and submission of grades.
Our exams consists mainly of oral examinations. We have impromptu narrations of stories that we read during the quarter. Review before exams isn't really a thing for us at the moment. I find itnis so much better if the narration that the little kiddo does is as organic as it possibly can. My instruction is for her to read the exam papers and video herself answering the questions. I used to be the videographer during our exams but since we are training her towards independent learning, we give her more and more responsibilities in our homeschooling journey.
This quarter was the first time that I left her by herself and have her complete all the exams with very minimal help from me or her father. I went about my day, cooked lunch, cleaned the house, etc while she did her exams. As you can see by the background noise in her video, everything around her was so chaotic. Which is why I am so happy to see that she kept her focus and attention. There were so many distractions but she did not let those sidetrack her from her task. She narrated through the noise, the winds, the many people talking (it was just me and her father, and some noisy neighbors.)
I think I will be doing this more often. Giving her the freedom to start her exams whenever she feels comfortable. It is also a training for hahit of honesty and inregrity.
As I was watching this part of her video, (she took an 11 minute video of her narrating all the other stories that were listed in her exam paper) I couldn't help but notice how lively and less tensed she was. She was more relaxed in telling the story, because she holds the control of the recording and whatnot. We started reading Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice last February and finished it some twoo weeks after April. We only read this once a week. We would read it aloud, discuss it, talk about our thoughts about the events that happened in the story all in a 15-minute once a week session.
She did not remember 100% of the details of the story but that's not really actually the goal here. I think we achieved that goal with the way she narrated the story. She was full of enthusiasm in her story-telling and I can tell she did enjoy the story from start to finish. I can see that she admires the wit of Portia in the story. When we were discussing this story during our study time, I remember she said "This is one of the stories where Shakespeare did not do anything so tragic like killing or betraying." I liked that she recalled all the tragedy that Shakespeare wrote.
I still have more exams to check because I procrastinated and went out a lot of times this week. But I am still way ahead of schedule so I'm not yet that worried. I still have to get moving otherwise I'll lose my headstart. So todaloo for now.
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As a part of providing a wholistic kind of education to my daughter, we do riches everyday. Riches include hymns, folk songs, music and composer study, art appreciation with artist study, and of course poetry and memory work.
Everyday, we read a new poem, then, like our usual readings, we read the poems just once and then we talk about it. We discuss how she understood the poem, how she felt about it. Then, I would ask her if she'd want to do a sketch interpretation of the poem she just read. Our poetry though has a different step compared to our usual readings and narration. She will have to choose which poem she would want to do a memory work with. She always chooses one that she likes the most. After we've talked about why it's her favorite, we would then start memorizing it and would do so for a week.
When memorizing the poem, we would start with a fill in the blank type of activity. I would read each line but not completely. She would fill in the words that I would omit. Slowly but surely, she would start memorizing the lines even if I only read the first word. Soon enough, she memorizes the entire stanza, then the entire poem.
This activity takes up to 10 minutes max everyday. We do it even during our rest days because well, it's just 10 minutes. If she does find one poem that touched her and wants to include in her keeping, she would make a drawing or a painting of it.
Introducing kids to riches like this has so many benefits. The first and very obvious is that it trains their minds with the memory work. My daughter gets to do memorization but with all the fun because she's the one that chooses what she likes to memorize, not because she has to do it. My father made me memorize the multiplication table when I was a kid and I remember not being to happy about it. But I know that I needed it so I still did so. It's a lot different with my kid's memory work.
There are also instances when we talk about the idiomatic expressions that are used in the poems we read. She learns how to understand those idioms because of poetry. This is where she learned how narration is well, just retelling what she heard, but with poetry, one can express how they feel through words beautifully rhymed.
I also remember how as kids, our teachers would ask us to give examples of rhyming words. It was a really challenging task for me and my classmates to pull out words out of thin air. You know how it is when you do know the things that are being asked of you, but your mind just scrambles because it panics and couldn't find the words.
With the poetry activity we do everyday, the little learner is exposed to tons of rhyming words and gets to hear examples after examples in use every day. I saw her one time writing her own poem. It was just a short poem, but she kinda copied either A.A. Milne or Dr. Seuss' style.
It was morning and I was yawning
because it was very boring
Although moss is like grass,
I had that for breakfast.
She said it was a silly poem and she was giggling the whole time she was writing it. Even when she showed it to her Tatay, she was giggling while she read it aloud to him. I can really say she was enjoying it.
And of course, because we read poetry everyday, she now is able to put in feelings and emotions with how she reads the poems. I was surprised to hear how she read her latest favorite, Bird by William Allingham. I did not catch the first part of her reading because I was just sitting there, listening to her. I was really impressed at how she changed her voice and intonation according to the parts of the poem she was reading.
Education clearly is not just all about grades and medals and places. It should be filled with all the riches that the world and the greatest minds can offer. If you haven't tried poetry with your learners, I encourage you to do so. It is really fun and relaxing. I'm sure your little learners will agree.
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Today is another reason to celebrate our homeschooling journey. Pending finalization of our 3rd Portfolio, we are officially done with third quarter. Although we have already begun 4th quarter last month.
Every quarter, we submit a portfolio showcasing the highlights of the quarter that was. Whenever I compile the highlights, I am taken back to the journey that we went through. All the copyworks, all the narrations, all the sketches, and nature studies we did. And when I compare it with the previous quarters, I can clearly see the improvements no matter how small or big.
We don't have recognition programs like which student is the top performer or the best in this subject or that in our homeschooling provider. But with the quarterly portfolio submission, we are able to see all the achievements that we had for the quarter.
I used to dread portfolio deadlines. Now, I am excited about it. I am excited to see what many and great things my daughter did during the last 2-3 months and see the lessons she learned and the growth she went through. I'd like to share our 3rd quarter journey through this video.
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When we were kids, we were often asked, "What do you wanna be when you grow up?" Every adult we talk to, it's like their ice breaker. First they ask our name, then how old we are, then according to your answer, they'll ask if you're in this grade or that. Most adults don't feel comfortable talking to a child. Like they're some fragile thing. So they move to whatever next topic they can think of. Most often than not, they ask the question "What do you wanna be when you grow up?"
As a kid, I know I might have said I wanted to be a doctor. Or a teacher. I might probavly have said I wanted to be a nurse. I'm sure I did not say I want to be a police officer. My mother used to scare me that the police or the guard will get me whenever I misbehaved in public. So I used to have this fear towards them. I don't anymore. Or maybe I still do but not as major as when I was a kid.
My daughter has been asked this very same question. When she was 3 or 4, she used to say she wanted to be Aquaman. Then she said she wanted to be everything. Then she shifted into becoming a seller. As she growd up, she seem to be thinking about the answer to this question too much. She returned the question to me one time. "How do I know what I want to be when I grow up? I'm just a child." Ad if I'm not yet stumped by her questions, she followed it up with "What if I chose wrong? Won't that be a big waste of time?"
I often doubt if I am parenting my child right, but in times like this, I also questiob my child's childing. She thinks about things a little way too much. But I understand her line of thinking. I, too, was bombarded by those questions when I was a child and it seems not fair to make a child choose what they want to be when they grow up at an age where all they should be thinking of is whether they'll play tag or tea party in the afteenoon.
What they need is exposure to different kinds of fields that they might want to venture into in the future. Before they could set their mind into what they want to be in the future, they need to know all the options that they have. Now, I know I won't be able to let her see firsthand all the different jobs and fields she can choose from, but I sure am exposing her to a lot of career paths. It's a good thing ky circles of friends have a wide range of different careers.
She has experienced dancing on stage, now, she experienced singing. One of her godfathers is a bass guitar player in a band. On a birthday party we attended last year, she experienced performing with a live band with all those instruments and such with her godfather. She had a nice time. During her performance, I could see she was not showing any form of nervousness or shyness. I love how confident she is on stage.
After her song number, she told me that she wasn't feeling the live band vibe. She was taken aback by all the people singing along with her. In fairness to her, she had only danced on stage and this is the first time she sang. I told her that live singing performances with a live band is always like that - the crowd singing along with the singer, just enjoying the song. She is just used to classical ballet performance.
Now that she has experienced it, she says she is crossing band singer off her list of possible careers in the future. She is excited though with her voice lessons. Although she is still open to possibilities of performing again - but she said maybe with a musical instrument or not a live band performance.
Whatever she feels like doing, I am surr I'll be fine with it. For now, I'm just happy she's enjoying her childhood and absorbing every lessons she can get in every experience. I also had fun taking videosnof her perform. Whatever path she chooses. I'll be a proud stage nanay, supporting her all the way.
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As part of our homeschooling journey, I also teach folk music to my daughter. We have studied quite a few of the most common ones in our first grade. For this school year, we originally planned on foregoing Filipino folk music and just focus on studying famous composers. We were in the middle of studying Vivaldi's 4 Seasons when my daughter heard an Ilonggo song from one student in the higher grade levels during her recognition day.
Even I fell in love with the sweet melody of this Ilonggo folk song. My daughter said she either feels like she's having a relaxing walk along the seashore or she's being lulled to sleep by the soft mellow music. When we learned this song, this has become the lullaby she wants me to hum to her when she sleeps at night.
Learning Philippine folk songs helps her appreciate the culture of our country and even makes her fall in love with the languages she's learning. So far, we have learned a lot of folk songs from Luzon, now we're moving to Visayas and pretty soon we'll be studying folk songs from Mindanao. I have learned some of the folk songs from my grade school years before but there are quite a few that I am only learning just now - because of our homeschooling journey.
This song is basically telling a little girl or little kid to go to sleep while its mom is out buying bread. Now, when we buy our early morning pandesal, we use the term "bakal papay". I know it's just a very tiny little bit of practice in speaking other languages in the Philippines, but I'll take what I can. English is my daughter's first language and I'm right now transitioning her into learning Tagalog, I don't really mind slipping in a few other Philippine languages along the process.
We sang only one stanza of the song:
Ili ili, tulog anay
Wala diri imo nanay.
Kadto tienda bakal papay.
Ili-ili tulog anay.
*Little one, Little one, sleep for now
Your mother is not here
Whe went outside to buy bread
Little one, little one, sleep for now.*
This is the first time that we took a video of us performing a song. Most of the time it's just her when she's performing her Music performance tasks or for her exams. Every morning, before we start our lessons, we sing some songs, I'll play either the guitar or the ukulele for her while she sings the songs. You can tell in this video that this is us early in the morning. It really helps set the mood at the beginning of the day. This is how we homeschool. In our pj's. Haha!
I hope you enjoyed listening to the song as much as we enjoyed performing it. Till next time! Ciao!
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For Hive Open Mic Week 166, I chose the song Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles. The melody is so catchy and the vibe it creates matches the meaning that this song is communicating to me. It's telling me that if you are in the season in your life where it all seems dark, cold, and gloomy, remember that it will not last. The sun will soon come to light up your world. So no matter what you're going through right now, never give up. There's hope.
I studied the ukulele cover of Here Comes the Sun through this video and practiced this one during my quiet time since Monday. As part of our homeschooling journey, I make sure to allocate 2 hours during the day for me to just sit back, relax, and rest from all the motherly responsibilities. It helps me take control of my life and just grow as a human being. I am thankful that I found this habit of just spending time for myself because it has helped lessen all the stress and overwhelming feelings that has been boiling up inside of me.
Just like in the song, I used to be in several long, cold, lonely winter seasons in my life. This song helped me realize that those seasons change and loneliness and sadness doesn't last that long. Now, I know that if I'll be going through those seasons again, there is something to look forward to. Everyday, the sun will rise. All I need to do is to never give up.
While I was studying this song, I couldn't get off my mind the interaction I had with @naymhapz a few days ago. I know we haven't met personally, but I feel some sort of connection with you. Our interaction on your last post got stuck in my mind. I know better than to ask the details of your heartaches in the blockchain but please know that you can always message me on my soc meds if you need someone to talk to. I kept thinking about you while I was singing this song and I want to let you know that no matter what you're going through right now, the sun will soon come.
Going back to the song, I challenged myself with the riffs and finger picking in this cover. I know I haven't mastered it yet, I'm still going to continue learning and practicing. During my recording of this video, my daughter was watching me and I love how supportive she is. She was really very honest and objective in giving feedback about where I need to work on. She said words like "Nanay, maybe you need to practice that part a little bit more." or something like "You have to make it a bit slower." And whenever I got the riffs correct, she is quick to say "That was much better, Nanay! I love it!" It just dawned on me that this is how I coach her whenever she's practicing her ballet dance. I'm glad that she is emulating my example.
So that's it for my Hive Open Mic week 166 entry. I hope you enjoyed listening to it as much as I did!
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Hello. It took me a lot of courage to post this video. I have always loved playing musical instruments. In highschool, I used to play the flute in front of my classmates just for fun. I also played the guitar. I usually play in the church at school in college. Most of the time, I don't use my voice because singing has been one of my greatest insecurities.
Although I do not shy away from karaoke singing, but most of the time it's either I'm drunk or the ones listening to me are too drunk to care whether I hit the right notes or not.
In this video, I'm not drunk. (I may just sound like it a little bit so please pardon me.) This is also the first time I'm joining Hive Open Mic.
My daughter wanted to learn how to play the ukulele and I've been wanting to learn too for the longest time. So I'm studying the ukulele for our lessons while I'm also playing some of my favorite music on my spare time.
I did not realize that recording a video for a song would be so challenging. I had to retake a billion times before I finally got to the point ~~where I just gave up~~ where I am contented with the recorded video. Recording myself while crocheting is a whole lot different. Because I don't show my face while crocheting. It felt weird watching myself sing as I was editing the video. Lol. I still had fun recording though. I've been practicing more songs in ukulele, hopefully I get to muster some more courage to post the others I'll be recording.
I picked this song for Hive Open mic week 165 because it makes me think of all the beautiful mountain peaks I've seen in photographs and the ones I've been. And there's no other view that will make you love mother nature more than up there where the wind blows, the leaves dance, and the clouds just float by, painting a whole new beautiful world away from all the hustle and bustle of our busy lives.
I had fun playing and singing this sone. I hope you have fun listening too. Y'all have a great day!
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The first quarter of the schoolyear is almost over, it's exams week plus one final presentation. I think I may have put too much pressure on me and my daughter because I was too worried that we may be a little behind on the lessons when we started, we ended up finishing the lessons for the first quarter 3 weeks early. We have moved on to the next lessons for the second quarter while waiting for our exams to be sent by the school. We're still also waiting on the lesson plans but I understand it's still a bit early to expect that.
While waiting on things, my daughter and I kept ourselves busy with learning new things. I let her have a break from school stuff but since we've already established the habit of studying, she still grabs a book from our mini library when it's study time. It helps that we have a lot of kiddie activity workbooks, coloring books, and lots of art stuff.
The Script It's a good thing the little human became busy for a bit, I was able to work on her costume for her UN Celebration presentation. We were informed last October 11 that the online presentation will be on October 23. This meant that I have less than 2 weeks to produce a costume for the country we'll be choosing. To be honest, we originally chose the Philippines as our country to force her into speaking Tagalog. I can see she's been trying to learn how to converse in Tagalog she's been actively asking what the Tagalog term of a lot of English words. She then would try to repeat every word she learns. We ended up having an English script for her presentation. Well, she's five, she tried, we'll get there. Baby steps.
We had the option to present live on the day itself or to send a video presentation prior. Because of the costume and the materials we selected for the costume, presenting live is not an option. Especially seeing how she was on the last online presentation the school had, I'm sure her costume will be ruined by the time she gets her turn to present. We were given a 2 minute limit for our video presentation. With all the beauty in the Philippines, we only selected those that she will be able to happily present.
The Costume
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The requirement was for the costume to be DIY and made of recycled materials. I could easily just have made an entire costume made of recycled papers - which we have a surplus of - but I chose to make a crochet filipiniana bolero. It's been a long time since I wanted to make something different for my daughter. I've always wondered how a Filipiniana sleeve is done so I watched a video on youtube. Now, all I have to do is to translate the fabric into crochet.
I worked on the sleeves first because I'm really very much excited about them. It took an all-nighter to finish both sleeves. Originally, I wanted to make the sleeves detachable so that they could be used for other outfits. After seeing them though, I decided on making them permanently attached to the entire top.
To complete the crochet Filipiniana bolero, I created a granny rectangle. A new kind of stitch I learned from one of the books I bought from the Big Bad Wolf sale a couple of months ago. This is one of the projects where I know the end product I want but I did not give that much thought as to the specifics. Finishing this project quickly is of the essence, I did take it one step at a time though, basically since I'm not sure exactly what to do next.
As soon as I finished the back part, the front flaps were pretty much straightforward. Just triangle flaps made of double crochets crisscrossing in front. I knew I wanted to make the crochet filipiniana bolero to look elegant so I added a little detail on the edging. I found this pattern on the internet. I thought it was complicated and I thought it would take more time than I need. Then again, I put more pressure to myself than I really should. Lately it feels like I am stressing myself out more than I really should. But I figure I accomplish more by doing this so I guess, at a safe limit, I can keep doing this to myself since I complete more task effectively.
The skirt is made up of recycled papers. My daughter loves drawing and doodling a lot, we piled up a lot of papers over time. There's a tier by tier system of storing her doodles and arts. Some make it to the wall, some to the clearbook, then some to the pile of papers that she does not want me to throw away because of sentimental reasons. The only way she'd let me throw away all her discarded trial and error art is if I could trick her into making it into another art project. And we did so for her UN Celebration presentation.
A Filipiniana costume will not be complete without the native fan that women back in the day always have on hand. I bought a pack of drinking straw before, I couldn't really remember why. I used the straws and formed them into a fan. Then added some leftover ribbons from my stash. And that completes my daughter's presentation for their UN celebration.
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@romeskie is a full-time stay-at-home mom to a homeschooling toddler. Loves crocheting as a hobby. Maintains a mini food forest, aiming to grow more to achieve that farm-to-table homesteading. Learned how to cook after leaving the corporate world to take care of her family and is now starting to acquire basic baking skills. Learn more about her adventures and misadventures in the world of motherhood.
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If you are looking for a quick and easy project, I made one that you can do with your eyes closed. (Just kidding) But this one is really easy and uncomplicated, I made one to take a break from another DIY I was making.
As of this moment, I am on a quest to use up all of my yarn stash. My husband asked me why, I just told him that I am making room for more yarns I want to buy. My yarn stash consists of polyester, polycotton, acrylic, mercerized, and a few yarns that were gifted to me on my birthday last year. I recently worked on milk cotton yarns and I am in love with the texture. There is a big chance that there will be more milk cotton yarns in my stash. In the near future. So while I am fighting the urge to buy new yarns, I am keeping myself busy by making projects out of the yarns I have available.
Now, more about this easy peasy project. We cannot say with certainty that this pandemic will be over soon. And so, as a reaction, fashion trends are now adapting to the current situation. First, there was the crochet mask, though not really that effective in being a mask, it is effective as a fashion statement.
As we eased in to the new normal, a lot of new things have been added to our OOTD. One of those is the face mask lanyard. Nowadays, more and more establishments in like malls and restaurants are opening to the public. I do not support removing masks while out in the public but when I went out one time, I figured there is indeed a need for facemask lanyards.
One of my errands took longer than I anticipated and I had to remove my mask while I dined in one of the restaurants at the mall. Momma's gotta eat, ya know. Naturally, I needed to remove my mask so I can eat at the farthest end of the restaurant, away from all the other diners. I thought it would have been easier if I could just take off my mask and leave it hanging near my face just in case.
Of course, crocheters can adapt right away. I found several ideas on how to make a crochet lanyard. I decided to make one. It just took me sometime to finish because, for the love of me, I don't know what that tiny little metal thing at the end is called. After looking through a lot of videos, I finally found out it was called lobster clasp. I ordered one online right away. Luckily, the seller is just near my place, shipping did not take too long.
The crochet mask lanyard ilI made is composed of shell stitch variation. I started with a magic ring. Chain 4, then dc3tog into the ring. 1 chain, then dc4tog into the ring again. That's the first shell stitch.
To make the next shell stitch, turn then slip stitch into the ch1 space. Make 3 chains, then dc3tog into the chain space. Chain 1. Dc4tog into the same chain space.
Repeat from the slip stitch until you reach the desired length. Once you get the length you want for your crochet mask lanyard, you may go ahead and attach the lobster clasps on both ends. I am fairly new at using this material but it's pretty easy to attach. You may use a tiny metal jump ring to attach the clasp to the lanyard. I didn't use one, I just secured the clasp with knots from the loose ends of the crochet mask lanyard.
Once you get the lobster clasps attached, you're good to go. I made one for my mom's birthday too. By the way, she's now back into crocheting. I bought her balls of yarn and a crochet hook set two years ago but she did not really have that much time for a hobby back then. I know she's feeling lonely and bored now that my Pa is no longer around so crocheting is helping her cope. She showed her creations when I had a video call with her, I can see she's feeling a lot better and is already coping very well with our loss.
@romeskie is a full-time stay-at-home mom to a homeschooling toddler. Loves crocheting as a hobby. Maintains a mini food forest, aiming to grow more to achieve that farm-to-table homesteading. Learned how to cook after leaving the corporate world to take care of her family and is now starting to acquire basic baking skills. Learn more about her adventures and misadventures in the world of motherhood.
Connect with her through her Facebook Page: The Leftie Crocheter and on Instagram. Feel free to subscribe to her Youtube Channel: The Leftie Crocheter
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One of my plans before was to send my daughter to a preschool and then continue her education with homeschooling afterward. The reason behind this was that I was feeling overwhelmed even before we started our homeschooling journey. Just like any other endeavor, the first steps are the hardest. A lot of questions and uncertainties kept running in my mind. How do I teach a child how to read or how to write? Where do I start? How do I begin?
Then, by sharing my thoughts and reading through the homeschooling articles in the Home Edders Community, and browsing through the Homeschooling groups on Facebook, I learned about play-based learning. At first, it was completely perplexing. I have no idea what to do. Until I started and then soon got the hang of it. This learning and teaching style is highly effective in stimulating a child's brain. Even when I think she might not pay attention, my daughter shows interest in our "topics" and even pitches in her own ideas. We are actually going somewhere.
And then we got to the part where she shows that she is ready to go to the next level. How do I know this? She's starting to grab books on the bookshelf. She asks me if I would like to read her the story. She even repeats the words I read to her from the book. At the back of my head, I am feeling ecstatic, she is displaying a huge interest in learning how to read. That's when I start to feel the pressure. I really want her to learn how to read because once she knows how to read, a lot of doors will open to her. She can discover new worlds in so many different books. Knowledge is power and that power could only be unlocked by learning how to read. So I ask myself again. How do I teach her how to read? There are tons of words in the dictionary, where do I begin?
It is only right that I match her level of enthusiasm however, I did not want to overwhelm her. I did that when we were starting out last year. I made her dive deep right away, she got scared and lost her interest for a short while. It might just be a matter of luck that she was able to gain interest again in reading. I do not want to make that same mistake again. This time, I need to be very careful in approaching the subject matter.
Communities and groups are very helpful in this part of our homeschooling journey. I had no background in child psychology nor do I have a degree in education. But that did not stop me from wanting to push through with homeschooling. I found out very useful techniques in teaching toddlers how to read. I had tutored a couple of kids from years ago but I haven't taught from scratch. I was sure this was going to be an enormous undertaking that will require passion and commitment. And it was. But the fruits of the labor are very very sweet indeed.
Here are some of the things that I learned in teaching toddlers how to read.
- Don't focus on teaching the alphabet. At first, this did not make sense to me. I mean I'm trying to teach my kid how to read. Naturally, I assumed that having her memorize the letters of the alphabet was the first step. And by the time I found this out, she had already memorized all the letters. But we still moved on and tried the initial step which is learning the sounds of each letter . Since she has learned all the letters, it was hard for her to unlearn the letters and replace them with the sounds when we started to learn how to read. After a lot of practice, she was able to familiarize herself with phonics. When we recite the alphabet, instead of simply saying each letter, (A, B, C, D...) we changed it to A-a-apple, B-b-boy, C-c-cat, D-d-dog, and so on and so forth. Soon, she was reciting the alphabet through the sounds.
- During playtime, sound as many three-letter words as you can. She has a stuffed toy dog and whenever I hold it, I say /d/-/o/-/g/, dog! We do it with /c/-/a/-/t/, cat, too. All around the house, there are a lot of three-letter words that we sound the letters. I sometimes sound like a TV show character when we play and I say *"Hi, I'm a cat, /c/-/a/-/t/, CAT! I have prepared flashcards at this point but I only hint it to her very subtly, displayed in plain sight but not too obvious because I was scared she might not like to read at all.
- When she was already familiarized with phonics and she's already used to sounding each letter of the three-letter words, that's when I introduced the flashcards. At first, the words were random because I had no idea what I was doing exactly. Then a friend recommended using rhyming words for letter blending. And that's what I did with my flashcards.
-at: bat, cat, rat
-et: vet, set, pet
-ot: not, hot, cot
The flashcards were pretty nifty actually. Since did not have a printer yet at that time, I used her old milk cartons and manually just wrote those letters and grouped the flashcards according to the last two letters. 4. Reading is Fun! That's what my daughter always says when I ask her why she loves reading. I usually find her in bed holding a book. She's just looking at the pictures but I can see her trying to read the words that she can read. I can't remember if I psyched her into loving reading or if she really did love reading. She loves reading the books that I bought back when I was pregnant with her. I did not know back then that I was already pregnant but every time I pass by the mall from the office back then, I can't help but buy those kiddie books. 5. Allocate at least ten minutes of reading time every day. I have put her bookshelf to a location where she can easily grab any book she wants to read/browse at any time. That was originally meant to make sure her interest in reading does not waiver. Now that she is able to read more and more words, I placed her reading practice books on spots that are more easily accessible for her.
Different kids have varying learning curves and learning styles. These tips may prove effective to some but not to others. I was just a clueless beginner homeschooling mom, I still am clueless and definitely still new in the game but these things definitely helped me and my daughter in our homeschooling journey. Teaching toddlers how to read will unquestionably test your patience and commitment but once you hear them reading those words slowly at first and trying to show off their new skill, it is totally worth it.
@romeskie is a full-time stay-at-home mom to a homeschooling toddler. Loves crocheting as a hobby. Maintains a mini food forest, aiming to grow more to achieve that farm-to-table homesteading. Learned how to cook after leaving the corporate world to take care of her family and is now starting to acquire basic baking skills. Learn more about her adventures and misadventures in the world of motherhood.
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It's just a few days before Halloween. My first project as a needleworker was my daughter's Moana costume. This was the project that brought back the spark for my love of crocheting. I can't remember how many times I needed to frog the Moana costume. I even felt frustrated and thought I wouldn't make it in time. I started the halloween costume early September that year. I completed it just a few days before the halloween party we were attending.
Later on, I found out that the yarn I used for it was not really intended for wearables. I felt really sorry for my kid because after the event, she was complaining that her back was itchy. I learned a lot from that project. I found my crochet mojo - my crojo if you may. I learned that patience is one of the main traits needed to complete a project. Apparently, I haven't really learned everything.
For this year, because of the current predicament that the whole world is facing, it looks like all parties and gatherings are either cancelled or has strict rules to be observed.
I still wish to make something related to the ocassion and so I decided to make a pumpkin earrings. At least that's what I planned. The thing about making earrings is that you got to make two pieces of them. The first one I made looked like a pumpkin to me. But for some reason, when I finished the second one, they both looked like mandarin oranges.
This may partly (or mainly) be because I made them too small. The rationale behind this is that these are earrings. If they're too big, and heavy, it might hurt the ears. LOL. I made dangling earrings a lot but I don't really wear them too much because I think it pulls my ears down. I'm not sure if other girls feel the same way too but I'm cool with just the stud earrings and/or really light dangling ones.
I made a video which was supposed to be a tutorial but seeing as it did not come out as I expected it to be, I felt like this would not be a very good tutorial video. So this video is just for entertainment purposes only. I just don't want the film/tape to be wasted (so 90's).
Anyways, the original intent was to make this a Halloween themed needleworkmonday entry for me but it turned out to be a new year needleworkmonday entry. I thought this was really simple and easy to make. I underestimated this small project. The process was pretty elementary. I thought that since I have gained some experience in the field of amigurumi, I got this one in the bag. Well, I thought wrong.
Just like any amigurumi, this one starts with the magic ring, followed by increases to make a circle There are a lot of things that went wrong actually. I showed it to my sister. She's not a crocheter but her talent in nail art is unparalleled. She told me that I should have used black yarns for the ribs to make the rinds more visible. I should have added some vines. And pumpkin leaves weren't shaped like that. I should have known that by now since I have pumpkin plants on my mini food forest.
The mandarin orange earrings still turned out cute. Hilarious, but cute. Everytime I look at them, I can't help but giggle a little bit. And that's what't really important when you are crafting something, right? That it makes you happy?
Ok, really, I'm just making myself feel a little better. I like the earrings because I made them. But I love them because I learned something. Would I wear them? Most probably on new year. LOL.
Music credits:
Vlad Gluschenko — (Boat)
License: CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
@romeskie is a full-time stay at home mom juggling homeschooling, crocheting, and homemaking. A Business Administration graduate with a major in Marketing who ended up in the contact center industry, on the frontlines, climbing her way up to Workforce Management where she found her passion in real-time analysis and management. A once self-proclaimed careerwoman who soon realized homemaking was her real calling. Her passion varies from reading, writing, photography, and most of all, crocheting.
Connect with her through her Facebook Page: The Leftie Crocheter and on Instagram. Feel free to subscribe to her Youtube Channel: The Leftie Crocheter
Big thanks to @bearone for my Hive PH badge.
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Making a shell stitch is one of the first stitches I learned from my mom back in the day. She used to make me do all the edges of her crochet doilies just for practice. She would sometimes (most of the time) frog my work to correct it but I learned nonetheless.
How to make a Shell Stitch The main idea of a shell stitch is to make a group of crochet that would look like a shell. To do this, one simply needs to crochet several double crochets or treble crochets into one stitch. It would look like a fan or a shell in the process.
For the project I am making, I created shell stitches with 7 double crochets stitched into 1 stitch from the previous row. The succeeding rows consist of shell stitches with 5 double crochet each. I found out that after making one full row of shell stitch with 7 double crochet, it uses too much yarn and it also looks a bit too cramped. And it's one of those times that I did not feel like frogging the entire first row. I chose to move on.
You can make several variations to the shell stitch. I have another WIP with shell stitches. That one consists of four double crochets with a chain in between.
My Current WIP with Shell Stitch Without fail, I have been singing the theme song from a famous fairy tale: Beauty and the Beast. This is not a commissioned work, but a promised outfit to my niece and goddaughter. She is going to wear it on her 7th birthday. I still have a couple of months to go but I am pressuring myself because as of right now, I am still working on the off-shoulder. I have just finished the bodice. Next would be the skirt part. Until now, my sister and I still haven't agreed if we would use tulle for the skirt or if we would go for the crochet balloon skirt.
My niece on the other hand is just too excited because she was the one who requested for the Beauty and the Beast themed party next year. As for me, I am just happy to be Fairy Godmother or in this case, Madame De Garderobe. I am a few centimeters away from completing the top part of the dress but my mind is already wandering off to the designs I am going to make for the skirt portion of this outfit.
Music Credits: Vlad Gluschenko — (Boat)
License: CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
@romeskie is a full-time stay at home mom juggling homeschooling, crocheting, and homemaking. A Business Administration graduate with a major in Marketing who ended up in the contact center industry, on the frontlines, climbing her way up to Workforce Management where she found her passion in real-time analysis and management. A once self-proclaimed careerwoman who soon realized homemaking was her real calling. Her passion varies from reading, writing, photography, and most of all, crocheting.
Connect with her through her Facebook Page: The Leftie Crocheter and on Instagram. Feel free to subscribe to her Youtube Channel: The Leftie Crocheter
Big thanks to @bearone for my Hive PH badge.
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When making a new project, what a crafter needs to have is a clear vision of what they want to accomplish. It would help if they would come up with a plan, a timeline perhaps, and a step by step procedure would be very helpful to make sure the details are beautifully executed.
I saw a fellow crocheter on Facebook post a sun hat some weeks ago. It's not summer here in the country and even if it is, there's an extremely low chance of our family ever going out on an out of town trip anytime soon. Still, that's no reason to not give in to the urge of making a sun hat of my own version. And so my daughter's sun hat is one of my WIPs right now.
It's pretty basic, the first thing I did was to make a crochet circle big enough to fit her head. The lesson I learned about making the perfect crochet circle is very useful. Since it's a hat and the top center needs to be fully closed, I made use of the magic ring which I learned last year when I made my round bohemian bag.
As I was working the sides of the hat, I realized it would be a bit too boring if it would just be composed of single crochets all the way to the flaps. I decided to add a little bit of a simple design.
I tried making a double crochet, skip, double crochet kind of design so it would have holes in one row. But the outcome was still a bit too boring for me. Of course, I did the most sensible thing to do. Put down the project. Let it sit for a couple of days when you've finally come up with a design idea, and then get back to it, frog it a little bit to adjust it to the design you want to make.
Criss Cross
Not really, I still did not have any idea what to do. With the lack of ideas, I decided to make a variation to my usual double crochet. What if I criss cross the stitches? If it doesn't work out, then I could just frog it again, and just get on with the boring single crochets til the end.
It's very simple actually, for the first time ever, I did not need any youtube guides or what not. I'm not even sure what it's called so I did not bother searching. Afterall, it's just as simple as going bonkers while you are crocheting.
I got excited, I wanted to capture the moment hence, the video. This is the first time I invented my own stitch. I know it's not really my own and I think other crocheters might have already done this stitch before. But hey, I discovered this one by myself! Haha! So I'm gonna call this Criss Cross double crochet. Not that there's any other way to describe it, eh?
I enjoyed taking a video and taking pictures of this one. I hope to finish this before summer next year. For a sloth crocheter like me, that should be a lot of time. LOL.
Music Credits:
Vlad Gluschenko — (Boat)
License: CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
@romeskie is a full-time stay at home mom juggling homeschooling, crocheting, and homemaking. A Business Administration graduate with a major in Marketing who ended up in the contact center industry, on the frontlines, climbing her way up to Workforce Management where she found her passion in real-time analysis and management. A once self-proclaimed careerwoman who soon realized homemaking was her real calling. Her passion varies from reading, writing, photography, and most of all, crocheting.
Connect with her through her Facebook Page: The Leftie Crocheter and on Instagram. Feel free to subscribe to her Youtube Channel: The Leftie Crocheter
Big thanks to @bearone for my Hive PH badge.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=romeskie/kvdwiycb
You know you have the makings of a ~~hoarder~~ collector when you buy stuff you don't really actually need at the moment but just want to because you're either curious about it, thought the color looks pretty, or you just want to feed the stash. Months ago, I bought two spools of cord yarn just because. No project in mind, the only reason I purchased it was because I was unfamiliar to this kind of yarn.
I was told this kind of yarn is used for bags. It turns out the amount of cord yarn I ordered would not be enough for even a small pouch so into the stash it went. Until today. My husband just got his new phone case and was looking for his old lanyards. He plans on using it as his phone case's grip/handle/wristband. (I'm not sure what it's called but still I made one for him)
This crochet wrist band for his phone casing is an application for a new stitch I learned. Crocheting an i-cord is a new addition in my crochet stitch library. The process looked a bit challenging. And it is. If you will take on the challenge, your tension and patience will be tested. Hold the cord yarn too tight and you risk accidentally frogging your work. Hold it too loose, you'll end up with uneven chains.
The crochet i-cord looks like 4 chain rows interconnected on each stitch. Technically, they are just that, chains simultaniously done vertically. The practical thing about it is that you have the flexibility in deciding how long your i-cord should be.
The finished product is slightly stretchable and is highly durable. It is perfect for mobile phone holder/wristband, pouch handles and bag straps. You can make it thinner or thicker. Just make lesser loops at the beginning of you want it thinner, add more loops if you want a thicker i-cord.
There are tons of available sizes of cord yarns. Choose rhe ones that fit the i-cord projecft you will be making.
Credits Music: Vlad Gluschenko — (Boat)
License: CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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@romeskie is a full-time stay at home mom juggling homeschooling, crocheting, and homemaking. A Business Administration graduate with a major in Marketing who ended up in the contact center industry, on the frontlines, climbing her way up to Workforce Management where she found her passion in real-time analysis and management. A once self-proclaimed careerwoman who soon realized homemaking was her real calling. Her passion varies from reading, writing, photography, and most of all, crocheting.
Connect with her through her Facebook Page: The Leftie Crocheter and on Instagram. Feel free to subscribe to her Youtube Channel: The Leftie Crocheter
Big thanks to @bearone for my Hive PH badge.
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Flower Puff Sometimes all we need is a friend ready to punch us in the face when we're falling astray. When we start to self doubt, and even when we start to get complacent. Sometimes it is when you are being challenged that one is able to contrive ways to produce great masterpieces.
Creating a masterpiece, that is the end game of every crafter. Thus far, I have just a handful of those - projects I am truly, deeply proud of. With the way I am leading up to the clues for the next Guess the WIP contest, it is like paving my road to either sweet success or utter disappointment and regret.
But that is just the point of these mini contests: to push us to our limits. Setting the bars higher everytime so we can keep on growing and improving as a crocheter and a crafter. Of course, I also wish to pique the interest the non crocheting community by arousing their curiosity. Hoping that by consistently posting new projects, getting better and better each time, more and more people will appreciate the art of crocheting.
Challenge accepted
What I am really trying to say is that this new project I am working on this week will be an attempt to take on a challenge from a friend. Dares and challenges have not inspired me this much for the longest time.
So let's get down to the clues. Pretty much the first clue is that it's going to have lots of these tiny little flower puffs. Red will be the main color. I'll be adding some embellishments of pearls or beads (or both) to make it even prettier. Thin wires will also be used to hold the entire piece. This is actually the part I am most anxious of. I really hope I could pull this off.
Prizes I am feeling so high with the challenge right now, so I am putting more into the prizes. It still goes the same, participants can only guess once, the first three correct guesser wins. The winners will get 1 Hive each this time. All the other participants will get an equal amount of the HBD payout of this post.
Well, that's all for now. Quoting Hunger Games, may the odds be ever in our favor.
Credits: Music: Vlad Gluschenko — (Boat)
License: CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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@romeskie is a full-time stay at home mom juggling homeschooling, crocheting, and homemaking. A Business Administration graduate with a major in Marketing who ended up in the contact center industry, on the frontlines, climbing her way up to Workforce Management where she found her passion in real-time analysis and management. A once self-proclaimed careerwoman who soon realized homemaking was her real calling. Her passion varies from reading, writing, photography, and most of all, crocheting.
Connect with her through her Facebook Page: The Leftie Crocheter and on Instagram. Feel free to subscribe to her Youtube Channel: The Leftie Crocheter
Big thanks to @bearone for my Hive PH badge.
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Hey there fellow needleworkers! Happy Monday. I hope we are all looking at a bright and clear week ahead. If not, I hope we get enough coffee, yarns, and hooks to help us get by.
Trial and Error I incorporated crochet in our lesson about shapes last week. Now my daughter knows a hexagon has 6 sides and 6 points. And she loves the crochet hexagon I made to help her learn. I on the other hand needed to go through a lot of trials and errors before I got to this video on how to make a crochet hexagon.
On my Guess the WIP contest announcement, I mentioned that I used the circle at the center approach on how to make the hexagon. In the video, it shows that I used the basic method of making a circle but added chains on each increase per row to make the corners more obvious. I want the corners to be pointy and easy to identify to make the Hive Design easier to make.
How to make the Crochet Hive Hairclip
After making the hexagon, I then used the white yarn and just slip stitched across the surface to kinda draw the Hive logo. I had a boo boo on my first trials. One even went to actual production. I was already using the hairclip when I noticed that the logo was actually off.
I decided to still keep this hairclip. Learn from our mistakes, right? And I intend to keep this souvenir for my oopsie just for laughs. LOL
To me, what's important is that did not lose my patience and that I did not give up. I am actually thankful that I made this WIP into a contest because that was what kept me going.
Guess the WIP Winner The contest got only one guesser this week. I decided to make her the winner. Congratulations Mommy @june21neneng and thank you for always joining the guess the WIP contest. You will get the HBD earning of the announcement post.
Hoping to see your comment again on the next guess the WIP contest!
Credit Music: Vlad Gluschenko — (Boat)
License: CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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@romeskie is a full time stay at home mom juggling homeschooling, crocheting, and homemaking. A Business Administration graduate with a major in Marketing who ended up in the contact center industry, on the frontlines, climbing her way up to Workforce Management where she found her passion in real-time analysis and management. A once self-proclaimed careerwoman who soon realized homemaking was her real calling. Her passion varies from reading, writing, photography, and most of all, crocheting. Connect with her through her Facebook Page: The Leftie Crocheter and on Instagram. Feel free to subscribe to her Youtube Channel: The Leftie Crocheter
Big thanks to @bearone for my Hive PH badge.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=romeskie/oqmfgymw
On my previous videos, I showed the basic crochet stitches - chain, single crochet, double crochet, and treble crochet. You have also learned about half double crochet on my second video for the Basic Crochet Stitches Tutorial. On this video, let me show you how to make the foundation double crochet.
Form-wise, the foundation double crochet is the same as the basic double crochet stitch. The difference is the method how you form each stitch. The finished row of the foundation double crochet is slightly stretchy making it perfect for necklines on dresses or shirts.
How to make a Foundation Double Crochet 1. Start with a loose slipknot. This counts as one chain. 2. Make two more chains. 3. Yarn over, then look for the "V" formed on the side of the loose slipknot. These "V" will be equivalent to the foundation chains if you were to make the basic double crochet stitch. 4. Yarn over and pull through the V. Yarn over but instead of pulling through 2 loops, pull just 1 loop. This is so you can form another V for our next stitch. You should have 3 loops in your hook. 5. Yarn over and pull through two loops as you normally would in a double crochet. Yarn over one more time and pull through two loops. That's your first double crochet stitch for the foundation double crochet row. It may not look like much at first but after two or three stitches, it will show its beautiful form.
Repeat 4 and 5 until you reach your desired length.
And that is how you create a Foundation Double Crochet. You can use this if your project requires a little bit stretchiness especially on the edges. I also use this when I am unsure how long my project needs to be, like the crochet belt that I crafted a couple of months ago.
Thank you for watching my video!
Credits: Music: Vlad Gluschenko — (Boat)
License: CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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@romeskie is a full time stay at home mom juggling homeschooling, crocheting, and homemaking. A Business Administration graduate with a major in Marketing who ended up in the contact center industry, on the frontlines, climbing her way up to Workforce Management where she found her passion in real-time analysis and management. A once self-proclaimed careerwoman who soon realized homemaking was her real calling. Her passion varies from reading, writing, photography, and most of all, crocheting. Connect with her through her Facebook Page: The Leftie Crocheter and on Instagram. Feel free to subscribe to her Youtube Channel: The Leftie Crocheter
Big thanks to @bearone for my Hive PH badge.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=romeskie/kewwwogp
They say nothing is perfect in this world. I guess that's true. But in crocheting, with what I have observed from my brothers and sisters in the yarn and hook world, perfection is always a target. Of course, everybody I know in the crocheting circle are too humble to admit it but their works are always a picture of perfection. And that makes it even more perfect.
Today, I'm sharing how to make a perfect crochet circle. Last June, I finished a commissioned work for a round area rug. As the circle crochet gets bigger and bigger, I notice that it shows some corners on the edges. I managed to make a workaround by making some rows with no increases. Just to somehow neutralize the pointy edges. It worked fine with the project. Somehow, I still don't feel 100% about it.
Then I needed to work smaller circles. If I did not add rows with no increase, my circles would look like hexagons. It's good thing I became a member of several crocheting groups in facebook, I chanced upon a fellow member who has the same dilemma. I shared what I experienced and showed her what I did. The others shared even more. And I learned from them!
The secret is in the count The first thing you need to take note of when making crochet circles is to be conscious - and I mean extra conscious - of the stitch count. If you started your round with 6 stitches, the next round should have 6 more stitches, and so is the next round and so on and so forth. They shared this table that we can use as a guide in stitch counting.
Source
The placement of the increases To make your circle bigger and bigger, you'll need to crochet twice in one of the stitches, depending on which row you're at already. The swirls effect happens when you place the increase on the same place as the previous row. With this guide below, it helps the crocheter with alternating the placements of each increase.
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The huge difference I made a sample of one with how I usually made crochet circles before and one with this new knowledge. I like applying what I learn right away. I hope this video and these illustrations help somebody out there who wants to make the perfect crochet circle.
MUSIC CREDITS
Electric Joy Ride - Origin [NCS Release]
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@romeskie is a full time stay at home mom juggling homeschooling, crocheting, and homemaking. A Business Administration graduate with a major in Marketing who ended up in the contact center industry, on the frontlines, climbing her way up to Workforce Management where she found her passion in real-time analysis and management. A once self-proclaimed careerwoman who soon realized homemaking was her real calling. Her passion varies from reading, writing, photography, and most of all, crocheting. Connect with her through her Facebook Page: The Leftie Crocheter and on Instagram. Feel free to subscribe to her Youtube Channel: The Leftie Crocheter
Big thanks to @bearone for my Hive PH badge.
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Howdy everyone! We're here once again with another week of Guess the WIP Contest. For this week, I am trying to finish one of two commissioned works.
Before I get on with the WIP, I am sharing this video on how to make a front post double crochet. Generally, the idea of the front post is instead of making the stitch on top of the previous row's stitch, you will be using the "post" instead. So it's up to you if you want to insert the hook through the front (that would be called front post double crochet) of through the back (that would then be called back post double crochet.)
There are a couple of designs you can form using fpdc. One is the design I'm making. You can also try a pop corn design using fpdc. (I'm not sure if it's really called that but it looks like a pop corn to me so I call it that way.)
The Design
I found this design in one of the crochet groups I joined in. I saw a collection of crochet stitches and this one caught my eyes. It's simple, but at the same time, something new to me. I haven't used fpdc in any of my projects so now's the time. There's one thing I am at on these WIPs. That is to use at least one new stitch or learn one new crochet skill on each new projects.
The client actually did not have any design in mind when she requested for this crochet item. To me, this is the most challenging type of client. When the client gives you an instruction saying "You go ahead and decide which design, I trust your judgement. I take it as a challenge. It's as if they are telling you to "Hit me with your best shot." But of course, in a positive way.
Clues This is really a very simple project, there's nothing much to say about it. But I need to drop three clues. So here goes.
- This commissioned work is intended for my client's kiddos.
- But this is not necessarily exclusive for children. Adults may also use this.
- It's a small item, about 8 inches long.
Prizes I am hoping that this would be a really fun and interactive game.
- The winner/s will receive a 100% upvote from me for 7 days. My vote power isn't that much but I figured my contest/s should encourage everyone to remain active in the platform. This may be very little, but I hope this can get us more activity.
- Everyone who will join the contest - including the winner/s - will share the HBD rewards of this post.
I hope to see more interactions and activities in the coming days! Hopefully, we gain more needleworkers who will also share their WIPs and finished projects.
As always, an upvote and a reblog is not required but will be very much appreciated. Happy Hiving!
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@romeskie is a full time stay at home mom juggling homeschooling, crocheting, and homemaking. A Business Administration graduate with a major in Marketing who ended up in the contact center industry, on the frontlines, climbing her way up to Workforce Management where she found her passion in real-time analysis and management. A once self-proclaimed careerwoman who soon realized homemaking was her real calling. Her passion varies from reading, writing, photography, and most of all, crocheting. Connect with her through her Facebook Page: The Leftie Crocheter and on Instagram. Feel free to subscribe to her Youtube Channel: The Leftie Crocheter
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My neighbor asked me to be godmother to her baby's Christening. Though no date has been given yet because quarantine is still ongoing. But she did tell me there's gonna be a party for her baby's first birthday. And since there's the quarantine, I politely said we're trying to observe social distancing, we would not be able to attend such party.
Seeing the look of a mixture of what I think is disappointment, disbelief, and I don't know what else, I lost the courage to say no a second time to her. So I just said yes to being godmother to her little baby. I'm not sure I how I'll be able to carry out the role of godmother but I figured I'd start with making her feel loved by gifting her a handmade baby slip on.
I handed the gift 2 days ago. I think she liked it very much because she gave me that beautiful smile that just beamed full joy as I was waving at her from outside their window.
Let me share you the steps on how to make a crochet sole for the slip on. This is actually part 1 of my crochet baby slip on series. More videos coming up soon, so plese stay tuned.
I found [this pattern] online and used it as my guide. I actually did follow every step of the crochet. Although I added a few more chains at the foundation and added one more row to fit the little girl's cute little feet.
My Version of the Crochet Sole Pattern Chain 13
Row 1: 3sc on the 2nd st from the hook.
sc on the next 4ch
hdc on the next 3ch
DC on the next 4ch
7sc on the next st
Now working on the opposite side...
dc on the next 4ch
hdc on the next 3ch
sc on the next 4ch
sl st to close the row
Row 2 1ch, 2sc on the next 3st
sc on the next 12st
2sc on the next 5st
sc on the next 12st
sl st to close the row
Row 3 1ch, [1sc on next st, 2sc on next]3x
sc on the next 12st
[1sc on next st, 2sc on next]5x
sc on the next 12st
sl st to close the row
Row 4 1ch
sc on each st, work across
sl st to close
fasten off
weave off ends.
The toughest part of making a crochet sole is making sure that both soles are the same size. So I highly recommend that you count each stitch on each row thoroughly. And make sure to complete the soles one after the other right away. The tension you apply to the stitches will matter a lot.
I was a bit stressed out when I made the first sole. Crocheting indeed relieves stress so make it a habit to crochet. Just make sure you finish the pairs right away when you're stress-crocheting.
Credits: In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet
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@romeskie is a full time stay at home mom juggling homeschooling, crocheting, and homemaking. A Business Administration graduate with a major in Marketing who ended up in the contact center industry, on the frontlines, climbing her way up to Workforce Management where she found her passion in real-time analysis and management. A once self-proclaimed careerwoman who soon realized homemaking was her real calling. Her passion varies from reading, writing, photography, and most of all, crocheting. Connect with her through her Facebook Page: The Leftie Crocheter and on Instagram. Feel free to subscribe to her Youtube Channel: The Leftie Crocheter
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Good day! I was supposed to show this last week for the guess the WIP contest but I figured making this crochet leaf was really cool and easy so might as well still share it now.
I followed this pattern for these cute little leaves. You could make a variation of sizes by changing your hook size. I did 2 sizes of these leaves.
Crochet Leaf Pattern Chain 6
sc on the 2nd chain from the hook
hdc on the next ch
dc on the next 2 chains
7dc on the next chain
working on the other side of the chain, dc on the next 2 stitches.
hdc on the next
sc in the next ch
2ch
sc on the 2nd ch from the hook
sl st on the first sc you made
It's pretty easy, right? I usually do some variation on the patterns I follow but for this crochet leaf pattern, it's pretty straightfoward, I did not have to make a version of my own.
Music Credits:
Electric Joy Ride - Origin [NCS Release]
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Guess the WIP Contest + How to Make a Magic Ring
For this week's Guess the WIP contest, I'll be using a magic ring to start my project. I learned how to make a magic ring last year when I made myself a boho round bag. A bag which is now owned by my mom. She saw my bag when she visited us during the holidays and she said she loved it. I told her I'll just make her another one but she insists it's the one she likes.
How to Make a Magic Ring The last time I showed how to make a magic ring I just used photos. This time, let me share a short video. I promised back then that I would be making a videi tutorial for all left-handed crocheters out there so here it is!
Guess the WIP Contest
I decided on making use of the different colors of polyseter yarns I have collected. These are 8ply yarns. I swear by the end of this year, I'm going to get myself a set of in-line crochet hooks. I am just realizing my love for multiple ply polyester yarns.
Rastafarian colors
Anyways, this project will be making use of the Rastafarian colors otherwise known as Rasta colors. These colors are usually seen on Bob Marley's videos and posters. But I just found out that these colors have their representation. According to this article, the Rastafarians - which is a political and religious movement adapted the colors Ethiopian flag which is red (symbolizes the blood of the martyrs), green (symbolizes luscious greens and abundance of Ethiopia), and yellow (symbolizes the riches of Africa. While according to this,
the color black is a direct and obvious reference to the black community which began the Rastafari movement, urging followers to reclaim their homeland of Africa.
All I just wanted to find out was what the order of the colors are supposed to be, I was surprised to find out that there was a deeper meaning to these colors.
Clues
Going back to the Guess the WIP contest, here are the clues.
- This project uses the rasta colors.
- I will be using a mystery material to finish this project.
- This may be used by anyone
- I will be making a regular size of this item. Some want theirs a bit bigger, I like mine just the average size.
As always, you can only guess once. Guessing will start as soon as this is posted and ends on Monday.
Prizes First three correct guessers will receive 1 Hive each. The rest of the participants will share the HBD earnings of this post.
Please don't forget to upvote this post to increase our prize pool. A reblog is nkg required but will be greatly appreciated.
Happy guessing!
Credits:
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