Crochet-ing It Up

After looking at those baby Crocheted cocoons, thought I would give it a try. I wasn't too bothered about getting the classic spokes/spiral effect, just a piece of fabric with holes in, similar to that of a web - like this one:

I went to a knitting shop in Kingston to get the appropriate materials for my web. I very quickly discovered that there was a lot more to Crochet than I had first thought. First I had to choose the right thread, I went for 50g white to get as similar to spider web as I could. Next I had to choose the right Crochet needle, for this project I was advised to go for a relatively large needle as I was making more of a net than a dense jumper and chose a 5.0 needle

I also got a Basic Guide to Knitting and Crochet book to help we grasp the basics. Despite the clear diagrams and relevant annotation, the book very quickly proved in effective and I had to look to the internet for tutorials. I found the best place for the help I needed was on YouTube. My simply typing in How to Crochet I found a video lasting just under 7 minutes that went through how to do a simple Granny Square, after a few views I was able to achieve this first step. The next part of video went through how to make a Round on the granny square, this proved too confusing despite having the women go through it on the screen, so I left the crochet for a few days

If you are fancy I try heres the link to the first video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVBnFHGbeK4

On returning to University after our two week Easter break, I happy to find that a girl in my class called Benji had done textures prior to the foundation and knew a lot about crochet. So that afternoon Benji gave me a lesson in how to crochet

As you can see it wasn't too successful but this is the product of a first attempt, with no real experience with thread so I am quite happy with the experiment. I'm not going to completely disregard the use of crochet in my final piece but as an exercise it was very interesting