Apologies to those who have tried to teach me to crochet in the past. I remember nothing.

Crochet Experience

During the Covid lockdowns, when our Trefoil group was not able to meet in person, we spent a fun Zoom session together learning to crochet. Most of ladies were already proficient and regularly made practical and beautiful items. But a few of us were clueless and certainly didn’t own a crochet hook.

After that lesson and a bit of practice, I mastered the initial chains and some basic rows. I even purchased a kid’s crochet kid from Kmart and made an owl.

Six years later,  I’m starting from scratch.

Crochet S’more

Wrong – stitches should not be on the crochet hook.

While creating my own printable resources for the S’mores Challenge badge, I wondered if there were already S’more related resoures available. I came across a pattern to crochet a cute little s’more and thought I would give it a go. You can the find the pattern online, created by Kimberly Arenas – https://thecaffeinatedsnail.com/crochet-smore-pattern/#pattern

A stranger in the aisle of the my local discount shop assured me it was easy when I showed her the pattern, so I was a quietly confident as I gathered together my hook and some new wool.

Ninety minutes later, I had successfully created 13 chain stitches, followed by a bunch of crochet stitches all sitting together on the shaft of the hook. Not where they were supposed to be at all.

I had to take a break at that point because I had no idea how to proceed.  Obviously my stitching technique was wrong, but I also needed help interpreting the pattern.

Wrong stitches and wrong shape.

Two biscuits completed, and one piece of chocolate. But on each item, the rows got smaller and smaller as the work progressed.  I pulled apart the worst-looking biscuit and did it again. Honestly, there was not much improvement.

Then I saw images in a crochet manual that showed the hook and wool being passed under the entire stitch. I had only being passing mine under the back portion of the loop, so all of my completed work was wrong. I didn’t pull it apart this time – I just started again.

Using the correct techique made all the difference. I finally had a biscuit that looked reasonably decent, so I moved on to the more difficult section – the marshmallow. That progressed surprisingly well actually.

Until I watched a video to check whether I had completed the decreasing stitches correctly. The answer was no.

But discovering that also revealed that I had crocheted the entire marshmallow inside out. And possibly changed direction somewhere along the line. Nevermind, I’m happy with it.

The same video also showed that I have been holding the hook upside down the entire time. And apparently holding everything else incorrectly as well.

With a little more knowledge, I pulled apart the chocolate, ready to start it again. But I couldn’t find the crochet hook. Anywhere. I had literally just used it to finish the marshmallow and I had a clear picture in my mind of exactly where I had placed it. Yet I still couldn’t lay my hands on it.  After seaching some other logical places, I eventually found it almost where I was searching initially. It had just rolled under some of the creative untidiness on the desk.

Round 3.  Twenty eight stitches. There were only supposed to be eighteen. Started again.

Round 3. Twenty three stitches and no square corners like the photo. I still counted that as a slight win. You can never have too much chocolate.

Restarted the last biscuit.

Round 5. Stitch 35. Unfortunately there was only supposed to be 24 stitches. Too bad.

Finished !!!

Looking at it now, I can clearly see where I manged to add the extra stitches. And that the biscuits are different sizes with different shaped corners (let’s call that unique features).

This may well be a example of how not to crochet a s’more.

But my challenge was to crochet a s’more, and I’m counting this as done.

Pattern credit to Kimberly Arenas – https://thecaffeinatedsnail.com/crochet-smore-pattern/#pattern

If you’re thinking about learning to crochet, don’t let my experience put you off. Every mistake taught me something, and by the end I could already see how much I had improved. My s’more certainly isn’t perfect, but I it does give me a feeling of accomplishment.

I might even try to crochet another project.