# I've started Hookin' again. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 3, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-started-hookin-again/324502 "2005-10-03T00:30:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-started-hookin-again/324502/1 "2005-10-03T00:30:06Z")
(Yer gonna half to enter and scroll down for the sordid truth.) Crochet that is. I’m working my courage up from beyond potholders to possibly a hat with big fat chunky yarn. I want to really learn to knit, but I don’t think I am Zen Enough for it. I threw my crochet hooks into a drawer in utter disgust years ago as I reached my potholder saturation point and turned my back on the Stitch & Bitch generation that has evolved since then. But the allure and texture of all the purty yarns…just sing to me…and all those damn sales at Joann’s…so, I fell off the wagon and bought a skein of Boheimian SomethingOrOther that causes all wimmen who touch it to practically orgasm on the spot. Today, I hauled my rocking chair (and pony foot rest) up from the basement and attempted the hat. Right now, it looks more like some bizarre nipple sheild for a Unaboober, but that is what I get when I watch MST3K and do something other than a square. I feel so weak. It’s going to be a long winter. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-started-hookin-again/324502/2 "2005-10-03T02:40:14Z")
_" Boheimian SomethingOrOther that causes all wimmen who touch it to practically orgasm on the spot."_ Um, if you’ve got any extra of that stuff, you can probably make some money from me and a few of the other doper guys. Make a sweater out of it for me and name your price. You know, if you wanna go into business or somethin’. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-started-hookin-again/324502/3 "2005-10-03T02:51:03Z")
And here I was hoping this would be a thread about rugby. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-started-hookin-again/324502/4 "2005-10-03T02:53:54Z")
I thought she sang the catchy part of club rap songs. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-started-hookin-again/324502/5 "2005-10-03T02:55:00Z")
I thought she was a closet Shatner fan. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-started-hookin-again/324502/6 "2005-10-03T02:56:48Z")
It was conceivable she was talking about her basketball arc shot. ---
**Author:** ![NoPretentiousCodename](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/82dd89/32.png) [@NoPretentiousCodename](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoPretentiousCodename)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-started-hookin-again/324502/7 "2005-10-03T04:45:56Z")
I thought she was dressing up as Pan’s arch-enemy. AGAIN! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-started-hookin-again/324502/8 "2005-10-03T11:14:09Z")
> [@John Carter of Mars](#): > > _" Boheimian SomethingOrOther that causes all wimmen who touch it to practically orgasm on the spot."_ > > Um, if you’ve got any extra of that stuff, you can probably make some money from me and a few of the other doper guys. Make a sweater out of it for me and name your price. You know, if you wanna go into business or somethin’. 😉 Beleive me, I wish I could knit or crochet better, then I’d make thongs for wimmen and codpeices for men. ---
**Author:** ![PerditaX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@PerditaX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PerditaX)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-started-hookin-again/324502/9 "2005-10-03T13:35:05Z")
Ummmm…Shirley…? If you can crochet an identifiable potholder you’re ahead of me! I’ve got about 4 different books, but I still can’t seem to get the hang of it. I think I’ve got too much tension (in my yarn, too! 🙂 ), complicated with my chronic left-handedness. Got any encouragement? FTR, I’m usually pretty good at fiber-crafts. I’m a fidgety person who has to have her hands busy at all times. I’ve successfully completed latch-hooked rugs (that’s what I thought the thread was about…), needlepoint, crewel embroidery, counted cross-stitch, lucet, card-weaving and even kumihimo-braiding, but crochet just escapes me somehow. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-started-hookin-again/324502/10 "2005-10-03T17:05:12Z")
> [@PerditaX](#): > > Ummmm…Shirley…? > If you can crochet an identifiable potholder you’re ahead of me! I’ve got about 4 different books, but I still can’t seem to get the hang of it. I think I’ve got too much tension (in my yarn, too! 🙂 ), complicated with my chronic left-handedness. Got any encouragement? > > FTR, I’m usually pretty good at fiber-crafts. I’m a fidgety person who has to have her hands busy at all times. I’ve successfully completed latch-hooked rugs (that’s what I thought the thread was about…), needlepoint, crewel embroidery, counted cross-stitch, lucet, card-weaving and even kumihimo-braiding, but crochet just escapes me somehow. > > Any suggestions? Learn to relax. Maybe drink and crochet. 😃 Sorry about your left handed disability. I wouldn’t last one week as a leftie.