I checked out this book by  Elisabeth Doherty from the library this week and started making some little yellow mice for the new baby.  I brought my work along with me to the Akron Stitch ‘n Bitch group that Colleen and I visited together on Wednesday night. I planned to try my hand at one of the smallest projects and hopefully have something to show for it before I left.

I’m very easily frustrated by yarn crafts. I am not good at following patterns, and I often get bored before I am finished with a project. I was hoping that a group setting would help me deal with those two barriers and help me finish up a project for once. And it really did help. The woman sitting next to me was very knowledgeable, and when I would get confused she advised me to “just keep going.” If nothing else it would make it clear that I was making a mistake.

This guy is what I finished up, although not until after group ended, and he  was actually fun to make. I had to tear him back to the nose once, but I figured out my mistake quickly because I had worked on him incorrectly long enough to see where I was confused. It was very confidence-building. I might even try to make one of the larger (but still Easy) projects after I finish up one or two more mice.