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Looking out at the flower boxes through my living room curtains.

I teach knitting and crocheting classes at the Air Force Academy from time to time. Tomorrow I was to begin a series on how to read symboled crochet patterns.  The class was actually requested by former beginning students!  They like me! They really, really like me!

Alas, the class was canceled … so maybe they don’t like me?

I was really looking forward to teaching this class, because it would open the whole world — literally — of crochet for my students.

I was armed with patterns in Russian, German, Spanish, Japanese …. all in symbol form.  Now granted, sometimes you must work out a few of the details on your own — yarn weight and foundation chains, for instance, but the charts give you the bulk of the pattern.

Oh well. Next time! I may combine it with an intermediate class this fall.