This week I have begun to make a crochet frog! I started by making the body of the frog which is one big sphere. After all of my sphere practice last week I felt very prepared for this. In looking at the instructions for the frog, I realized I am going to need to start…
This week I worked on making some spheres. I do this by starting with a magic circle and increase into it halfway up, then decreasing for the top half. In practicing this, I am excited to report that magic circles have gotten easier! I hope this practice will be useful when I start my frog…
This week, instead of our regular zoom class, we went on a field trip to the Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry, a school that operates through student lead learning and inquiry projects, where students create their own schedules, instead of being placed in specific classes with specific teachers for specific allotments of time. These…
This week I learned how to increase and decrease stitches which will be useful for when I start my frog project. Increasing and decreasing when crocheting was a lot easier than I expected; doing it in knitting is much harder, so I was pleasantly surprised. Learning how to crochet a circle on the other hand,…
For this week I decided to try and learn how to do 3 basic types of crochet stitches: the single crochet, double crochet, and treble crochet stitches. Each one of these crochet stitches have different lengths. I originally was only planning on learning single and double crochet stitches this week, but I found a tutorial…
The thing that stood out to me in class this week is the dangers of technology. In class, we were shown these terrifying websites to demonstrate how easily people can be tracked online. I like to think that I already was pretty good about internet safely: I always say no to cookies, I don’t save…
I am writing this first reading reflection in a google doc, unable to edit my website. I am having a lot of trouble figuring out all of these technology issues. I have never been the most tech-savy person but I am hoping this class will change things. In class we have been talking about the…