As a child, seeing my mom crochet made me want to try it out too. Although at my first tries it was either too loose or too tight, my mom’s yarns were thin, the hooks she used were rarely even around 4mm. She often made scarves, granny squares, anything at all. She hasn’t crocheted in years, and so I took some of her supplies and started crocheting myself a couple years back. But my school kept on interfering with my work so I stopped. Then pre-covid, a couple months before, I wanted to crochet once more. I took a hook I kept in a box, then an unfinished granny square. From then on, I started crocheting to my heart’s content. It became a coping mechanism for me, especially when covid hit. I continued to crochet and finished my first big project, the Taylor Swift cardigan, though I used an 8 ply milk cotton yarn on it which made it very heavy to wear, it was still comfortable to wear and I’m very proud of it. Once my mom saw my cardigan, she suggested I use one of her yarns to make a scarf, then I did, I’m currently doing it today. Juggling school, this website, and crocheting, with a couple of side parts of my life, I’ve been trying my best to do as much work as possible everyday so when the weekend reaches, I will completely be relaxed and finish unfinished work, then self-care for myself and only myself. There’s always gonna be times you have to be selfish, it isn’t wrong to do so.