On Saturday February 7, 2015 I attended the Exotic
Crochet Cruise sponsored by The Crochet Crowd and Yarnsprinations.
We were on the Carnival Glory. I was not impressed with the ship at all. I have been on older Carnival cruise ships, (Sensation,
Fascination, and Ecstasy) but this one seemed small and cramped. I felt like a sardine the first night at
dinner, so we never went back to the dinning room.
We went to the Bahamas, Grand Turk, Puerto Rico, and
St. Thomas, USVI. Only problem was ports
of call were all done in the first 4 days of the cruise without a sea day. The sea days were the last two days. So the
classes were after the early dinner.
Mikey, Dan, and Colleen were the best hosts for this
cruise.
We meet for orientation in the afternoon of embarkation
day. Sadly, I missed this. Lesson one, read the agenda and note any
changes in meeting times.
Our first official meeting was after dinner that first
evening. Crocheters are well known for
their charity work. Each person was
asked to voluntarily bring 9 granny squares that were crochet together. The blocks were then sewn together and made
into blankets. These blankets were
donated to Project Linus. We were also
given a tote bag filled with yarn for the week.
After dinner the second evening, we used some glam
stripes to make a shawl. There were two
patterns to select from. This was
because there was another cruise the following week. Mikey reviewed the
instructions for one of the shawls as the crocheters followed along.
Dela Wilkins, also attended the cruise and taught the
next wo classes in Tunisian crochet. She
taught several different Tunisian stitches.
I only thought there was one
stitch! She also taught a class in
double ended Tunisian crochet. I enjoyed
this!
Mikey also did a class for a market bag. We had 8 skeins of Sugar N Cream in one
color. Mikey told everyone to trade
colors. In the end you ended up with 8
different colors for a striped bag. We
were told this when we were given our bags.
This got us to interact with each other.
Mikey also taught us how to do cable stitches and the star stitch,
I learned new stitches and much more. If I was given the opportunity to attend next
year I would as long as it was on a different cruise line.
