By Patricia VillersRegister StaffANSONIA — Crocheting is almost second nature to Ella Barrows. She has enjoyed the hobby her whole life, she says, and hopes to inspire others to enjoy it as much as she does.Read the full story here. Brad Horrigan/Register Ella Barrows, left, a resident at Hilltop Health Center in Ansonia, leads a knitting and crocheting class in making caps for cancer patients.

Small projects Lately I'm crocheting more and more stuff to gift to friends. And funny part is they ask for it. Makes me wonder whether people out here have finally begun to appreciate crochet. I only hope this little interest to own crocheted stuff results in the interest to actually learn to crochet. It's a rare treat to find any crocheters or knitters out here. My next finished project is a set ...

Lion Brand Yarn is having a Crochet Along and is crocheting a sampler aghan. I thought that with my limited skills, this would be fun to do. There are only 3 different blocks involved and you make 10 of each and then sew them together. After that you add a border to it. It will make a nice throw. I chose to do mine a little denser than the pattern calls for, so it will be a bit warmer. I also ...

... collection.I made a video of it too.Alas, there's something wrong with the way I do it. And after six hours, I still fail.Also, I constructed a small spreadsheet to figure out whether crocheting carrier bags using a cardboard crochet hook would increase or decrease my chances of procreation. The results were inconclusive.However, what the spreadsheet did show is that I don't feel this melancholy ...

Fall is upon us, or at least it was in Toledo, and the urge to crochet has taken over once again. I was going to write a long entry about crocheting and the need to grab a skein of yarn and a hook every fall, how the urge is damn near uncontrollable and how in the last week I have whipped out two hats, four and a half scarves, and a flower. But then I found a blog entry from this time last year ...