Never too Late to Learn

I've finally learnt to crochet correctly... after employing my own peculiar method all my life since I taught myself out of a book when I was seven! Fortunately I happened to meet a lady who was shocked at my technique and was able to show me what I was doing wrong; now I only need two hands instead of three to manage my loops, my work and my hook...

The chief advantage, apart from making it possible to handle very fine thread (simply too small to man-handle in my old fashion), is that it seems to have cured my long-running problem with row height; I could never match both horizontal and vertical tension in the patterns I followed, with the result that my work was never tall enough and I had to alter all my jumpers to include extra rows not in the pattern in order to get them to fit. The proper method keeps the loops under tension through all stages of the stitch, which apparently produces a taller (more stretched) result overall.

So now I know!