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BALLINGER — Darlene McDaniel looked down at the tether of yarn in her hand and wondered aloud what it was she was doing wrong.

"I'm so nervous. I get it so tight that I can't pull it through," she said, looking down at her work.

McDaniel came with her adherent Judy Dean to the Ballinger Carnegie Library last Thursday for a knitting level.

A group of about 10 women gathered in the library's Shakespeare Space for a class on making scrubbies, which are crocheted squares interwoven with a tougher, netting-like organization called tulle.

Scrubbies are what women used to make for cleaning pots and hands.

For McDaniel, it made her muse on why crochet work was something she had avoided since 1970.

"I started out when I was working as a nurse up at the asylum — and they told me it was so relaxing," she said. "I hated it. I would tie them so tight. I've worked off and on but I don't do it because it makes me a uneasy wreck."

The square in her hand, after about an hour, was still only a third of the size it should have been.

Source: ReporterNews.com

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