I'm new to the newsgroup and, after reading some of the posts, pretty limited in what I do. :P I first began crocheting when I was pretty young. Probably seven or eight. I limited myself to chains. Looooooong chains. Maybe a couple of very basic (and lopsided) doily-like items. My only noteworthy project happened when I was around 15 and we had a few days notice of a large and protacted blizzard coming. My mother went to the store to buy some yarn for herself and I ended up getting enough yarn to crochet myself a variegated purple afghan in a zigzag pattern. (I still have and use that afghan, too. :) ) That was it until earlier this year, which is almost 30 years after the afghan.
I moved to Hawaii about 4 years ago and started seeing crocheted leis around and kept meaning to check in to classes on how to make them. Early this year, I bit the bullet, bought a book, some ribbons, a crochet hook and ended up with a lei that evening. Ever since, I've been crocheting leis (different colors for different outfits, you know :P), anklets, wrist- lets, headbands, hatbands, scrunchies, hair clips and other hair accessories with the different specialty yarns and ribbons.
I plan on expanding a bit into crocheted wraps/ponchos/etc., to try and outfit our daughter with unique clothing items but that will have to wait until I get caught up on the terminology of patterns. :)
No more afghans though. We don't really need them here. :P
Tracey