My jumbo tampons crochet hooks arrived. Roll on the slouchy shrugs.
Dare To Wear Crochet
I know, I know, I’m only promoting my own websites, but I didn’t write this piece and I didn’t prompt the CQ girls to do it either, so I think linking to it’s allowed. Charlotte’s done a piece on Catwalk Queen about crochet clothes and how to wear them. It’s a nice little piece, with lots of highlights from the high street.
I did a big crochet snapping session on a recent shopping voyage, so I will post up some pics as soon as I find an easier way to get the pics off my current phone than using Bluetooth to send them to another phone which can then send email. Yes, I have too many phones. And yes, I am a geek
Good Hooking in the Guardian
I appear to have been featured on the Guardian’s Newsblog linklog, which is nice! I’m not sure if they know this blog is written by someone who sometimes writes for them or not. Perhaps I’ve got Jane to thank, who read’s Al’s blog (who mentioned me the other day) or maybe it’s just pure fluke. Either way, I’m very happy to have been featured along with the fab Inky Circus girls who I met up with once in a coffee shop in Borders book shop.
The blogosphere’s a small world! [Click on pic for biggie, or go here]
Supersized Crochet Hooks
Yes, I really can get an entire post out of the subject of “crochet hooks”. I am Boredom incarnate. The thing is, I’ve been checking out a lot of US patterns recently and for some reason those pesky yanks (no offence to any pesky yanks reading) feel the need to use gimungous crochet hooks. I mean, who ever heard of a size P crochet hook? There’s no such thing. I looked it up on a conversion chart and metric doesn’t even go that high. It must be thicker than a jumbo tampon for gawd’s sake.
My mother, and more especially my grandmother, used to use teensy hooks to create intricate, detailed doilies and sandwich protectors and other bits of useless ephemera beloved of people in the 50s (don’t ask me what sandwich protectors are – I just made that one up but it sounds like something they’d make). If I handed my grandmother a size P crochet hook she’d look at me like I’d gone loopy (whereas in fact it’s the other way round). I’m not even entirely sure what size P means. I’ve looked at lots of different conversion charts and some say it’s 16mm and some say 11.5mm and I’ve also seen it quoted at 10mm, 12.75 and 15mm.
The largest hook I’ve managed to get hold of so far is an 8mm, which strikes me as more than large enough for anything you’d like to achieve. Any larger than that and even I’d start to feel a little embarrassed to be seen crocheting on public transport.
But since it’s currently the US’s turn at running the show, it looks like I’m going to have to concede defeat and put in a special order.
[comedy jumbo crochet hook pic taken from Stitch Diva]
Lia’s Hat
This is the hat I made for my friend Lia for Christmas. I’ve got loads of bits of random wool given to me by various people and I’m not sure what sort of yarn this goldy stuff is, but it was absolutely lovely to crochet and felt very soft. From what I remember, the hat wasn’t quite as nobbly as it looks in this photo. I like to think it was a bit more professionally done than that, but there’s a good chance I’m merely deluding myself.
I’m modelling it for the pic, but since I failed to put any makeup on for the shot, I thought it best to hide my spectuarly spotty head from your tender eyeballs. It is not a pretty sight. The good news is (in case you care – and I just know you do) they’ve cleared right up now.
The pattern was from an old magazine Al’s mum sent me.
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