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For the crafty hooker
a quick and easy way to increase the number of your crochet hooks - a n d - recycle chopsticks from the chinese fastfood restaurant:
Making crochet hooks from chopsticks
totalise 701 views... 2 comments » A Cajube
I've just finished the shawl I was working on as part of a French Crochetalong, except I didn't make a shawl (God I cannot make myself follow a pattern!), I crocheted in the round and made a kind of capelet.
I call it my cajube :
- CA stands for CAPELET,
- JU stands for JUPE (the french for skirt),
- and B stands for BUSTIER (which is the French for tube top)
When doing so I thought to myself hey! this would be another cool way to use a doily pattern!
What is a cajube?
Well it's just a tube with a kind of closing in the front (draw string or buttons or whatever you fancy) that you can wear either as
- a capelet, or "poncho" (the dreaded one),
- a skirt,
- a strapless top, or even strapless mini-dress,
How to do it?
Change a doily pattern Read more »
totalise 1436 views... 6 comments » Crochet fur?
Link: http://sagafurs.com/creativity/techniques/crochetmink/index.php
Did you know this was possible?
I had no idea... but it makes perfect sense as it's the same principle as for crocheted fabric.
Some of those models look good but that must be really expensive... and so much work just to get the ball of "yarn" done in the first place. I mean, hide is not like fabric... it's thick and hard to cut. Besides, if you cut into fur you certainly don't want to cut the hairs and end up with a mess.
I think I'll stick to fabric.
Not that I am unconfortable with fur, I'm not a vegetarian, I eat meat, fish and eggs, I wear leather shoes, I have a sheepskin rug, I like to crochet wool and silk, and I see no wrong in wearing dead animals' skins as long as someone (be it me) ate the flesh of it...
I do desapprove of hunting animals only for their skin or ivory and then leave the flesh to rot. No... it's just that I tend to be frugal, and fabric or worn out clothes are a more reasonable choice.
