Knitting group? KNITTING GROUP

[Heddi]

Stupid fuckers. I don't knit.

I crochet.




Here are some of the projects I currently have on my "to do" list in Pinterest





my Thanksgiving Table Runner. It's a family heirloom


I've also been known to do some cross-stitch, especially around christmas

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. Those are hilarious!!! Love it.

I know how to knit AND crochet and I can tell the difference. Don't do either one, though. Nothing against them.

[Heddi]

2. Crochet takes 1 hook. Knitting uses 2 needles

which is helpful when you need to stab 2 people who keep interrupting you when you're counting "whatcha makin? whatcha doin? whatcha makin? whacha doin?"

[Lordquinton]

3. crochet with a hook and a needle

So when someone asks what you're knitting you can stab them with the needle and have you're hook clean.

[Heddi]

5. That's a great idea. I also call myself a Happy Hooker

That's a joke. Crocheters use hooks, so we're Hooker's hehe. Get it? Some of the little old ladies at Bingo wear shirts that say "Happy Hooker"

oh did i say little old ladies? My bad. I mean hot chicks in their 20s and 30's I "hang out" with (hehe) and crochet with, when we're done "Hanging out"

People and their stereotypes. Such a silly way to limit the mind.

[JoeyT]

10. Those needles hurt like hell.

I used to get jabbed with them a lot as as teenager, because I'd use telling my mom what my plans were for the afternoon as an excuse to yell numbers while she was trying to count.

"At FIVE THIRTY Bobby and TWO other friends are going to pick me up and the FOUR of us are going to take THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT dollars and FORTY TWO cents and go...."

The stabbings were totally justified.

[Heddi]

11. I about used my crochet hook to lobotomize one of my coworkers the other day

I had to count out a HUGE chain...like 136 or something crazy. And i'm in the lunch room and OBVIOUSLY counting and she's just blab blab blar blag blarg. SHUT UP. I'm seriously asking her "Jayme, can you hold off until I'm done counting?" She says "yeah. Okay" and is silent for...oh...7 seconds then just starts up again. I wanted to jam that fucking hook into her eye socket and pull out her frontal lobe SO GODDAMN BAD.

[mr blur]

4. And Tania (ms blur) fixed her dreadlocks with crochet hooks

Try doing that with a knitting needle.

[Heddi]

6. Dredlocks? Oh. I forgot. You're an Aaaa-theist.

why do you hate combs?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. I can't figure out

what a "twatwaffle" looks like.

[Heddi]

9. Erm, Imagine a waffle

....I can't go any further.

[LostOne4Ever]

8. Ha! That is awesome! (nt)

[AlbertCat]

12. What about needle work lace?

http://www.laceguild.org/craft/england.html

[Heddi]

13. I am a fan of most fiber arts. "Fibre" for our british friends who spell wrong.

Whilst I have never done needle work lace myself, I'm sure it's something I could get into, given that I can spell bad words with the lace, and I'd imagine that lace requires needles that are good for stabbing.

[Curmudgeoness]

14. Sorry to ruin it for you,

but tatting lace requires a hook, not needles. At least the lace that I did. Not fun. Think crochet with tiny hook and very thin yarn.

[Heddi]

15. gaaah

....disapointment

[AlbertCat]

16. I am a fan of most fiber arts.

The Hollie Point thing.... I liked to it because it is (was) insanely delicate and tedious. It's basically crocheting with a tiny needle and a single thin linen thread. The pattern is rendered by dropping a stitch in the right place. Go ahead, stay up all night doing it by candle light!


Life before machines!


There's this amazing Dutch knitted petticoat from the early 18th century that is, well, amazing... since, as you know, the thing has to be worked out horizontal line of stitches by horizontal line of stitches.

[Curmudgeoness]

18. That is pretty incredible.

And pretty and incredible.

I wasn't aware that you were around before machines......and people think that I am old!

[Heddi]

20. It's amazing to me what people were able to do when they were still expected

to do shit all day long by hand from like 4am until the sun went down. Every day of their miserable, toil-and-filth-filled lives.

I work 8 hours a day (and I use "work" lightly), 5 days a week and I think I get a total of like 89 days off a year not including weekends and the 230948023 holidays they give us. And it takes me nearly a year to make a hat.

[Curmudgeoness]

17. I prefer crochet myself.

Not that I can do anything but straight pieces---scarves, pet blankets, afghans, telephone pole covers, bedspreads. I will never do another queen size bedspread again---talk about heavy.

[Heddi]

19. I bet it was heavy! I made 2 lap-blankets for my inlaws last year

you know, not full afghan size, big enough to fit from feet to stomach while sitting in a chair. each was a large granny-square type. HEAVY AS SHIT TO MAIL.

[Curmudgeoness]

21. Nice job.

It looks lovely.

And not a bad word to be found.

[Heddi]

27. They're hidden in the stitches a la Madame Defarge

Eom

[Heddi]

22. Here are some real things I've made

I'm making this now but with blue/green/aqua instead of these rainbow colors. I'm about 1/2 way done


This is a cowl I made



I made a bunch of these for coworkers. Cats, dogs, bunnies..




hats and handwarmers








A sombrero for Mumbles

[trotsky]

23. The sombrero kicks ass! Love it! n/t

[Rainforestgoddess]

24. I really like the shawl you're making.

Is there a pattern online?

I'll postie some pics of a few things I've done recently later.

My newest interest is Irish lace (crocheted) but I generally only do needlework when I'm on vacation, so I only have a few motifs done.

[A HERETIC I AM]

25. I'll note that the green mitten like thing.....

is clearly designed for a sawmill employee.

[progressoid]

26. Judy Dench!!

"But perhaps the most arresting memory that they take away from being on set with living legend Judi Dench is not her boundless fascination with acting but her penchant for subversive needlework," reads the passage from Premier Magazine. "'She makes these like needlework embroideries on set in the tedium of filming', says MacFadyen, 'but they are all: 'You Are a Cunt'. And she gives them as presents. And it's Dame Judi Dench. And she is doing this beautifully, intricate, ornate (work). You kind of see the work materializing as the shoot goes on. Like: 'You Are a Fucking Shit.'"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/18/judi-dench-secret-hobby_n_3460379.html