I got some really cool stuff this year for Christmas. Including two pattern books. One skein wonders, and knit two together. They are both knit books, but I prefer knit patterns then I just turn it into a crochet pattern.
Right now I am making the Santa Cruz hoodie. It will be my first completed sweater. I have started a couple, and one twice. But I really think I will finish this one, this time. For one I have all the yarn to complete it, and for two, I am already almost done with just the back section. I am really excited, and can't wait to wear it. I am using, gasp, acrylic yarn from Michaels. But hey it was free, and looks nice. It is a boucle, and is dark and light brown.
I am trying to figure out if I should use light brown, purple, or pink, or a combination of two or more of the colors as accent colors. The pattern does the body of the sweater one color and the arms another color. What do you think?
Right now I am making the Santa Cruz hoodie. It will be my first completed sweater. I have started a couple, and one twice. But I really think I will finish this one, this time. For one I have all the yarn to complete it, and for two, I am already almost done with just the back section. I am really excited, and can't wait to wear it. I am using, gasp, acrylic yarn from Michaels. But hey it was free, and looks nice. It is a boucle, and is dark and light brown.
I am trying to figure out if I should use light brown, purple, or pink, or a combination of two or more of the colors as accent colors. The pattern does the body of the sweater one color and the arms another color. What do you think?
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Fri, December 29, 2006 - 3:31 PMSabrina, sounds wonderful! I like accent colors...maybe you could do edging or sleeve cuffs in the accent colors? -
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Sun, December 31, 2006 - 6:13 PMI love the way brown and pink look together, also brown and peach, and borwn and light blue or turquoise and brown look great together, too.
Wow! I don't think I could crochet a whole sweater! I've knitted lots of sweaters, but I mostly crochet small stuff, like scraves, hats, and decorative stuff.
I've got 2 crocheted shawls I started 2 years ago, both are very delicate in very fine threads, and are taking way too long, I'll crochet for hours and hours and just make like a 1inch progress. VERY unmotivating :-/
for that same reason, I'll go MONTHS without even looking at them.
anyway, congratulations there on your sweater, Sabrina! :-)
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Fri, January 19, 2007 - 10:02 PMI learned to crochet two summers ago, and have completed two sweaters. I don't follow a pattern, since I don't know how to read them, and just make it up as I go. The first one was just a plain sweater, but the second has an open front and I sewed buttons on it, like a jacket. It turned out great. Whenever I wear it, people compliment me on it, and then when I tell them I MADE IT MYSELF....people just ooohh and aaahh. What a great feeling! :)
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Sun, January 21, 2007 - 10:36 AMI keep hearing from people that they don't know how to read crochet patterns. I find them really easy to read and what I think is difficult is trying to create something from a pattern that is a diagram with a legend, rather than one that is just written out with stitch abbreviations.
I just think of it like another language that I have to learn and translate in order to create something. Some people can read Spanish, but I can read crochet, ya know.
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Sat, January 20, 2007 - 6:40 AMpost pic when you finish
...I have always wanted to make something like a sweater or cute top but I always end up doing simple things like hot pads, afgans, easy stuff. I would like to do all those fancy stitches. I just got 'The Happy Hooker Crochet' Book, am gonna try to do something really progressive...is that a good word? LOL -
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Sat, January 20, 2007 - 10:23 PMi'm dying to make the capelet (cold shoulders i think it is called) for myself and the cowboy hat for my friend. i tried making the cowboy hat at least 5 times and had a really hard time with the pattern even though i consider myself at least an intermediate/advanced crocheter. grr!! -
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Sun, January 21, 2007 - 6:49 AM"i tried making the cowboy hat at least 5 times and had a really hard time with the pattern even though i consider myself at least an intermediate/advanced crocheter."
Wow, I would really start to wonder if maybe there is a problem with the pattern? I can't imagine it is too well written if you're having trouble with it at your experience level.
Isn't it a bummer to spend time on a pattern and then it isn't working out? I hate that! -
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Sun, January 21, 2007 - 6:50 AMAlthough, if it is published, surely it was tested a lot first? I'd hope! -
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Fri, January 26, 2007 - 9:12 AMgenerally patterns are tested first, but sometimes they are tested by the same person who wrote the pattern. They know what they think they are writing, but when the pattern get into the real world, we don't know what they were intending, so there are minor glitches. It can also happen with the transcribing of the pattern. Sometimes the person who is typing up the book does not know anything about how to read patterns, so if the accidentally leave something out, or switch something around, they don't realize.
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Sun, January 21, 2007 - 10:41 AMi've DEFINITELY wondered if it's a problem with the pattern. i decided to do a few more projects and then revisit it. hopefully the distance will give me the clarity i need to get through it -- like life!
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Fri, January 26, 2007 - 9:07 AMI would look for happy hooker errata online. If there are any mistakes, they should have figured them out by now. If you can't fine errata contact the publisher, or what ever contact info is in the book. Or go to your local craft shop and try to get some help. I really don't think it is you though, the pattern probably just has some glitches. -
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Fri, January 26, 2007 - 10:24 AMThe Happy Hooker book actually does have a lot of errata. You can go on the website and print out all the corrections. I don't know if it was just that they were trying to get the book out too fast or what. I think the Yeehaw Lady has some in there, that might help you out tremendously!!
www.bust.com/knithappens...h-errata.pdf
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Fri, January 26, 2007 - 10:29 AMthank you!!
that is going to save me a major headache!
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Fri, January 26, 2007 - 9:04 AMThat is fantastic Patricia! Have you found anything that peeks your fancy yet? -
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Fri, January 26, 2007 - 9:15 AMStill reading and working on it. I have a bunch of flowers left over from on of the afgans I was working on and Donnie's mom gave me a 55-gal drum full of yarn, and there are some flowers kinda like the ones I have.. may put them together into another afgan.
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Sun, January 21, 2007 - 10:34 AMSounds really cool.
I think the reason sweaters can be hard is because they sometimes take a long time and a lot of patience when it comes to finishing them - getting the armholes right and such.
In the past what I have done is set my goal as completeing one section - say the back or if it is a cardigan the right or left side. And then I set that aside and give myself a break by working on something different and smaller like a beanie or a scarf. Then after I have had a break, I go back and complete another section of the sweater. This might seem to some people to make it take longer, but I find that it causes me less frustration because I sometimes get really fucked off with myself if it seems like something is taking forever to complete and I don't have other projects.
Unlike most people, I find it sometimes difficult to work on multiple projects at once because it feels like I am never getting anything done but instead have a billion things in progress. Completing something makes me feel better. So, like I said, working in bits and then on something else eases that frustration because I feel like I am making some progress.
I love the idea of converting knit patterns. It seems there are so many modern, funky, him knitting patterns compared to what is available in crochet. Or at least until Happy Hooker came out - that is a GREAT book I think. I know loads of people that think of crochet as something a granny does, whereas knitting seems cooler. I do both, but I learned crochet first and have been doing that off and on for about 20 years or so (my aunt taught me first when I was about 11 or 12).
Anyway, good luck with the sweater and definitely post pics when you are done.
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Thu, February 8, 2007 - 3:55 AMI'm finishing knitting my first sweater. It's been a lot harder than I thought it would be in some places, and really easy in others. -
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Sat, February 10, 2007 - 1:55 PMI'm making a sweater, too. It's nothing fancy, just some diamonds in the pattern, fairly easy. -
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Sat, February 10, 2007 - 10:49 PMpretty cool. I put my sweater on hold to finish another project, now I have forgotten what size hook I was using. I started back up with the hook size I thought I was using and it is the wrong one. So now I have to rip out, and try again. Currently it is sitting in the back of my closet in a time out. On the plus side I got a bunch of sock yarn for my birthday today. WooHoo!
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Mon, March 19, 2007 - 8:10 PMYou know I should never say for real, I have not finished it yet and I have not even been working on it. So sad :( -
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Wed, March 21, 2007 - 2:11 PMit's ok. I keep starting new projects befoire finishing old ones. I can't help myself, I want to knit/crochet it all at the same time! :-P
anyway, I always keep a notebook of all my projects, and in it I write down every step in the making of each project, PLUS the size of needles and/or hooks I used, and other materials, too, and also the starting date, which is actually really depressing to see that sometime I put off projects for sooooo long that I'll end up finishing them a year or more after I started them! -
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Wed, March 21, 2007 - 2:13 PMso... my point was... that notebook helps me "remember" what hook/needle I used when I pick up the project again months later. -
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Wed, March 21, 2007 - 2:28 PMi'm going to start doing that. i cant remember what hook i was using to crochet a certain scarf and i really want to finish it.
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Wed, March 21, 2007 - 3:01 PMYou know I often say I am going to write down what hook I use and everything, and either I forget or a write it somewhere and can't remember where I wrote it. Having a handy book with all that info would be good.
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