Let Us Crochet

Inspired by Sparky I'm going to try crocheting.

Unlike learning to knit I don't have a childrens book from Toys R Us so I'm doing this the old fashioned way: random internet pictures and videos.

These are my tools. I borrowed them from bigfoot so they're blurry

After two false starts I concentrate on holding the yarn looser



So ummm...here it is. Oh the tail is 426 yards long. You know, like all crochet projects...yeah...



I did it! Then I redid it because I forgot to count. At least I haven't...haven't...sewn my sleeve to my...my pants...


Second rooooooow! Second roooooo-oooo-o-o-o! I somehow lost two stitches. Ignore that second part and just enjoy the sweet guitar solo the first part should have built right in if you're good looking enough to hear it.



Third row. I lost another one! Somewhere there's an old lady crocheting who can't figure out where the extra stitch came from. I'm using the internet so it can't be me or my methodology. I'm gonna pick this up when I have a square or a rectangle (which, I suspect, is just a long square. That is just a guess though.)

Next time: how did I crochet my sleeve to my pants???

This is going to be awesome.

Hopefully the undead won't appear.

Crochet starting chains work under their own peculiar rules of mathematics. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you will actually turn out with the same number of stitches you made! And sometimes you won't. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with how carefully you count. I suspect yarn demons.

Can you knit yourself a pair of pants with dozens of circular pockets?

Good luck with your crocheting adventures! I personally could never make it past the first stage, not even with an online walkthrough at hand or in 2-player mode with my more experienced mom as the second player, and I eventually gave up and decided that reading other people's misadventures was a better way to kill the time.

Knitting is infinitely easier, I have to concentrate on not crocheting too tightly not so I'm just practicing that over and over now.

I knit the body to a sweater before realizing the yarn I picked was way too heavy and I'd sweat buckets if I ever actually wore it. I never did end up making the sleeves, so I just ended up with the world's heaviest tank top.

I knit a sweater out of the scraps of yarn I had without pattern or measurements. It looks like "a straightjacket made by someone who belongs in a straightjacket"
But my purses always go over well.

"A little old lady was found dead tonight under a pile of ever increasing stitches. Police are baffled, yarn demons could not be reached for comment."

Fuck crocheting. Just...fuck...fuck crocheting. I now am firmly convinced that this whole "crocheting" thing is just an elaborate put on. Like English people or bigfoot

Just to piss on the entire idea of "crocheting" I quit, and knit this:

Into the Mouth of Adorableness

Sans pattern and, thanks to a sound thing I got in the clearance section of Hobby Lobby, he roars like Godzilla when you boop his nose.

Fuck. Crocheting.

I could crochet that, sans pattern, in about ~25 minutes with sport weight yarn and an f size hook.

Do it. There can never be too many Cthulus.

Wholeheartedly agree, name a color

This thread taught me that I am not the only one that cannot figure out where those fucking stitches go when I'm crocheting.

The colour of the depths of R'lyeh, where he waits dreaming, until he is awakened from his slumber...


So, dark blue?

So...cute...

I really, really want me a mini-Cthulhu now.

Sadly the only things I can knit are purses, scarves and gauntlets. Anything with shape just comes out as an unadulterated mess.

Gauntlets?
And Cthulhu is just two balls on top of each other. Here is the best ball pattern I've found. I'll write down the pattern I'm using for the next one

Gauntlets are arm-warmer type things. But badass?

Adorned with spikes of alpaca wool.

brighter fo' detail

That's a handsome little Elder God.

I gotta add little legs so they can sit comfy though.

I've made a ton of tiny crochet cthulhus in my time! And some not-so-tiny:



He's very comfortable.

...I AM SO TELLING MY SIBLINGS TO MAKE SOME FOR ME NOW.

Because the only sticks I can operate are chopsticks.

Cthulhus are totally easy, man. I made these two last night:




(Aww, who has the cutest widdle tentacles? Is it you, sweetiehorror? Yes it is! It's you with the cutie-est tetacoos!)

Man, this "Crochet" game has really good graphics for such a casual game. It looks almost photorealistic.
How are the controls?

They're a little fiddly, especially when you're starting out, but the gameplay is built around repeating them over and over creatively, so they'll become second nature if you can get over the first hill, so to speak.

Personally, I find them a lot more forgiving than Knitting's control scheme (it's simplified by only needing one joystick instead of two! Or even three or four-- Knitting can get pretty crazy), but the wars between Knitting fans and Crochet fans isn't something I want to start here.*

* This is actually a real drama in needlework communities.

When I get the time, I'll make a little one too, but it'll probably look more like Cthulu's slower cousin.
I prefer crochet too, but thats because I mostly make amigurumis.

So make a crochet cthulu.

Sorry for the quality of the pictures, I can't find my camera.
Here's mini-Cthulu, riding a cat for no real reason:

And taking a rest, before going back to the hard work of being worshiped.

oh god that's so cute

I usually go for about equal head-to-body porportions, but the tiny body makes him so dainty and adorable! You totally got a high score on the Cute-ass Hookwielding boards for that.

This thread is the best.

Except for all the crochet hags.

There's nothing wrong with being a hag. Embrace it.

Yay thanks :D. It is quite difficult to keep him upright though. Next time I'll put something heavy in the bottom.

lol he has a :3 face

Or whip up a couple legs and sew 'em to the bottom, I did that with my Cthulhu.

But the tiny legs wouldn't keep him up. I could make them bigger, but then he would be out of proportion. And that would annoy me.
Do you have a picture of them with legs? I wanna see.

Sorry, wanted to finish the orange one. Little legs keep him from falling forward. His little arms help with balance too.