Ball crushing

05 Friday Aug 2016

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I’ve been mulling over wether to write about this for a while now seeing as nobody (myself included) likes a whiner. I’ve tried incredibly hard to avoid anything that could be construed as being Woe Is Me (I.e 99% of the contents of my head)

I’m feeling deflated.  Disenchanted.  It took a tremendous amount of courage to attempt to sell my items.  I don’t primarily make to sell, I make because I mentally need to but that results in a lot of random things I have no need for. Pretty things. Cute things.

To date, friends aside, I have sold three items. Yes, three.  I’ve had no complaints and the buyers liked their purchases.

I’ve played the whole networking game.

I’ve had special offers and discounts.

Thousands of people have ‘seen’ them.

The only conclusion I can come to is that I’m simply not good enough which is of little surprise seeing as I’m craft inept.

My items must be horrific.

I should never have put myself out there, to fail.

I should just have left my makes piling up in the dark.

I’m a little crushed.  

Just like me, they’re simply not good enough. 

Balls.

Big tangled knotty balls.

It’s a whip thing.

10 Tuesday May 2016

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I’m not  just a Haphazard Hooker, I’m also a Haphazard blogger.  You’ve probably noticed that some days I’ll update multiple times and other days not at all.

I guess it’s just the way I roll.

I started another project a week or two ago.  I was originally going to do another Willow Block blanket yet with multi coloured blocks as opposed to solid but halfway through my second block  I decided I wanted something less delicate looking. I loved the centre ‘wheel’ so winged a square around it.

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The simplicity of  a splash of colour upon cream appealed to me yet I decided to mix it up a little little.

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I think I’m a little bit in love with Duck Egg.

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I also tried out some solid cream ones to see how they’d look in the mix.

I’m keeping this one pram size so have 36 squares. I may place pain cream ones around the edge before I start upon a border, I’m still undecided!

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I was actually enjoying this project and was excited about finishing it.  Today my new toy arrived with perfect timing.

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I’m usually far too l lazy to block yet these squares were smaller than the Willow Blocks and curled up tremendously.

Tonight I started the joining.  I’m still  relatively new to granny squares having always preferred linear designs.  I wanted a flatter join so chose the whipstitch.  All was going well, I’m half way through already yet upon checking before packing up for the night I spotted that they’re not perfectly aligned. 

Bugger.

I can’t sell it without correcting it and yet I’m loath to unpick it.

I’m incredibly cross with myself.

She wrote her number on bar room coasters

29 Friday Apr 2016

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I think the weather is drunk.  It’s nearly May and we have snow! We love snow! Unfortunately it’s now raining so all the snow is disappearing.

Whilst procrastinating over my blanket project I kept my hands busy making my first set of coasters from a Bella Coco pattern.

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I’ve had Drops recycled cotton Aran weight yarn in my stash for over a year. I absolutely love the colours yet I hate working with the yarn as it’s impossibly splitty and thus makes everything seem like a slog.  I mainly make baby and toddler clothes and although I love the stitch definition you get from cotton yarn I find it a little heavy for baby clothes, especially when it’s Aran weight.  So, it remained in the yarn cemetery draw of doom.  I have occasionally attempted baby sandals with it yet footwear is my hooky  nemesis!

I’m really looking how these worked up.  They’d add a fabulous pop of colour to wherever they’re used.

They’ll be going up for sale in Punky-Doo’s shortly.

Hooking mermaids

28 Thursday Apr 2016

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I love hand dyed yarn, who doesn’t? But, I can’t afford to buy it.  On the rare occasions I’ve possessed some I have a tendency to squirrel it away only bringing it out to ‘oooh’ at and pet.  I’m always worried I’ll somehow ruin it waste it yet beautiful yarn should be used.

I’ve probably been hoarding this hand dyed sparkle cotton for a year or more.

I’m not overly keen on using sparkle yarns for baby clothing and despite my ardent affair with yarn I very rarely wear any myself.  I’m far too impatient and large to make myself clothing and I dislike anything around my neck clothing wise. 

I really wanted to use it though!

So I whipped up this….

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It looks like it’s made from mermaid’s tears.

I’ve put it up for sale in Punky-Doo’s (on Facebook) so here’s hoping someone who wears scarves will love it as much as this none scarf wearing Hooker does .

Fancy a quickie?

28 Thursday Apr 2016

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I had some oddments of yarn and a new stash of beads so I had a play.

I kept seeing an image on Pinterest of a five bloom cluster headband yet unfortunately the designer no longer sells the pattern.  I searched everywhere. Everywhere I tell you!

I decided to experiment.  There simply must be an easier method of doing it other than the hodgepodge slapdash way I made up as I went along.  Can’t say I’m in a hurry to recreate it until I figure a more straight forward method out!

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You’re just not doing it for me baby.

28 Thursday Apr 2016

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I had to halt progress on the granny stripe blanket as my white yarn went into hiding.  Not one to waste crocheting time I started my ‘me’ blanket.  I chose around 15 colours in hues of the rainbow, avoiding the actual ROYGBIV.  In my head I was going to make as many different blocks as possible and then eventually join them all into a glorious blanket.  In my head it was formidable. I was actually excited.

That was all in my head of course.

Now I’ve started it nothing feels right.

I started with these two blocks

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Despite the fact they obviously need blocking, neither feel right. The first is lovely but perhaps too lacy.  The second is my first attempt at making a shape from bobbles and although I love how it looks as the pattern dictated SC the texture is too stiff and tapestry like for what I have in mind and it’s noticeably a smaller block.

So, I left out the bobble block and continued.

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Obviously I’m still in the red/orange area of the rainbow.  I’ve been looking forward to this for weeks yet if I’m honest, in simply not enjoying it which is disappointing to say the least.

I’m now contemplating stopping whilst I still have the yarn and using it for a colourful granny stripe instead or maybe a sunburst granny square blanket?

I hate giving up but it’s a huge project that will seem tedious if the buzz isn’t there.

Drawing up loops

25 Monday Apr 2016

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Last week I had several BCD’s (bad Crochet day’s). Everything I tried didn’t ‘feel’ right. It’s hard to explain but sometimes a yarn just doesn’t belong to a certain project. There’s nothing wrong with the yarn nor the projects,  others may find the same yarn and pattern to be compatible,  they just weren’t meant to be.  I must have started and frogged several things (a vintage rose hexagon, a flower hexagon, a granny ripple etc) before settling on an old faithful granny stripe.  Sometimes simplicity is just right. There’s something deeply satisfying that lulls the mind when doing a repetitive pattern.

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As usual I have no idea what size it will be, I eyeballed the starting chain and I guess I’ll stop when I run out of yarn.

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