Crochety

[mothwing]

I've always been about as good at anything involving yarn as the average cat is, so I usually avoid it. I decided to give it another go this week and am currently making a crocodile pattern scarf:

This is a crocodile pattern:



Haven't gotten very far yet, but this is the idea (the colours are off because of the flash, it's actually a much more subdued orange and a greyish blue):


The back is not as pretty, unfortunately:

Comments

[ysilme]

You're right, the English terminology sounds way cooler. Crochet = Stäbchen? I really have to learn that lingo, I have no idea what means what... and I agree, the pattern looks more fitting for a neckwarmer, and it's really cool! I'm having the faint idea of doing a tea cosy by it, in different greens, making a dragon out of it... *g* I've been thinking of doing a tea cosy for a while, as the refill tea warmer lights have become so bad in quality and the system with the wax balls is working fine, but a bit costly. I think one also could do some terrific fingerles gloves from them, don't you?
Are you at Ravelry?

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

I found lists of terminology translation here (http://www.grannys-garret.com/terminology/haekelterm_us-dt.pdf) and here (http://www.von-stroh-zu-gold.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/HaekelspracheAbkuerzungen.pdf) (they're PDFs), and what doesn't help is that there are also differences between UK and US terminology (http://www.yarnfwd.com/main/crochet.html). A single crochet is a feste Masche, a double crochet is a Stäbchen.

Finger gloves are actually my next project, maybe not in Ravenclaw colours, though. *g* A dragon pattern tea cozy sound brilliant!

I'm not yet, but having poked around the site a bit I'm thinking of joining up. :) Are you?

[ysilme]

Also not yet, mainly for the fear of being motivated to start countless new projects... but since I will need help with the leaf-patterned jumper I plan to do next (when the current socks and the doll are done) I probably will eventually this year.
Thanks for the links! The crochet confusion sounds horrible, I already wanted to joke what then a "Doppelstäbchen" is..
I have knit finger gloves for myself (black and yellow striped), but not after a pattern, rather after how I thought they should be. I had knitted several pairs of mittens by that time which I had learned from some pattern, though. One thing I found is that the gusset/gore ? (Zwickel) for the thumb in the patterns I found was too short and not making them fit nicely. I have done soem fingerless gloves from oddments two or three years ago with a much better-fitting gusset. (Do you know which is the correct term?) If you like, I can take pics of both pairs and explain in detail as much as I remember. I still have the finger gloves, but don't wear them any longer because I can't stand the wool on my eczema skin.
I've used sock wool for both which is very suitable to my experience, particularly because you can simply drop them in the regular laundry which is rather important for gloves in my experience.