Project Yarnway

by Melissa // January 21, 2010 // 1 Comment

I don’t know that I’ve mentioned it on my blog before, but I love Project Runway. I’ve watched every season (the seventh season just started, and I am avidly following along via the internet. Hurrah, internet!) because I love seeing what talented, creative people will produce when given parameters and a time limit. It’s cool.

So when I had the idea of a crochet/knitting based version, I couldn’t resist trying to get it going. We started the group on Ravelry today – Project Yarnway, of course – and we’re going to begin the first challenge on February 1st. It’s going to last a year, one challenge each month, and while there won’t be any eliminations (that’s not how we roll) there will be winners and prizes and good times, oh yeah.

Whether you create your own designs or you just love to watch creative people at work, come on over and join the group! We need people to talk about and vote on the designs as much as we need designers. If we get enough people together I anticipate this being a really, really, really fun time.

Project Yarnway, people. Make it work.

Goodbye, Good Hook

by Melissa // January 19, 2010 // 5 Comments

On day three of the hunt for the G hook, the trail has gone cold and those who loved it are losing hope. There are fears that it was perhaps left behind in Okinawa, but even if it managed to return home – there are many places in a house that such a small hook, once misplaced, could become irrevocably lost. The red aluminum hook – seen here in this undated file photo –

leaves behind one crocheter and innumerable projects that it helped create. Melissa Mall, the crocheter who lost the hook, had this to say.

“We worked together for six years. It was one of my first hooks, and we made so many toys together. I never bought another G hook – I never needed one. Sure, it’s gone missing before, but I always managed to dig it up. I’m afraid this time it may be gone for good.”

Mrs. Mall went on to say that she would have to replace the hook immediately, as it was a size that she just couldn’t do without.

“I hope it turns up again someday,” she said. “I really do. But I can’t just sit around and look for it forever.”

We close tonight with a look back atÂ some of the beautiful projects that the G hook helped create.

Goodbye, little hook, and good luck.

(PS, I’ve posted up the pattern for Joe the Penguin. You can find it here, but you’ll need *sniff* an F hook.)

So There.

by Melissa // January 19, 2010 // 5 Comments

Well, I couldn’t find my G hook, but after I posted last night I decided to go for it with my F hook and see how things went. The answer to that question is “not bad.” It’s not optimal, exactly, although it works fine. I prefer the slightly larger hook for ease working with the worsted yarn. The smaller hook will probably make it more durable, even though it took longer and hurt my fingers. Hooks can’t get me down, though, because I finished my friend’s penguin!

He’s maybe five inches high, and cute as all get out (whatever that means). Joe – I call him Joe – had fun exploring the arctic conditions outside.

Yay! It was a fun and easy design to come up with, and hopefully I can get this pattern written up this week, too. I like designing more than I like pattern-writing, though, so I may put it off a little bit. Maybe I need a secretary. Or my own personal editor. I’ll do the creative work and they can do the formatting. Ah well.

You take what you can get, that’s Joe’s philosophy.

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