- I decided some time ago that motif crochet has lost its appeal. Why didn’t I stick to this ?!
- Not having done so and started on the CAL, I find I prefer JAYG (join as you go) anyway – which can’t apply to making something whereof the rest of the parts are unknown.
- Tunisian crochet doesn’t seem to like to be made into ‘squares’ (quote marks because they’re rarely equal all ’round). Well .. perhaps that’s a stupid thing to say: if you’re a tunisian professional you might well be able to start at the bottom and crochet up and it looks great.
- I have no need of a blanket; and I don’t have the space to display it (were I able to complete it well enough).
- A blogging friend, the professional Dora Does, has written of her gradual separation from an overwhelming need for ‘perfection’ – this I comprehend well as a drive to not make ONE SINGLE MISTAKE, and to frog fiercely (and with rage) when one is found. I am still struggling with overcoming this; and an entire blanket’s creation is not going to help.
- It is very expensive in terms of the necessary yarn. Possibly this is, in truth, my main rationale .. :\
So much for the old man’s underpants. But thanks to the talented Rachel Henri, I now know at least one way of making a square in the round in Tunisian crochet.
DOWNUNDER WITH BOODZ 
Not much of this made a lot of sense to me – not being in the crochet/crafting community – but I always enjoy reading of your crafting interests and challenges!
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The challenges for me are to start, continue and finish WITHOUT FROGGING ANYTHING.
I don’t know what my problem is, Sue: but I let myself be defeated by something almost every time.
The only thing that keeps me sane is the knowledge that I do have quite a lot of FOs (finished objects), but they all seem to be ‘way, ‘way in the past. :(
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You have more craft FOs than I do MR. you e, like me, be more process person than a concluder-producer!
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Oh, I LIKE that !!
I’m a process person rather than a producer !!!
I travel hopefully, then. :D
THANK-YOU, Sue !!!
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Any time, M-R!
I think the process is the interesting bit!
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My turn to be out of my field of understanding! I never could cope with acronyms and codes. Frogging sounds fun though!
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Frogging is completely undoing one’s work, Simon. I believe the term comes from “rip it, rip it !”.
It’s an activity that a hopeless old fart who can’t BEAR to see errors in something she’s made takes up on a far-too-regular basis – undoing not only the work but all those hours ..
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I’m happy to see errors in draft work but I’m like you with anything that I intend to be done properly. I have done much frogging in my time!
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You craft your words, my dear ! :)
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I can’t do mystery-alongs; I need to know what the finished product will look like so I can decide if I want to make it! The only mystery-along I’ve ever knit along with was the one I wrote. Which meant that I already knew the outcome; I was just knitting it a second time for the social!
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Nor me, I now realize – but then, I have several reasons for being standoffish.
I do understand well that you, too, are a perfectionist. But when/if you find an error, you instantly remove it, which applies also to errors in patterns (not yours !). In other words, I don’t think an error gets any further than one bloody row past you, Michele ! :D
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