Crocheting in public then frogging at home
June 27, 2008 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under crochet, tatting
Yesterday, my husband’s jazz trio was playing at an outdoor art and design festival:
That’s my Beloved in the green shirt. Look at the sky through the scrim of the stage behind them……
When they started playing (and they were FABULOUS!) the sky was slightly overcast, but it was warm and pleasant.
BUT, as they began their second set, look what the sky did:
The temperature plummeted, and the winds were insane!
The festival staff ran around and took down all the umbrellas from the tables. Good plan…. we put our personal umbrellas up as it started to rain, and the wind turned them inside out!
We almost did Mary Poppins routines! wow…..
Amazingly enough, the center of the city didn’t get any hail, but all around the city and burbs got nailed. Yoicks…..
Jim and his trio played on, and played beautifully. The sound crew was running around the stage, tarping monitors and speakers, but that didn’t bother the trio one bit. They were in a groove and kept on to the end of their set. Bless their hearts!
Before the winds hit, I was crocheting like mad.
I’ve been working on a red shawl as a demonstration piece for workshops I am teaching in the fall. It’s a combination of tatting and crochet and this shawl has been nagging at me for months now. I showed a peek of it at:
Hmmm.
Some projects can really make you crazy.
I have worked the background mesh for the shawl about 6 times now!
I did it in rainbow thread. erg…. no go.
ribbit.
I did it in red thread:
But the motifs weren’t showing up at all, so I frogged the red
ribbit
and did it in black (at the Festival, under blackening skies….)
Last night, I tore all the black background out.
It was too ‘contrastie’.
ribbit
I tried a couple of other background colors and tore them out, too….
And then I had an aha moment….. and have started all over again….
and I am hoping that I am getting it right this time – but you never know….
I’ll do a bit more and see how it looks and then I’ll post pics.
But if you hear the sound of frogs ribbitting away, it may well be me! ribbit ribbit ribbit!
It’s been a very ribbitty time around here, what with this frogging shawl, and with a project in my new book being VERY un co-operative.
Time for things to go swimmingly.
Do you ever have several things go ribbitty on you all at once, too?
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WOW those skys were super scary!! glad no damage to you. I dont have the dilagance you do to ripp and ripp. but you have to have it right to teach a class. to be honest I dont like the monsters from Lion brand just kinda odd. (I dont like clown dolls either.) they would be something fun and easy for beginners to try out tho. Thanks for the note on barbie, I got some knit and crochet for barbie books and like them there quick and I can get something DONE!! I had my aunt and mine and sisters Barbies or so I thought!!!!! OMG I cant find them, I have only told My hubby. I thought I new right where they were and there not!! I had a Midge!!!! and knitted cloths my G-ma made for them. did they leave? maybe they didnt like the shoe box home I had them in for sooo many years?? I had to go to Target and buy a barbie so I would have a model for the little outfits. Lets hope as I unpack they will show up. or come back from the barbie twilight zone. look forward to seeing more of the shawl.
Hi Carolee
Yep, it was quite the storm. I kept thinking: Okay… the highrises will attract any lightening, right?
LOL!
I am raising my eyebrow at the shawl at this point, and wondering if it’s really worth the trouble to make it…. when I could be working on other designs. And, meeting deadlines!
Hope you find your missing dolls! I haven’t kept most of my childhood dolls…. but I am happy to have the few I do have.
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At least the frogging is the crochet part and that can be ripped out quickly. I’m anxious to see what you’ve come up with now. I agree the tatting got lost in the background when it was the same color. I couldn’t see enough of the black/red to get a feeling for how they contrasted but it did seem a little strong. Going for something more subtle?
Hi Gina
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Yes, crochet is wonderfully easy to frog.
The background is definitely going to be more subtle
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And, I’ve designed a new butterfly for the shawl…. I am really pleased with it.
http://www.hankeringforyarn.com/tatted-and-crocheted-shawl-new-butterfly
I’ll be posting pics of the background once I’ve got more of it done.
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