Posted by camanomade on March 11, 2009
The Crochet Liberation Front is sponsoring the First Annual Crochet Awards (The Flamies) on March 16th 2009 on the fabulous crochet podcast/radio show Getting Loopy with Mary Beth Temple!
Join Mary Beth and Laurie Wheeler as they name off the nominees and congratulate the winners! Find out who was voted Best Designer~ Women’s Fashion, Men’s Fashion, Childrens’ and many more!!! There will be some surprises, and some fun to be had!
You can tune in at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mary-beth-temple the podcast begins at 9pm EDT/6pm PDT
We’re going to have a great time!
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Posted by camanomade on March 6, 2009
My dear friend and photographer, Bec Thomas has joined a competition to win a “Dream Assignment”, she has put up her dream of going to Antartica to shoot photos of the changing ice, the melting and bring those visuals back to everyday folk like you and me!
Even though she’s my friend, believe me she is a talented nature (and studio) photographer! In fact she’ll be helping me with some photographs of my designs (because as you know I totally stink at photos!)…
To see her work go to http://www.visualperspective.wordpress.com and to go vote for her go here…
If anyone can take great penguin shots it’s her! I say, VOTE FOR BEC, VOTE FOR THE PENGUINS!
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Posted by camanomade on March 5, 2009
This is my effort for D… I really like how that turned out. Not sure how it will go with the rest of the project.
Now for todays…sigh…
E is for Eating. Godzilla and cookies come to mind; totally unrelated mind you 
But both of them are what I think of when the word Eating is mentioned
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Posted by camanomade on March 5, 2009
In ten pounds of chenille, I don’t think I could ever board another vessel…but YARR! Me likey this costume!
It’s time I made myself something else to wear…Capn Crochet needs to think of something else to make herself that she really likes!
Happy Natcromo!
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Posted by camanomade on March 4, 2009
Well the instructions said crab…and I wasn’t feeling all that inspired or crabby…so I did a bunch of “Clusters”…and then Diddles got into the act.
She WAS sleeping when I put the project down to photograph…yeah, sure whatever…quick as lightening she had the piece and wouldn’t let go!
So, C is (as we all know!) for Cat.
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Posted by camanomade on March 4, 2009
B is for Blossom…
You’ll see the Blossom for reals in the next photo…sigh…Diddles the Wunder Kat got into the act…and saved March 3 
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Posted by camanomade on March 2, 2009
Today, I was checking my blog stats and saw that a “yahoo answers” page had linked the Crochet Ribbing Redux page here on the blog.
Some one had asked how to do a crochet ribbing. Unfortunately they stated they knew how you did one in knit, and so all the knitters came out with authority stating how you actually knit a ribbing (which um…they all sounded like different kinds of ribbing to me but hey I don’t knit, so you know I won’t give that kind of advice)…
REFER TO PARENTHESIS above! IF you do not crochet other than dishcloths, or granny squares, or jackets, or blankies or toys because you prefer your garments knit, please stop giving advice. Just stop. PLEASE. For the love of all that is hookable STOP you are perpetuating myths, and misinformation and you do NOT and I repeat DO NOT know what you are talking about…SIGH….And of course there will be those of you reading this thinking, “Is she talking about me? I mean I crochet a lot…” Then NO I do not mean you, and the folks that I do mean, won’t get it cause they won’t think this post could POSSIBLY be about them.
SO here’s what this person wrote:
In crochet, you need to do something similar in causing the stitch to appear to be reversed in a column and not in others. Here is a site that explains it, but it seems to be making garter stitch:
http://camanomade.wordpress.com/how-to-m…
I think you would need to alternate front and back crochet stitches to get the ribbing appearance.
OK I ask you to RE-READ my directions. THAT IS EXACTLY what you are doing in working the ribbing as PER my instructions. You do not WORK in columns, you do not work horizontially…YOU ARE WORKING VERTICALLY and it gives you a nice a VERY nice tight and STRETCHY ribbing.
You can do it with sc, you can do it hdc, and you can do it with dc, I prefer HDC….
I’ve added a photo, to show how the stitches look in hdc, and in dc with an alternate row of sc, all worked in the back loops only.
I don’t usually make garments using this size of yarn, I prefer a finer weight if I’m doing things like ribbing…but this was the best way to show the stitch definitions. If I used Cascade 220 to make a sweater, I would go down a size or two in yarn to make the ribbing.
Obviously when you work a vertical ribbing in crochet, you do the ribbing first, then crochet from the bottom of the sleeves (cuffs) up.
Oh and here’s the other clue…I don’t care if it looks like a rib stitch or a garter stitch in knit, because I DON’T KNIT! I CROCHET! I am feeling like a frustrated Kermit the Frog! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
It is polished, it works, and when I wear a garment noone can tell the difference anyway, because it just happens to look so good people just say, “Ooooh that’s so pretty! I didn’t know you could CROCHET ribbing!” Or Cables…Or Entreloc or any of the other goodies…cause I can and do.
/rant
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Posted by camanomade on March 2, 2009
Well, It’s National Crochet Month my friends! And on Ravelry.com we celebrate it in fine style! Kaet (aka Kate Torode) runs a fabulous freeform game, and our first assignment was “A is for Apple”…
This is what I came up with…now B is for blossom…which is funny because I almost did apple blossoms for the A is for Apple LOL…a well…after I get some sleep, and some new inspirations I’ll figure out what I shall do for B is for Blossoms…
Stay Tuned…I’m going to be a good girl and crochet the whole game through March! Wanna join in? You don’t have to be experienced, we do this for all levels of crocheters It’s fun, a great way to experiment, and we are very encouraging!
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