Gothic Lolita top
Originally uploaded by pdxWoman
Ok this is dang cute and funny! CLF Member PDXWoman made this fantastic Goth Dolly!
Check out her pattern notes on Ravelry.com…brilliant!
PDXWoman you are duly awarded the Kitscalicious award for making a heck of a fun Gothic Lolita doll, that my 14 yr and I both love!
(Well, and you’re from Portland, cause well, I grew up there and we all know it’s cool)
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Originally uploaded by laughingpurplegoldfish
CLF member Laughingpurple created this great recycled/repurposed bag using all manner of materials from fabric remenants to repurposed yarns…this is very very cool…and for that she is DULY AWARDED the Hookalicious Award for innovative crochet…
Rock on Laughingpurple!
You can see more of her fabulous work on her project page on Ravlery.com
Minions are numbers continue to swell! I’ve even had a few emails asking how to join our rowdy rank and file and so here is a message to all who wish to be in the cool crowd of the Crochet Liberation Front! (2010 members last I logged in!!! WHOOT! not bad for a joke, eh?)
If you are on Ravelry.com then look us up under Groups, CLF and Crochet Liberation Front will both work!
If you aren’t on Ravelry, then do it now go to http://www.ravelry.com and sign up for an invitation! It’s still in Beta testing and so they let on a few folks at a time so as not to overload the server etc…It’s worth it to get on! Companionship, community, folks with the same interest, different intersts, and project pages and amazing one on one contact with designers, publishers and afficionados like you and me who just LOVE what we do!!
Once you get onto Ravelry then find the Crochet Liberation Front under groups, hit the join button and come say howdy!!
I’ve got a lot of work to do on the website I know, and that too shall happen…when? When these two little hands can get to it…for right now all I have is keychains and buttons listed, but I will have t-shirts up and running soon…
Hook on! Live Long!
crochet dress
Originally uploaded by taevastkukkund
Wow if this doesn’t set our Picot Free, what does?
CLF Member Heidicrochet made this fantastic dress! It is GORGEOUS! I wish I had a figure that would look good in such things, but alas and ahem…tis not the case! But for those of you who have yet to be attacked by stretch marks and gravity, I wish you the ability to wear such a beautiful garment!
Heidicrochet you are duly awarded the Set My Picot Free award for a phenominal dress!
Pansy Garden
Originally uploaded by CaraDandelion
Ok I normally reserve the award for doll items etc to the Kitschalicious award cause well…you know it’s doll stuff…but I think this is a brilliant idea, lots of fun and totally Hookalicious!
CLF Member CaraDandelion made these cute little dolly purses, adapting a pattern called “Plain Pansy” by Suzann Thompson in the Crochet Bouquet Book.
These are so cute and sweet! I’m betting they work up pretty quickly too! What a fun little gift for the holidays or birthdays of those who love their dollies!
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Originally uploaded by beadygirl33
Toatlly Kitschalicious! As you know I am a sucker for crocheted food 
How much fun is this!
CLF Member Beady used a pattern called “Fresh Strawberries” By Beth Dougherty to make these deliciously fun fruits!
Congratulations Beady! You are duly awarded the Kitschalicious Award for funky and cool crochet!
Remember folks you want to go to http://www.ravelry.com and sign up for an invitation if you have not joined already! It’s free, it’s fun, and that’s where you can really get into the swing of things with the CLF HQ!
Ok all you lads and lasses who doesn’t like a good smack down?
Registration for the International Yarn Smack Down is open until July 31st, 2008 for one of the wackiest “death by” events in the whole wide planet!
Crocheters there are special events just for us!
Crochet Amigurumi (deliver death with a smile);
Crochet Stole;
Crochet Granny Square;
Crochet Hat
Who doesn’t love the idea of an international food fight where you can throw crocheted (and knit) toast at each other!! This is a mixed event of crochet and knit, and well it sounds like too much fun!
The organizer of this event has bent over backwards seeking how to be inclusive to our love of all that is hook-able! So throw her a bone (crocheted please) and sign up, represent the hook, and have fun!!!
For more information please check out the web page here:http://www.yarnsmackdown.com/
The Blog:http://www.yarnsmackdown.com/blog/
and if you still don’t have the information you want you can send them a message from here:http://www.yarnsmackdown.com/contact.html
So, how’s the book coming?
Very well thank you!
I took a bit of time off yesterday, which had less to do with needing a break and everything to do with two growing kids who have both spurted up in height in the past month, to the point where clothes were not fitting, and they needed new clothes! EGADS!
They are both closing in on me…what is a fearless leader to do…like all great Global Dominator’s I am short…Taller than Napoleon, and shorter than Attila the Hun.
All jokes aside, the book is shaping up beautifully. I had my cousin take a cursory look through the first two sections (second pair of eyes and all that, to catch formatting issues), and she who doesn’t crochet much (but sews often) was very very impressed with the quality and calibre of the patterns and articles. She liked the layout and design as well. Now, we could assume that because she’s family she’s biased…OK, let’s understand this, my cousin and I are like night and day (of the same 24 hours) as loose as I am, she is tight, as open as I am she can be closed, as devil may care as I can be, she is cautious. So, that is why I had her vet the book, if she likes it, it’s good. She would never lie to me, or try to make me feel better. Believe me, I’ve known her since before she was born!
I also had an older friend look at the book, she is primarily a knitter, though she does crochet (and rather well, just lacks the confidence). She’s an older woman, “pushing old” as my son would say, and she was totally enthusiastic about many of the patterns. Some of which got exclamations such as, “Oh my goodness, I never thought you could do that in crochet! Oooh that would be so much easier with a hook.”
“Oh my! That is a lovely pattern, look at those charts!”
and…”This book would be worth buying, even my old Scottish heart would approve of the expense.”
Yay! I love these testaments.
My cousin even gave me the slogan to put on the back of the book cover, “All the crochet patterns you’ve ever wanted, but just couldn’t find.”
And that my friends is the truth…
Dress and hat front-view
Originally uploaded by nanndee
This little outfit is toooooo sweet. I love little baby clothes. There is that time when kids are little that they look cute in anything, but when we make beautiful things they can look like cherubs!
CLF Member NannDee made this (and I believe designed it, but I could be wrong, I don’t see any pattern listed in her projects page on Ravelry.) ETA: NannDee did not design this, she said it’s a Leisure Arts pattern…HOWEVER, she has a Hookalicious hand and it doesn’t diminish the award in the least!
It is too darn cute, well made and well just sweet. It reminds me of the little dresses I used to buy for my daughter (yes, I crocheted but back then I was scared of garments).
NannDee, you are duly awarded with the Hookalicious Award for Beautiful Crochet!
snoods 008
Originally uploaded by thelittlewriter
Ok, first of all I like snoods because of how that word sounds…say it with me: sn ooooooo dah…Roll it around, play with the sounds…Snood is a cool word (yes, yes I am odd…but then you know that already) She added a few beads and used Priscilla Hewitts pattern: Chignon Net. You can find the link by going to thelittlewriter’s project page on Ravelry.
I think she did a lovely job. Snoods are a picot freeing event in and of themselves…
Thelittlewriter you are duly awayded the Set My Picot Free Award!
