Some post-Thanksgiving fug for anyone living in the USA. I really do appreciate the sentiment on this one but something about it is wrong, so very wrong. Can you pinpoint it?
They would be better made in single crochet, but I wouldn't even bother making any of these veggies. If every dollar and bargain store closes up suddenly, and 50's era were back in style, I still wouldn't make them.
I love this. I have a different version on my kitchen table now. I love to decorate for all holidays. What is wrong with this? I mean, I have hundreds, possibly thousands of pictures of things not to knit or crochet posted on my MSN Group, and the discussion is much older than this site. Please try again, as this in no way qualifies as fugly.
PS: Hey, Matt! Your taste is all in your mouth! Don't you have anything better to do than crochet lumpy yarn vegetables and stuff them in a floppy brown horn?
If this is to your taste, this blog ain't for you, man. This blog is for those who haven't gone BLIND.
You notice, there's always one person who just doesn't get it?? I'd like to do a study that would help me fill in the blank, "every xxth visitor to WNTC misses the point entirely". Any statistics majors out there?
I thought a cornucopia was a curved horn filled with grains, fruits and veggies. What happened to the curve? This looks like a brown witch's hat... yeah, that's it! And the witch melted into some sort of crocheted veggie spew! I mean stew! I think...
I know, I know! It's a cornucopia, but there's no corn!
I don't know which biblical passage has been selected, but I'm sure it must be, "Thou shalt crochet with cornucopious amounts of cheap acrylic and Spanish moss."
It's fantastic! Yet another way to waste yarn to make one more thing to take up space and collect dust while scaring away all my visitors! I'll have to make one for next year! If nothing else my cats will find it entertaining....
Good question, CombatGal. When I submitted it, I could not have imagined that anyone would like *this* one. Of course I've been amazed before, but this is one of the worst fugs I've ever seen. I mean, it's not merely ugly; it is, as TheFallingLeaf correctly pointed out, utterly useless. It's a total crap-fest.
And yet at least three people in this world liked it (the writer, the publisher, and Matt.)
All I can say about people who don't get this blog is that, in general, it's simply a case of the exact people WNTC is trying to police finding it and rebeling against our superior taste and wisdom.
"And yet at least three people in this world liked it (the writer, the publisher, and Matt.)"
Actually, we don't know about the first two. They may just have a low opinion about the taste of their customers. And just to make sure, they put a Bible in the picture with the sample-- then nobody would dare object lest they be accused of being un-American heretics, atheists or sumthin'....
Err, that's hideous. If it was a lot smaller, more stylised, yeah, I could sort of see the value of it... like as a doorbell decoration at an old people's home, something like that. But, uhm... still, it was cheap amusement for moi while I wait for my useless dialup to find my site (it's amazing what it can't find sometimes) so I can actually blog this. Yeah. :)
I saw this on Annies free patterns-if you can't sell it! Give it away. I have so many things, I actually like, listed for the making. that I think I'll leave this freebie for someone else to make. It was one of those one time only patterns that I didn't bother with. Though the thought of how easy it would be to make a crocheted Penis from the pattern did cross my mind. What could be more useless than that? No I don't plan on making one!
As for the "Where's Waldo" type question, in a sea of eye spinning horror...
Is that a brown hand grenade?
If nothing else, it should put to rest any wacky ideas of having a "home made Christmas" exchange when you proudly trot this beauty out at Thanksgiving, and award it to your most beloved in-law as a momento.
I have all understanding in making cornucopias as autumn harvest feast decoration, and crocheting vegetables etc. But THIS ONE IS U-G-L-Y!
I'd like to know the url for Matt's MSN group though... if he thinks this is nice, I'd like to see the "hundreds, possibly thousands of pictures of things not to knit or crochet"... Too bad he didn't give the url... :-(
People, I know why you would make something similar--this one's ugly--these are wonderful toys for little children while you're trying to stuff a turkey and bake pies and prepare for out of town guests!
Why would someone go to a site called "what not to crochet" looking for "cool patterns" to crochet? That just doesn't make sense to me. Do you go to Poisons-R-Us.com in search of a good cookie recipe? I'm just asking.
It truly amazes me how many people come to this site having clearly missed the point. We're not here to congratulate good designers, they'll get their congratulations elsewhere. We're here to snicker at the designers who made judgement errors, and then posted/published them for all to see (and snicker at).
and you won't get attacked here just for saying you disagree and like something, you may get some feedback if you are snotty and make it personal (just remember, you started it).
umm..... everything?
ReplyDeleteThe juxtaposition of a Christian Bible with a very Heathen symbol of plenty??
ReplyDeleteYou mean, apart the fact that's absolutely kitsch???
ReplyDeleteNo grapes?
ReplyDeleteNo eyes on the veggies?
ReplyDeleteThe use of real and fake veggies together?
ReplyDeleteThe fact that it looks like a vomiting sandworm from Dune?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a badly crocheted episode of "VeggieTales", with the vegetables all reading from their Bible?
ReplyDeleteI know, I know! It's the fact that the crocheted squash look like... well... *ahem*.
ReplyDeleteeverything looks phallic? or the fact that its all the same veggie just in different colors?
ReplyDeleteThe idea that anyone in thier right mind would want "plenty" of oddly shaped crocheted vegetables in thier house?
ReplyDeleteOr the fact that it's fug! Yeah that's it!
It's upside down and there is a bright red breast prosthesis in it.
ReplyDeleteThey would be better made in single crochet, but I wouldn't even bother making any of these veggies. If every dollar and bargain store closes up suddenly, and 50's era were back in style, I still wouldn't make them.
ReplyDeleteI love this. I have a different version on my kitchen table now. I love to decorate for all holidays. What is wrong with this? I mean, I have hundreds, possibly thousands of pictures of things not to knit or crochet posted on my MSN Group, and the discussion is much older than this site. Please try again, as this in no way qualifies as fugly.
ReplyDeleteWoohoo! I'm glad you all hate it as much as I did. I saw this and instantly said to myself, "Self, this is one for WNTC."
ReplyDeleteGlad to see WNTC and you all agreed. This just makes me sick. America should rise up, as one, against this horrible fug.
PS: Hey, Matt! Your taste is all in your mouth! Don't you have anything better to do than crochet lumpy yarn vegetables and stuff them in a floppy brown horn?
ReplyDeleteIf this is to your taste, this blog ain't for you, man. This blog is for those who haven't gone BLIND.
You notice, there's always one person who just doesn't get it?? I'd like to do a study that would help me fill in the blank, "every xxth visitor to WNTC misses the point entirely". Any statistics majors out there?
ReplyDeleteThee dost think the squash looketh like a buttplug.
ReplyDeleteI thought a cornucopia was a curved horn filled with grains, fruits and veggies. What happened to the curve? This looks like a brown witch's hat... yeah, that's it! And the witch melted into some sort of crocheted veggie spew! I mean stew! I think...
ReplyDeleteI know, I know! It's a cornucopia, but there's no corn!
ReplyDeleteI don't know which biblical passage has been selected, but I'm sure it must be, "Thou shalt crochet with cornucopious amounts of cheap acrylic and Spanish moss."
It's fantastic! Yet another way to waste yarn to make one more thing to take up space and collect dust while scaring away all my visitors! I'll have to make one for next year! If nothing else my cats will find it entertaining....
ReplyDeleteGood question, CombatGal. When I submitted it, I could not have imagined that anyone would like *this* one. Of course I've been amazed before, but this is one of the worst fugs I've ever seen. I mean, it's not merely ugly; it is, as TheFallingLeaf correctly pointed out, utterly useless. It's a total crap-fest.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet at least three people in this world liked it (the writer, the publisher, and Matt.)
All I can say about people who don't get this blog is that, in general, it's simply a case of the exact people WNTC is trying to police finding it and rebeling against our superior taste and wisdom.
>>And yet at least three people in this world liked it (the writer, the publisher, and Matt.)
ReplyDelete"And yet at least three people in this world liked it (the writer, the publisher, and Matt.)"
ReplyDeleteActually, we don't know about the first two. They may just have a low opinion about the taste of their customers. And just to make sure, they put a Bible in the picture with the sample-- then nobody would dare object lest they be accused of being un-American heretics, atheists or sumthin'....
Matt, I'm with you. The cornucopia is a little misshapen, but I like the idea, and these veggies won't rot.
ReplyDeleteErr, that's hideous. If it was a lot smaller, more stylised, yeah, I could sort of see the value of it... like as a doorbell decoration at an old people's home, something like that. But, uhm... still, it was cheap amusement for moi while I wait for my useless dialup to find my site (it's amazing what it can't find sometimes) so I can actually blog this. Yeah. :)
ReplyDeleteyou know what... i've probably seen worse thanksgiving fug on crochet pattern central
ReplyDeletethe turkey magnets are even more hideous!
You know, I really appericate people like Matt... they give us one more thing to blog about.
ReplyDeleteMatt and Lily, too, TheFallingLeaf.
ReplyDeleteOkay, have it your way, Kaytee... at least two people, then. Maybe four. ;)
I saw this on Annies free patterns-if you can't sell it! Give it away. I have so many things, I actually like, listed for the making. that I think I'll leave this freebie for someone else to make. It was one of those one time only patterns that I didn't bother with. Though the thought of how easy it would be to make a crocheted Penis from the pattern did cross my mind. What could be more useless than that? No I don't plan on making one!
ReplyDeleteAs for the "Where's Waldo" type question, in a sea of
ReplyDeleteeye spinning horror...
Is that a brown hand grenade?
If nothing else, it should put to rest any wacky ideas of
having a "home made Christmas" exchange when you
proudly trot this beauty out at Thanksgiving, and award it to
your most beloved in-law as a momento.
I have all understanding in making cornucopias as autumn harvest feast decoration, and crocheting vegetables etc.
ReplyDeleteBut THIS ONE IS U-G-L-Y!
I'd like to know the url for Matt's MSN group though... if he thinks this is nice, I'd like to see the "hundreds, possibly thousands of pictures of things not to knit or crochet"... Too bad he didn't give the url... :-(
it's so hideous, i can't take my eyes off it for too long... i'm afraid it will come after me as i sleep. the original yarn turd.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason Lorena Bobbit comes to mind when I look at that picture. HA ha, can anyone tell me why.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah thats what I want to decorate my house with this thanksgiving is a big bunch of crochet vegetables.
ReplyDeletewow what a bunch of winers... i found this blog looking for some cool patterns... instead i found a bunch of crazies!!
ReplyDeletePeople, I know why you would make something similar--this one's ugly--these are wonderful toys for little children while you're trying to stuff a turkey and bake pies and prepare for out of town guests!
ReplyDeleteWhy would someone go to a site called "what not to crochet" looking for "cool patterns" to crochet? That just doesn't make sense to me. Do you go to Poisons-R-Us.com in search of a good cookie recipe? I'm just asking.
ReplyDeleteIt truly amazes me how many people come to this site having clearly missed the point. We're not here to congratulate good designers, they'll get their congratulations elsewhere. We're here to snicker at the designers who made judgement errors, and then posted/published them for all to see (and snicker at).
and you won't get attacked here just for saying you disagree and like something, you may get some feedback if you are snotty and make it personal (just remember, you started it).