Who exactly would wear this bright red thing on the front? Doesn't it look a bit like a doily of some kind? None of the other designs are particularly appealing either. This is the kind of stuff that gives crochet a bad name.
OMGosh...I just found your website and love it. Although I am an AVID crocheter and have been crocheting since I was 9....I know the difference between UGLY crochet and elegant crochet and I'll be the first to agree 100% with you...some things should NOT be crocheted!! Just this month my favorite crochet magazine featured crochet ties for men!! I would seriously have to re-think my marriage if I made one of those for my husband, I would seriously have to re-think my choice of husbands if my husband was to wear a crocheted tie!!! Thank you for the confirmation that discretion is indeed the better part of valor...especially when it comes to a beautiful needle art like crochet. ps> If you visit my web site, I think you will find my crochet "tasteful" (crossing fingers and closing eyes)
One or two of these almost kind of border on okay, but I agree... that red thing looks like a rather loud Christmas table cloth. And that blue necklace; it's a mess. You can plainly see that it's poorly made. Why would they publish that? Especially on the cover?
I like that "red thing" on the front, actually. I would love to make one of them, in fact. Obviously red was a poor color choice, but I think the design is quite lovely.
I was delighted NOT to find any of my patterns on your website, but then I realized that they weren't here probably because nobody had ever SEEN any of my patterns! I made quite a few submissions to Crochet! Magazine and I have a book, too - but all of them seem to have been lost in the void.
I don't know if I'm more pleased NOT to be here or insulted!!!??? Ginny Alvord-Clark
I think the bag is OK, and maybe the tank top, and the shruglike things might be OK though not great and shrugs are kind of overdone anyway. But the Christmas tree skirt poncho thing? Why would anyone want to wear that? I agree, these kinds of things give crochet a bad name!
Note to all knitters who see this: This is NOT what all crochet is like, and it's ugly because it's ugly, NOT because it's crocheted! (Because think about it, if you wanted to you could make a red thread **knitted** poinsettia poncho/Christmas tree skirt thingy, too, and it'd be just as unwearable!!)
I don't like ponchos in general, but if I *did* like ponchos, I think I would wear that one, provided it was in a different colour. Maybe white. It's just so WRONG in red.
OMG....I saw the name of the designer on the front and I realized that I used to know that girl! (Several years ago) I thought some of the stuff she was designing back then was pretty awful, but I never said so. Now I see a whole pamphlet of apparently HORRID work and I am sad to see her taste hasn't improved.
I like the necklace myself. It's all droopy and disheveled looking. I may make it in white and use it as part of a Miss Havisham costume at Halloween!
ReplyDeleteAnd THAT, my dears, is exactly why they aren't shown on living, breathing humanoids.
ReplyDeleteKinda puts the "MAN!!!" in mannequins, don't it?
It'd make a decent xmas tree skirt, as long as you covered it immediately with lots of wrapped presents.
ReplyDeleteI think the bag and necklace are lovely. The red poncho is so distracting, and looks more like a tree skirt...would be pretty for the holidays ;)
ReplyDeleteNot only is it a poncho, it's also blood red and BEADED!!!!!!! I shall say no more >>
ReplyDeleteMaybe if the doily poncho were in a different color... No, no. I take it back. That thing's only purpose should be as a Christmas tree skirt.
ReplyDeleteI do like the purse/bag! Could never wear the tree skirt thingy though!!
ReplyDeleteWould I wear the red thingee - never! And as for the other "items" ... meh ... this is the kind of stuff the recycle shops are full of.
ReplyDeleteOMGosh...I just found your website and love it. Although I am an AVID crocheter and have been crocheting since I was 9....I know the difference between UGLY crochet and elegant crochet and I'll be the first to agree 100% with you...some things should NOT be crocheted!! Just this month my favorite crochet magazine featured crochet ties for men!! I would seriously have to re-think my marriage if I made one of those for my husband, I would seriously have to re-think my choice of husbands if my husband was to wear a crocheted tie!!! Thank you for the confirmation that discretion is indeed the better part of valor...especially when it comes to a beautiful needle art like crochet.
ReplyDeleteps> If you visit my web site, I think you will find my crochet "tasteful" (crossing fingers and closing eyes)
Excellent. Stumbled onto your site by accident - now in my favourites list for definate.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant site - haven't laughed so much in ages.
I know! It says, "Bead as you go". It's not finished yet. You wear it and then when you have free moment, you whip out the needles and work on it.
ReplyDeleteOne or two of these almost kind of border on okay, but I agree... that red thing looks like a rather loud Christmas table cloth. And that blue necklace; it's a mess. You can plainly see that it's poorly made. Why would they publish that? Especially on the cover?
ReplyDeleteI like that "red thing" on the front, actually. I would love to make one of them, in fact. Obviously red was a poor color choice, but I think the design is quite lovely.
ReplyDeleteWhy would someone WANT to wear a Christmas table doily!? Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteI was delighted NOT to find any of my patterns on your website, but then I realized that they weren't here probably because nobody had ever SEEN any of my patterns! I made quite a few submissions to Crochet! Magazine and I have a book, too - but all of them seem to have been lost in the void.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I'm more pleased NOT to be here or insulted!!!???
Ginny Alvord-Clark
I think the bag is OK, and maybe the tank top, and the shruglike things might be OK though not great and shrugs are kind of overdone anyway. But the Christmas tree skirt poncho thing? Why would anyone want to wear that? I agree, these kinds of things give crochet a bad name!
ReplyDeleteNote to all knitters who see this: This is NOT what all crochet is like, and it's ugly because it's ugly, NOT because it's crocheted! (Because think about it, if you wanted to you could make a red thread **knitted** poinsettia poncho/Christmas tree skirt thingy, too, and it'd be just as unwearable!!)
I don't like ponchos in general, but if I *did* like ponchos, I think I would wear that one, provided it was in a different colour. Maybe white. It's just so WRONG in red.
ReplyDeleteOMG....I saw the name of the designer on the front and I realized that I used to know that girl! (Several years ago) I thought some of the stuff she was designing back then was pretty awful, but I never said so. Now I see a whole pamphlet of apparently HORRID work and I am sad to see her taste hasn't improved.
ReplyDeletethat poncho is so horrible
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