Extemporaneously Kate

Everything by the seat of my pants!

And a little bit on Crochet.

Posted by Kate on 7:14 PM
I did some crochet today and broke out the old wrist support.  :D  I finished a meshy grocery bag yesterday with cotton.  Today, after balling a shit ton of roaming yarn, I decided to do this pattern.
Party Wristlets

I did one and it ended up all floppy and lame.  Now i'm not some sort of total newb who can't read a pattern.  I'm not saying i'm a goddess with the hook either but a pattern that says "easy" should fall into the catagory of "piece of cake."  It came out....well...  you'll see



Seriously.  WTF?  I redid it three times and still it was baggy and lame.  I'm throwing it into my scrap bag to use for later.  But my cat is laying on it.  -_-
dawww, i can't be mad at her ^_^

Anyway, Cat-ro aside (that's her name....i dunno why), that freaking pattern!!  I dunno what happened with that crap but that pattern was lame.  I'm not too sure I want to do another pattern from that site.  I had wanted to give this one a shot but in black or dark purple and carry a sparkly bit of thin yarn with it but I dunno if i want to do the whole thing and have it turn out funky.
Aloha Top

We'll see.  In conclusion, here is one of our snakes.  My husband has some beefy mitts. :D

Yay snake!



Comments (9)


Blogger Ada
January 25, 2011 at 7:23 PM  

Maybe you can wear it as an armwarmer? lol

Also, cool snake! :D Is it really hard to take care of them?

Blogger focusing the lens
January 25, 2011 at 8:01 PM  

Yay snake, indeed! As for the pattern flub, I don't know what to say. I don't do much crochet, so I always mess up on patterns.

Maybe their calculations were just wrong?

Blogger Kate
January 25, 2011 at 9:26 PM  

I'm not sure. It was just disappointing.

Anonymous Anonymous
January 25, 2011 at 10:12 PM  

OMG your cat is so cute, and that snake is super badass looking! It sucks about the wristlets ): but you can make other super awesome stuff!

Blogger Kate
January 26, 2011 at 7:14 AM  

^_^ Thank you! She's a goofy cat. I decided to work with plarn for a bit after that wristlet fiasco. lol

Blogger Arcita
January 26, 2011 at 2:38 PM  

my mom was really into knitting for some time. she still kinda is. she also likes to make soap. maybe you could try that next? fight club style ;)

Blogger HSP
January 26, 2011 at 9:57 PM  

Shame the pattern didn't turn out too well! It'd be cool to see your attempts at the jumper but I imagine it'd be a bit time consuming to get right if you're not sure about it!

Your cat and snake are super cute btw!

Blogger Kate
January 27, 2011 at 3:01 PM  

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Blogger Kate
January 27, 2011 at 3:01 PM  

@arcita- well I definitely have enough fat to lipo out. Lol! in the words of Fat Bastard, "Everyone likes their own brand."

@HSP- Thanks! :D

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