The problem is less the price and more the fact that I already have three times as much stuff as really fits in my room and I need to get rid of 90% of it since I intend to move across the Atlantic next year. :P
The handy thing about crocheting is that by and large you can work them in, but you have to be careful to hold them in place and get all the way to the end, and you have to keep tying off and ugh. And at one point I notice I'd skipped a stitch five rows back. I don't normally mind frogging, but this I had to work out two knows every row, and then I couldn't re-use the pieces of yarn because they were too short because of the missed stitch. Augh.
Heh, I have some godawful yarn that I think one of my aunts gave me or something. My mum asked for a camera case made of some of it (giant fat varigated rainbow held together with fuzzy mohair pinky-orange, it is a HIDEOUS combination) but it's so irritating working with fuzzy yarns that I gave up a couple rows in and made her one with some of the orange from the Jayne hat skeins instead.
The only think I know of at all like that is the chapter on dyeing and spinning your own yard in Reader's Digest's Back To Basics, an enormous book that for some reason we own two copies of and I have pored over since I was little. Well, and my Gnomes book, which I currently don't know where it is but also talks about dyes, though that's in context of people six inches tall. Heh. I wasn't really saying Ravelry was like what you asked, it just sparked off a oh hey Ravelry exists in my brain for some reason :P I have added you! I am Shiyiya basically everywhere, heh.
For some reason I am repeatedly typing Ralvelry. Wtf?
(I am also currently sewing a pillowcase back together after ripping the rather itchy lace off of it. After being an incredibly tomboyish child, I have bafflingly grown up to want to cook and knit and crochet and spin and garden and make clothes and learn to embroider. I don't even know. Lady Sandrilene fa Toren may have influenced the embroidery part.)
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Date: 2011-07-30 02:31 am (UTC)The handy thing about crocheting is that by and large you can work them in, but you have to be careful to hold them in place and get all the way to the end, and you have to keep tying off and ugh. And at one point I notice I'd skipped a stitch five rows back. I don't normally mind frogging, but this I had to work out two knows every row, and then I couldn't re-use the pieces of yarn because they were too short because of the missed stitch. Augh.
Heh, I have some godawful yarn that I think one of my aunts gave me or something. My mum asked for a camera case made of some of it (giant fat varigated rainbow held together with fuzzy mohair pinky-orange, it is a HIDEOUS combination) but it's so irritating working with fuzzy yarns that I gave up a couple rows in and made her one with some of the orange from the Jayne hat skeins instead.
The only think I know of at all like that is the chapter on dyeing and spinning your own yard in Reader's Digest's Back To Basics, an enormous book that for some reason we own two copies of and I have pored over since I was little. Well, and my Gnomes book, which I currently don't know where it is but also talks about dyes, though that's in context of people six inches tall. Heh. I wasn't really saying Ravelry was like what you asked, it just sparked off a oh hey Ravelry exists in my brain for some reason :P I have added you! I am Shiyiya basically everywhere, heh.
For some reason I am repeatedly typing Ralvelry. Wtf?
(I am also currently sewing a pillowcase back together after ripping the rather itchy lace off of it. After being an incredibly tomboyish child, I have bafflingly grown up to want to cook and knit and crochet and spin and garden and make clothes and learn to embroider. I don't even know. Lady Sandrilene fa Toren may have influenced the embroidery part.)