GUESTPOST BY Toca la pared
Due to my ‘ocassional’ fainting, I have not been able to go to school anymore. So I found myself alone with my grandmother with lots and lots of time. After I slept for a week (or two) it dawned on me that I should try to do something with my days. When I was younger, my grandmother already attempted to get me into knitting, but that did not catch on. Things have changed. I’m still as impatient as I was back then, but the moments that I’m desperately looking for something productive to do are way more frequent. So I picked the knitting back up, attempting to make something for myself. At first that resulted in a lot of frustration for both me and my grandmother. Luckily we’re both (ahum) stubborn, so in a few weeks the top I had been struggling on, got completed. Everyone tells me it looks smashing, so this was a good start.
One quirk Topo forgot to mention on her very incomplete list of “freaky little neurosis” is her obsession with hats. It’s not the first time we have to stop the car in the middle of traffic so she can rescue something out of the gutter ! I needed a new project and so when she asked me for a hat I bought the wool and got started:
Then I decided to do something else before the next knitting project : crochet! My first crochet pieces were two sorry potholders. No amount of ironing could get the poor things squared up. It was smart to start with two easy pieces. Ever since, I’ve been hooked on crochet and everything related. In stead of my flea market hunt for old clocks, I’m now picking up whole suitcases with abandoned yarn and shoeboxes full of buttons for next to nothing. My intended project list keeps getting longer. I love it when people ask me to make something for them, it means that they like what I do. Crochet gives me results very quickly so there’s no time to get bored. My hats still have a lot of flaws in them, but the more people tell me that they can’t see them, the more confident I get. I figured that I would just have to keep practicing and trying out new techniques in order to get better.
I started out with other people’s patterns, but now that I have found out how to make my own patterns (my own designs, not just something that turns out nice by accident), I like it even better. This baret is the first hat that was actually planned to look the way it does:
I'm cute on black
doll in-a wol
A couple days ago, I also started making dolls clothes for my niece. It’s all very amateurish, but I think she’ll enjoy it anyway.
I love to see other people with my hats. If you see Topo, P. or anyone else around me hiding underneath a special/weird/funny contraption then now you know where they got it from. I also have one for myself, plus the hats that haven’t found a head yet. Below you can see proof that people start acting real funny with their heads in my hats !
Heads in my hats
