Crochet away...

Wooden dolls.. 

Every little helps... - Tesco.

Vintage myth - Costs the earth to buy.

WHAT A WEEK!! This past week has flown by but sadly not much has happened apart from the obvious crochet which is still flowing. Who actually reads my blog? This has taken my curious mind into wonders this week. If your reading my blog right now, thank you so very much my dear reader chums and I am delighted to share your company on this fine day or maybe it's your evening. Whatever it is thank you for taking the time to read about the nonsense that I lay before you.Thank you sir and thank you to you please as I am going to enlighten you upon my doings over the past week. If you haven't read the rest of my blog post then RUDE! Get to it immediately. Go on. I am joking I am. This week has been purely about crochet and research. What could be the reason that Haute Couture would die?  To pass the time whilst doing Crochet I have been watching a couple of films, they have made me weep, teaches me for watching sad films. Reasoning behind the wooden dolls picture? I will tell you for why... I am making mock ups for the final piece and I have been using the wooden dolls to model my samples on.

This was my first attempt at making a crochet dress and has been constructed purely for experimental purposes and the main reason behind the construction is to get to grips with the idea of joining threads together to form another material. I invented my own stitch which was quad-crochet which was triple + double which formed a longer chain, it takes longer but is rewarded as it produces results quicker. Using a small doll enables me to produce a piece that fits a lot quicker than if I produced a life size piece. It doesn't fit it particularity well as I had never measured it against the doll first hence the cocktail stick in the back. If I was to produce it again then I would message the waist against the crochet. Overall I was very content with my first attempt at producing a crochet skirt. Would I do it on a big scale? Maybe not as it would require a massive crochet hook to get something of that scale to work and would require multiple crochet. I may  go onto attempt 10x crochet to produce a long piece.

This is my second attempt at a crochet skirt and this time I measured it against the dolls waist but I had to make it slightly wider to fit over the hips of the doll or it would never of fitted because there is no elastic or pull on the centre of the skirt so making it wider than the waist enabled me to get it on easier. I did a gradual retention starting with Quad to triple to single, double and then a single crochet to form a frill at the bottom. I love the graduated effect as it creates an elegant silhouette and shows the different knots within the crochet handbook. Doing this has enabled me to see how they work together with the use of different ways to crochet. Overall I am pleased with the way it has turned out and will progress my work by creating further pieces of crochet. This piece was done on a bigger wooden doll to enable me to create the bigger skirt. Doing these smaller experimental pieces has enabled me to see how long it takes to make them before I would consider making bigger pieces and has enabled me to at thicker and thinner wools. The thinner wools on bigger needles create a loose crochet which I find hard as you have to keep the tension high in your hand but on the needle it has to be loose so becomes an almost contridiction and your hands and mind get confused because your doing one thing but are supposed to be doing another. It's like having a hot drink on a hot day. You do it because your supposed to but your mind tells you otherwise. (Maybe not the best analogy.)