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shark farts posted:Even if it was allowed and I did it, the people who bought finished ones from me might not be so happy if I turned around and then sold the pattern for significantly less. That's how it goes. I've seen lots of sellers who offer patterns for around $3 and the finished object for around $30.
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| # ? May 27, 2010 17:40 |
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| # ? May 21, 2013 03:04 |
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People pay more for convenience. I don't think anyone would object to a pdf costing much less than a handmade toy.
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| # ? May 27, 2010 22:38 |
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Oh hey I made this lobster! 
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| # ? May 30, 2010 22:49 |
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I heart that lobster. I made a huge amigurumi octopus from Lion Brand's pattern on their site. It turned out super cute:  Click here for the full 479x720 image. What are everyone's favorite bag patterns? I have a bunch of yarn to use up and my friends birthday was the 29th, so I need a pattern that will work up fast and be a decent sized shoulder bag.
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| # ? May 31, 2010 18:58 |
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I just wish I could finish a scarf! I've unraveled this same one like 10+ times now trying to get it to look right. When you guys were learning did you just go ahead and try to make things or did you spend hours practicing first?
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| # ? Jun 1, 2010 00:35 |
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I just went ahead and tried to make something. What's going wrong with the scarf? Is it just a sc or dc across thing, or is it a more complicated pattern?
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| # ? Jun 1, 2010 00:46 |
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I just made some washcloths (i.e. squares) at first, and then made an effort to learn a new stitch/technique with every new project I made, until I felt pretty comfortable diving into more complicated projects. The One Skein Scarf from the Stitch N Bitch crochet book was my first completed project once I figured out what the hell I was doing, and it was pretty easy to make.
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| # ? Jun 1, 2010 01:07 |
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Jayded posted:I just wish I could finish a scarf! I've unraveled this same one like 10+ times now trying to get it to look right. When you guys were learning did you just go ahead and try to make things or did you spend hours practicing first? I can never get anything right if I don't unravel it completely like 3 times. Must be a curse.
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| # ? Jun 1, 2010 02:38 |
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Jayded posted:I just wish I could finish a scarf! I've unraveled this same one like 10+ times now trying to get it to look right. When you guys were learning did you just go ahead and try to make things or did you spend hours practicing first? Keep in mind it might look kinda weird and make the yarn harder to work with if you're using previously worked yarn. I learned to knit before I learned crochet and for the beginning, there were little bits of yarn everywhere, a few rows here and a few rows there. It takes practice to get an even, regular tension. For knitting and crochet I first learned by doing a few rows of each, and then trying to make either a dishcloth or a scarf or an oven mitt (out of cheap acrylic yeah right). The first ones are always goofy looking until you get the hang of it. Practice on cheap stuff that you won't feel guilty throwing away.
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| # ? Jun 1, 2010 05:09 |
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Sweet As Sin posted:I can never get anything right if I don't unravel it completely like 3 times. Must be a curse. I still do this, only because I'm retarded and I often don't look at the pattern/directions close enough. You'd think I'd learn, but nooooo.
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| # ? Jun 1, 2010 07:01 |
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I usually have to unravel stuff 2 or 3 times when I'm following a pattern. When I'm making my own, I can spend hours and hours doing trial and error, unraveling and redoing until I croshit my fingers raw.  That's what I did yesterday. Worked on this: A new $3 pattern for my etsy! Going to be a fox. I'm excited. It took me forever to get the head shape right. I'm not sure if I'm wild about it - I feel like there's probably a better way to achieve the shape that I wanted - but it looks okay to me. It'll probably be done by tonight. I also have a nearly-finished Toothless pattern to share with you guys! Free, of course.
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| # ? Jun 1, 2010 16:12 |
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I wish I had known, sharkfarts! I have a Fox pattern that you could've taken a peek at and borrowed from. I have another entry in the WTF RAVELRY??? files: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/reusable-tampon yeah...
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| # ? Jun 1, 2010 17:00 |
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That tampon.  Actually, if it wouldn't be too much of a problem, I'd love to see! I don't think I'll re-do my fox or anything right now but it'd still be interesting to see how other people approached theirs.
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| # ? Jun 1, 2010 19:15 |
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Isis Q. Dylan posted:
I need to make this and carry it with me always. So that if it comes up in conversation that I use a Diva Cup I can pull out the homemade tampon and show people there's something worse. I've already dubbed it the crampon.
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| # ? Jun 2, 2010 03:52 |
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You know what's worse? people made them and use them. :[
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| # ? Jun 2, 2010 04:17 |
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The thing that gets me about those is that they cannot be that absorbent. I mean, at least with diva cups you only have to worry about it twice a day or so. I'd burn through the crocheted thing in like an hour on the second day.
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| # ? Jun 2, 2010 05:12 |
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Sex Hobbit posted:The thing that gets me about those is that they cannot be that absorbent. I mean, at least with diva cups you only have to worry about it twice a day or so. I'd burn through the crocheted thing in like an hour on the second day. I think it's for those women who have very light, easy periods with no cramping at all. Otherwise known as women I shall hunt down and destroy.
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| # ? Jun 2, 2010 06:46 |
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yarn fuzzies in the vajayjay 
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| # ? Jun 2, 2010 06:46 |
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You might as well just stick googly eyes on it and add a pompom at the end of the pull-string. If you're going to crochet something as ridiculous a reusable tampon you might as well go all the way before you cram it up your vag. Or you could make a series of them with little animal features and tails. I think I'm onto something you guys WE COULD BE RICH edit: Well there goes 10 minutes of my life   shark farts fucked around with this message at Jun 2, 2010 around 16:51 |
| # ? Jun 2, 2010 16:16 |
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That could make for an awkward ER visit. "Um, I have a couple of googly eyes stuck... up there".
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| # ? Jun 2, 2010 17:23 |
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That tampon is terrifying. Who thought that would even remotely be a good idea? All I can think of is someone trying to crochet a condom or something equally stupid. I've been working on a lot of non-disgusting things lately and I'd thought I'd share. I sell a lot of them at anime conventions because it makes some serious money and I get to nerd watch which is always entertaining. I have a lot more stuff to make before I go to the first one of the season though and I don't think I'll end up having nearly enough to sell.  Here's some of the more recent stuff I've done.A Drama Llama  Click here for the full 1000x458 image. And a lovesaurus  Click here for the full 1000x456 image. I love the lobster and so much of the stuff in this thread. It's really inspiring when I don't feel like working on anything anymore.
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| # ? Jun 2, 2010 17:35 |
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Hey, I know you! You're cirqueducrochet  I just saw that llama in my deviantwatch messages. So cute!
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| # ? Jun 2, 2010 18:24 |
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Would anyone be interested in some kind of crochet thread xmas in july gift exchange thing?
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| # ? Jun 2, 2010 18:33 |
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Isis Q. Dylan posted:Would anyone be interested in some kind of crochet thread xmas in july gift exchange thing? I would be all over that.
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| # ? Jun 2, 2010 20:47 |
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I don't mind organizing one, but we'd need to lay some ground rules about price range, and how we'll deal with people getting shafted. (it always seems to happen) I'm thinking a $15-$20 price range is good and people could just email me a list of crafty type things they like/need? In other news, I have a question about a pattern in the book Amigurumi Super Happy Crochet Cute by Elisabeth A Doherty. I'm making the fawn and some of her wording is throwing me off. Instead of saying "inc, sc in next x stitches" she says "Inc 3sc evenly around". I am operating under the impression that that means that I work a sc increase (2 stitches in one stitch) 3 times, spaced evenly. This made my work match up with the total number of stitches that should be in the round. I've come to a point where the math doesn't add up. For rnd 7, the instructions are "Inc 6sc evenly spaced (24)" I increased every 3rd stitch. The rnd 8 says "Inc 3sc evenly spaced (27)" I increased every 8th st. This ended up with 27 stitches around, like the pattern says. Rnd 9 is just a row of sc worked evenly. For rnds 10-19 it says to repeat rnd 8 and 9, resulting in 42 sc around in rows 18 and 19. If I followed my pattern of evenly spacing the increases 3 times around, that would make Rnd 10 with an increase every 9th st, resulting in 30sc. 11 is worked even. Rnd 12 would be an inc every 10th st, which would result in 36 stitches. Rnd 13 is worked even. Rnd 14 would have an increase every 11th stitch and would result in 43 stitches. How am I supposed to Inc 3sc evenly spaced every other rnd and end up with 42 after 8 rounds? I'm going to try and email the writer, but there's sort of a time limit on this stuff.
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| # ? Jun 2, 2010 21:22 |
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Hmm, I went and looked at the book myself and I'm reading the pattern you're talking about. Rounds 10-19 should be 10 rounds, not 8, so you alternate between an increasing round and an evenly SCed round. So starting at round 10, it would be: 10: 30 stitches 11: SC 30 even 12: 33 stitches 13: SC 33 even 14: 36 stitches 15: SC 36 even 16: 39 stitches 17: SC 39 even 18: 42 stitches 19: SC 42 even So I'm not sure what's going on to make you have 36 stitches by rnd 12. Your math and the number of stitches between each increase seems correct but it looks like somewhere along the line you started adding 6 stitches to each increase rnd instead of 3. It might just be better to rip out back to rnd 10 and start again from there.Elisabeth Doherty's patterns are really cute and I know she is a rockstar crocheter and everything but the main complaint I hear about her book is that the instructions aren't the friendliest, and I tend to agree. I know most good crocheters/competent people should know how many stitches should be between increases when you want to increase evenly but I suck at math and I hate that poo poo  I mean instead of just saying "inc 6 evenly" it's a lot less work for the person following the pattern if you just say:Rnd 1: (SC 1, inc 1) 6 times around Rnd 2: SC 1, inc 1, (SC 2, inc 1) 4 times around, inc 1, SC 1. It SEEMS more confusing but it's just the simple little math equation of, when in an even row (like SC 4, inc 1) you simply do this: x/2 number of sts, (make 2 sc into next st, x number of sts) repeat 4 times, make 2 sc into next st, x/2 number of sts. (from here).
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| # ? Jun 2, 2010 23:29 |
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yeah I don't know how I was getting that either. I think my brain was trying to sabotage me for trying to make it do math in the first place.
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| # ? Jun 2, 2010 23:38 |
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I'll ask here too! Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran color 300302 (Smoked Gray). I need 1-2 skeins. It is a discontinued color. I will pay or trade for it because man I want to make a shrug. I can't crochet but maybe someone (hope against hope) has some I could buy. I really want to make a shrug from this soft loveliness. Thanks for reading either way.
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| # ? Jun 3, 2010 00:18 |
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Dearest SharkFarts, I cannot make your kitty pattern for the life of me. I do great until the decreases after the little tummy, they end up on his side, instead of in the middle above the tummy. I've tried it 3 times, and I have the same problem every time, any clue as to what I'm doing wrong? All my counts are good.... Help!
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| # ? Jun 3, 2010 01:36 |
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It sounds like you must be beginning your round off-center or somewhere else entirely. Once I merge the legs and SC around once to make sure they're secure, I mark the beginning of my rounds in the direct-center of the back, so that way the decreases end up directly in the front, which create the shape of his belly.  If you want I can send you some pictures! I'm sorry that you're having trouble!
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| # ? Jun 3, 2010 01:52 |
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shark farts posted:It sounds like you must be beginning your round off-center or somewhere else entirely. Once I merge the legs and SC around once to make sure they're secure, I mark the beginning of my rounds in the direct-center of the back, so that way the decreases end up directly in the front, which create the shape of his belly. Maybe that is my problem, I noticed that my starting point moved slightly to the....left right after I did his belly, maybe I'm just missing my mark somewhere. I'll give it another try, tomorrow is my day off. Maybe the kitty just doesn't wanna be baby pink, I'll try a different color. Edit: Okay, I think where I'm having the most problem is where you say on the second leg, to fasten off your stitches but not cut the yarn, I don't know how to do that. The way I have always fastened off is slip st in the next stitch, then cut the yarn and pull the tail through the stitch to seal, is there another way? Also, I'm a little drugged up on Benadryl, so if that didn't make sense please let me know and I'll try to reword it... CureMinorWounds fucked around with this message at Jun 3, 2010 around 02:05 |
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Hmm, that might be my mistake then. I'm not sure what the hell I was thinking when I wrote that. Here is my picture-by-picture guide, I just screencapped it out of the pattern from my etsy:  So yeah, basically, you don't even need to fasten off when you finish the second leg. Just take your hook off the loop and pull it through both legs like in the picture, then complete the SC. To do this you'll just need to end that round and drop the loop in the inside-middle of the leg so it's in the right place to pull it through. If, for some reason, your round ends on the outside of the leg or something, just slip stitch to the middle. I'm really sorry that you had trouble! I hope this helps. If you still have problems feel free to ask. I feel pretty  right now.
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| # ? Jun 3, 2010 02:24 |
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Not to totally shrug off the problem she ran into, but don't feel too bad. We knew we were testing the beta pattern, so to speak. That screenshot from the PDF looks AMAZING. I wish everyone would put that much detail into patterns. So is it just one person interested in a crochet thread gift swap?
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| # ? Jun 3, 2010 03:54 |
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I would certainly be interested! I just kept forgetting to say so. Derp. Also thanks! I'm almost done with my fox pattern but I redid the head so many times that I just ended up forgetting to take pictures :I So either I'll upload the pattern sooner with less progress shots, or wait for a while and make another so I'll have pictures. Not sure what I want to do yet. Edit: Finished fox's head. I wish I'd been done with the whole pattern yesterday but I went back and re-did the muzzle to have a (hopefully) better shape instead of just an oval. Now that I look at it, I can't tell if it looks good with the little 'bump' on the top of the muzzle or if it'd look better if it just wasn't there at all. Why do photos make everything look so much worse Every little imperfection is so much more obvious! It'll be better when I make some more. 
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Isis Q. Dylan posted:So is it just one person interested in a crochet thread gift swap? I'm interested too!
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| # ? Jun 3, 2010 04:33 |
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Isis Q. Dylan posted:So is it just one person interested in a crochet thread gift swap? I would love to but it depends on the timing/size of thing to swap (and if people are prepared to do international, ofc!). Baby's due in less than two weeks so I'd be able to manage something like an ami but I'd hate to let anyone down if you were thinking of more than that.
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| # ? Jun 3, 2010 08:43 |
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shark farts posted:Hmm, that might be my mistake then. I'm not sure what the hell I was thinking when I wrote that. Here is my picture-by-picture guide, I just screencapped it out of the pattern from my etsy: I think I've just been being a tard, I wasn't joining them together like that, I was doing something stupid and complicated. I think I'll get it today, since I'm not being forced to take Benadryl for a stupid food allergy. drat my love of honey! Edit: Holy poo poo Sharkfarts, that is the cutest fox face I've ever seen, I really like his little shaped muzzle! CureMinorWounds fucked around with this message at Jun 3, 2010 around 16:22 |
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I was thinking that it'd be entirely up to everyone. At first I thought we'd get each other craft friendly gifts, like nice yarn or a how-to book. Making things for each other sounds much better though. Then again, if pressed for time or whatever, you could send yarn or patterns (pdfs are readily available on etsy and don't cost anything to ship!). Right now I'm thinking folks could just email me their info and what kind of crafty thing they'd prefer. (i.e. clothing instead of amigurumi or vice versa)
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| # ? Jun 3, 2010 16:19 |
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I think it'd be fun to do a swap, I'm always making little silly things. Edit: In fact, I have a crochet salami sandwich that I would love to send somebody. CureMinorWounds fucked around with this message at Jun 3, 2010 around 16:42 |
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You should post a picture of the bologna sandwich. shark farts I like the muzzle! I've never seen attention to details like that in amigurumi besides Elisabeth Doherty's stuff. Ok, so everyone who wants to do the gift swap, email me at isisfordylan at gmail dot com. Include your name, forums name, email address, address, and stuff you like to crochet/would like to get. I'll wait until next Weds and then get everyone paired up. How does end of July sound for a deadline to get your stuff mailed to your recipients?
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