crochet pumpkin gone mad - HELP!

[Tuckervill]

Can't wait to see the finished project!

Karen

[invsblwmn]

You ladies are a trip! I barely can sew a button back on much less make a pumpkin or anything else recognizeable with yarn. Very nice work!

[salsabike]

Hey, Red Rock, what you just said has me wondering--where in the instructions does it say to do double crochets? You don't mean the stitch "double crochet", right (which is different, and is longer, than a single)? You mean doing two singles as it says in the directions?

[mudmucker]

I don't crochet but I'm enjoying this thread. Pumpkins or lichens - they are both very lovely in their own way.

[Red Rock]

Hello All:

I am glad I am making your TE reading enjoyable.

I have continued with what I was doing and it has become a lichen WAY out of control. I am hoping that when I do just a single crochet in each "loop" it might mellow out. I will see...progress...half a skein forward only to tear it out and to start again 3-4 times later.

salsabike: To answer your question, I am only doing two (2) single srochets in one loop, not the double crochets.

I think part of the problem might be the size of the needle/hook that I am using. Again, I'll see when I am finished or have torn it out a few more times only to start again. I could see doing this with a larger hook. For me I think it would make it much easier. The directions say to use a G 6/4 hook.

Happy reading and cycling!

Red Rock

PS: my husband now calls it the flower.

[salsabike]

Once you get to Row 3--and you may already be doing this--they want you to do ONE single into a single, then TWO singles into the next single, then ONE again into the next single, then TWO..etc. So you don't do two singles into the single below every single time, but every other time.

If you are already doing that part right, sorry! Hard to tell via posts...

[Red Rock]

Salsa:

That was the mistake I figured out from the video. I have been reading the instructions pretty carefully as well. I am using row markers so I know where "start" begins otherwise I would never remember especially the way it looks now. That is why I am waiting this one out a bit.

Red Rock

[salsabike]

Let it percolate for a bit and do a different one. And if it's any comfort, I've done the "whee, I've got it right---damn, I have to rip it out and start all over" thing more than once. More than twice, even.

[Tokie]

Oh my goodness - this is exactly why I never have wanted to crochet or knit. Carol!

[channlluv]

I thought the first one was a really pretty flower, but I'm just so impressed by CA's sample of it (and you had orange yarn handy, too!). How lovely.

My last attempt at crocheting was a hat for my daughter. I measured her head carefully, but it still turned out too small. It looked pretty, but man, it was one loooooooooong chain stitch. That's the only one I know how to do. Ha!

I look forward to seeing the finished pumpki-lichen.

Roxy

[salsabike]

Artists would say that RedRock has committed a happy accident and that she should remember this when she wants to make oysters, or flowers..

Check this out: http://www.theiff.org/reef/index.html

[Blueberry]

I'd love to know what she was doing too - I do some free-form crochet, and that would be lovely to add in (on) a piece It is lovely

I actually had a little bit of yarn left from the (knitted) felted pumpkin basket I made last year.

CA

[Pax]

You ladies are a trip! I barely can sew a button back on much less make a pumpkin or anything else recognizeable with yarn. Very nice work!

Right there with ya! I look closely at my sweaters sometimes and try to figure out how on earth they do that.

[Red Rock]

I love all of your assorted comments. They make my reading here entertaining too.

Yes, this might be a happy accident, but I still think it has potential. My pattern is looking like what it should be. They only problem is, it is not stuffable until further down the road so to speak. They do not tell you as you make an item that it might take on strage and bizzare shapes before reaching the final product.

Red Rock

[Brandi]

I hope we get to see a picture when you are done! This saga has me wanting to make one too. But I have never crocheted before! There are some great video's on utube for it though. There is one where a boy who is maybe 13 shows you how to make a hat! i couldn't believe it! He seemed like your every day average kid too. Like as soon as he was done showing you he would be out skate boarding with his buddies! Go figure!