I really need to get a lid on the laugh riot this place has been over the last couple of days. So, some very serious images.
I mean, look! Fruit wears crochet now!
Disturbing.
Dinosaurs are made of crochet now!
Worrisome.
Frida Kahlo comes in bras now! Look at the furry unibrow trim!
Mind-blowing.
I mean, some deeply deeply serious shizzle.
I can’t read about Frida Kahlo without thinking of her bus accident (I can’t remember if she was a Super Quiz subject for Academic Decathlon in high school, or if we just studied her in English class, but I associate her with my soph and senior English teacher, who was also my AcDec sponsor). Very sad subject.
That… bra… Right now I’m freaking out like your gay friends from Boheme. Is that garland? Are the cups stitched up from leftover Christmas Elf fabrics? What’s with the fringe – wouldn’t that just itch like hell? There are WINGS. And there are MONKEYS on the wings.
THE MONKEYS.
THE HORROR.
I’m going to have nightmares about that bra.
Just think, Dave would’ve been even more horrified had his mom left THAT bra in the guest bed. . .
The apple-cozy is actually knitted. No letting crochet have the credit, if you can call it that, where it’s not due.
I knit a lot and like to experiment. Right now, I’m making a baby jacket from a ’40’s pattern and then I’m going to re-work it in a trendier yarn.
But I’ve never sunk to making sweaters for fruit.
It’s the monkeys- the whole thing is a symphony of terror.
Well, I was gonna go all pedantic and tell you the apple-cardigan was actually KNITTED, not crocheted (not that crochet doesn’t get its own share of horrors), but Sal beat me to it.
That said, I don’t find the little apple-sweater all that horrible. Kind of silly, kind of useless – but not horrible. And I think the dinosaur skull, in the right setting, would be kinda cool.
But for the third thing….
“Frida Kahlo is back – in bra form!”
Seriously? That is one of the more disturbing things I’ve seen lately. Is it intended to be worn or merely hung on the wall? Because if I had that up in my bedroom, I’d be having some serious nightmares.
Maybe it’s the ultimate chastity belt. I know I wouldn’t try to go any farther.
ricki and Sal — You can tell I neither knit nor crochet. Oops! My apologies.
NF — /the ultimate chastity belt./
Hahahahahaha!
Guess what I’m getting your fiancee for a shower gift??
“Not tonight, dear–Aunt Frida is visiting!”
Ricki-
according to the Yarn Harlot, and I concur, crochet perpetrates its ghastliness b/c it’s so FAST. You don’t have time to think it through – you’ve already finished the Santa toilet seat cover and matching Elf TP holder before their utter awfulness dawns on you.
I’m kind of a knitting puritan – everything must be useful. But Granny Smith’s cozy is very cute, in a whimsical kinda way.
“Aunt Frida is visiting!” BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Tracey, don’t get no ideas.
Haha. I am the artist behind the crochet dino skull. To the knitting purists here, I am also a knitter. Like you say, crochet CAN be quicker but is not always so. Exhibit A- dino skull. Major planning went into that. Plus crochet, to me, lends itself much better to sculptural forms that must stand on their own (produces a thicker fabric and all). So, uh, there.