So I thought I was going to get to do more crochet and to review those two new books for today but life got in the way. Been busy going about; had lunch with friends, got my costume for Halloween, wrangled with a bank and with a pharmacy — so half up, half down, I’d say.

Also, I’m working on a crochet pattern that is a combination of crochet and quilting. Yeah, I like two crafts for old women. I think this makes me around 236 years old.

Last night as a palate cleanser, I did work on my ABSOLUTELY HYOOGE papercraft phoenix. Had to stop after a few hours cos I ran out of Loctite superglue. It’s coming along well; I can’t wait to get it finished so I can hang it over my bed. The real challenge will be keeping the cats from hunting it.

So I’ve come to you today with a few more papercraft links that some in the audience might find enjoyable. Yes, I do occasionally crochet, why do you ask? It’s just that in times of stress or when my free time goes missing and I can’t concentrate as much on my art, I tend towards other less serious crafts.

Now, with a bit less attitude, some papercraft links:
Green Sea Turtle — I love turtles.
The Gate of Sundown — isn’t this gorgeous?
Phoenix Hall — another beautiful temple.
Cloud Strife from Kingdom Hearts — wouldn’t mind making dolls of more of the KH characters.
Skelanimals Fox — A skellington fox. Pretty nifty!

No, I’m not cleaning out my bookmarks and posting random papercraft links. *shifty eyes* No, not at all!

More stuff tomorrow; hopefully I’ll have a quilt square ready for pictures and a pattern ready for posting over on my Page a Day main blog. I’ve got to drive an 80 mile round trip and pick up a neurotic cat for a week of fostering, so my mileage on all things will vary.

Tags: life, papercraft

I am a Gonzo Hooker.

It doesn’t mean what you think it means — I’m taking the word back.  I mean that I crochet, all out, balls to the wall, every waking minute that I can.  It means that I live, breathe, and die crochet.

It means that I’d rather be crocheting than almost anything else.  It means that every time I see an interesting object, character, idea — I want to work out how to make a crocheted version of it.  It means my hands itch everytime I don’t have a hook and yarn in them.  The second best thing to a crochet hook is a piece of paper and a pen — if I can’t be MAKING something, I can be writing down the directions on how to make it for someone else.

Being a gonzo hooker means I dream in yarn.  In my sleep I walk in a world where everything is crocheted — where rocks are comfortable cushions, where you cut grass to make fringe, and where automobile accidents result in nothing more serious than having to fluff back up your bumper.

There are castles on clouds in the sky, and they ravel themselves up from the skein in my hand.

Crochet can’t help but be gonzo… because with a $2 metal hook and a $2 skein of Red Heart Yarn, you can make the world different than it was 30 minutes ago.  Less than 5 dollars American spent (less than $3, if you remember where you put your LAST hook) you can change the universe.

You can make something NEW.  And on this tired old planet, new is of the good.

I have my other blog that I’m getting started at http://www.voxmortuum.net — that’s going to pretty much be strictly a free page a day of crochet patterns.  Here’s going to be everything else about being a gonzo hooker – where I go, how I feel, what I read, what I see and hear.

I can’t promise this blog will be totally work friendly — the name of the blog is probably the first flag.  *grins*  I may say things like sh!t and f*ck, and I’ll try to censor them for the tender sensibilities in the audience.

This won’t be your mother’s crochet.  These won’t be scarves or hats or afghans or baby booties or anything else silly — unless it rocks your face off.  I want to take crochet to a higher level, beyond a hobby to an artform.

I’ll be posting something here everyday, of varying worth and interest.  Just like life.

Tags: crochet, gonzo, life