What, you ask, is Crochet or Die?
It's a challenge I created to, well, challenge myself outside of my comfort crochet zone and force myself to try out something new. There are no hard and fast rules, just that the project should be challenging.
My second Crochet or Die challenge! But where is the first one? It's Pumpkin-pats' graduation dress, which I shelved for now.
I'll talk about the graduation dress on another post, but its challenges have to do with creating a dress without a pattern/designing a custom dress, using Irish crochet technique.
For this project, I'll be using a pattern from Keito Dama 137, the dress on page 9. The challenges entail:
1. Interpreting a Japanese pattern - from what I've seen around, Japanese patterns are dependent on diagrams/charts (yay!) using international standard for the symbols (double yay! Unlike Russian charts T_T); so it's not so much as learning a new technique or a new stitch as working blind on measurements, haha.
2. Get the entire thing done within 10 days. This is, in Ms Venus Raj's infamous words, the major, major problem. I figured out the guide to the gauge, and some of the Japanese characters but I am limited
Guys, I am on day three and I still don't have the top finished! I am the world's slowest crocheter. T_T
It's a challenge I created to, well, challenge myself outside of my comfort crochet zone and force myself to try out something new. There are no hard and fast rules, just that the project should be challenging.
My second Crochet or Die challenge! But where is the first one? It's Pumpkin-pats' graduation dress, which I shelved for now.
I'll talk about the graduation dress on another post, but its challenges have to do with creating a dress without a pattern/designing a custom dress, using Irish crochet technique.
For this project, I'll be using a pattern from Keito Dama 137, the dress on page 9. The challenges entail:
1. Interpreting a Japanese pattern - from what I've seen around, Japanese patterns are dependent on diagrams/charts (yay!) using international standard for the symbols (double yay! Unlike Russian charts T_T); so it's not so much as learning a new technique or a new stitch as working blind on measurements, haha.
2. Get the entire thing done within 10 days. This is, in Ms Venus Raj's infamous words, the major, major problem. I figured out the guide to the gauge, and some of the Japanese characters but I am limited
- with the dress having to be a particular color (yellow - thank goodness I decided to try out a new-to-me yarn shop and ordered a set in this color just before learning that I need a dress in that color)
- being stuck with using only that yarn
- by not having hooks smaller than 2.5 mm
Guys, I am on day three and I still don't have the top finished! I am the world's slowest crocheter. T_T
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