BS: Crafter's strangest creations

Subject: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Sooz
Date: 20 May 06 - 01:43 PM

I have just completed a bizarre project with wool and it made me wonder what other stange items Mudcat Crafter's have been inspired to make.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: CarolC
Date: 20 May 06 - 02:28 PM

Very nicely done project, Sooz. But why the alimentary canal as opposed to, say... a scarf, for instance?

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Sooz
Date: 20 May 06 - 02:42 PM

It could be worn as a scarf - a bit long and thin (around 8m) but why not?!

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 May 06 - 02:58 PM

Alimentary my dear Watson!
G

I'll get me yarn.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Sorcha
Date: 20 May 06 - 03:19 PM

Page wouldn't let me out of it! Interesting, Sooz!

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: CarolC
Date: 20 May 06 - 03:28 PM

It could be worn as a scarf - a bit long and thin (around 8m) but why not?!

Yes... that's a good point. Or a boa. It would be a heck of an icebreaker at parties, that's for sure.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Leadfingers
Date: 20 May 06 - 03:44 PM

Didnt think Crafter had any REALLY strange creations , except their Guitar shaped Mando , which you can NOT get a hard case for !

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 May 06 - 12:04 PM

How clever and resourceful!

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 21 May 06 - 12:42 PM

Very unique, Sooz! And the purpose is...?
I love the idea that just about anything can be knitted!

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: MaineDog
Date: 21 May 06 - 12:48 PM

My wife recently knitted a hyperbolic plane to show her geometry class!
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Sooz
Date: 21 May 06 - 12:55 PM

There must be lots of equally strange creations out there.
This one certainly helped pupils to understand just how much guts it takes!

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 21 May 06 - 05:56 PM

Well, it's about the right length for the Doctors scarf, at least for Tom Baker anyway...

I don't have any really strange creations, excepting the lagerphone. Lots of somewhat strange things made from very unusual junk though.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Bert
Date: 21 May 06 - 05:58 PM

Oh I LOVE it.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Helen
Date: 21 May 06 - 06:10 PM

I crocheted some ice cream cones, including a "dairy whip", i.e. the soft ice cream that spirals up to a point. I also made a rather unique crocheted vest which was hung in the local wool shop window for a short time just after I made it. I'll hunt it out and photograph it, but I really can't remember where the ice cream cones are.

My sister made a crocheted nautilus shell, too. Very clever.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 21 May 06 - 06:24 PM

I've sent this link to a post-doc biologist friend who knits and who's about to start an assistant professor job. Inspiration, perhaps...

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: frogprince
Date: 21 May 06 - 07:58 PM

Yer crazy, Sooz; but what a delightful kinda crazy!

I guess this is my strangest project I've put them in little shadowbox frames now for an art show later in the summer.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: LilyFestre
Date: 21 May 06 - 08:24 PM

What a GREAT idea!!! I may have to follow your lead and tuck it away for an anatomy lesson....LOVE IT!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 May 06 - 12:22 PM

I once bought a knitted cactus for a friend... made with that fuzzy mohair wool, it looked most lifelike.

A birthday cake shaped like a basque, complete with boobies is I think the most bizarre thing I've ever made..... so far.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 May 06 - 12:32 PM

Then there's the willy I had to cross stitch for a friend's birthday card.......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 22 May 06 - 01:01 PM

Okaaaaayyyy...

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Kaleea
Date: 22 May 06 - 02:08 PM

I've been feeling the pinch of inflation quite a bit, so I was thinking my bext project would be putting the image of the Virgin Mary on my sliding glass door so I can take "donations" to let people see it. Anybody know which network gives the biggest "donation?"

(says Kaleea, tongue in cheek.)

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 May 06 - 12:05 PM

And the bagpipe shaped birthday cake for a couple of other friends... complete with tartan frill and pipes.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Sooz
Date: 23 May 06 - 02:38 PM

At least it was silent! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: MMario
Date: 23 May 06 - 02:54 PM

There is currently a group crocheting a coral reef.

http://theiff.org/exhibits/reef.html

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Sooz
Date: 23 May 06 - 03:01 PM

Wow - that is neither strange nor wierd. It is a work of art. I feel quite inspired.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 May 06 - 03:27 PM

Link

Hasn't anyone shown you how to make a blue clickie, MMario? (Great site!)

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: MMario
Date: 23 May 06 - 03:35 PM

it's 57 minutes before vacation. I din't feel like it.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: MaineDog
Date: 23 May 06 - 06:15 PM

LTS:
OUCH!
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Donuel
Date: 23 May 06 - 06:40 PM

Believe it or knot, some famous cosmologists found they could illustrate various hyper dimensional shapes by knitting them.

When asked what was my strangest creation I am swept into to a sensory overload whirlpool of sublime bizarre memories.

Maybe my devil's violin would tickle the funny bone for many here.
http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/devilish.html

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Grab
Date: 24 May 06 - 11:35 AM

On the knitting front, an email with these pics went round our place a little while back.

Knitting for psychos

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 May 06 - 12:21 PM

Whoa. Think twice about going away from the weekend retreat with those folks!

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Scoville
Date: 24 May 06 - 12:39 PM

The Sun Sets on Sunbonnet Sue was all the rage as a postcard among quilters a while back.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jun 06 - 05:29 AM

Here's another cakey creation... there was a queue when it came to cutting time...

Manitas' birthday cake.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Jun 06 - 09:13 AM

looks delicious! but why call it a strange creation - it's a perfectly normal musical instrument made of icing.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Alice
Date: 26 Jun 06 - 09:18 AM

Strange crafts that came to mind were my mother's in the 1960's. She went through a craft phase that included gluing macaroni/pasta shapes onto cigar boxes and spray painting them metallic colors - like copper and silver. yeeech. The worst that she and her friends did were coat hangers and plastic dry-cleaning bag bits folded and threaded onto the coat hangers and assembled into.... POODLES. Life sized miniature poodles made of dry-cleaner bag plastic bits.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: frogprince
Date: 26 Jun 06 - 02:28 PM

So what's the difference between a melodeon and a button accordian?

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jun 06 - 04:21 PM

Button accordion takes more icing.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Jun 06 - 06:33 PM

God Alice...I remember those things! And Xmas trees made from Readers Digests or other paperback books!

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Alice
Date: 26 Jun 06 - 06:38 PM

Sorcha, I think it was an epidemic of craft things that hit both Montana and Wyoming in the 60's! Probably affected Idaho and the Dakotas, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 26 Jun 06 - 10:48 PM

Sorcha/Alice

The craze is still around, but with the numerous "craft shops" now people buy the patterns - at extravagent prices, then buy all the parts - also at outrageous prices but preshaped and often mostly assembled so they can get things just right, then assemble them according to detailed instructions written by a former Reichsmarshal who accepts NO ERRORS...


And then they feel creative.


Not too much different than "back then" but really not too "necessary" if you've got a brain (with some functional parts) and two reasonably good hands. A pocket knife sometimes helps, and of course an idea.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Sooz
Date: 27 Jun 06 - 02:40 AM

How true.
My daughter took me to a huge craft shop which had the most amazing range of products. When I said "What could we have done with all this when you were little?" the answer was "We'd probably have been a lot less creative". On reflection she is quite correct.
One of her best efforts was to turn one of those net bags that satsumas come in into a wig by knotting multicoloured wool into the mesh.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Jun 06 - 04:35 AM

I made an orange net wig once!!! It was a great success and was much admired. Some fool went and lost it on the last night of the production it was made for. I was not happy. I'd forgotten all about it until Sooz reminded me.. Then there were the coathanger and paper bag flippers for another costume.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: John Hardly
Date: 27 Jun 06 - 08:55 AM

Why would a cosmetologist care about hyper dimensional shapes?

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 27 Jun 06 - 12:14 PM

Another squeezebox cake.

Once a decade, or so, I do something creative.

Well, since having a child who requires Halloween costumes, I guess it's more frequent than that. :-)

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Alice
Date: 27 Jun 06 - 12:17 PM

Yes, I understand the craze is still around with SCRAPBOOKING conventions as well.... BUT those coat hanger and plastic drycleaner bag poodles are not what people craft these days!!

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jun 06 - 12:33 PM

Crocheted dolls for toilet paper covers!

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Sooz
Date: 27 Jun 06 - 02:37 PM

Yuk!

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's
From: Cuckoosuzie
Date: 28 Jun 06 - 02:48 PM

I recently made a Scotish Highland coustume for a Gordon setter dog, she came third in a dogs fancy dress competition.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 29 Jun 06 - 10:58 AM

Classic grafitti:    MY MOTHER MADE ME A HOMOSEXUAL!
Classic counter-grafitti: IF I GIVE HER THE WOOL, WILL SHE MAKE ONE FOR ME?

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Mo the caller
Date: 29 Jun 06 - 11:16 AM

Yes I was just remembering those dolls too, and crocheted poodles to put bottles of hand cream. I was recently given a crocheted chick with Cadbury' Creme Egg in it. I'd rather have that than the first item in this thread on the whole

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 08:03 AM

I notice that skeleton has a knot in it's stomache.

Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations
From: Sooz
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 05:30 AM

Where's that Mr Red? (The green lump is his gall bladder)