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20 May 06 - 01:43 PM (#1744528) Subject: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Sooz 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. |
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20 May 06 - 02:28 PM (#1744568) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: CarolC Very nicely done project, Sooz. But why the alimentary canal as opposed to, say... a scarf, for instance? |
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20 May 06 - 02:42 PM (#1744575) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Sooz It could be worn as a scarf - a bit long and thin (around 8m) but why not?! |
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20 May 06 - 02:58 PM (#1744585) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: John MacKenzie Alimentary my dear Watson! G I'll get me yarn. |
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20 May 06 - 03:19 PM (#1744601) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Sorcha Page wouldn't let me out of it! Interesting, Sooz! |
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20 May 06 - 03:28 PM (#1744607) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: CarolC 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. |
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20 May 06 - 03:44 PM (#1744613) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Leadfingers Didnt think Crafter had any REALLY strange creations , except their Guitar shaped Mando , which you can NOT get a hard case for ! |
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21 May 06 - 12:04 PM (#1744700) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Stilly River Sage How clever and resourceful! |
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21 May 06 - 12:42 PM (#1744737) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Very unique, Sooz! And the purpose is...? I love the idea that just about anything can be knitted! |
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21 May 06 - 12:48 PM (#1744739) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: MaineDog My wife recently knitted a hyperbolic plane to show her geometry class! MD |
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21 May 06 - 12:55 PM (#1744743) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Sooz There must be lots of equally strange creations out there. This one certainly helped pupils to understand just how much guts it takes! |
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21 May 06 - 05:56 PM (#1744937) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Bunnahabhain 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. |
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21 May 06 - 05:58 PM (#1744939) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Bert Oh I LOVE it. |
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21 May 06 - 06:10 PM (#1744950) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Helen 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 |
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21 May 06 - 06:24 PM (#1744965) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Desert Dancer 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... |
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21 May 06 - 07:58 PM (#1745016) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: frogprince 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. |
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21 May 06 - 08:24 PM (#1745037) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: LilyFestre What a GREAT idea!!! I may have to follow your lead and tuck it away for an anatomy lesson....LOVE IT! Michelle |
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22 May 06 - 12:22 PM (#1745449) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Liz the Squeak 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 |
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22 May 06 - 12:32 PM (#1745459) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Liz the Squeak Then there's the willy I had to cross stitch for a friend's birthday card....... LTS |
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22 May 06 - 01:01 PM (#1745485) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: GUEST,Mrr Okaaaaayyyy... |
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22 May 06 - 02:08 PM (#1745535) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Kaleea 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.) |
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23 May 06 - 12:05 PM (#1746073) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Liz the Squeak And the bagpipe shaped birthday cake for a couple of other friends... complete with tartan frill and pipes. LTS |
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23 May 06 - 02:38 PM (#1746118) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Sooz At least it was silent! LOL |
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23 May 06 - 02:54 PM (#1746136) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: MMario There is currently a group crocheting a coral reef. http://theiff.org/exhibits/reef.html |
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23 May 06 - 03:01 PM (#1746140) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Sooz Wow - that is neither strange nor wierd. It is a work of art. I feel quite inspired. |
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23 May 06 - 03:27 PM (#1746164) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Stilly River Sage Link Hasn't anyone shown you how to make a blue clickie, MMario? (Great site!) |
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23 May 06 - 03:35 PM (#1746178) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: MMario it's 57 minutes before vacation. I din't feel like it. |
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23 May 06 - 06:15 PM (#1746258) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: MaineDog LTS: OUCH! MD |
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23 May 06 - 06:40 PM (#1746268) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Donuel 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 |
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24 May 06 - 11:35 AM (#1746558) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Grab On the knitting front, an email with these pics went round our place a little while back. Knitting for psychos Graham. |
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24 May 06 - 12:21 PM (#1746591) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Stilly River Sage Whoa. Think twice about going away from the weekend retreat with those folks! |
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24 May 06 - 12:39 PM (#1746608) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Scoville The Sun Sets on Sunbonnet Sue was all the rage as a postcard among quilters a while back. |
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26 Jun 06 - 05:29 AM (#1769174) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Liz the Squeak Here's another cakey creation... there was a queue when it came to cutting time... Manitas' birthday cake. |
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26 Jun 06 - 09:13 AM (#1769282) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Sandra in Sydney looks delicious! but why call it a strange creation - it's a perfectly normal musical instrument made of icing. |
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26 Jun 06 - 09:18 AM (#1769285) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Alice 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. |
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26 Jun 06 - 02:28 PM (#1769504) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: frogprince So what's the difference between a melodeon and a button accordian? |
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26 Jun 06 - 04:21 PM (#1769554) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Liz the Squeak Button accordion takes more icing. LTS |
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26 Jun 06 - 06:33 PM (#1769636) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Sorcha God Alice...I remember those things! And Xmas trees made from Readers Digests or other paperback books! |
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26 Jun 06 - 06:38 PM (#1769641) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Alice 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. |
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26 Jun 06 - 10:48 PM (#1769898) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: JohnInKansas 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 |
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27 Jun 06 - 02:40 AM (#1769949) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Sooz 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. |
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27 Jun 06 - 04:35 AM (#1769984) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Liz the Squeak 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 |
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27 Jun 06 - 08:55 AM (#1770096) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: John Hardly Why would a cosmetologist care about hyper dimensional shapes? |
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27 Jun 06 - 12:14 PM (#1770285) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Desert Dancer 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 |
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27 Jun 06 - 12:17 PM (#1770287) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Alice 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!! |
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27 Jun 06 - 12:33 PM (#1770296) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Sorcha Crocheted dolls for toilet paper covers! |
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27 Jun 06 - 02:37 PM (#1770427) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Sooz Yuk! |
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28 Jun 06 - 02:48 PM (#1771353) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's From: Cuckoosuzie I recently made a Scotish Highland coustume for a Gordon setter dog, she came third in a dogs fancy dress competition. |
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29 Jun 06 - 10:58 AM (#1772022) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: dick greenhaus Classic grafitti: MY MOTHER MADE ME A HOMOSEXUAL! Classic counter-grafitti: IF I GIVE HER THE WOOL, WILL SHE MAKE ONE FOR ME? |
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29 Jun 06 - 11:16 AM (#1772035) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Mo the caller 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 |
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30 Jun 06 - 08:03 AM (#1772642) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Mr Red I notice that skeleton has a knot in it's stomache. |
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01 Jul 06 - 05:30 AM (#1773346) Subject: RE: BS: Crafter's strangest creations From: Sooz Where's that Mr Red? (The green lump is his gall bladder) |