The Damned Are Welcome Here

Welcome to the damned. Thank you so much for coming. Your presence here warms my little damned heart ever so much.

Didn’t do all that much, but the crocheting part of the top hat is finished. Gave myself a bunch of extra work by not following the pattern designed by Melivia Mutch. By the way, her Etsy shop is HookedbyMutch. She sells patterns for hats and scarves. Love her stuff.

Here’s what the top hat looks like so far.

Anyway, thought I wanted a taller hat and added 16 rows. Should have been 25 rows and I did 41. Tried it on before doing the brim and liked the height. Crocheted the brim and then didn’t like it that tall. Too much like a President Abraham Lincoln stovepipe hat. So, undid the brim and eight rows, then redid the brim. Tried it on and it was still too tall. Again, undid the brim and eight more rows, and then redid the brim. Finally got what I liked and it was the original pattern for the hat. Like to say lesson learned, but it probably isn’t.

Anyway, now have to figure out what frivolities to add. Going to Michael’s next week to see what catches my fancy. Probably will get some steampunk sort of stuff, but maybe other kinds of bits and bobs as well.

For the Dali jacket, I made the changes to the pattern that I talked about a blog post or two ago. Did a mock-up and I think I like it. So that’s going well. The rest of the jacket pattern pieces will be as used before. Didn’t take a picture of what’s done so far. Figured it would be terrible. Will show what the jacket looks like once the inner and outer fabrics are together. Before the slow stitches gets started.

Have some other ideas for the jacket. Found this a week or two ago, and I absolutely love it. Sorry, didn’t make a note about where it came from. To whoever created it, stupendous work. I’m absolutely flabbergasted.

Got me to thinking that I don’t have to use just whole Dali paintings. Could also use pieces of them and have other embroidery around them. Much to think about.

Have also been enjoying some YouTube videos of Elena Rugal Studio. Love her freeform crochet, in particular. She does masses of other stuff, as well. If you like crochet and want to go down a rabbit hole you never have to come back from, I wholeheartedly suggest this channel.

And I have started on a large project. My sister procured for me a ton of yarn, well fourteen pounds anyway, for me to bring out the creativity on my not so gothy side. Do plan on starting an Etsy shop selling patterns for crocheting. I’ll start with scarves with flowers. Hope to do something original, but we’ll have to see if that comes to fruition. Will provide further facts and figures as soon as they become available.

Suppose that’s it for now. Thank you for coming, damned ones. Enjoyed your fine company and hope to see you again.