Lil Hooky and Beyond

Hooky and company

Like the lighting? All creepy and crappy. A little nuts too. It's surprisingly hard to hold a flashlight over your head while using a camera without a tripod. Really must invest in a secondary light source. Maybe a little plastic toy-sized tripod too.

So. Why? Well, Hooky looked lonely and I didn't write down how to make him so I thought I'd kill both proverbial birds and make Hooky a little aqua-blue friend in my regular size 10 cotton crochet thread milieu with pen and paper at the ready.

Lil Hooky

Here's a photo that offers a sense of scale for both Hookys and also indisputable documentary evidence of the extent to which my giant meatloaf of a ginger puss Grendel can be an annoying little interloper:

Cat Scale

Big cat, small hook-y beings. And yet, no notes. Best laid plans of senile middle-aged bats and cats...

So what about the green hook in the photos? This whole thing started as an idea for a plushie-softie-stuffed toy style bolster type pillow. Then the doll idea popped up. So when I needed to do yet another prototype for the purposes of taking notes (which of course didn't happen - again) I went for the pillow shape - in thread of course.

Crocheted Crochet Hook

When prototyping and "doing one to take notes", I always prefer to work small because:

1) The project works up a lot faster.
2) The turnaround on take notes/test notes is also faster.
3) See the big picture better which makes alterations on the fly easier.
4) I have butt-loads of thread and not a lot of yarn.
5) Attention span/focus/motivation wane very quickly at Casa La Ceci.

So yeah, working small is definitely the way to go for me. So what did I do yesterday? Used yarn for the next prototype:

crochet hook head - side

same thing - different angles

Just some spare acrylic left over from yet another crazy-broad sock/bootie project:

House Boots

You know, to keep the toes warm for the week and a half of barely under below freezing weather that makes up Texas winter.

No, not an optical illusion. They are fairly honking huge. Another photo with random cat offering scale:

"My, but what big feet you got, Ma'am."

That's Beowulff in the photo - "Wulffie" by day, "Shut Up You Damned Cat" by night. About half the size of Grendel in the cat scale photo above but still...

Yep. Big booties for big feet. Different colors ain't a statement, honey - one skein per foot is about how I rock. So y'see, I had some yarn left over for the furthering adventures of the crocheted crochet hook and since the skeins were already out of storage and within eye shot/arms length I went with the easy. AND I wrote down what I did!

Yay!

Tomorrow I'll make a single color version to check the directions I wrote as well as figure out the rest of the shaft. The head was the hard part. Working things out using 2 strands together is kind of too big a pain for R&D.

One strand to test them all,
One strand to design them,
One strand to work out all
and in the darkness bind them.

Eh. Whatever.

Snarkily Hooking On
C