Jennifer Crusie's Blog: Argh Ink

No, that’s not a snarky headline. There are penguins at risk from freezing because of an oil spill, and they need knitters to make sweaters. Save a penguin in New Zealand.

Pattern is here. I can’t find a crochet pattern, so I may lean on Lani to make one and then I’ll figure it out looking at hers. Also: must be of wool to keep the little buggers warm.

Wish I knew how to post pictures to the comments. I’d love to see what you come up with.

About a million years ago (okay, probably about four or five years ago), I taught at a beach retreat and met Alison, a terrific writer who wanted to be a better writer. Toward the end of the retreat, I did a collage workshop and Alison caught fire and did something amazing. Then after the retreat, she did something even more amazing: she turned collaging into notetaking, plotting, and real art, which she showed me when I met her again at a local RWA meeting. I said, “Send me those so I can put some of this up on Argh,” and she did. Except she sent it to me at the exact moment I was changing from an old laptop to a new laptop and I missed a couple of e-mails when I changed over. Fast forward three years later and I’m finally cleaning off the old laptop because my now three-year-old newer one is having battery troubles, and there’s Alison’s e-mail with a jpg of her note cards and one of her collage pages. Look at this (click on the images to make them larger):
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We sprained the blog on the deal-breaker post, so I dug into my drafts and found this one. Shoes! Or you can still talk about dealbreakers. Or whatever you want. Knock yourselves out. Here’s the post:

I look at these shoes and my heart skips a beat. Robert Tabor is a freaking foot GENIUS. I mean, look at this:

Or this:
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Molly Haselhorst sent me a link to the Ravelry page that links to WooWork.Com, the blog of Howie from British Columbia who is taking crochet in new directions, most of them bent. I love Howie’s joyful relationship story and his insanely wonderful work on the carrot jetpack, but mostly I just love his a-few-ticks-off-the-bubble imagination and generous and playful spirit. For example, there’s Ralph and Ruth necking:
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Originally, I crocheted Lani and Alastair an Angry Birds road trip game, but then they decided to get married, so it became

The Angry Birds Honeymoon Game

Players: 2

Game Pieces: 2
The Bomb Bird Hat
The Green Pigs Bra

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