Past Project: Harquebus AKA Hackbutt

 The last two crochet magazines I bought had features on Tunisian crochet and I was reminded of this little guy.

This is Harquebus. He's named after a gun. He supposed to be a lovable monster. Like the Big Friendly Giant, in crocheted puppet form.
He was created in the early 2008. This was my first attempt at Tunisian crochet. I really enjoyed creating him cause I didn't outright suck when I first tried this technique. I have tried to make more things with Tunisian but I been discouraged by things not going too well. My sister had asked for a set of place mats and I found a pattern for an "x" texture stitch. 2 words: no bueno.
I think those magazines are trying nudge me back to "the love child of knit and crochet."

first post

I was in a rut and boyfriend told me I should start a blog about crocheting. Little did he know I had already set up this site, I just never got around to the actual blogging part.
So here goes. This is a craft blog. My original idea for the first posts was a documentation of my attempt at sewing a dress. That project has been put off but I promise to get back to that once my work load lightens. Until then it'll be all crochet most of the time. (I'm sure I'll stumble upon other things to share.)
about me
My name is Karla. I'm Killeen, Texas born and raised. I attend the University of Alabama. Technically I'm a studio art major who has taken most of the courses required for the journalism tract.
My grandma Magda is amazing. She taught me and my sister to crochet when I was 8. I remember us being so proud of our chain stitches that we ambushed our god sister with several "headbands". Back to the amazing of my grandma. She's a seasoned seamstress. When we would go shopping, if she saw some clothes she liked she would examine it for a few minutes and have a pattern made to make the same exact thing. I hope to be as awesome as that some day.
This last summer my sister let me borrow her sewing machine while I was in Alabama. So I've been dodattling with that.
Other stuff I do (not well but adequately enough): knit, zine, write letters.