When Crocheters go bad…
Posted by: SB&C on: September 21, 2008
Da nah nah Waa-waa wah…
Da nanah Waa waa WAH
That’s supposed to be the theme music for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
I was going to try for “Do not forsake me, O Mah Darlin’ (on this our weddin’ Day-ay for I must face a man who hates me….)” but I prefer the flashbacks I get to Kelly’s Heroes – you know that bit where Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland are walking up to the German tank and they play the music.. and the tank barrel trains round? and they have that whole convo with the Blonde Tank Commander (who also crops up in the Battle of the Bulge and Battle of Briatin – he had a busy war!) and hey presto the tank goes BOOOOOOOM…
Sorry.. where was I?
Oh yeah.
Crochet.
Thread Crochet.
Stiffened Thread crochet.
I will confess to being someone who stiffens thread crochet articles. I have four different recipes for making stiffened crochet, depending on size of the work to be stiffened, what ingredients are available and the last resort when nothing else will get the damn thing to get hard. (hmmm.. cue the Viagra spam on that one)
So… my curiousity was spiked when I saw this
Thank you to whomever decided what the world needed was Smith&Wessons in #10 thread. Now I have visions of Two ornery crocheters, slinging it out over who gets the last of the Noro dyelot.
Tune in tomorrow for Butch Cassidy and the Crochet Kid followed by the one where the Duke tries to get a wagon load of crochet hooks through hostile country!
Riding off into the sunset, just me.. and my trusty Fhook on my hip…
22 Responses to "When Crocheters go bad…"
September 22, 2008 at 1:33 am
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Awesome. Some people have way too much time on their hands. I’m a little perplexed at HOW they were able to do this though.
September 22, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Those should go with that little pink gun cozy you posted a few weeks ago. What a hit that would be.
September 22, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I will have to say this is GREAT work, useless, but GREAT! I don’t think I could figure out how they did this!!!
September 22, 2008 at 2:55 pm
well now we know what the gunslingers did when they retired
September 22, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I, uh, cannot bring myself to knock this! HOW do you get something like this to retain shape in the stiffening process??
September 22, 2008 at 11:31 pm
The only thing missing are some little crocheted bullets and maybe a few shell casings lying around. Kind of makes me think of Arsenic and Old Lace – if the sweet little ladies had used guns instead of poison.
September 24, 2008 at 3:54 pm
That’s hilarious. I too wonder how they got them so stiff.
September 24, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I must admit I CANNOT figure out how this is done! More over I can’t figure out WHY this is done!! Why stop at the guns? Wouldn’t some little crochet bullets be lovely as well?
September 30, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Now I don’t feel so bad about the chess pieces I crocheted a couple years back. I have a bad habit of “doodling” with crochet. I’ll start by following some simple pattern, then I start experimenting and before long, I’ll have something utterly ridiculous and useless, but artful in it’s own psychotic way. Someday there’ll be medication for thread doodlers….someday…..ooooh! look there’s a doily festooned with little crocheted swans……http://www.interweave.com/needle/projects/swan.asp
October 2, 2008 at 12:38 pm
I must be insane because I feel like I want to crochet a gun now, hahahahaha
October 2, 2008 at 1:27 pm
is there any way possible that someone can send me the four recipies for stiffening methods for thread and yarn, esp yarn??? would you send them to jlemergencyllaff@yahoo.com? i am a fiber artist and i teach crochet. thank you so much, ahead of time! GOD Bless whomever and Shalom, jana leland, san antonio, texas 78245.
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October 7, 2008 at 9:36 am
really funny but what’s the point , I’ll go and crochet a machine gun and see what happens! Somebody might like it.
October 7, 2008 at 9:47 pm
They look like Colt Single-Action Armies, yaknow, cowboy pistols.
She forgot the loading gate.
November 20, 2008 at 7:17 pm
These guns are brilliant – should be in a museum as a piece of art 
Just imagine, all muggers running around with crocheted guns – the world would be a much nicer place
December 4, 2008 at 12:52 am
My son just saw these and wants me to make them for him, in black of course, since he seems to delight in ruining what is left of my eyesight. At any rate, I would also love the stiffening recipes for thread and yarn,
December 4, 2008 at 4:05 am
They are in fact art pieces. I can’t remember the artist’s name but she was just on The Colbert Report (Dec 3 show). Her work was featured in a show in NY called “Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting”. She also did a pink frilly bobbled ‘cozy’ for a TANK! Rather awesome. Wish I could give you her name.
September 21, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Haha! These are the best ever! Where oh where did you find these darlings???