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Can your designs be used in a different technique? I ask this because I had a very bad experience with a very well known mosaic crochet designer... I purchased their pattern and instead of working it in classic mosaic crochet, I worked in Tunisian mosaic crochet, took a picture and tagged them in my stories (specifying that I used the Tunisian technique)... They were furious, really offended that I didn't follow their technique. If I had known this earlier I wouldn't have bought the pattern (15$ and not even a disclaimer before buying), I felt so bad, they even blocked me on IG even after I apologized and said I wouldn't do it again just because they also wanted me to agree with their view on the topic.

Yikes! I'm so sorry that designer put you through all that! What a bizarre, counterproductive response to someone thoughtfully and creatively engaging with one's work! Work that they paid for! Work that they were actively trying to promote on one's behalf! Sheesh!

I enjoy crabbing, and I crab a little when people here tag my posts "embroidery" because I don't want people to think that's what the technique is in those photos. If someone wanted to actually embroider my motifs — or work them in Tunisian mosaic, or render them as stick-and-poke tattoos, or whatever! — they would not need my permission; I would be delighted, and I'd certainly want to see how it turned out.

I'm a visual artist by training and a conceptual artist by disposition, and I'm basically out here busking. I make "motifs" and PDFs that explain how I go about crocheting them, but the motifs themselves are just ideas—information, arrangements of lines. Once I've shared those ideas in any form they just… are, and anyone can make or do whatever they want with them! That's how ideas work!

I do love it when people crochet my patterns exactly as written. I have a lot of negative beliefs about my ability to communicate with others, so it's still moving every time someone posts their "perfect" Patch, because it means I've been understood perfectly, by a stranger halfway around the world maybe, and it's bonkers to have concrete proof.

At the same time, I love it just as much when people reverse-engineer (bootleg) my motifs — that is still a person in the world chewing on my art for hours on end, and it means I've had an idea worth biting! I love when people make "mistakes" and when people reinterpret the motifs to meet their own needs, because that's also how real communication works. If I didn't want to see variations on my designs, I would have them machine-embroidered in a factory somewhere (and the factories have been in touch, let me tell you!)

Crochet is an unruly medium: an early 19th century variety of imitation lace that popped up suddenly and immediately started calving new techniques, each a grotesque new metastasis of slip stitches whose inherent, redundant complexity means you can tweak or fuck up virtually any aspect with little fear of the thing falling apart. I think that's beautiful. Do what you want forever, and buy something when you can (I'm working to make that easier) so I can, in turn buy groceries.

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All the Rodeo Patches (interlocking crochet)

#crochet #m001 #m001x

Thread crochet pharaoh patch drying on the porch

whatever. Crocheted… a pharaoh?

#crochet #unnumbered #ancient egypt

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Attempting documentation for this rootin'-tootin' "Rope Badge" border and getting all tangled up in the diagrams

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There, that should help.

Attempting documentation for this rootin'-tootin' "Rope Badge" border and getting all tangled up in the diagrams

#design notes #m001x #crochet #just realized there is an entire round not represented in the chart at all good grief

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Mother Frogmouth and her Dreadful Son

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#d013 #tawny frogmouth #podargus strigoides #p. strigoides #nightjar

"Do you ever crochet hats?" Do I ever!

#D013 #M001x #M001 #crochet #interlocking crochet

Clown (cotton and wool), Rodeo Clown (cotton), interlocking crochet

#gif #flashing gif #clown #crochet

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Too big!

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Too tall!

#in summary

This is D013-02 HornBill's Hat:

It's a fine, cowboy-type hat, but those inset corners are fussy, and the motif isn't a square, but it could be a square if a row were repeated, yielding an only modestly comically-tall, "10-Gallon" version: