i love crochet

Crochet Birds / DIY Patterns

Tanya Zhylyayeva on Etsy

Havana CAL Free Crochet Pattern

by Tinna Thorudottir Thorvaldar

Crochet Skeleton Artist Caitlin McCormack

I just stumbled upon Caitlin’s work.  It’s confronting, and intriguing, creepy, and amazing all at once! Caitlin says the following about her work:

The act of stiffening intricately crocheted cotton string with glue produces material that is structurally similar to delicate bone tissue. The string implemented in this process can be viewed as the basic cellular unit of fabrication, and by utilizing media and practices inherited from my deceased relatives, I aim to generate emblems of my diminishing bloodline, embodied by each organism’s skeletal remains.

Because sometimes what you need most is to see that someone crochets tiny capes and bonnets for a little flock of four metal bird sculptures perched atop a guard rail near Japan’s Kamakura Station.

After Redditor Krusaders shared the top photo on /r/mildlyinteresting a few commenters offered up photos they’d previously taken of the very same birds wearing different outfits.

Crocheted strawberry brooch/pin

Happy Scrap Shoes - The Basic Slipper - Pattern 

Crocheted ood and dalek.

I still contend that I wouldn’t be horribly scared of either of them. Alarmed, perhaps, but they’re no vashta narada.