Akua's Fish Toy

So much has been created since last I posted here. I will attempt to catch up and share
my efforts.

My Flower Link Scarf pattern will be included in the 2010 Crochet-A-Day Calendar!
Hip Hip Hooray!!!!

I'm at work on a science fiction story about the sea and this fish pattern came to me--- not as easily as I wanted it to--- while it was easy enough to make, writing exactly what
I was doing was a bit of a challenge. Named fish "toy", it could be a baby toy, soft sculpture, pet toy or pin cushion.

I'm submitting it for the 2011 calendar. Wish me luck!

Creating the Flower Scarf 1

It's taking me forever to post this journey. Maybe someone out there like me will be aided by this listing. First I was looking to look, to learn, to sort out my ideas. Then, when I found what I wanted, I couldn't afford it and then, realizing that indeed, I wanted to sell what I made, realized the constraints on using someone else's patterns. The meandering link list will explain that I grew to reject the sewing together at the end approach, because it is seems so labor intensive (although one could collect the odd flower for a year, sort through them and then jsut stitch them together).

I wanted a flower scarf. then I wanted a leaf scarf because the flower scarves I saw had more colors than I could fulfill and I wanted something winter.

Scale--- I couldn't find the right scale
Calla lilly Scarf
http://www.catirinabonetdesigns.com/index_files/image362.jpg
I like this idea but not the scale.
Fabulous flower Boa
http://www.catirinabonetdesigns.com/index_files/image348.gif

Trail of Blossoms Scarf in Lion Brand Romance
http://cache.lionbrand.com/patterns/60209A.html?noImages=

The scale is too big. 1 motif = 4" and the scarf is 2 motifs wide and tehn some. The picuture makes it look.... cumbersome...
though as i was writing this i found
http://www.flickr.com/photos/projectgallery/298432556/

and she works it but it still looks a bit big and cumbersome. I love purple, though and this lady will be mentioned again.

This is just boring and .... klugy.
http://cache.lionbrand.com/patterns/60027.html


SAme with this knitted Eskimo scarf, lovely to look at again it looks large around the neck with flowers dangling from the end.

http://www.roosteryarns.com/knittingkits.asp?id=01&b=1


Another commercial site with flowers as not intergral, tacked on at the end, made in Bolivia
Amano Crochet Flower Scarf

http://thestripeysheep.co.uk/index.php?itemID=161&jump=navbar#navbar


http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/visoppskrift.php?d_nr=93&d_id=39&lang=en
flower scarf
Fun but another kind of of would wearing it be comfortable?

Caron ( a yarn seller) has a black mesh scarf over which posies are strewn, the posies , 8 spoked wheels in two layers of clusters shells are among my least favorite interpretations of a flower in crochet.
http://www.caron.com/projects/br/BR10_posy_mesh_sc.html and they don't bother to tell you how to make them, just the black mesh scarf.
www.dinaladina.blogspot.com/ portugese freeformer i dig her exuberance--- Jan 2 shows a scarf approach that i feel more for my necklaces...


Then there's the crochet.flower scarf pattern that says make sixteen flowers and then sew them together that seemed more the width and weight , but sewing 32 points at the end did not excite me

http://needlebook.blogspot.com/2005/12/crochet-flower-scarf-how-to.html
http://needlebook.blogspot.com/2005/11/crochet-flower-scarf.html

100 flowers? Lovely but again all that sewing at the end!
http://applehead.typepad.com/applehead/2006/05/100_flower_scar.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gipsybazar/280747095/in/pool-fabrictextile_art/
once again, lots of sewing!

http://moonstitches.typepad.com/moonstitches/2006/11/post.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenkitchen/87440526/
another set of sewn together flowers


ahhh! China http://chinascarf.en.alibaba.com/product/50114745/50521738/Scarves_and_Shawls/Acrylic_Crocheted_Flower_Shawl.html

another verision of sewn at the end
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=386704
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=278156
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=304357


Here's another commercial version
http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_10001_10001_59735_279418_-1
http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_10001_10001_18800_279384_-1

then I saw this lovely scarf flower give away and thought: That's the ticket!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/projectgallery/278648339/
This is the "Garden Scarf" from SNB: The Happy Hooker
But the pattern is in a book and I'm poor and disabled and gee-- I want to make a scarf that I can sell and so be less poor and enable myself.

This design presents the flower more graphically, which gives the scarf a loft and air, though i find it a bit too square.

So my design: edited. I decided to enter it into a contest or two, so I can't describe them here. If they -- o the one became two-- don't win, place or show, I'll share their images here.