I was explaining to a friend that I would like a REALLY BIG crochet hook and was demonstrating with my hand just how BIG. (She has a handy husband and I was wondering how hard it would be to carve one from dowel.)
It later occurred to me that I had a REALLY BIG crochet hook – right at the end of my arm!
So I got out some rope…..
This was the first try and I am hooked enough to continue. It is quite an interesting experience. I have knit using my arms as the needles (will post about this next week where I use men's ties as the yarn) but had never tried using hand as crochet hook.
I made a loop, made a chain (five or six in this), and then did rows of single crochet. The fingers, of course, are flexible so this gives the extra advantage over a hook, and you sort of scoop the fibre using mostly the dominant hand.
I am going to have to experiment with technique because you cannot see what you are doing as clearly as you can in crocheting smaller with a hook.
This one I did standing up and I can see the pattern emerging.
I can imagine something like this in the garden, perhaps stretched across a frame as a gate.
Or covering an entire wall in the house, one that gets early morning or late afternoon sun and which would cast shadows.
Mostly, as always, the process intrigues and delights me and the product(s) may remain
in thought form.
I had to try it using yarn and see if I could incorporate it into a garment. This handspun is a rescue (whereby beginning spinners think of the thick/thin fibre as a mistake: I love it and scour garage sales for it!) and I think there is potential here but I need to try again.
This I did on my lap trying to control the outcome but I think I did better standing and letting the weight of the evolving fabric dictate the procedure.
I can imagine something like this dancing as the 'overskirt' of a jumper.