Anyway

When you’ve almost come to the end of the cur­rent list of craft pro­jects (some­thing that will prob­ably apply to me in about, oh, the year 2012 or so if I’m lucky), and you’re look­ing around for ideas, here are a couple of web sites you might enjoy. Actu­ally, look at them before you get to the end of that list, as you’re unlikely to want to make any­thing fea­tured here. Warn­ing: be care­ful with your cof­fee when you start look­ing at these.

Item 1 is even called What Not to Crochet (link thanks to Tim) and fea­tures all sorts of items that make you won­der who would put any time at all into buy­ing the yarn for them, let alone actu­ally mak­ing them. There are even design­ers out there using crochet as a base for mod­ern art (about which I am obvi­ously a phil­istine and have no appre­ci­ation of the finer points) — check out the bunny suit as an example of that, and then the com­plete web­site from the designer.

Item 2 (not sure how I stumbled across this): Thread­bared has some delight­fully snarky com­ments on old sew­ing, knit­ting, and crochet pat­terns. Some of the items them­selves are actu­ally ok (unlike almost all from the What Not to Crochet link), but the set shots haven’t worn well (and most of them were prob­ably ridicu­lous even when brand new).