crochet experiment
Oct. 11th, 2006 14:38![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
piranhapentagon bowl after suzette haden elgin's description in her LJ.
*ack*, once i switch into rich text mode here i can no longer switch back (as in, the link to facilitate it doesn't work anymore in mozilla). that is annoying. but why am i using mozilla anyway; it's my own fault that i haven't adjusted this system to my own preferences.
anyway. i had this leftover yarn and used it to try out this bowl shape thing. from the description in suzette's LJ i couldn't quite figure out how the topology worked, so i crocheted the first 6 pentagons and put them together. that's quite a nice shape; the pentagons' upper edges curl over. i gather that her other 6 are just to stiffen the structure, and since i want to felt (full, really) this, i won't bother. though i guess one could make two layers and have the inner one be a different colour; that would be cool.
as it is, the bowl has a bit of that tacky granny crochet thing going for it that i don't appreciate, you know, the stuff that finds its excesses in frilly toiletpaper cozies. bigger hook, looser tension and different colouring should do away with that though.
this could make a funky hat, if one added rectangular strips between the centre and outside pentagons. or made the centre one smaller and shaped the strips so one got a bellflower shape.
*ack*, once i switch into rich text mode here i can no longer switch back (as in, the link to facilitate it doesn't work anymore in mozilla). that is annoying. but why am i using mozilla anyway; it's my own fault that i haven't adjusted this system to my own preferences.
anyway. i had this leftover yarn and used it to try out this bowl shape thing. from the description in suzette's LJ i couldn't quite figure out how the topology worked, so i crocheted the first 6 pentagons and put them together. that's quite a nice shape; the pentagons' upper edges curl over. i gather that her other 6 are just to stiffen the structure, and since i want to felt (full, really) this, i won't bother. though i guess one could make two layers and have the inner one be a different colour; that would be cool.
as it is, the bowl has a bit of that tacky granny crochet thing going for it that i don't appreciate, you know, the stuff that finds its excesses in frilly toiletpaper cozies. bigger hook, looser tension and different colouring should do away with that though.
this could make a funky hat, if one added rectangular strips between the centre and outside pentagons. or made the centre one smaller and shaped the strips so one got a bellflower shape.