Emergency crochet to the rescue!

[beth_leonard]

I'm doing spotlights for Amber's show, and you're supposed to bring a heat-proof glove because those lights get hot enough to burn you. One of the other spots people showed us a scar from a previous show. Despite having reminded myself 3 times during the day not to forget, I forgot my gloves in the house and didn't remember until just after we'd gotten on the freeway -- too late to turn back.

Sometimes you can get away with not having a glove if your cues are short, but they gave me the job of being center spot on Alice, which is on for nearly the whole show. I had remembered my crochet bag, so during our half-hour break I did some emergency crochet work and made myself a suitable spotlight mitten. It fits like a glove! I'm so proud of myself, I thought I'd share. There is a use to all these hobby skills I'm learning.



--Beth

Comments

[kirin]

Nicely saved! :) Looks like you've got yourself a spare oven mitt now, too.

[steuard.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! There's something MacGyver-esque about being able to solve a problem from scratch in just half an hour.

(I like the backdrop, too. :) )

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was pretty damn fast crocheting, especially since it wasn't the simplest structure.

[beth_leonard]

Hehe. When I took the picture, at first I was in my kitchen, then I thought, "this is gross, I should look for a better background." You were definitely in my thoughts when I picked this as the cleanest part of my house at the moment.

--Beth

[beth_leonard]

I started from the sleeve with something that would just barely fit over my wrist because I knew it would expand a little as I worked, then I increased 3 stitches/row until it was wide enough for the thumb and hand, then I just pinched off a place for the thumb hole and stitched straight across. I finished up the tube for the fingers, then added on a tube for the thumb. It worked out better than I thought it would. It fits really well, because I tested it along the way. I've never done something like that from scratch before. This yarn is super-thick and easy to work with.

--Beth

[helencoleman.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed. My daughter is getting crafty!! Next to the sewing machine!!

[zathrus.livejournal.com]

Very nice fast work! One drawback of preferring to work in fine yarns is that solving something like this in half an hour is pretty laughable; your skills served you very well there. I've actually never made a glove or mitten before.

Newt

[elissali.livejournal.com]

I love it!!! You're awesome. :)

[beth_leonard]

I never made anything other than a blanket before this, so I was making it up as I went along. I love working in big, thick, yarn though, because I see results so quickly. Maybe someday I'll go to the finer yarns, but I'm currently still in product-over-process mode and I'm worried that if my product takes too many hours to complete, it will never get worked on.

--Beth