It’s all about the purses lately. Free form ought to be banned. Ya, “no rules, no gauge” is the best idea ever especially since this is the end result.
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It’s all about the purses lately. Free form ought to be banned. Ya, “no rules, no gauge” is the best idea ever especially since this is the end result.
October 15, 2006 at 6:48 am
erk… muppet vomit
October 15, 2006 at 8:22 am
While that purse is awful, and I’m not a freeform person, I have seen some nice examples of the art that did not go overboard.
October 15, 2006 at 11:12 am
Oh, wow…but..what is it? …a bag? No, really… ^__^
October 15, 2006 at 11:44 am
So, you take a basic black crocheted purse. Then you throw up on it. While it’s still sticky, you take it to Chuck E. Cheese’s and set it down in every disgusting corner and in the bathrooms. Whatever latches on to it is “embellishment”.
This is really gross.
October 16, 2006 at 2:59 am
I can’t believe anyone would actually carry that.
October 16, 2006 at 8:13 am
You know, free form crochet can be really impressive if done by a genuine artist. You know. With some taste.
And here we have exibit B. Crocheter who is *not* an artist deciding that they are and just letting loose their imaginary creativity.
October 16, 2006 at 9:52 am
That is one ugly purse!
October 16, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Well, after following the coroner around for a week — you know, getting to know what makes him tick, what he likes, find out if he sees the world differently than we do — I’ve summed up what I’ve learned in purse form! I’ve chosen the free-form form cuz, you know, as a coroner, you never know what you may come up against. One day it’s a murder/suicide, another it’s a 12-day old who-knows-what. It’s all a rich tapestry. ‘Cept I didn’t choose tapestry, I chose crochet.
October 16, 2006 at 7:43 pm
If possible, this one is uglier than the one with the little weenies hanging off of it
October 17, 2006 at 12:40 am
Here’s the pattern in its entirety:
1) Close your eyes and turn out all the lights.
2) Pick up a hook.
3) Pick up some yarn.
4) Crochet at random, changing colors/gauge/hook/stitch every two to 75 stitches or so. Stop whenever it looks like a purse.
5) Wad it up and glue it together at various stress points.
6) Attach a belt for a shoulder strap.
7) Fill purse with rocks to throw at your detractors. What the hell do they know about art?
October 17, 2006 at 11:55 am
Creativity can be an ugly thing in the wrong hands
October 18, 2006 at 2:01 pm
I can’t believe that people really need a pattern for this. And that people really spend time writting them. The name freeform suggests doing it without one. Having said that, I did buy one on clearance sale for the motif patterns in it. But hopefully I’ll have better taste than this. And I love motifs.
October 23, 2006 at 10:38 pm
Looks like someone with glue all over his/her hands fingered that nice crocheted purse. Now every piece of crap in the room has stuck to it.
October 30, 2006 at 9:29 am
Have you seen the commercial where the clog is blown out of the drain and ends up on someone’s dinner table in France? I think the French may be getting even with us… they have re-purposed the clog and returned it to American soil!
November 9, 2006 at 9:40 am
Free-form purses: Where all orphaned arts-and-crafts tidbits end up. . .
December 21, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Don’t make a blanket statement like this when you’ve only seen one example of freeform. Not all freeform is appealing to everyone just like not all crochet or knitted items are appealing to everyone. I wouldn’t say that knitting or crochet should be banned just because I’ve seen some items I didn’t like or wouldn’t make.
December 28, 2006 at 4:44 pm
I’ve seen a lot of freeform, and frankly, I wouldn’t admit to having done any of it, even that done by the “artists” and I respect the non-freeform work of some of those people. But then, I don’t like abstract “art” either.
January 1, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Free form is EVIL.
February 7, 2007 at 12:58 pm
ok, so it’s a bit ugly (notice my attempt at being nice- no wonder I keep it locked up) but c’mon, maybe the person who did it, the person who photographed it, the person who chose it to be shown, the person who chose it for the magazine, the person who chose it for the cover, the person who actually did the cover, and all the people who printed it where either colour blind or fully blind… who knows.
Besides, who are we to judge (notice the nice thing again- I just got lucky, am in a good mood, afterglow and all… gimme a break) other people’s creativity attempts? Picasso got away with it, didn’t he?
March 11, 2007 at 2:23 am
Ladies, you can get the same look in much less time. Simply spray any purse with spray adhesive, toss into the miscellaneous bin at your local thrift shop, and drag the purse back and forth until it is covered with everything that that is totally useless, and therefore ended up in the miscellaneous bin.
August 30, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Some free form can be lovely (see http://users.tpg.com.au/users/jdesigns/HomageToMagpieLge.jpg) but this…this is why there are knit snobs in the world. I personally blame this bag.
September 11, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Oh my goodness!!!
I never new creative people could be so cruel with words.
You art may not be my art, but lets not be so hard on anothers idea of beauty.
October 10, 2007 at 9:15 pm
I like freeform. I don’t like this but i do like freeform.
November 10, 2007 at 11:38 am
ok this is artsy, I kind of like this one.
May 12, 2008 at 11:47 pm
I love free from crochet and anyone who has seen any of Prudence Mapstone’s work can’t help but fall in love with it, however, this leaflet and cover project doesn’t endear me to the craft.