Described as “flirty” and for beginner/intermediate crocheters and you can make it in a weekend!! And my oh my, what a fun-filled fabulous weekend it’d be! You can get this pattern for a mere $5.00 and who knows how much for the yarn? I see you will have to track yourself down some Fun Fur…because, well, we all know that crocheters love the Fun Fur…it’s got to be the easiest (said with a smirk on my face) thing in this world to crochet with!! Oh hey, it’s an “original design” too…
Respectfully submitted by a WNTC reader…thanks!
And don’t you just love how “pukey” fits right in there with all the other “P” words…
February 3, 2006 at 1:24 am
http://cache.lionbrand.com/patterns/cgs-heavyMetal.html
Another “what not to crochet “set of useless, confusing accessories.
A super hero wannabe maybe??
or
“Tai Chi meets the happy Hooker” ???
February 3, 2006 at 8:31 am
I love the colour purple, well I USED to until I saw this. I wouldn’t even put it in my cats’ box. Looks like a tabelcoth or runner gone wrong again. Won’t even mention the fun fur.
February 3, 2006 at 8:34 am
Ok I really meant tablecloth. Blame it on the beer. Then again if it looks bad AFTER beer then best I’d not look at it tomorrow in broad, sober daylight.
February 3, 2006 at 9:45 am
While the colours are passable, the assymmetrical nature is still so freaking impractical. . .the only way that could work is if you’re carrying a large enough purse, and you need a cut that would accomodate this. Further, I think a better stitch could have been used for this. Anything anything along the lines of granny-squares is utilized for a garment, you find yourself wondering what the point of it all is. I mean, if you’re doing it in wool and not in fabric, isn’t it supposed to provide a semblance of warmth? Open stitches like that mitigate the reservation of any amount of body heat, so why bother with somthing like this in the first place?
AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!
February 3, 2006 at 10:05 am
I was thinking “saddle blanket”, but it might chafe the horse. Then “water heater insulator,” but like HydraFemme points out, where’s the warmth?
Simply, bad idea jeans.
February 3, 2006 at 10:24 am
I usually approach patterns on here as a design challenge, trying to figure out how the pattern could be made to work. Every now again a pattern defeats me because it has no redeeming qualities. This is one of those times.
February 3, 2006 at 11:18 am
I’m suddenly in the mood to play the checkers game–”connect four”
February 3, 2006 at 11:40 am
This reminds me of those things that used to go over the backs of chairs so grandpa’s hair grease wouldn’t stain the upholstery…what were they called? Anti-maccassars? And now we are supposed to wear these things? Yikes!
February 3, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Yeah its an original. Let’s keep it that way. Infact let’s make it one of a kind by NO ONE else ever making it.
February 3, 2006 at 4:26 pm
Could someone please explain to me why every crocheted object I’ve ever seen has to be done in the most nasty colors possible? When I was a kid, lo! those many years ago, everything was done in that weird blue and green combo. Nothing wrong with blue and green together if they’re both nice colors to start with, but it’s always a faded, pale blue and some pukey, yellow-green. Gah! And they’re still doing it!! Now this purple monstrosity from hell. I don’t crochet–I’m a knitter. In spite of seeing many ghastly knitted objects (would somebody just strangle the purveyors of fun fur and put me out of my misery? Please?), nothing can put the “fug” into “fugly” like fugly crochet.
February 3, 2006 at 5:18 pm
http://www.geekvenue.net/alitops/orderinfo.html
25 dollars. What a steal. Ithard to find something with less support these days.
i gotta tell you….they say “they’re back” but you know? Gosh…I just can’t seemt to recall when they were here the first time. Oh wait…wait….its coming to me…. Nope. Blocked it out of my mind.
February 3, 2006 at 6:50 pm
Why is that dummy wearing my waffle iron?
February 3, 2006 at 7:11 pm
I love that color, the yarn I mean, not the fun fur. In another stitch and making up, say, a sweater, it’d be very nice. But that has to go. In the first place, it looks like a tablecloth, except that no self-respecting tablecloth would have a fun fur edging.
February 4, 2006 at 1:51 am
Yeah, that’s what it needed. Fun fur.
February 5, 2006 at 2:38 am
If anyone else was forced to play “team sports” during P.E. in days of yore, you might
remember those snazzy little ditties called “Pennies’ which were two pieces of fabric, sewn together at the shoulders like an apron, went over your
head, and tied together on the sides..each team wearing a different color.
(This complimented the FUG blue, one piece shorts “jumpsuit” which flattered
no one).
I never thought I would see that same fashion concept applied to a crocheted item.
The disadvantages of this item in winter have been very well documented here.
Spring would be equally disastrous, as the FUN Fur would tend to heat up..and birds
would be dive bombing you get materials for feathering their nests.
HOWEVER – the smart gals who make their coach replace the old ones with these,
will be able to tie them together making an impromptu badmitten net when the
old one fails! Heck..forget badmitten OR volleyball, THIS thing would repell
canonballs.
February 8, 2006 at 11:07 am
I was just going to mention something about pinnies! That, and those ponchos that kindergarten kids wore while they were fingerpainting…
February 8, 2006 at 2:37 pm
That really bad
February 15, 2006 at 2:16 am
I want to make a comment about how terrible this is but my mind is still reeling over the crocheted culottes. This has to be an oversized toilet paper cozy of some sort.
February 16, 2006 at 3:59 pm
This is exactly why I have not yet learned to crochet. I’m embarrassed that I don’t know how, but when I see these truly ugly bizarre uses of pattern and yarn it sucks all creative juice right out of me. egads!
February 27, 2006 at 9:45 am
Oh my God!!! Who designed this thing? Are ponchos still in fashion in 2006? This downright shameful. It wouldn’t even look good as a tablecloth. What’s FUGLY mean? Does it mean “friggin ugly?” LOL
March 4, 2006 at 12:08 am
Dear LilyBabes:
You have the basic idea of what FUG is all about. Since you seem to be new here, please permit me to refer you to a couple of other websites that you may find equally fug-tastic:
Google the following—
You Knit What
Go Fug Yourself
And now, welcome to the fabulous world of fug, in all its glory!
March 13, 2006 at 10:30 pm
Hmmm…I see what theproblem is here. This piece was obviously mislabled in it’s original printing. Why, it isn’t even a poncho at all. It’s a uniform for an x-ray technician…at Walmart…IN HELL!
March 17, 2006 at 11:55 pm
reminds me of the things kings and queens wear on playing cards. I dont see how that is anywhere near a poncho, which are stupid themselves, but nowhere near this. I don’t think ONE person has ever made this.
March 22, 2006 at 12:46 am
why oh why do some designers think that they can make up anything in a really thick yarn / simple stitch ,label it ‘quick’ and think that some poor sod is actually going to make/wear the monstrosity? It wouldn’t hang right if you tied ten kg weights to the bottom corners. Hello!!!!!! Thick thick yarn = big, warm winter clothing. Not something with holes!
April 10, 2006 at 9:01 pm
this is the ugly ugly ugly UGLY thing i have ever seen and it makes me want to throw up and die and run screaming for my mother….it’s just so….ugly
April 10, 2006 at 9:04 pm
it is HELL UGLY
April 26, 2006 at 11:22 am
why cant i get a job ,making up or rather letting my crochet hook do whatever it wants to do,using the very bottom scraps from my yarn stash and calling it fashion and charging real money to sell the pattern to others@ what a racket !
July 22, 2006 at 8:23 am
I can think of one use for this … next time someone wants a tacky costume for a fancy dress party – they could wear this and go as one of Monty Python’s “Knights who go ni”
February 17, 2007 at 7:45 pm
f******ugly garments not a truer description ever made.This looks like a page boys medieaval tabbard gone haywire I can see knights of old wearing these in medieaval netball tournaments. Thank you to everyone else for the giggles at your furkin comments some of them better than the garment.
April 17, 2007 at 1:44 am
This one should be entitled ‘Good Yarn Gone Bad’
August 29, 2007 at 12:41 am
NO NO NO NO NO
Please – God! No!!!
November 10, 2007 at 12:12 pm
i really don’t know what this person was thinking.