And the point of all these would be? LOL! I especially like the one that looks like moss on someone's shoulders. Do we really need trims and collars on sweatshirts? Not sure it's a fashion accessory many would be begging for…however, if you have some spare yarn in your stash begging to be crocheted, here you go!
Thanks to Jenny for submitting today's fug.
April 29, 2006 at 7:39 pm
These are either patterns for big-ass pot holders or itty-bitty ponchos.
Why do people insist on trying to “dress up” sweatshirts??? They’re meant to be sweated in, that’s why they’re called fucking SWEAT shirts. Grrrrr!
Severina needs a beer.
April 29, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Moss, or radioactive green slime depending on your monitor. I like the trellis and dead leaves look myself. (Not!)
April 30, 2006 at 1:08 am
What brand of beer do you go for, Sev? I like Michelob, myself. And after seeing that mossy number, I imagine a case is DEFINITELY called for. . .
April 30, 2006 at 1:26 am
My MIL made me one of those way back in the ’80s. I don’t recall if it was an ’80s thing.. or a midwest-farmer thing. But I bet if you put this pattern book (or a copy of it) in the senior center of her hometown, every female over the age of 12 would be given one by xmas.
April 30, 2006 at 9:16 am
Grab one for me too, Severina…..my eyes hurt.
April 30, 2006 at 10:30 am
I was looking at the shaggy green colar and had a thought… This could be an excellent halloween costume, in the right colors, you could have a great lion mane! mmmmm there are 7 months to halloween, plenty of time
April 30, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Once seeing the green thing all I could think is sea weed (starting to feel sympathetic for the sea life). Please, I am begging, don’t send any pattern of the sort to the midwest, not all of us like stuff like this.
April 30, 2006 at 4:48 pm
Cracking open some brews for you guys!
These patterns have been horribly horribly popular in the South since the 1980s. I’ve seen way too damn many of them and mostly on family members who think my purple hair is offensive.
Besides the crocheted & knitted versions there’s also a snappy little number with a yoke made of quilt blocks.
I can hear everyone screaming all the way up here.
April 30, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Stuff like this makes me wonder how this stuff ends up published.
First, why would anyone design something so stupid?
But what I *really* fail to understand is the publisher. Surely printing something like this is a money hole. They can’t have sold more than a few dozen of these – all to little old ladies with too much time and not enough taste.
How could the publisher think this was a good idea?
May 1, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Oh, the publishers sell the hell out of these horrible things. They’re probably priced at a couple bucks apiece and since they haven’t made any new ones since like 1985 it’s all profit.
Where I come from I could probably point out several dozen of these things on real, live people, any day of the week. There would also be other denizens of questionable taste admiring them & asking if she could make them one.
Don’t even get me started on the dressier doily ones for church.
May 2, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Simple, Maryann—too much bad, warm beer, too little taste.
Plus WAAAAYYYY too much time on their hands and a sale at the Yarn Barn.
May 3, 2006 at 3:06 am
Sevarina, I could have lived without knowing these actually
were produced in the south. (but I thank you..knowledge IS
power)..
Pair one of those suckers, maybe the half a hula skirt with
the ever popular beer can hat from this part of the country
and you don’t even NEED two signatures to get a nice little
rest at a “spa” where coloring, meds, and ACK! yarn work
are a large part of your day!
May 4, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Oh, I HATE those collars! I keep seeing them in knitting as well as crocheting magazines, and all I can say is WHY?? WHY?? WHY?? They’re just so UGLY!! But then again, they give me something to focus my rage on besides gas prices, so perhaps that’s WHY!!
May 4, 2006 at 8:29 pm
I had hoped those things had all gone to the nearest landfil after everyone got tired of that fake Victorian look a few years back. Nooooo, they got to keep making them!
I see they moderned these up a bit by using fun fur. Niiiiice.
May 29, 2006 at 12:46 pm
And I thought it was bad a few years ago when all the rage at the craft shows was sweatshirts covered with glued on sequins and other items to “glamorize” them.
Want to look dressy in the evening? Then don’t wear a sweat shirt!!!
June 6, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Collars!!! on lesuire wear…. WHY??? it drives me nuts!! it not like you gonna wear a tie to play RUGBY o POLO or WHATEVER! it just a waste o material and in these eco aware times I think it a sin!Whats wrong with a clean unfussy neckline? I HATE FLAPPY YUKKIE COLLARS!!!
June 17, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Wow – you guys need more to do. My Grandmother loves crocheting and with her arthritis a lot of these patterns are PERFECT for her. So what they’re ridiculous? For the rest of my life, I’ll have all of these precious things my Grandmother worked on in her last years to look at.
Get a life, guys – find something REAL to be mad about. Like our Americans dying in Iraq, like the crime rate in the US. The drug problem.
June 17, 2006 at 3:42 pm
LOL @ Viki…mad? That’s what you get is mad from these comments? All in fun! And life should be fun sometimes not so serious like Americans dying in Iraq, crime in US or drug problems – talk about downers – crochet is nothing nowhere near like those topics and neither is the endless silly patterns out there. If you want to enjoy them, that’s your perogative just like making fun of them is anyone else’s perogative.
June 19, 2006 at 9:37 pm
I hear macrame is coming back…..think of the application for collars instead of plant holders, room dividers, fringed purses. What an inspiration!
July 11, 2006 at 2:49 pm
I would be arrested if i gave my comment.
October 14, 2006 at 1:13 pm
I can see them being done by old ladies who also wear them with their ‘fancy’ sweatshirts to make the rounds of the weekend garage sales, and of course they’ll make dozens to sell at the church’s Christmas bazaar. I’ve done beaded collars and mantles, but they’re for gowns, etc.
December 22, 2006 at 5:38 pm
I like them; they would be nice if lets say you have a nice sweater with an unflattering neckline.
February 21, 2007 at 2:06 pm
hmmmm…looks suspiciously like a “ponchette”
ew.
March 11, 2007 at 3:03 am
These are very handy if you are planning to go for lunch immediately after going to the dentist for fillings. They catch all of the slop that would otherwise trickle down your chin and onto your shirt. You then simply remove the collar and stuff it in your bag. So make sure to use machine washable yarn in case of future dental work.
April 15, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Ever notice that they are always made of the gaudiest colors invented? No subtle blends or anything that is remotely in good taste. No, it must be garish & eye searing blindingly colorful.
August 15, 2007 at 7:51 pm
I was just about to make one of these collars and you know you are so right, Severina.
U-G-L-Y. I mean ever letter capitalized. I must have just about lost my mind! Well…I have been sick recently.
August 30, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Things like these make me glad I missed the 80′s.
November 10, 2007 at 12:03 pm
i kind of like the fall leaf one. I don’t think its really all that bad.
January 27, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Could someone tell me how I could oder these patterns or find them on the web.
January 6, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Do you think this would make my sweatshirts biz cas? LOL! this is a look only suitable for the mentally insane…
January 21, 2012 at 7:45 pm
LOVE reading all these negative comments because I have been wanting to make one of the “swamp” collars for several years, The instructions in the booklet leave something to be desired however: incomplete; no back view, etc.
I can see wearing it over a long plain evening gown.
If someone could post a link for a knitted version, would so appreciate.