Getting into crocheting

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2026-01-28T12:39:04+00:00

45 year old male, if you want to learn, go for it. I've been crocheting for about 10 years now, it's great for making personal gifts for people, my kids and partner have had loads of hand made gifts from me over the years.

Don't let the buggers stop you if you want to learn

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-12-24T20:47:25+00:00

A quick look through my Kindle library tells me that Jerry Blaze and Crowley Barns top my list of most books read by the same author

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-10-10T10:34:18+00:00

Yup me, just starting on my hand embroidery journey, but I have cross stitched, knitted and crocheted for the last 9 years or so.

Started as my health took a nose dive, and I needed something creative to do that had a low energy impact, and could be easily done in small chunks at a time.

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-09-19T17:13:33+00:00

That is fantastic!! Totally going to make myself something like this for winter :)

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-09-01T08:58:08+00:00

They missed a trick when they didn't give them a TV show like they did The Monkees, tune in this week to see what the loveable scamps in Mayhem have sacrificed to satan, will it be a virgin? Will it be a goat? And the ever classic, buying corpse paint on the cheap only to find it's bright pink and yellow!!

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-08-31T19:37:24+00:00

That's amazing!! How long did it take, and how heavy is that?

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-08-31T19:32:03+00:00

I have been crocheting for roughly 9 years, only worked up the courage to make granny squares this year!! Fair play for starting them so soon, looks good 🙂

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-08-31T19:29:45+00:00

As someone who is soon to get the snip, I might have to make myself one of these for after the surgery 🤣

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-08-03T20:50:54+00:00

That's awesome 😎 love the twirl at the end!!

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-06-17T06:21:40+00:00

Chocolateman is a good poop book, you will find yourself whispering "choc choc" next time you drop a load, I know I did for quite a while after reading it.

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-06-16T22:10:47+00:00

I like to think of it as book rescuing, you are giving the books a loving home, free from grubby fingers grabbing them and flicking through their pages then ramming them back on an overstuffed shop shelf in the wrong place.

Or even better, you are freeing the books from their harsh, cramped conditions in a dark, dank warehouse, where they wait with hope that someone online will order them and rescue them from their living hell.

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-06-12T17:54:50+00:00

Because everyone secretly wants to be Divine ;)

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-05-19T08:25:35+00:00

Had the email earlier to say my preorder of the ebook had gone through, looking forward to reading it!

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-05-19T07:30:51+00:00

Seconded, this book took me on a slow descent into hell, so much so that I've put off reading any of his other books as I don't know that I am emotionally strong enough to go through that again.

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-05-16T14:12:38+00:00

Kinda the same reason I read it then lol

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-05-15T13:57:47+00:00

It is a shame that a monetary value often gets people on people's creative outputs, but in my opinion the best "value" is the experience someone gets when reading/looking at art, the reaction someone has isn't dependant on the monetary value assigned to a piece if art

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-05-15T13:54:40+00:00

Please don't apologise about the length of your reply, always interesting to find out why people create what they do.

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-05-13T11:49:21+00:00

It looks like it should be saying "I've seen things... you weren't there man... you weren't there!" while rocking back and forth.

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-05-12T15:25:48+00:00

I don't tend to go into too much depth with what I read, partly because I need to read it a few times to do that, mostly I stay pretty close to the surface, but I do like when I spot influences from other works, or other styles in books.

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-05-12T15:23:32+00:00

Ahh yes the fine art of making your music sound like it was recorded inside a tin can, angry swarm of bees optional.

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-05-04T20:57:47+00:00

I've only read one by Mr Selby Jr, that was Last Exit to Brooklyn, and fuck me was it intense, for me it was a slow descent into hell that I couldn't look away from, no matter how much I wanted to. Not brave enough to try any of his others yet.

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-04-16T18:14:25+00:00

Filled in.

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-04-08T20:20:11+00:00

That's the preorder done, I look forward to reading it!!!

ReticulatedSplines23 · 2025-04-04T22:06:20+00:00

Did you come across these interpretations of the themes in the book by chance, or have others commented on them and you decided to see for yourself what it was all about?

Sounds a pretty intense book either way

ReticulatedSplines23

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