I'm beginning to suspect that the internet is not as smart as it pretends to be.
I've spent a good deal of time this week - time that could have been used to more productive ends - seeking help from the internet. Specifically I was looking for frogs.
Not frogs that go ribbit, hop, hop, but rather frogs that help keep things closed.
Weaving Saori fabric is fun, but sewing with it poses more of a challenge. Sewing button holes on my new Saori skirt was a daunting and almost impossible task. I thought maybe a tatted frog would do the trick.
With help from the good tatters over at In Tatters, I found three examples of tatted frogs (one with a pattern, but was too frilly for the project at hand). I even got some tips on how to design my own tatted frog. I didn't have much luck with that.
I almost made one I liked. See the bottom right frog? I like the idea of this, and the overall balance of the motif. I just couldn't figure out how to tat the middle chain for the way back. We argued, the thread broke, and I had to walk away from my tatting for a while.
The amount of time in fruitless search for a tatted frog (not to mention the pointless hours searching for a bloomer pattern - wearing skirts is cold business in the middle of winter - a corset sewing pattern that costs less than $20 after shipping, and the meaning of life, the universe and everything. Spending hours sifting through junk online looking for that tiny bit of information that use to be readily available in the days before computers, makes me wonder if the internet has been getting dumber lately.
It is certainly not talking to me as much as it use to.
1 comment:
There is so much stuff on there... Finding the thing we are looking for can get really hard as we have to wade through all of the stuff that's of no use or value to us.
I hope you'll soon find what you need, either on the internet or in the form of an epiphany - who knows, the solution to your problem with the frog you've designed may jump out of your brain when you least expect it to!
I'll leave you with my best wishes for a happy new year, dear Raven!
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