The Scheming Hooker – A Hooker's World

The Name

Dog Eat Dog by Adam and The Ants

Pet pad for a dog that likes to eat other dogs. :D Not! Just animal association between project and name.

The Pet Pad

Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches

Even now, I am considering making a second because it feels kind of thin; I certainly have enough oddballs.

The Yarn

Unknown White

Color: Reversal of Color^*
Content: Acrylic^?
Weight: Worsted^?

Patons Lace

Color: 33129 Porcelain
Content: 80% Manufactured Fibers – Acrylic, 10% Wool, 10% Goat – Mohair
Weight: 2 – Sport, Baby

Unknown Lavender

Color: Turnabout Tulip^*
Content: Acrylic^?
Weight: Worsted^?

Unknown Yellow

Color: Hammurabi Hyacinth^*
Content: Acrylic^?
Weight: Worsted^?

Unknown Multicolor

Color: Circus of Chance^*
Content: Cotton^?
Weight: Worsted^?

Just consuming some oddballs. The Patons Lace was double-stranded to begin, but increased to quad-stranded.

Hooker Notes

This “pet pad” is part of my research and development for Man! I Feel Like A Woman; design construction only.

* color designation per Hooker Leo, absent yarn label
? yarn weight designation per Hooker Leo, absent yarn label

On da Hook: 2018.09.24
off da Hook: 2018.09.

Union Of The Snake: Cast On

This one was a breeze!

It started with yarn(?) found in a raffle prize, gifted to me by Rosa, from the June El Segundo Slipt Stitchers meeting. As for the yarn(?) I don’t if it had been…

previously knit and accidentally felted
previously knit and intentionally felted
a cable yarn

I do know because it felted it must be a natural fiber…woohoo! I also know how Union Of The Snake was made…I stuck my arm up the center of the yarn and I’ve asked mom to seam via sewing. I am waiting for the finished product.

I don’t know if I will keep this for myself due to the beautiful colors and the blending of the color or it I will donate to charity. To be honest, I am leaning towards keeping it; I can make something else from the plethora of scrap balls in the same bag.

One Way Or Another: Inception

Objective: [One Way Or Another I was going to] turn a cone [ROCHELLE DYERS – PROD DATE: Jan 19, 1998 – LOT #: 1857 – COUNT: 1/16 – COL: FAIRWAY ROYAL – BLEND: A/P – P.O. #: MP11-14D] of 1-ply, natural fiber, thread into a 4-ply natural fiber thread to match a 3-ply, presumed natural fiber, grey thread.

I’ve spent more than half the morning trying to accomplish this.

Aiyaa! The minute the cake flew off the winder, I knew I was in trouble.

When my 2-ply cake thread broke, I resorted to winding a second cake.

Upon my final 4-ply, I kept pulling up clots, which at first I broke and knotted. After getting too many in succession, I figured I would just make a knobby thread, but that won’t match. I will just cut off excess.

The picture shows my waste on the left. I dare anyone to try untangling that much thread.

This will be my new carry-along project, which I will create with a simple repeating stitch and no pattern.

In the end, I discovered that the presumed natural fiber grey thread was actually a man-made fiber…aiyaa!