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revising the bar for success
Sep. 12th, 2022 02:45 pmWell, the emerging result of me trying to follow this crochet pattern doesn't at all look like the depicted neck loop that is supposed to become crocheted by it. I mean, it's not *entirely* unrelated, kind of like a text input for an AI art neural network and the created picture. Probably due to a similar failure mechanism of missing contextual world/crocheting knowledge too.
OTOH it is loop shaped and could perform a neck scarf function by size, and it's not like the details of the various yarn loops (and their misshapen failures) will be particularly noticeable. Unlike say spreading out something geometrical as a blanket or such. So I guess I'll still have a crocheted neck loop.
I think one of the issues when following crochet patterns as a fairly inexperienced crocheter, even if the thing isn't that complicated seeming, is that just a lot can go wrong when putting a "stitch" in another "stitch" because each of those actually consists of multiple yarn loops/holes, and you get an exponentially growing number of ways to insert the hook into that place that the pattern refers to just as a "stitch". And then everything is just slightly off and doesn't quite work like the pattern intended and it leads to compounding failures.
OTOH it is loop shaped and could perform a neck scarf function by size, and it's not like the details of the various yarn loops (and their misshapen failures) will be particularly noticeable. Unlike say spreading out something geometrical as a blanket or such. So I guess I'll still have a crocheted neck loop.
I think one of the issues when following crochet patterns as a fairly inexperienced crocheter, even if the thing isn't that complicated seeming, is that just a lot can go wrong when putting a "stitch" in another "stitch" because each of those actually consists of multiple yarn loops/holes, and you get an exponentially growing number of ways to insert the hook into that place that the pattern refers to just as a "stitch". And then everything is just slightly off and doesn't quite work like the pattern intended and it leads to compounding failures.