Crochet Oops #1

There are always crochet, "Oopses." Sometimes, those oopses are good things. Like, the time I accidentally cut the thread on a crocheted flower too early. It was originally intended to be a pair of earrings. As I hate attaching things after the fact, I wanted to make the chain the earring would hang from right out of the ending thread from the flower. No sewing, because I HATE sewing. Anyway, I naturally cut the thread too short and was left with just a flower. No earring. So, what was I going to do with this flower? I turned it into a ring! Now, those rings are things I make all of the time. I never even finished my earring project because I was so pleased with the rings.

But then... there are the bad oopses... like this one:

Unfortunately, I was almost completely finished with this crocheted egg before I realized my oops. I suppose it really wouldn't have been an oops if I had realized it in time to fix it... Anyway, This is SUPPOSED to be a blue egg with pink and yellow stripes. Instead, it has one blue end and one half completed pink end, so the stripes now make little sense. When I went to pull out the pink on the end so that I could replace it with blue, the yarn knotted and broke. Thank you, baby soft yarn, for being so thin and breakable... As you can see, I was getting ready to close the egg, having stuffed it and everything already, when I realized my fate. Now, this egg serves as a reminder that when crocheting at 2 a.m., one must be a little more attentive...


Then, there are the oopses that are sort of, "whatever." This is one of those oopses. I found this photo while browsing My Flickr Account of some Easter Eggs that I really liked. I loved the color combination, and thought I could incorporate them into my own Easter Eggs.

Easter Egg Inspiration

So, I set out to create my own yellow and green Easter Eggs. Clearly, the photo shows my "planning" stages for the egg keychain. It is very well marked that I wanted the ends yellow with two white stripes and a green band in the middle.

However, when my brain went to pick yarn colors, I guess I decided that Y=Green and G=Yellow. I'm not sure why this happened. I mean, it was ME who created the design. It's not like I found it in a book and decided to tweak it. It was all me. If I decided the colors, why did I decide to screw them up... and right from the start? I mean, the STARTING color is wrong. It's not like the last crochet oops where my mistake at least happened LATER. No, I decided to ignore the pattern right from the get-go. When I was finished, I looked at my egg and my design and said, "whatever." This oops is relatively harmless. I mean, the colors are still there, it's just a little different. And, now I get to make another one with the CORRECT colors, :)

This crocheted keychain can be found on My Etsy Site

So, I've had a few oopses. I'm sure there will be more for your musings. I never cease to amaze myself with the amount of random wrongs I create. I just started knitting as well, which is an ENTIRELY different thing for me. Goodness. I'm sure I will have stories of that to share with you, too!

Question: Do you have oopses? What's been your best/worst oops?

Thanks for reading!

~Paige