Hit Me With Your Best Shot

I’m not sure how this happened. All I know is that I ordered some yarn from KnitPicks and kept looking at the crochet net stitch and then suddenly I was using the purple and Kelly green to make a shrug that Pat Benatar would be proud of.

I mean honestly, let’s all take a step back and think about this for a minute. I’m pretty traditional with my crochet. I like granny squares, I love perfectly simple scarves made out of rows and rows of treble stitches, and yet you had me two radically bold colors and suddenly I’m rocking out to David Bowie (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust to be exact) and thinking (oh so vainly) about how good my shoulders look when I cut the necklines out of t-shirts.

So I followed my instinct. I took hold of the purple yarn and my trusty crochet hook and suddenly I could hear Duran Duran singing, I could feel my crimped bangs falling in my eyes, I could see the brightly colored eye shadow: I was back in the 1980’s.


Now that it’s over and done I don’t really know what to call it. I meant to make a shrug and what I like about this shrug is that it’s size and weight allow it to be more than just a shrug. But it’s not just about what this design is, not just the practicality of it. No, this is about more than what this design is meant to do; this is about a style (which makes it ever so hard to find the perfect name.)

And so, Ladies and Gentleman of Blog-Land, I give you
The Bangles Would Love Me 80’s-tastic Something Happened and I'm Head Over Heels Scarf
Happy Crafting,
The Snail