tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358905162839317966.post8901569505628121880..comments2024-03-20T17:42:29.993-05:00Comments on Crochet Queen: Royal Ramblings: What is Free Form Crochet?CrochetQueenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919768072384261544noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358905162839317966.post-18431239127300796472019-03-06T23:13:27.253-06:002019-03-06T23:13:27.253-06:00Patrice Walker says there are scrumbles and organi...Patrice Walker says there are scrumbles and organic patchwork. I don't find patterns that are used in organic patchwork to be free form. People take pre written methods of making spirals and shapes and then sew or crochet them together (I've read this described as a scrumble). <br /><br />The crochet community seems very confused about what free form crochet is, with more than a little bickering about who is or is not doing it 'right' (the antithesis of the term!) Ms Walker says a scumble is all of one piece with crochet going out this way or that, in random free form ways. This seems more like a crochet 'doodle' which most people don't seem to do. True free-form would involve made up stitches, go where you like stuff. Instead most of it seems to be able to be repeated, use patterns to make shapes and then just put them together 'organically' I have picked up a hook and just crocheted but none of the 'free form' stuff seems to do that much. I have a book that gives me motives to make allegedly to 'free form' or arrange together and then make stuff according to a template. That seems pretty standard as an instruction. Again not very free form but more free style. The definitions seem both very rigid but also confused. People definitely seem to call a piece of stitched together crochet a scrumble too, where Partice Walker says that this is not(being organic patchwork). The other thing is that so much of it looks the same! Not individual at all. So I have certainly got disillusioned with the whole thing. Just bullions and spirals mostly.<br /><br />Then there are the people who make pictures and they take their hooks on adventures which to me seems to mean the stitches go any which way. This looks free form to me in many ways but it does tend to use recognisable stitches. There is not much to be seen of made up stitches though. I think the term free form is unhelpful and a bit of a misnomer. Artistic crochet seems to better describe the things some people do.<br /><br />I've made flowers with no pattern which seemed organic and fluid in the process and didn't have regimented petal sizes as real flowers don't. I have no idea what I did as I did it completely freely (I can't and don't design crochet.) Yet if I knew more about design I could have written down what I did and made a repeatable pattern. That actually seems to be the case for all supposedly free form crochet, some more obviously so. Does it even exist really? I hear a lot about what it isn't but very little that pins it down and makes a good case for what it is.<br /><br />SandraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358905162839317966.post-17494590673418938852014-01-08T16:09:26.907-06:002014-01-08T16:09:26.907-06:00Such great inspiration! Such great inspiration! Handmade by Stefaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08833182555137552129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358905162839317966.post-83348913484167006512014-01-07T23:35:46.984-06:002014-01-07T23:35:46.984-06:00most of these are true works of art. i simply ador...most of these are true works of art. i simply adore freeform and have done lots of it - but nothing that i can assemble into a garment. scrumbling is fun. just planning to blog about it but you kinda beat me to it. nicely, i might add!<br />thanks,<br />jd in st louisjdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01416568690547928500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358905162839317966.post-62350831061571270332014-01-07T14:52:33.337-06:002014-01-07T14:52:33.337-06:00One of the ways I like to use freeform crochet (wh...One of the ways I like to use freeform crochet (whether scrumbles or more usually for me, the 'as you go' method) is to paint pictures with crocheted fibers. <br /> A painter can not only choose from various colors, but has access to different brushes, palette knives and other tools to create textures, and has an arsenal of different stroke movements for each of those tools... In the same way, I can choose from colors and textures inherent in the yarns/fibers, and add texture through use of a range of stitches, stitch patterns, and sizes of crochet hooks. When I paint with crochet, it's true freeform-- I use no pattern, and usually do not even sketch on paper before starting. I gather the fibers I want to use, and arrange them as a palette. I choose a starting point in the picture that's in my mind, pick up a hook and a yarn, and start crocheting in a stitch pattern that I think will create the texture (plant leaves, clouds, roof shingles, etc.) that I want for that part. When it's "done", I attach the color needed for whatever will be adjacent in the finished picture, and continue. Some of the work is in motifs, attached to the background; some is patchworked together as it's created. <br /><br />All of it is fun. My "crochet paintings" are on my Ravelry project page, tagged with "freeform". My username there is cerdeb.Deb Burgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09159772299084523685noreply@blogger.com