Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/10/10/fantastic-hand-crocheted-e-t.html
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omg this is too cute. I can’t even
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Four days? Damn she works fast!
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Squee!
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“He is freehanded and made with no pattern.”
Oh, she’s not talking about the boy, is she?
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And when he’s an adult he’ll never forget to phone home once in a while.
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That’s some serious knitting skills, right there…
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Crochet. One hook instead of two straight needles, and totally different output. But yeah, I agree. Creating that in four days? Holy shit.
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Give it a name; the end result is still the same.
She made that up out of her head, with no advanced pattern and got it done in 4 days.
That’s:
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My finger joints ache just thinking about it.
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You’re right, it is amazeballs! Crochet is great for freehanding; if you can picture it, with a little trial and error you can make it. Knitting is just too fussy to freehand something like that, imo.
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I can do neither, so ‘it’s all Greek to me.’
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Youtube, my dear. Was taught to do both as a child and thought I could just pick it back up, just like riding a bike, right? Nope. Youtube tutorials are the bomb!
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I also learned both, forgot both, then picked them up last year during a particularly brutal winter. Now I understand why old ladies get arthritis.
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Do you throw the yarn or go continental? Continental is much easier on the fingers, less movement. 
I go continental, out of necessity.
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