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The Elephant Bear

Let’s say I bought this book almost only for Camilla’s softies pattern. Let’s say that I’m drooling over them from a long – long! – time, and that I couldn’t get my hands on them no way because they sell the moment they are born. Ok? ok. And, that said, let’s say also that I normally hate to follow a pattern (you can go metaphorical here, too), and that, no matter what I tell myself, I sure end up to make something different – or everything. Well, with all those things said I forgot what I wanted to say at first, anyway I crocheted this Elephant Bear (I like to think of him like the Elephant Man in da Super Cuties Softies World) constantly asking my mind what the hell a back loop was. I searched all the book, that is very clear otherwise, and couldn’t find anywhere for it, so I started guessing in italian and tried to crochet in circle from left to right instead of the usual way (right to left), yes, going back. Now, those softies are all made in slip stitches and anyone who crochet out there would perhaps understand why I was yelling doing this. If you do crochet and love to work everyday circles in slip stitches going back, stop reading and go out of my blog please. Ok, I was joking. Maybe.

Anyway, I couldn’t stand that torture and guessed that Camilla neither and that I was surely making something wrong, so finally decided to slip stitch normally all the way and turn inside out the softie at the end of the work. It was a minor threat, but I was humiliated also by the fact that I couldn’t understand neither the special stitch called in the pattern, so I worked all the softie with a sense of sacrifice for my ignorance and dummyness. Then, the other night, while casually reading the book about a crochet stitch I used for a scarf, I dumped in a back loop. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Doing a back loop is so simple and distant from what I tried to guess about it, I wanted to cry or to kill. I swear little Elephant is still alive.