some crochet news
First of all:
Dani Coutu-Shaw, I do not have your email. However, I DO have some links for you with sweet crochet chart-y goodness! So, here they are:
Some Russian granny square pot holder type things
Quelques modêles français - Je pense que tu devrais commençer avec les «mod. napp. petits». Bon?
In other news, my thread over at Craftster about the crocheted vulvas has been a hit! And a girl flipped out on me and accused me of making porn and corrupting her 8 year old son! And then she got the smack-down from the top moderator and left Craftster in a self-righteous huff! But everyone else likes them. :) So, I'm going to sell the pattern, and I'm working on it presently. There will be sex education material included, of course.
The most-updated (hopefully final) design:
The most common question is "what the hell is it for?" No one asks me that when I crochet monsters, but I digress... It's for sex education, it's for fun, it's for having an accurate 3d model that is not intimidating, it's for making something cool and interesting and pretty out of something that is considered bad, dirty, shameful, obscene, etc., despite the fact that it is SUPER COOL and FUN TO PLAY WITH and THE WAY YOU GOT HERE. Let's face it, the diagrams we see are inaccurate and incomplete -- the diagram in the tampon box is wrong, the diagrams from health class are wrong, even the MEDICAL TEXTBOOK DIAGRAMS are wrong (seriously, ask any gynecologist). It's time to get it right. It's time for women to actually know what they look like "down there" and that there's three holes, NOT TWO, and that the clitoris is much more complex than you ever knew.
Also, it is the time for crocheting vulvas on public transit, because it makes me giggle to myself.
posted by Heather Ann @ 11:26 PM
6 Comments:
re: "3 holes", I feel a little clueless here: urethra, vagina, and... anus? 'cause I don't consider that part of my vulva.
Is there something else I'm missing?
Can't wait for your pattern! I just finished a Knitty-pattern womb over the weekend.
Well, the Vulval Pain Society seems to count the perineum and anus as part of the vulva. Given anal intercourse, I don't think we can cross the anus off the list of female genitals. I don't know, the dictionary definitions don't seem to include "anus" in the list, but they say it includes "all female genitals." There do seem to be a lot of women who think they urinate from their vagina though, that's where the comment came from.
But no, there is not a fourth hole. :) (Unless, of course, we want to get into the Bartholin glands, but they're very small holes.)
ah, the clitoris. nature's rubix cube.
please please pretty please let me know when you've got the pattern ready for this- I definately want to purchase it (and then learn to crochet). erin (at) anatomyofaskirt (dot) com
if it's not too much trouble!
hehehe I can totally see you just smiling to yourself and giggling as you knit. LOL. also, i never knew all those diagrams were wrong... and i took anatomy in school... wow.
Possibly the greatest use of fabric I have ever seen.
:-)
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