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The Great Cats Latch Hook Project – Part 4, Final

Posted on June 29, 2025 by pauldelancey

Hi there, I finished the Great Cats Latch Hook Project Woo hoo! It was full of unseen obstacles such as inertia, a difficult pattern, having only one type of yellowish yarn even though the pattern called for two, and not enough yarn for one needed color. But I persevered and finished. Go me! Full speed ahead on the next project

And here’s what I did.

6-27-2025

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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The Great Cats Latch Hook Project – Part 2

Posted on February 22, 2025 by pauldelancey

Hi there. I’ve made some project. As you can, it’s going to be two cats. I’ve sorted enough of the yarn to progress more quickly. However, the kit calls for me to use two nearly identical bits of yellow yarn. I just can’t tell them apart. I’ll see if I can get a better pair of eyes to tell the yellow colors apart. Then it’s full speed ahead

And here’s the inital progress.

02/22/25

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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The Second Great Latch Hook Project – Part 1

Posted on February 19, 2025 by pauldelancey

Hey! I’ve started a new latch-project. It’s early days so it does look like much yet. For some hateful reason, the makers of this new latch-hook fit jumbled all the yarn colors together. This made finding the right color, and thus the project much slower.

I solved this problem by buying DeWalt(tm) tool-sorting case. It was cheaper and better than the crafts sorters. It took a while, but most of the threads are sorted into their compartments. Beside, it looks spiffy.

And here’s my yarn-sorting case.

#SLHP #1

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Minnie Mouse Latch Hook Project – Part 5

Posted on November 17, 2024 by pauldelancey

Hey! I finished the latch-hooking part of the titanic Minnie Mouse Latch Hook Project. I’d like to thank the many, many bits of material who willingly let themselves be turned into bits of yarn. This project simply wouldn’t been possible without them. A shout out goes to gravity. I shudder think if it had not worked the entire life of the project. Just one day without gravity would have been chaotic. Imagine hundreds of bits of yarn floating about the room. Imagine me floating about the room. Picture people meandering around the atmosophere. Brr!

Anyway, gravity held the entire time. I finished Minnie Mouse. And I’m very thankful.

Anyway, here’s what Minnie Mouse looks like.

Minnie Mouse #5

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Minnie Mouse Latch Hook Project – Part 4

Posted on November 5, 2024 by pauldelancey

The epic Minnie Mouse Latch project continues. At the very beginning, little pockets of colored yarn were splattered all over the upper-right corner. Also, the project somehow got started on the right edge of the mesh instead of at the bottom. So, I saw the whole developing picture from the wrong side. These two effects made the color pockets look like, well, yarn vomit.

Now that I’ve progressed and the image nears completing, it’s looking like a beautiful Minnie Mouse. Patience, Paul, Patience. (PPP.)

Anyway, here’s a hint of what patience will look like.

Minnie Mouse – 11/05/24

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Minnie Mouse Latch Hook Project – Part 3

Posted on October 24, 2024 by pauldelancey

The epic Minnie Mouse Latch project continues. Besides providing a valuable exercise in making my eyes work together, something they don’t like to do with things that are up close, this exercise yields other saluatory benefits. The foremost of these benefits is drawing the people of this great nation together in kindness and understanding.

How so? Latch hooking calms me down. I have not taken to the streets to foment revolution. Can you imagine the carnage? Best to keep me occupied, And what of brotherly love? A smiling Minnie Mouse. It simply is impossible to harbor hatred to anyone when the image of Minnie Mouse remains firmly implanted in your brain. By following my Minnie Mouse project, the American people can track the inevitable march to serenity. Loving and helping each other will follow as certainly as day follows night.

Anyway, here’s a hint of what love and serenity will look like.

Minnie Mouse – 10/24/24

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Minnie Mouse Latch Hook Project – Part 2

Posted on October 14, 2024 by pauldelancey

The amazing saga of the Minnie Mouse Latch project continues. There is a little extra excitement associated with this project, though. The company that sold this kit, put down the color grid on the mesh at a slight angle. Usually if the side of the square I’m working is red, I use a bit of red yarn. However, the color on the side of the square is sometimes half red and half black. In these cases, I have to make an executive decision. These choices are fraught with concern. If I pick the color unwisely, will the fabric of the time-space continuum be rent in twain? Will our Earth leave its orbit and spiral into the Sun?

So far, no.

Anyway, here’s what it looks like.

Minnie Mouse – 10/13/24

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Minnie Mouse Latch Hook Project – Part 1

Posted on October 4, 2024 by pauldelancey

I finished my Charlie Brown latch hook project, but with illnesses, doctor visits, and plate tectonics I’ve delayed starting a new project.

But no longer.

But first, two days I brought the mounted Charlie Brown(tm) latch hook to the crafts class. A librarian saw me holding it and took a picture. My project and I will be in a forthcoming county newsletter. Two other crafters took pictures as well. It all made me feel special and I was dearly needing a pick me up.

I’m taking over a friend’s barely started latch hook of Minnie Mouse(tm). It’s a little harder as the thread is somewhat thicker,

Anyway, here is my start.

Minnie Mouse – 10/04/2024

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Blockbuster Blog: What I Did Today AND The Great Latch Hook Project

Posted on February 10, 2024 by pauldelancey

2/10/2024

1) I woke up, always a good thing.

2) I showered and dressed. Hygiene and appearance always matter.

3) Went to grocery store to get ingredients for French Dip Sandwiches and other special meals.

4) Spent time looking for everything.

5) Had to go back to the store. Wasn’t happy.

6) Drove back home.

7) Looked up my subsitutes for my still missing ingredients.

8) Not happy. On the plus side, I had no time at all to rush out to street and foment revolution. So some good came out of it.

9) Fired up the slow cooker.

10) Worked on latch hook project. It was a struggle, because in my naievete, I had thought it would be fun to start in the middle. However, it became quite difficult to keep my place when my work from the bottom came close to my initial work in the middle.

11) This also kept me off the streets.

12) I had to take out 100-200 pieces of yarn that were wrong. Hint, don’t rely on the colors you see on the grid or mat. For the love of God, Montressor, don’t.

13) This kept me off the streets yet again.

14) Did more latch hooking.

15) Dinner should be ready in an hour.

16) I am declaring my day to be officially over.

17) The streets are safe from revolution

Behave yourselves.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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The Great Latch Hook Project

Posted on January 21, 2024 by pauldelancey

January 21, 2024

I have a latch hook kit. This is supposed to be therapy for my eyes which at times don’t work well together. Latch hooking is supposed to help with my manual dexterity.

I started doing this at an arts-and-crafts session at a public library. It took me 30 minutes before I got thread in one of those little squares. A fellow crafter help me a lot in getting the hang of it.

However, there was some sadness in Mudville. The kit comes with a chart that tells what color yarn and its number. But there was silence on what the colors look like. Do you know the difference between Blue Jewel and Periwinkle? I didn’t.

I’ve just spent maybe three hours to sort out the colors. Eventually, I discovered that Dark Green is 654 and Forest Green is 689. That left: Forest Green 689, Dark Green 654, Blue Jewel 818, and Periwinkle 831 to be pinned down.

I looked up the company on the internet. However, it altered its name some after I got the kit about 25 years ago. They also apparently changed their codes over the years. I got some of the codes through exhaustive and exhausting research. I now know that forest green is darker than dark green,. Egad, I feel like watching a murder mystery tonight.

I’m getting better. I can do 90 squares a hour. With a latch-hook mat comprising 8,000 squares, the whole project shall take about 90 hours. The world shall sigh in relief as this will keep off the streets where I would only foment revolution and no one wants that.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Posts Tagged With: yarn

The Great Cats Latch Hook Project – Part 4, Final

The Great Cats Latch Hook Project – Part 2

The Second Great Latch Hook Project – Part 1

Minnie Mouse Latch Hook Project – Part 5

Minnie Mouse Latch Hook Project – Part 4

Minnie Mouse Latch Hook Project – Part 3

Minnie Mouse Latch Hook Project – Part 2

Minnie Mouse Latch Hook Project – Part 1

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