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December 24, 2022 4:29 PM

World's largest crocheted Christmas tree knitted in Portugal

Non New York Post link

posted by chavenet (19 comments total)

Leave it to The Sun Sans Tits to fail to grasp that crocheting and knitting are two different operations.
posted by NoxAeternum at 4:35 PM on December 24, 2022 [15 favorites]

Crocheted in Portugal, not knitted in Portugal. Because it's crocheted. Like it says on the tin.
posted by heatherlogan at 4:35 PM on December 24, 2022 [4 favorites]

It's very obviously crocheted. Granny squares all around. It's also magnificent and I wish I had something like this in my area.
posted by hippybear at 4:42 PM on December 24, 2022 [4 favorites]

... That is a truly epic collection of granny squares*.

*In my dialect that's what those individual crocheted blocks are called; I hope it is not offensive.
posted by heatherlogan at 4:44 PM on December 24, 2022 [1 favorite]

obligatory
posted by Jacqueline at 5:14 PM on December 24, 2022 [6 favorites]

I want to snuggle with it on my couch and my kittens.
posted by the_royal_we at 5:22 PM on December 24, 2022 [2 favorites]

You have a very large couch.
posted by hippybear at 5:24 PM on December 24, 2022 [3 favorites]

It's being held up with guylines! Freestanding crocheted Christmas tree or GTFO

Just kidding, it looks amazing.
posted by medusa at 6:10 PM on December 24, 2022 [1 favorite]

As a yarnie, you have to accept that non-yarnies are not going to get the difference between the two, especially on a finished work when someone can't point at "one hook vs. two needles." It's been removed from the Internet now, but someone had a picture on Reddit of a crocheted/knitted....who knows what on a Hallmark Channel logo.

I had other crocheted tree links, but they're in my work email and I am not going into that tonight :P This is great, though!
posted by jenfullmoon at 6:13 PM on December 24, 2022 [2 favorites]

In some languages there is just a single word that encompasses both crochet and knitting (e.g., Japanese, which explains the commingling of crocheted and knitted patterns in many Japanese pattern books). But English doesn't have that excuse.
posted by heatherlogan at 6:22 PM on December 24, 2022 [3 favorites]

Being a non-yarn person, I didn't notice the error in the headline, but my 23-yo daughter did immediately. She also looked at the tree and said, "Lots of granny squares."
posted by Ickster at 7:19 PM on December 24, 2022 [1 favorite]

Here's a history of granny squares [Interweave.com], and it suggests they started to be known as that maybe sometime between the 1930s and the 1970s, but the concept of that particular kind of needlework is VERY American and goes back nearly 150 years if not more.
posted by hippybear at 7:39 PM on December 24, 2022 [3 favorites]

I don't know if this means American as USA or American as "New World". Anyway, my most prized object is a granny square afghan my mother made me that is large enough to be the spread on my queen sized bed, and it's the perfect weight to use all year round (nearly works like a weighted blanket). I grew up around crochet because my mother crochets constantly. Even at 81, she still is making baby blankets (in pink blue and yellow with a lot of white so gender doesn't matter), and other things.

Anyway nostalgia is gripping me. I guess I need to listen to The Carpenters and find episodes of Donny & Marie on YouTube.
posted by hippybear at 7:42 PM on December 24, 2022 [2 favorites]

CROCHET TREE WHATTED
posted by cortex at 7:47 PM on December 24, 2022 [3 favorites]

A knitted Christmas tree did some crocheting in Portugal? They don’t say what the tree crocheted, maybe some little birds and squirrels to make it feel real.
posted by waving at 8:24 PM on December 24, 2022 [1 favorite]

Needle Felting would work better for realistic animals...
posted by hippybear at 9:35 PM on December 24, 2022 [1 favorite]

I think it would be possible to crochet granny squares and then knit them together by picking up stitches.

But it would be very tedious and stupid.

Gorgeous tree though! I am getting the shakes at thinking how much the yarn cost. But I suppose as a collective burden it’s probably “only” a few hundred each. Also a great stash buster.
posted by brook horse at 9:54 PM on December 24, 2022 [1 favorite]

This tree is beautiful! I see everyone noticed the misuse of knitting here. There is a promo for NCIS where a character sarcastically asks if she should crochet some words on a pillow. I hate it so much. I know you could technically do that, but the word she should have used was "needlepoint" for a much better comeback.
posted by soelo at 5:59 AM on December 25, 2022 [2 favorites]

Crafted is a perfectly cromulent word that works irregardless of pacific needle types.
posted by iamkimiam at 2:47 PM on December 25, 2022 [4 favorites]