Tales of a Techno-Hooker Crochet Blog by Amie Hirtes

I have a habit of disappearing. I’m no Houdini, I promise you that. I might exist on a social media blitz high – posting on my Facebook group, Ravelry, Twitter, yada –  for a couple weeks and then disappear for awhile. That’s the nature of my existence, for now anyways, due by in large to [...]

The birthday festivities are rather prolonged in this family because so many people have birthdays near one another. In August there are three, so we wind up having joint parties. This tends to carry out my birthday through the month. We just had the birthday round-up this past weekend. And I now have a matching [...]

It’s crazy to think a year has gone by since I got married. A year ago on this nearly 90 degree day, I was running around like crazy taking care of all the last minute details of our do-it-yourself wedding, right down to the flowers with live succulents, the booze, the invites, the music, the [...]

Green. Something about the color green triggers certain memories for me. Actually, colors in general do that for me. It’s how my brain is wired: a crazy juxtaposition of spoken words –  both from pop culture and my own experiences – and colors along with a heavy helping of loaded feelings. That’s how I remember [...]

I wrote a pattern this week. Yep, you heard that correctly. I. Wrote. A. Pattern. I know, you’re wondering why did it take so long (for the record, me too). Well to be accurate, it took about a week and a half to write the thing (but that’s not really the topic, is it?). To [...]

Finally. A published pattern. FINALLY. I’ve been sitting on this pattern for a year and a half. That’s right. You aren’t seeing things. I did say A YEAR AND A HALF. Designers are known to come up with a bevy of ideas and sit on some of them, but it’s not so usual to be [...]

Here are some more details about the wedding…which is in 4 days! Techno-Wedding Cards & Bouquet Extras: Larry came up with the FABULOUS idea of having our guests be able to automatically upload pictures they take at our wedding using their cameras and phone cameras. Once someone takes pictures, they just send them to a [...]

(If you missed Part 1, here’s a link. If you want to see where they wedding will be held or check out the color inspiration for everything, check out this post.) While I’m a fan of the importance of the larger details of a wedding – the clothes, the wedding vendor, the food – it’s [...]

Sorry to leave you “flat” as we used to say when I was 10 years old. I’ve been so busy with wedding plans that I haven’t had time to pop in here and write. But let me catch you up on all things wedding (with some crochet too!). I decided early on that I was [...]

Following on the heels of my big announcement, I’ve sent out all but 2 invites so I guess it’s safe to share what they look like. I started out by going online to see what’s going on in the world of weddings these day. Green Wedding Shoes provided endless inspiration for real weddings, some of [...]