Some things take quite a while to move from the acquisition stage, through the development and then re-development stages and into the final creation stage! A long time ago I purchased a variety of coloured polyester netting from Lincraft. I…
Category: Escapades with Crochet
Crochet helps with inner calm, is meditative and has a particular joy as part of the making process.
It’s a wonderful thing when the idea to adapt something to your own ends works out! For quite some time I have wanted to crochet a long, lacy jacket, I even had the pattern picked out. I just couldn’t bring…
Just so you know, not all of my project beginnings end with a useable end product! Sometimes that delightful looking, and feeling, yarn just does not want to be what I want it to be. I’m convinced yarn, and fabric,…
One of the most impressive aspects of crochet is the way it can be used to focus the mind on a singular task, and thus, to push aside those all too constant unwanted thoughts. Sometimes what’s needed is a complicated,…
The effort it takes to do some of those things you know you should, but just don’t have the where-with-all to do at any given moment, deserves recognition and reward, at least in my world it does! Dentistry is probably…
Feeling just a teensy bit, okay, a lot pleased with myself today as I’ve managed to complete a variety of tasks that, all together, means my lovely Argo shawl is now ready to wear! Thanks to the wonderful designer of…
An experiment with plarn began sometime back in December 2018 and it’s only just occurred to me to write about it here. With supermarkets having recently changed over to the heavier plastic bags for delivering groceries (I order online and…
I crochet. (I do a number of other crafting things too.) I crochet most days, or I’m thinking about what I’m going to crochet or how I’m going to use that awesome yarn I bought on sale that’s languishing in…