I’m not sure that many of you lovely visitors to my blog even remember the days when I used to write about crafts the whole time. I’ve completely lost the urge to apologize for not posting about recent craft-happenings; instead, I shall consider it a bonus to you! I’m feeling rather benevolent.
I wouldn’t want to name names, but there’s a certain black and white cat who looks upon a full drinking glass as an invitation to refresh himself. So I made myself a crocheted cover to keep him out. Now I just have to worry about the cats running away with the cover.
I happened to have this white cotton string kicking around, so that’s what I used, even though it’s a bit thicker than I would have liked. I still have to block this, to stretch it out and give it its proper shape, but I wanted to snap a photo of it before the sun got much lower. I might make another cover with embroidery floss, although my project list is growing long already.
One of the projects I was really happy to cross off that list was this crocheted shopping bag. I’ve been meaning to make a bag like this for years now. I got a skein of nice cotton yarn when we were in Oberlin and made up this bag in a number of sittings when we got back. I really don’t like how the yarn started striping in the middle of the bag; I don’t care how many people say they think it’s nice — I don’t like it! But I guess I didn’t not like it enough to go back and try to stop it when I could.
The bag is for carrying home produce when I go shopping, but right now it’s filled with odds and ends of cotton yarn that my mom gave to me today. I’m making dishcloths. I’m in a very crochet-y (not to be confused with crotchety) phase right now.
There are a few other household sewing type projects I want to tackle, namely making napkins/towels out of some cotton broadcloth I’ve had sitting around. I really want to cut out paper towels from my life. It’s sewing all those straight lines that does me in, though. Sooo boring. But it’s on the list!
(I wouldn’t want to just assume that people will ask about patterns for the two crochet projects in this post, but I’ll go ahead and mention that I made them both up as I went, so I don’t have a pattern for either. Sorry!)
That’s a great idea! I might make something like that to keep the bugs out when I am on my porch!
No crafting on my end either
What you need is a serger with a rolled hem, it makes quick work of your broadcloth, you could even round the edges to make it easier. Paper towels are my vice too.
Lovely glass cover. I imagine it would be good for keeping bees out of lemonade as well. And even though you won’t agree I think your shopping bag looks nice and it actually looks like you meant for the stripes to be like that. I’ve knitted plenty but haven’t crochetted in years. Funny thing is I spent a couple hours last week searching for a crochet pattern for a market bag as I really want to make one right now.