Threads
It must be time for spring fever. After browsing through wonderful crochet books full of vintage thread designs (and recommending many of them on my Pinterest board), the desire to set aside woolly knitting and switch to pretty cotton threads and steel crochet hooks suddenly took hold early this week. Two days in a row of uninterrupted, relaxing, downtime has been a real treat. Beautiful book photographs and an accumulation of colorful threads provided inspiration. Awhile ago, I organized my stash into cubbies in my knitting corner, and at that time I separated out all of the crochet cottons that have been languishing in closets and drawers for a very long time. How could I not be inspired by this sight that greets me when I walk in that room?
Not only is there this assortment but I know there is more hiding out in a box in the closet. I was lucky enough to inherit my grandmother’s steel crochet hooks and a couple of the thread doilies she made long ago. When I look at the miniscule size of the hooks she used, I marvel at how she worked her crochet magic with them! It was enough of an accomplishment for me to complete the following small projects on a size 5 steel hook (a bit more manageable in comparison to what my grandmother used in her work):
Vintage Wheel Square Table Mat
For this project, I worked four Vintage Wheel Squares with shaded color centers and white borders, adding ch-3 loops on the last round of each for the join-as-you-go method, then finished with a shell border all around.
I made five Old World Scarf squares in cotton thread (shaded blues) and joined them in a strip, adding ribbon streamers to one end.
This is a “Go Green” Lacy Shells Bag but in pink. It’s crocheted with a double-strand of size 10 cotton thread (1 strand each white & pink variegated) on a much larger hook (size G) for speedy stitching.
However, since it’s still officially winter, I did finish a woolly knit project (but in spring colors) …
Knit Hat (that morphed into something else)
This was a stash busting project that started out as just another basic Knit Hat (for anyone!) but it began to morph from the get-go. Instead of ribbing, right after the cast-on I worked one round knit followed by one round purl, did a round of purl to introduce each pink stripe, then with the remaining yarn decreased for the top in random color block stripes.
Yes, it’s definitely time for spring fever. Working with pretty threads and springtime colors has been a refreshing change!
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