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Here are a couple of crochet projects I did during the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.

I did the flowers that Angry Asian suggested a while ago. I just didn’t know what I wanted to do with them. I followed the pattern (click through to AA’s blog and click “flower”) and it was fine, but when I wanted to make another one, I decided to see what would happen if I made one without following the pattern. It came out all jacked up, but I decided that it had more character. So I’ve had these two flowers, one nice and one jacked up for months… The nice flower got put on a bow with a button, but the picture didn’t turn out and I’m too lazy to take another one. I’m actually still not sure I want to keep it on the bow with the button. In the meantime, Lan is getting wrinkled waiting for me to post. So no picture. Deal.

Then I made a lil’ bag and it was like the jacked up flower wanted to be put on the bag. I started and stopped many times, so the tension is varied in the stitches and it’s obvious the bag has issues. The flower and bag were made for each other.

When we were in Port A, I was checking out the projects Granny Polly was working on. I always like to see what she and her friends are getting on with, and wouldn’t you know it… crocheting with plastic bags is in. There was a really nice hat made from plastic bags and I said, “Wow! Look at you!” And she laughed and said that it wasn’t her that made it, but her friend was letting her have a look at it. She was deciding if she could make it. I was thinking, “Granny Polly, you can make anything.” She crochets with her eyes closed. I also saw a coin purse made from plastic bags and it got my wheels turning, but I’m not quite ready to cut up plastic bags into strips like you would do with rags. Granny Polly is greener than me and saving the Earth… I used regular old 100% cotton yarn.

The first one I made looked more like a checkbook and it was not pretty. I didn’t bother taking a picture of it. The second one I made was more like the one below, but I finished the edge with double crochets every two stitches so there was room to thread a ribbon through. It was dang cute, but I gave it to Susie for her birthday and didn’t take a picture of it. This one I finished with a button loop and button.

These aren’t really that practical, but they’re fun and cute. I’ve thought about how I could put a zippered lining in the coin purse, but then again… form without function is art.

Posted on October 8th, 2008 by trish
Filed under: Crafty, New