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| "Yellow" needs a a better name. |
My problem: not a big fan of the color yellow.
My solution: listen to the yarn!
We were going through several raw days of spring rain when I decided to listen to the yarn. I had no pattern, no preconceived ideas of what I was going to crochet. I was merely the hands holding the hook and the yarn. The rest, I think, is pure magic.
Once the body was completed I needed a border. I was thinking my father secretly wanted it, as I found him eyeing it repeatedly as I worked my stitches. Thinking this, I wanted to find a "boxy" (manly) looking border. This led me to Edie Echman's book, "Around the Corner Crochet Borders;" where I took one of the border patterns and "complicated" it to look like lattice work. In fact, I complicated the border so much, I had to work 2 rows at a time to ensure everything went smoothly!
And maybe this all went too smoothly. You know what I mean: the coming together of the yarn, the hook, and the stitch. Did I mention it's yellow? And did I mention Mr. Dee now has his eye on it too???
Maybe the color yellow isn't as bad as I had originally thought. If my journey in the fiber world has taught me anything it is: be prepared for personal growth. Me & yellow - buddies! Who knew!? :)
2 comments:
It's pretty! (I luv yellow.) And the border is elegant. How do you crochet two rows at once?
Hi Marianne,
Since the main stitch for the border featured 8-wraps each and then some somewhat complicated stitch weaving, I wanted to ensure each "grouping" was correct before moving on to the next. To save me time, each time I completed a "grouping" and proclaimed it correct, I then crocheted the final row of stitches by starting a fresh skein of yarn and working them only over an approved "grouping." So the flow went like this: *work "grouping", drop loop from hook, pick up loop from new skein, work final row stitches over "grouping," drop loop, pick up other loop, repeat from * around, ending with completion of final row.
Yes, this does mean that later I had a few more ends to weave in, but I'll take that over the possibility of finding an error and having to frog several series of 8-wrap stitches. ;)
~Dee
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