With my constant nattering on about shibori experiments, you might not know I have other crafty interests. Oh, but I do. Before tie-dye, before sewing, before knitting even…first came crochet. My first diy love. It’s easy, it’s quick, it’s ….mostly it’s easy.

So every now and again, I have to put down the tie-dye and satisfy the crochet craving.

Recently, I finished one of those back-burner projects – something I had been meaning to try for years but just never put at the top of the list.

I tore into an old bedsheet to see if I could crochet up a bath mat or something cute. Oh…and I dyed it a little. Because I can’t help myself.

I tried following a couple of different tutorials that promised I could cut the sheet in such a fancy way as to make one long continuous strip, but that was a terrible lie. After much wailing and gnashing of teeth and cursing of gods, I ended up just cutting through the chaos. I was left with some long strips and some shorter strips and I had to tuck and weave ends into the project.

I did not have enough patience to crochet and tuck and weave my way to a bath mat. I gave up at about trivet size.

There are some projects that really satisfy that craft itch – even when they come with challenges and/or unexpected results. This was not one of those projects.

If I could figure out how to cut a sheet into one long strip, I would probably make some more trivets and bath mats and such. But as it stands, I don’t really want to put myself through it again any time soon.

The next time I jones for some crochet goodness, I’ll just do it the old fashioned way. With yarn.

Until next project…

stay crafty, my friends.