You'd think that with all of the time on my hands these days I might have started earlier with homemade Mothers' Day presents, but alas, no -- my excuse is that I thought I had another week! I had decided to make some bookmarks, being eminently mailable as well as useful. Luckily my "swatch" one was good enough to use for the real thing, so I only had to stay up late last Thursday night madly crocheting another one ...
The one on the left is the Rectangle Granny Bookmark by Deb of Neatly Tangled, in ecru DMC no.8 perle cotton. This one has a new-to-me method of starting in the center, making sort of ur-clusters in the set-up row ("DC in each of the next 3 chs"), then working the granny clusters along the bottom (chain) edge and careening round the end to work another line of granny clusters along the other edge. I might wish I'd done this in two colors -- maybe the edging in an elegant white -- but there it is. It has a handsome plain simplicity this way, at least. The one on the right is the Pretty Lace Crochet Bookmark by Kara Gunza of Petals to Picots, in I think no.10 crochet cotton (lost the ball band long ago ...) in a lovely light blue. I'm not sure why the scallops aren't symmetrical -- presumably my own doing, as they look alright in the original photo!
It must be years since I last crocheted anything. My very first make was a huge tray cloth, also in Ecru.
Posted by: Toffeeapple | May 17, 2020 at 07:15 AM