Yesterday I was working on a doily. I had seen a little wristlet bag for holding crochet thread in an old issue of a crochet e-newsletter I get. I had all my crochet hooks out for something else (Which reminds me, I found that many of my Boye hooks are not the size they claim they are. Darn it, because I like my Boye hooks better than my Susan Bates hooks. However, the JoAnns Sensations, Lion Brand, and Susan Bates were all accurately sized. Of those tested, all except for the single Lion Brand hook (size Q, plastic) were metal). I grabbed some Lion Brand Incredible in City Lights I bought for a super-low price at a closing Hancock's Fabrics and my Boye K 10 1/2 hook. I took out the old Readers Digest Complete Guide to Needlework and chose the crocheted mesh stitch. After I had it the length I wanted it to hold a skein of DMC, Baroque for my doily, I stuck the loop on the hook on one side of the lucet I bought at the Wool Gathering and lucet-ed a cord long enough to go around my wrist. I then crocheted the sides together in a sort of mesh pattern. It was perfect for holding the yarn while I crocheted the doily. I crochet with hook in right hand and yarn in left, and I put the wristlet on my left arm. Here are a few details:
Diamond Mesh
(From The Readers' Digest Complete Guide to Needlework)
Multiple of 4 plus 2 chains.
Row 1: Skip 2? chains and sc in 3rd chain from hook. *Ch 5, skip 3 chains, sc in next ch* Ch 5, turn
Row 2(Repeat) *sc in next ch sp, ch 5* turn
I used 14 chains to begin.
Happy Crocheting!
2 comments:
Hi Arachnera.
I am running Winows XP. Trust me, I took my first computer course in 1966 and was the technical editor of a computer mag for three years. If I can't fix it, it can't be fixed.
Sorry about all your tech problems, too!
Well, I hope you get this note. Roy had a different opinion about the stuff coming out the back of the horse. Suffice it to say that I spewed coffee all over everything. I don't much like the horse and will never knit it.
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