A Shopping Excursion
My favorite part of any new craft project is in the gathering of materials. To start with, I get to look through my stash and be it fabric, ribbon or yarn as much as I like to think I know what I have I really only have a vague idea. Which is great when I have a general project in mind like making new bows for Cat or the doll blanket that she requested yesterday. This week however I had two projects come onto my radar that I wanted to do that I didn't have the supplies on hand for. The first was through a knitting and crochet group I belong to on yahoo Mary's Knitting and Crochet Corner that is doing a CAL (crochet along) this month. The project calls for 100% cotton yarn in pink/purple or red. I was a bit surprised I didn't have this on hand. I have a whole box of cotton yarn. Every color of the rainbow....except on of those three. The second project is also crochet, but is one of my own undertaking. (I almost feel there should be a ...