I got out Art's yarn colors for his kitchen and bathroom. I'm slowly getting patterns together. I'm collecting .JPG photos of the grandchildren for the pencil portraits. I've printed 3 so far. The barter with crochet will be fun! His plates are black and red in his kitchen, he's a widower, and I have 1-Lb. cones of black P 'n' C and red P 'n' C. Wonderful potholders those would be!
For a man's kitchen.
Also, I've often made myself facecloths and others dishcloths, where after the foundation chain is SC, CH-1, SK 1 ST, SC in next SC, across. The pattern seems akin to woven. It's warm, easy to do and is brainless work. What I'm surprised about is this:
1- First, I find a striped afghan using this stitch to make for our 3 youngest grandchildren for Christmas
2- Then, the "Baby Clouds" vest I crocheted, used the SAME stitch!
3- THEN, the matching hat pattern I found, was the SAME STITCH, TOO!
4- So today, when I gave up on the obvious too-difficult-for-me to do sweater, I started the hoody and yes!
It's the very same stitch, too.
I'm so happy, too, because as my eyesight fails, I'll be able to crochet this stitch easily because my thumb and forefinger can feel that space where the ch-1 is at, so I can "feel" where to put my hook. No way is any eyesight diminishing going to take ME away from crochet! I can use different colors and types of yarns from baby up to chunky to get different effects to make different types of things for others. I'm so glad I've made this discovery on my own because now it doesn't make losing sight slowly so terrible. I have a dfriend who is legally blind and a pen pal who's DH is blind and yes! Blind people work, too! And so I shall be crocheting, too!