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I went back to the specialty fabric store and obsessed over buttons for at least 45 minutes, and picked one that was nice, but not quite what I wanted, and was $3.50 for two of the darn things.
When I got to the checkout there was a basket of clearance buttons. 50 cents for two. Moose buttons. Only ones in the basket. who would have guessed? Mother of pearl with nature scene handpanted by Chinese orphans buttons went back on the rack.
I love doing stuff like this.
When I say "I've been crocheting," I mean, "I've been crocheting obsessively."
I have finished ...
A scarf (standard winter type)
A triangle shawl with a shell border.
A bookcover.
An openwork (more girly) scarf from the leftover shawl yarn.
A cat toy (this was actually quite spur of the moment. I was at the home of the cutlery case lady watching V for Vendetta on her Solar Powered Television in her Solar Powered House and was crocheting the openwork scarf (which, interestingly, given what we were watching, is made with a V-stitch). One of her cats decided to try to help me crochet by playing with the yarn I was working with. She (the lady, not the cat) mentioned that she'd love to have a cat toy for said cat, but that just plain string was quite dangerous. I had some crochet cotton on my bag just in case I finished what I was working on. I wasn't but I set it aside and crocheted a little flat piece, and put a fancy shell edging on it. Less than 10 minutes work, and especially since she was paying attention to the movie, not me, it was really cool when I tossed it in her lap and said, "Here you go, one cat toy ..." People who don't do crafts get all impressed by that kind of thing.)
3 Hippie string market bags (two are based on the same pattern, but with a different size hook, so one is actually a wee bit smaller than the other, and another on a completely different pattern.
Two dishrags (there's a lot of leftover cotton from the market bags, but not enough to make another whole bag out of)
I'll work on some pictures of this stuff.
The scarves and the shawl are already wrapped for gifting, so I'm not able to shoot those at the moment.
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