Green Grow the Lilacs

I finished these Crazy Mixed-Up Socks. I started them on the 18th and finished them today, the 27th. These went faster than the others, but I am still having trouble inserting the heel. It is easy enough to cut into the tube, but the stitches are small and so, very hard to pick up. It takes me forever to do it. I woke up this morning thinking of a different way to do this. What if I start and knit a few inches of the tube,  knit in a heel, do some more tube knitting, some waste yarn, more tube knitting and then another heel. Hard to explain. I will have to try it next time and show you.......

This is the plan I had for the crocheted flowers! It would be better if they were Lilacs, but crocheted Lilacs don't do much for me!

 

Basket or Hat?

Last night I picked up a ball of yarn I had spun from a vintage tablecloth.
I started crocheting it with a large hook into a circle and then I kept
 going and going..........
 I added in another piece of a table runner
not spun, but cut into strips with the embroidered motifs left whole
and called it a night.
This morning I added more fabric to the top/bottom edge
and tacked down the motifs with buttons.
Now
Should I wear it or put something in it?
Both?

Four Silk Scaves and A Shirt

Wait!

I thought this was a blog about four silk scarves and a shirt?

Well, it is.

All spun and then crocheted into this Pinata Hat

(which is what it reminds me of) 

with wool fiber and some plastic beads which were threaded onto blue nylon thread.

A silk hat for spring

The hat has a sort of 1920's dip on one side

which was a spur of the moment thing,

but makes for a cute fit.

Cache Pot

Crocheted

spun plastic bags

with copper rayon thread

 plastic tubing

 pottery beads

  washers

Intuitive Crochet?

I guess I can call this Intuitive Crochet because I have no idea where it is going. I just started, pulled it out and started again. I am using some yarn I spun out of plastic newspaper bags. I spun it with a copper colored rayon thread which had a tendency to get all tangled up. I am not sure what I was doing wrong but I think everything was just too slippery. I should have just crocheted the bags without spinning them, but I have done that before and wouldn't have learned anything new!

Plying Yarn

I plied some yarns yesterday and then crocheted them into a hat! A week or so ago I bought this flower loom thingy at the thrift store, I had a piece of the plied yarn that was really wierd with seam binding etc. worked into it and not very well. It did make a nice flower for the hat though.