Practice Through Play Makes Perfect

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After 2 years, it finally got me! I tested positive for COVID-19 and am now on day 11 of feeling poorly. Fortunately (thank you science and vaccines!) I haven’t had a massively serious version of the illness – it has mostly felt like a really bad head cold and cough. But the most frustrating part has definitely been the physical lethargy and the brain fog – the slightest exertion and I am done in, hence the lack of bloggage last week.

The positive of having the lurgy is that it has given me some time to practice crocheting. Like any skill, crochet needs to be practiced in order for us to improve and move on to learning more skills and I have loved it.

As you may have noticed, I love houseplants and have been meaning to make some plant pot holders, so I decided to use this enforced downtime to have a play with some different stitches, types of yarn and colours. This is something I have been planning on doing for a while and in preparation for this I bought 2 different books which give hundreds of examples of types of crochet stitch. All I had to do was figure out how to use them.

This picture shows two of my finished items. The one on the right uses a very chunky white yarn and is in a stitch that mimics the look of a knitted stitch. The plant pot holder on the left shows a wave stitch that I saw in one of the crochet stitch directories that I wanted to try. I used 2 different yarns – one is in a very deep purple and the other is in several shades of blues and greens and both yarns are aran weight. I love the way the two different yarns work together to really show off the stitch pattern.

Other than using the directory for the basic wave stitch, I followed my own patterns to make both of these plant pot holders. This is something that I am finding more and more interesting and I am hoping in the not too distant future to launch a range of my own patterns through my Etsy store – keep an eye out!

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