Thrifting and Crocheting

This Saturday we went to Sebastopol again because we had some crafty stuff to donate to the Legacy Thrift Shop (which carries only craft items). My daughter had a huge box of yarn to donate so that she could make room in her closet for what else, more yarn. I love that shop and found some great lace and trims for some lingerie I plan to sew in the near future. In the meantime, I have been working on the aqua sweater and trying my hand at hairpin lace crochet. I made a hairpin device out of a paperclip and made some lengths of small-loop hairpin lace. To this I added some edgings and produced the top two edgings shown below.

It was lots easier for me to crochet into the hairpin lace than into a starting chain since I hate having to work with the skinny chain which twists around. These trims will be used on some Mexican Peasant Blouses which I plan to make for the daughters this summer.

Spring is late in arriving, and it is still cold at night here. The spouse is just getting the vegetable bed dug up and I have just begun to start the seed sprouting. When we had the semi-rotten deck replaced last year, the workmen really tore up the area around the deck, so I was afraid that the poppies would not come back this year. I was wrong:

I even have one pink poppy which I hope seeds itself all around.


This row of flower plants survived the winter and surprised us with blooms this month.