I’ve been hard at work with the crafting. More flow than ebb these days. I already mentioned the crochet store I found, but I wanted to talk a little more about it. Any crocheter knows that knitting is more popular. Handicrafts are more and more trendy, and knitting is the latest craze. You can find knitting patterns for almost anything. It’s a little harder to find crochet patterns. That’s why I was particularly excited to find a place called the Crochet Cafe! ( I think she’s just getting started with her website.)

She only opened a month or so ago, but it’s gorgeous in there. All kinds of cool, specialty yarns. Most of them are a little too high end for me - I can’t see myself buying six or seven skeins of special $14/ea. yarn to make an afghan. The whole appeal of crocheting for me is that it’s cheap and fast.

While I was wandering around in there, I chose three skeins of yarn - all around $6. One for me, one for my sister, and one for my friend Mel - my fool-la (fake doula). So, of course, I made my own scarf first - to ward off the chilly Southern California summer :) ha ha. I got the pattern online, but I can’t find it now to give the lady credit.

But this is the jist of the pattern:

Row 1:Ch 270
Row 2:ch 1, sc in each ch
Row 3:ch 3, dc in second sc, ch 1, skip next sc - repeat this until the end
Row 4:repeat row 3
Row 5:ch 1, sc in each dc and ch across
Row 6:ch 1, sc in each sc across, finish off
Add fringe if you want.