crocheted ties

I’m working on sewing a new summer wardrobe for myself at the moment.  I’ve got a busy busy busy summer and probably won’t have a lot of extra time for sewing until September.

I just discovered a pattern from Burda that’s turned into my new favorite shrug pattern.  I was able to cut it out of a small-ish piece of fabric, but didn’t have enough to make the ties.  I really didn’t want to have to leave my studio to go buy something, and didn’t have anything else that would match…

Until I looked in my yarn stash.

I found some sport-weight cotton yarn in the right shade of turquoise.  Time to pull out my trusty crochet hook!  I crocheted two looooong strands of single crochet – but they were awfully thin.  I was concerned that they might dig into my skin or break.  What’s a creative person to do?

Pull out a bigger crochet hook!

I crocheted the strand again, which made a soft, stretchy cord – perfect for doing this with:

The cord works beautifully, and better yet – I didn’t need to buy anything extra to complete the top

image: C Findlay-Harder