Mortaine’s Blog

I finished a craft project last night!

5 years ago on my honeymoon, I made an open-weave crochet bag using white cotton yarn (Sugar n’ Spice) and a pattern some friends gave me at my bridal shower. I liked the bag, but decided it was too open-weave to really hold anything of weight (like, books– the #1 thing I like to put into bags).

So, I bought more cotton yarn and set about making a similar bag, but using all single crochets instead of the open-weave chains that the other bag used. I kind of did it “wrong” in that instead of chain2 and sc all the way around, I forgot about the chain 2s and ended up making it more spirally (so the crochet “pattern” lines are in a slight diagonal).

And then, of course, I set it aside for a while.

And a while.

And… a while.

Well, last weekend, after I got as far on the rainbow blanket as I could, I pulled out the cotton bag start (I’d gotten about 2 inches up from the bottom, so not very far) and started working on it again. I finished it last night– it’s a bookbag with a very wide strap. It’s all white except for a single crochet edge all along the top, which gives it a “finished” look that I really like. I’ll post pics later sometime, when I pull out the camera.

I also feel good because this has actually decluttered my life a little. I now have one small skein of red yarn left, which I’ll throw into the holiday wrapping paper box, and a small amount (maybe an ounce) of white cotton yarn, which will also go into the holiday wrapping box, since I often use yarn to tie up gifts in a decorative manner.

Oh, and yesterday I did my FlyLady decluttering for the bedroom– I had set myself the task of decluttering the top of my dresser. Well, I had about 3 things to put away– that was it. That made me very happy!

Today’s mission is to dust my bedroom, which is usually no big hardship with my FlyLady duster. Perhaps I will also zap some clothes out of the closet or drawers!

I should probably also do some cleaning in the bathroom, which is kind of joined with the Master Bedroom zone. The bathroom is…. ew.