Getting my "Craft" back

In the pub, one evening, someone asked, "Who can crochet me a hot water bottle cover?"

Someone volunteered me.

Not one to pass up a challenge, this is the result.

The new owner says, "It's too pretty to put on my feet!"

Methinks I have a happy customer!

Oh, and after sharing another project on IG, a friend asked, "Are you now taking orders?"

And, "I have some wool, and I just cannot knit or crochet. Can you use it?"

My answer to the first was a vague, "No, but if you ask, I will..." and I happily accepted the wool.

She asked, so I made this pair of mittens (fingerless gloves) with some of that yarn (to be technical).

Her response:

"They are so cool!"

She donned them, the instant I handed them over the gate!

Next challenge? Said first happy customer asked if I could make a tea cosy. I tentatively accepted.

I swirled around the interweb and rejected everything it, and AI, spat at me and used my brain.

And there she is: a little tea cosy experiment.

Never to be replicated - in those colours, anyway - those were scraps. The next one will be much larger, so I will have to adjust the pattern and, I suspect, it will be in very different colours. Her new owner is delighted. Repeat customers - although that was never the plan - are always the best!

PS Crochet and knitting are, at the moment, a kind of meditation as I "live" through my longer than planned reno and the other crud that RL seems to be chucking at me right now. Call it sanity-preserving.

Until next time

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