Thrifty Crochet

As I work on the mindless and infinitely relaxing Sherwood throw, I'm also thinking about what I want to do for the month ahead. I'd like to make some smaller projects this month -- maybe some amigurumi -- and also something in green for St. Patrick's Day. I really need to get back to organizing my stash, too. I've done a little work on this but I used quite a bit in February, and I also have more yarn I've recently thrifted to add to it. I'll also be looking around for a project this month for which I can use my thrifted Sweet Roll multiples. Here's a screenshot of the free Monkey Bread throw pattern Premier has on their web site, and it looks really pretty. I'm not sure I want to do something that complicated, but if I work in some other solid white yarn I can make the medium or large size version of the pattern. I'm toying with the idea of designing my own throw pattern now. It would be a four row repeat with V, cluster, dou...

The first project I completed in February was this big beautiful basket made from thrifted baby boucle yarns. I crocheted a much smaller basket to hold the wipes I use for my glasses following this slightly confusing free pattern from Yarnspirations. I finished chrocheting the Iris throw. As threatened, I made a second big beautiful basket from thrifted baby bouncle yarns, which I still dislike but don't hate as much as I did in the past. :) I made a mystery pattern that a friend challenged me to try, which I finished in five days using worsted yarn. After seeing the results she told me it's the trendy 6 day star blanket. Oops. Guess I crocheted too fast. :) Finally I crocheted about one third to one half of a straight granny stitch throw I'm making in forest colors (I'm not sure how large I want to make it yet.) I got a lot done, and I also used 34-1/4 skeins of thrifted yarn from my stash, which was one and quarter more skeins than I used in J...