I took a 2 hour course on crochet, and I have now completed my 29th dishcloth! I am in a dishcloth making frenzy. The last few years I created oodles of knitted scarves, culminating in my triumphant finish of a grey men's merino wool scarf that was knitted with 6.0 knitting needles and contained over 10,000 stitches! It was my masterpiece! Then I put down the needles and took a long rest from that 2 year project. I know I could have finished it earlier, but I must suffer from some type of attention deficit as I had the hardest time concentrating on that piece! One stitch, over and over until you hit 10,000 and then you put the needles down! have I mentioned that I only have one stitch? I know no others, I continue back and forth until the scarf is long enough! You want choice, choose a color or a different size of needles, the pattern never changes. :)
I keep telling myself that I am crocheting all of the dishcloths to get better at learning my tension as I have a project in mind that I am wanting to do. It is a long tubular bag that you carry over your shoulder with straps that come from the bottom to the top, somewhere between a backpack and a duffel bag? I saw a woman with one and I coveted it immediately. I want to do it in a beautiful khaki green, with a couple of soft pink stripes somewhere around the top of it, with a wool yarn and then felt it. Felting is cool and I have been doing it for years and never even knew it. You know those beautiful cashmere sweaters, or wool sweaters that you put in the wash and then the dryer and they come out all thick and shrunk? Well you've been felting! This is a skill that I should be good at, as I have loads of experience. I have been a couple of places on the internet looking for the replica of what I am looking for, and it is exhaustive looking at bag after bag and not seeing what you are wanting. I have also been to a few stores and looked through magazines and books to no avail. I am not even sure what will happen when I do find a pattern, I don't know how to read them. They are all c28, dh44, codes that mean nothing to me! I need help. Perhaps someone will show up to our community meeting that knows how to read a crochet pattern and they can assist me.
Anyways, getting back to my dishcloths. I now have started my 30th, and you may wonder, what on earth is she going to do with them all? Good question. If you know me, you will probably find a ribbon wrapped round a couple of them this Christmas! I already gave the first three away. My first prized one I gave to my best friend, and the next two I gave to two girls at my work. The other 26 of them are tucked in a drawer at home waiting for xmas. They are made with 100% cotton, so they should hold up well, and I managed to find large balls of this yarn at Walmart's for only $7.77 (what is it with Walmart and their ridiculous pricing methods!?!) and I am getting approx. 8 or 9 dishcloths out. I went to a craft market the other day, they are sold for 2.50 each on average. Ok, so here is the math! How exciting!
I can do one dishcloth per day riding the skytrain in and out of work, if I work 48 weeks per year and manage one every workday that is:
48weeks times 5days = 240 dishcloths in a year.
On average it costs approxiamately .91 cents in textiles to complete a dishcloth that I can sell at 2.50, so my profit per dishcloth would be:
2.50 less .91 = 1.59
If I make 240 of them per year, that would be a sweet sweet profit of:
1.59 times 240 = $381.60
woot! woot! In ten years, I could afford a 1 week holiday in Cancun! How sweet is that!
ok, I am kidding. But I am pretty stoked about crochet, it is the ability to focus in on a simple project, and forget about all that is bothering you, a form of meditation. The silence of my mind when I am busy with crochet is a welcome relief at times.
Get out there and crochet!
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