Moonloops

January 2016

Remember summer?  If you live near me, on the East Coast, US, you are blanketed in two feet of snow.

Yet, spring is only a few months away.  This is the time to plan projects for warmer weather.   The long winter days are perfect to create cool lace designs for spring and summer knits.

Below is a spring project I completed last year for my garden.  I wasn’t satisfied with the look and price of commercial trellises.  Instead, I bought bulk twine at Bowen’s Farm Supply in Annapolis, MD for about twenty dollars and crocheted a trellis.  I still have plenty of yardage left for more twine projects.  I estimate this trellis cost me few dollars.

I strung the final work onto a frame of plant stakes.   The best part about the crochet trellis is that it held up under my heap of lima bean plants.  I was able to disassemble and store the trellis for my 2016 garden.

Crochet Trellis: I modified the pattern below to create the trellis.

I used a 21 chain, 11 stitch combo, with a 5 loop treble instead of a double crochet stitch. Instead of the trebles on rows 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. I inverted the pattern using the SC for the even rows and the 5 treble stitch for the odd rows.

Modified Row 6: *CH 11, SC st 11, CH 11, SC in 4th st of 5TR 5X, * CH 11 repeat …

Row 7: CH 21, 5 TR 11X into the top of the SC of previous row, CH 21, repeat.

Crochet Trellis Pattern

Pitsilised Koekirjad

August 2015

It is a steamy day in Annapolis, Maryland. My dog, Skylar, and I walked to the Winchester Beach to cool off. The Winchester Beach is located on the North Shore of the Severn River – a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. Skylar snacked on discarded Chesapeake crab carcasses that had been discarded in the tall grass from yesterday’s picnic while I daydreamed of knitting Lacey shawls with open breezy designs to shield me from the mosquitoes at dusk.