Hookers N’ Junkies

 Greetings! I have finally gotten off my heiny to post, which is horribly shameful as I’ve had the ability to since this site was started. In reparation, let me tell you a story:

Once upon a weekend, there was a cottage. And in that cottage, there were three stitch n’ bitchers.

One stitch n’ bitcher brought a string bikini with her. One brought a bikini top she had crocheted.

The third stitch n’ bitcher didn’t own a bikini. However, she was enticed to try on the string bikini and was pleased. She also saw the clever pattern of the crocheted bikini, which was unlike any bikini top pattern she had ever seen.

This percolated in the back of her mind for two weeks. Then, one evening, the third stitch n’ bitcher looked at her yarn stash and her collection of crochet hooks and It All Clicked.

This is the end result. Hooray for figuring out how to access Photo Booth! I finished it this afternoon, after a day of hard, hard labour:

It’s made out of DK-weight Patons Grace, with a 3.5mm hook. I eyeballed it for the size, which in this case turned out to be 32 foundation single crochet on the base row. I did 20 rows of single crochet, then stopped row 21 at stitch 16 and did another 18 half-width rows for a total of 39. The final piece was seamed to make a cupped equilateral triangle. I joined the two pieces on the edging row, chaining out 80 stitches at the top and sides and coming back on the butt side of the chain to make a sturdy string and continue on with the next side.

If it weren’t so persistently icky today (two thunderstorms, enough rain to drench my garden and one funnel cloud warning), I’d have worn it outside already.

Ah, well, there’s always tomorrow…

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