The columnist’s current crochet project is a lavender clutch purse crocheted in linen yarn. Then I decided to crochet the purse flap from silky ribbon yarn that varies in color from pale peach to vibrant purple with pale brown thrown in for good measure. When the purse is finished, it will be the perfect place for my collection of crochet hooks â” everything from the tiniest size 14 I inherited from my grandmother to the jumbo size J that I havenât used since I went completely bonkers and crocheted a rug of cotton fabric ripped into narrow strips. This small volume may not be precisely an answer to the wildly popular âYarn Harlotâ by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, a collection of essays about knitting, but itâs a start and goes a long way toward making the case that crochet is not the ugly stepsister of knitting. Indeed, crochet has a beauty that holds its own against knitting, provided, of course, crochet is not dumbed-down in service to creating covers for extra rolls of toilet paper or covers for cell phones and other electronic devices.

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