Hello Yellow!

A few years ago Furls came out with their Odyssey line of crochet hooks. I had been using their Candy hooks, but these metal tipped ones looked so awesome. Ever since, I've been saying, if they make a yellow Odyssey hook I'll buy a whole set. Well the time finally came! I signed up for early access to purchase them. I went online and the second they became available I ordered an entire set E--O, well minus the G+. For a while now, I've slowly been building up my Furls Odyssey hook set by getting each hook size in a different color. They are easier to tell apart that way. So I've known for a while now that they have issues with the teeny weeny size label staying attached to the bottom of the hook. I've know this, I'm sure they know this also. I was just using a fine paint pen to write the size on the bottom of the hook, but I upped my game with my beautiful new yellow set. I saw where some people on Facebook had been getting tiny letter labels from the scrapbook section of the craft store and sticking them on. So that's what I did yesterday. I found these little guys at Michael's. They are the smallest I could find. There were some gold circle ones with white letters, but I wanted black. I wasn't sure if they were small enough. When I got home I gathered my work supplies and got busy.

So here's what I did. First I had to scrap off the label Furls put on the end. They have really improved on their label because I had a hard time scratching them off. Unfortunately the white letter was impossible to see on the yellow background. I used cuticle scissors to trim away as much of the clear sticker as I could while I held on to it with tweezers. I lined up the letter how I liked it and pressed it on really good. Then to make sure they don't fly off, I put a layer of UV light curable clear nail gel polish over the top. I used the Sensationail Gel Polish Kit I got at Target if you are interested. It's a cheap home level gel nail polish kit. You can also get it on Amazon.

I think they came out awesome! I'm going to work on labeling my Candy hooks with these letters also.

My Lemon Peel Washcloth

Here is my very first pattern I have ever typed up. Even though I can make these washcloths from memory I imagine I'll one day forget it and be mad that I never typed it up. So here it is, my own lemon peel washcloth pattern.

I used Lily Sugar & Cream Cotton yarn with my Yellow Furls Odyssey H hook. I originally was making these with an I hook but it was too loose. If you've ever make anything with this cotton yarn, you'll know when it gets wet, it stretches. So hence the smaller hook size. Also this yarn has a tendency to hold a lot of excess dye. I have found that after you use it a few times and wring it out really well that extra dye stops bleeding.

I taught myself to crochet by making washcloths to sell in my vendor tent when I sold my soap at local music festivals. That was, I think, over 5 years ago. Ever since, I haven't made any more washcloths. Now a days I sell my soap at a few gift shops here in town and my friend that runs one of them asked me to start making them again. She said they would make a nice gift set for the holidays paired with my soap. That and the fact that we had hurricane Dorian baring down on us for what seemed like a week, I had time on my hands to make them. I actually made about 8 washcloths before I tweaked the pattern enough to make it my own and just the way I like them. Make as many as you want. Sell washcloths if you'd like, just don't sell the pattern or claim it as your own.

I forgot to add, this makes a washcloth that is 9.25" x 9.25".

The pattern is on the File Download page titled "My Lemon Peel washcloth", linked at the top.

Washcloth before finishing the hanging loop

Welcome

This will be my first Blog ever. Mainly I'm doing this because I made my first crochet pattern and I need somewhere to store it. I added the pattern to Raverly but I think I have to have the pattern pdf uploaded someplace else to link it in the listing. I could be wrong, I'm no internet genius.