ONE STITCH AT A TIME

Small Transformations

Can add up to much larger ones

Leslie Stahlhut
5 min readJun 19, 2019

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I have been working on a project for almost eighteen months now.

It started off as a bit of a lark. Someone at an online crafting community I belong to saw that in the “about me” section of my community profile I had said the following:

I like to make afghans….

And I do.

I love making new designs and crocheting all of the pieces and then fitting them together.

The crochet pieces left behind

But like any creative effort, there is a lot of crochet flotsam and jetsam in the wake of all that creativity. In order to get to the things that do work, you first have to find out what doesn’t work. You revise your work based on what you have learned, and then you try again.

What that means in a practical sense is that there are a lot of crochet leftovers that don’t make the cut.

Here is one such remnant from an exploration that didn’t quite pan out:

A bright green crochet yo-yo
A crochet yo-yo

I made it in August of 2011 as I tried to decide what I would make for my annual North Carolina State Fair piece.

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Leslie Stahlhut

Crocheter on a mission to make the world a better place — one stitch at a time. Twitter: @crochetbug. Crochet blog: https://www.crochetbug.com