The Other Cotton

I crocheted like a woman possessed today, and I'm not done yet! But I pause now to introduce some of my new products. Today I finished up some bookmarks. I bought two skeins of ultra smooth yarn last month for swiffer covers, but thicker kitchen cotton makes stronger grooves for cleaning. The mercerized cotton is perfect for bead work and individual strands of tight stitches though!

My favorite bookmark is a belt type with a heavy gold heart at one end and an adjustable loop that fits around my book. I like that one for my big hardcovers but it is too heavy for my paperbacks. Today, I solved that problem with these universal bookmarks. They have beads on them for weight and style, and the strands are thin enough to work in any book.


I made a cute lariat last night of pink and green recycled cotton, and then I took it apart this morning to use as a bookmark instead. This is cute, eco-friendly and very easy to use.  Just drape it across the page and the flower peeks out the top and the leaf hangs out the bottom of the book.  No worries if you're using it in a very large book, it lays nice and flat.

As my experiments with cotton continue, I made something extremely unique.  Introducing a crochet scarf made of a corn and cotton blend yarn.  Yes, CORN.

The yarn is wonderfully smooth, soft and sturdy.  It came together into a huge 8-foot scarf that drapes any way you want it to.  It is one of my higher priced items, but it took a large amount of yarn to put this together.  I searched all over the web for days for something else like this and I came up empty.  I can say with confidence that this a unique scarf.

I wish I could be around when the person wearing it gets to tell people what it's made of!   I tried it on and I fell in love with it.  Soft, snuggly and sturdy, this is a great piece.