I think that every craft project needs another project on the side as a "sanity break". Otherwise, doing the same thing over and over and over would make one go stark raving looney right quick. :) Mind, I've got three unfinished projects hanging around and infinite unstarted ones, so I'm not the best example of how this should work, ideally. But it sounds good, anyway. *chuckle*
You know, even as a fellow crocheter, I keep reading it as "crotchety" -- and laugh, because let's face it, we've all had crotchety crocheting projects! Luckily, yours aren't in that category. :D I enjoyed watching you work on that lace last time we were there, it's really beautiful.
I got really, really thick variegated cotton once (I can't even begin to tell you what gauge), meant for rugs. Tried making a rag rug with it and some burlap... ahahaha, no. I'm not so good at that. Instead I worked it into one large afghan-sized granny square with triple-crochet. It covered our couch for a long time, now it's languishing in the basement, poor dear. But it was incredibly easy to work up, and lots of fun. Haven't seen its like since then, though, which is sad. Can't imagine making lace with it, of course, but it was a neat change from the yarns I'm used to using.
I find Wal-Mart has an incredible variety of good quality yarns (and quite a lot of cotton). Bernat Handicrafter's a pretty heavy gauge for the kind of work you're talking about, but it comes in every colour imagineable, and they usually have a wide range of it.
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You know, even as a fellow crocheter, I keep reading it as "crotchety" -- and laugh, because let's face it, we've all had crotchety crocheting projects! Luckily, yours aren't in that category. :D I enjoyed watching you work on that lace last time we were there, it's really beautiful.
I got really, really thick variegated cotton once (I can't even begin to tell you what gauge), meant for rugs. Tried making a rag rug with it and some burlap... ahahaha, no. I'm not so good at that. Instead I worked it into one large afghan-sized granny square with triple-crochet. It covered our couch for a long time, now it's languishing in the basement, poor dear. But it was incredibly easy to work up, and lots of fun. Haven't seen its like since then, though, which is sad. Can't imagine making lace with it, of course, but it was a neat change from the yarns I'm used to using.
I find Wal-Mart has an incredible variety of good quality yarns (and quite a lot of cotton). Bernat Handicrafter's a pretty heavy gauge for the kind of work you're talking about, but it comes in every colour imagineable, and they usually have a wide range of it.