Okay, I got off to a slow start on the whole self-inflicted Pinterest challenge. It was a little overwhelming. There are so many things I would like to try on Pinterest, and so little time (money) to try them all. I went back and forth on what to try. I kind of wanted to do something that involved gardening, but the weather didn’t want to cooperate.
Finally, life intervened. I am running a crowdfunding campaign to fund the renovations on my old beat up sailboat, and one of the rewards is an autographed sea bean from the s/v Sea Bean. (Clever, eh?) I had been procrastinating on ordering the sea beans for that. I guess part of me didn’t really believe that anyone would want to pay to watch me fix up a boat. Probably if I looked like a Brazilian supermodel… but I digress. Anyway, I got my first contributor and went “Eeek! I have no sea beans!”
So I ordered some sea beans really quickly, but I needed something to put them in. Macramé instantly sprang to mind. So I decided to make that my Pinterest challenge.
It went great. (cough cough- that should have been read in a super sarcastic tone). If you kind of squint your eyes a little, it looks pretty good. Kind of . If I were a five year-old.
The main problem is that as soon as I pulled the container out, I couldn’t get it back in right again. I accidentally tied the pieces of yarn in the wrong order. Obviously that wasn’t going to work.
So I went back to Pinterest. After scrolling through, getting distracted by sailboat pictures and cute dogs and then focusing on the problem again, I found this post.
It’s a net bag, but it’s crocheted. I can do that! So this became my challenge. I was going to use some cotton yarn that I have left over from a previous project, but then I saw the cutest yarn at Michael’s. I was powerless to resist. I mean seriously. Check out those colors!
I ended up accidentally making the bag a little too tall, so I tucked the handles through one of the loops so that the container of sea beans would hang down too low. So my net back looks a little like a milk bottle, but hey. At least it will keep the jar of sea beans contained even if the boat is moving.
Overall I feel like the Pinterest challenge was a success. There are a couple of things I would do differently next time I make a net bag, but I feel like I will be making more of these for the boat before too long, so I will definitely get the chance to improve my bag making technique.
For my next Pinterest challenge… I’m not sure yet. I’m still a little hung up on the idea of printing out the useful posts to make a survival binder. Even though that’s not technically a Pinterest project, it’s a project involving Pinterest posts. So I may do that. I haven’t decided. I’ll keep you posted.
Obligatory picture of me and one of my puppies on the boat.
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