Big Chunky

Yeah, well, that doesn't mean me!

A couple of days ago I went to visit one of my favourite crochet blogs  at http://fiddlyfingers.blogspot.ca/2013/02/spin-yarn.html and was instantly inspired!  Fiddly Fingers is in the UK and has some unique projects...  I'll let you visit and discover some of her other stuff for yourself (after you finish reading this post, of course)

My friend Doris gave me some really chunky yarn that she had picked up from someone else and could not find a good use for, so silly me took it and stuck it on a shelf behind my TV watchin' Chair...

Well, when I saw FiddlyFingers blog post, I remembered the super chunky yarn that seemed to have no good purpose and realized, it had found its purpose....

So.

 

 

An adventure in super chunky crochet, plus adding a regular worsted weight yarn, just to add another element...

The end result being a chunky crochet basket, and as luck would have it, not just any basket, but a basket that perfectly fit around a cookie tin...

 

Cheap cookies from Christmas time, with only the empty tin still hanging about the house...

 

 

The crochet basket, before it found that cookie tin...

 

And finally the cookie tin, combined with the crochet basket...  The lid to the tin will probably go into the recycle bin and the tin and basket looks like it will find a use in my sewing room, to hold some of my smaller notions, like sewing machine feet, needle packs and maybe a few other bits...

Now those balls of chunky yarn need not haunt me for another day, as they have found their rightful place in the world...

Thanks Fiddly Fingers!!