It was a riot of green and gold last Friday night at Dublin’s homecoming football game. Girls and boys of all ages wore gorgeous mums. One girl had a crocheted mum. Yes, it was Eva!
I suggested a homecoming corsage with a crocheted mum as one of the projects in Crochet Bouquet. After a short but meaningful silence, my editor, Linda Kopp, said, “I think that’s too regional.”
“Really?” I said in a shocked tone.
Linda asked around the office. Her colleagues from New York and California said, “Huh?” Apparently, wearing big, fancy, colorful, crazy, and expensive flowers to a football game is a southern thing. Maybe only a Texas thing?
But I persevered! Instructions for how to make your own homecoming mum appear here.
If you go truly crazy buying ribbon, you might spend only half as much as you would if you bought a ready-made homecoming mum. Otherwise, I think you will save about 2/3 of the ready-made price. Also, you don’t have to crochet the flower. You can substitute a silk mum.