It’s crochet city up here around Washington DC. Ladies are wearing fine thread crochet tops. Some are worn over solid color tops. Some are lined. Our group ate supper in malls the last two nights, and we saw those cute crochet tops in lots of shop windows.
Crochet is all over accessories, too. Claire’s Accessories, the best girl store I know, had thread crochet-covered headbands and journal covers. Individual crochet flowers crop up as decoration on all kinds of stuff. Handbags are either crocheted or have lots of crochet in the construction or trim. And we saw lots of crochet shawls and ponchos.
Then there was the skirt in pinapple-pattern crochet, lined with white. Eva thought it looked great. “I made one like that, years ago,” I said. How many years ago? About 25. It was originally lined in white, but now in green, which is Eva’s favorite color. I promised to find it for her. Check back, because I’ll post a photo of it.
Guess I can also haul out the pretty pineapple-crochet shawl I made about the same time as the skirt, and I’ll be on the cutting edge of fashion.
We have a couple of hours at the Smithsonian Museums tomorrow, and we’ve tentatively agreed to see the First Ladies’ Inaugural Ball Gowns. Can’t wait!
March 20, 2006: Here are the pics of the crochet skirt. Couldn’t resist including our wisteria in one of the shots. My memory was pretty good about when I made the skirt. It was in a show called “Tying the Knot,” a show of wedding clothes and accessories at Hill Country Weavers, Austin, Texas, in 1982.