Red Heart Sashay

Every needleworker needs to make one of these at some point, right? I picked up a ball of this stuff on sale for less than $3.00.

The yarn does all the work. It's actually a net that's a couple of inches wide. You simply knit it in rows of 3 or 4, or you crochet it. Instead of manipulating yarn between knitting needles or around a crochet hook, you use the little ladders that are along the top edge. Here's what it looks like off the ball.

To crochet, you catch up 10 of the ladders on your hook, and you pull the one closest to the hook end up through all the others. That's why it ruffles. Then you catch up 10 more until the whole ball is gone.

If I had knitted it, I would have put four of the little ladders on a needle and start knitting away. It seemed a little more complicated, what with having to manipulate the yarn all in a wad.

It's supposed to be about a 2 hour job. I'm sure I spent more than that.

Cheers!