Really, it makes sense.  I had had an unused Indian block print bedspread in my closet for some time.  There was one matching decorative pillow cover.  I decided to use the bedspread on my bed and get a pillow insert to use with the pillow cover.  I loved the bedspread on my bed.  It is a green and off-white bamboo print.  It’s cool and refreshing and just lovely.  And I liked the pillow cover.  But I prefer to have a lot of decorative pillows on my bed, not just one.  And this brings me to the thing that I wanted and didn’t have.  I wanted more pillows on my bed.

In the meantime, I had something I didn’t need.  When I bought the pillow insert for the pillow for my bed, I also bought a couple of extra pillow inserts for other decorative pillow covers I have that match my couch.  But I got the wrong size.  And I didn’t notice it until I had unwrapped the pillows.  I don’t know if the store would have taken them back without the plastic wrapper, but I didn’t really feel right trying to do it.  So I decided to keep the extra pillow covers and see if I could find something to do with them.

And of course the answer is obvious.  I should use the extra pillow inserts on my bed.  All I need are a couple of decorative pillow covers that match the bedspread.  That shouldn’t be too hard to do, should it?  I would need to buy some fabric to make the covers, or maybe I could find some coordinating covers online or something.  And then I got the idea that I wanted to crochet them.  I don’t know why I thought that was the answer.  But the bamboo cover is just so springlike that I thought a nice crochet would be just the thing.

Now, I have crocheted before.  I tried to make a bedspread.  I learned all the crochet stitches and did a lot of work.  But I lost steam as I went along and never finished.  I knew I could crochet the pillow covers but I didn’t remember the stitches and would be lost trying to read the pattern.  Single crochet?  Treble crochet?  What was that again?

So I needed a book of simple crochet instructions.  I needed to be taught to do the stitches again.  And I needed a simple but elegant pattern that I could use for my pillow covers.

I looked online.  There are lots of sites that sell simple crochet instructions.  And there are some that even give them away.  But I wanted to find a book that I could hold in my hands (an ebook would do, just so that I could download it and refer to it).  A screen wouldn’t do.  And it needed to be user-friendly.  I wanted to like the look and the tone of it. 

I’m glad I decided on Crochet Mastery.  You can have a look at it if you click on the picture on the side of this blog.  It gives simple crochet instructions, just as I was looking for, based on fundamentals that I never learned the first time I tried to do crochet.  And the crochet projects are great.  They also offer four different books as bonuses.  (You can read more about them by clicking on the sidebar.)  It’s really a great value.  In fact, it’s on sale for a limited time. 

If you want to learn to do crochet for the first time, or to relearn the process, you should read this book.  I’m so glad I did.

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