What is it about containers that compels us so? Little places of safekeeping? When I was a teenager I would take the train into Manhattan and head for a store called Takashimaya. It was a department store that sold everything under the sun. Looking back it was probably a Japanese version of Walmart. But I was drawn to a department that sold transparent, colored acrylic plastic container. Hard little brilliant jewel colored rectangles and squares of plastic with tight fitting lids. The magpie brain was always overwhelmed and ever covetous.
As I got older the compulsion switched to baskets which are everywhere in my studio stuffed to the gills and woefully disorganized. When two dimensional design ideas fail me, I take up the crochet hook and some heavy cotton string and set to my version of basket making. A memory from some former institutional life no doubt. Here we have some pseudo Boston bean pots and a few wild ones complete with tails. (for scale, those are one quart mason jars they are perched on, drying out)
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Love them, Deb! I was inspired by you and recently began crocheting a little bag out of crochet thread I used for shibori wrapping...I have some beautiful ombre threads, but alas, my hands don't like to crochet any longer, especially that size 10 thread! I'll leave it to you to crochet little bags.
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