Breaking News! Crochet is now THE fashion trend of Los Angeles! And we can thank designer, crocheter, and occasional mental patient Pam Douglas for her fashion forward vision to bring crochet bikinis back into the fashion spotlight! Oh, and that last stay at the hospital was a big help since it gave her lots of time to polish her crochet skills and crochet lots of weird hats too!

Yes, I admit it: I’m a Bold and the Beautiful viewer of many years now. It’s not so much that I’m ashamed of watching a soap opera; it’s more the fact that I watch this particular soap because it is probably the worst one on TV! Twenty years ago when I first got sucked in, it was pretty decent, full of fashion shows and glitz and glam. Now, so many years later, I have to wonder if the writers just take the script, cross out characters’ names and replace them with other characters’ names, and hand it to the poor actors who have to play these old storylines over and over again.

At least the crochet storyline is something new, and I’m tickled that they’ve somehow woven crochet into it, even if the designer is a nut job. Played by Ally Mills, Pam makes a crochet bikini for a women she tried to kill at one point by tying her up, pouring honey all over her, and having a bear almost eat her, but that was all because of the brain tumor that was making her crazy. Her crochet bikini is a peace offering that gets the attention of one of the top fashion houses in the world, Forrester Creations! Now, she has got to crochet something like a 1,000 bikinis because they are the rage of the LA fashion world.

Here’s her latest creation modeled by Dr. Bridget Forrester. She’s just topping by this guy’s house on her way to the hospital where she will probably cure cancer.