One of the cool things about crochet that actually is similar in many ways to jewelry making is that you can re-purpose a lot of the supplies. For example, you can take a beaded necklace apart and a large percentage of the materials are easily recycled into new jewelry. The same goes for yarn. With knitting or crochet if you don’t like how something is turning out, you can unravel and either start over or reuse the yarn for a different purpose.

Here’s another example of what I’m talking about pictured above. I was originally using the peach and brown variegated cotton yarn to make a purse. I stitched and stitched and then realized when I was pretty far into the project that I was not happy with how it was turning out. So I set it aside for awhile to rethink the design. I thought of a different approach, but that means different yarn. But no biggie because my crochet group is now making wash clothes for a woman’s shelter. Ta da, I unraveled the purse and now this yarn is making up into some handy wash clothes.