For some reason I found myself in the handyman aisle of the supermarket one day – Among all the strange tools I founds these balls of twine and I immediately thought “I can crochet something out of this”!?
Unfortunately the twine turned out to be too inflexible and I could not even make the loops to get started… Thus I put it away as a mis-purchase.
Then one day as I was lying on the beach catching some necessary rays it struck me… What if I crochet around the twine instead??!! All of a sudden I could not wait to leave the beach and get started. However my friend kindly told me to enjoy this day – the twine and yarn would still be there in the evening, but the sun would not!

Crocheted Toiletry Set

Once settled in my sofa with my yarn, hook AND twine at hand I started. I thought “keep the stitches simple as the twine will add to the texture” I started with a magic circle without the twine but added it to the second round – and guess what?? The twine worked with me… it laid it’s before inflexible thread smoothly along my loops and so I continued switching between single crochets and chains adding stitches each round till my work had the diameter I wanted for the cylinder.
As I worked on upwards, I thought this would look lovely in my bathroom. It had a crisp serenity to it due to the texture and the natural colour scheme.
With this in mind it was clear to me that I could no longer live without a place to store my make-up brushes, eyeliner, lipliner and what else we girls have acquired throughout the years!?

Now that I had a place for my brushes etc. I felt that some of my other toiletry products needed new quarters as well. So I ventured out in making a box using the same principles as with the cylinder.
This time I started by chaining 11 and worked two rounds without the twine. I added this in the third round. Again the twine was very compliant, so when I had the desired size square I worked my way up

Camilla

Homemade & Heartmade