Somehow I failed to mention in my last post that my whole crochet thread kick is because I want to make a crochet overskirt.  In fact, I was telling my friends in January that it was one of my plans for the year.  Sonya of Wax and Wool was nice enough to let me dip into her stash of crochet cotton.  But then life got busy.

Now that I have more time to craft,  I've got thread crochet on the brain.  Friday night as I was falling asleep I got a novel idea for overskirt construction.  I was unbelievably comfortable and it was unbelievably late, but I *still* got up and made a note because I didn't want to forget!

And this little sketch was all I needed to get me crocheting.  I spent all my free time this weekend exploring this technique.

The work evolves as you move from left to right.  I started out with fsc verticals, then made fsc verticals with rows of sc around them, then started actually linking my chain loops to each other (instead of just sorta linking them).

I still have some other ideas to try out with this design.  I'm not sure which one would work best for an overskirt.  I'm not sure I'll know until I've made the whole darn thing.  But I *am* sure that I love the way this pattern looks, and if I don't use it for the overskirt, I'm definitely going to use it for something.