A Bluestocking Knits

You'd think that with all of the time on my hands these days I might have started earlier with homemade Mothers' Day presents, but alas, no — my excuse is that I thought I had another week!  I had decided to make some bookmarks, being eminently mailable as well as useful.  Luckily my "swatch" one was good enough to use for the real thing, so I only had to stay up late last Thursday night madly crocheting another one …

The one on the left is the Rectangle Granny Bookmark by Deb of Neatly Tangled, in ecru DMC no.8 perle cotton.  This one has a new-to-me method of starting in the center, making sort of ur-clusters in the set-up row ("DC in each of the next 3 chs"), then working the granny clusters along the bottom (chain) edge and careening round the end to work another line of granny clusters along the other edge.  I might wish I'd done this in two colors — maybe the edging in an elegant white — but there it is.  It has a handsome plain simplicity this way, at least.  The one on the right is the Pretty Lace Crochet Bookmark by Kara Gunza of Petals to Picots, in I think no.10 crochet cotton (lost the ball band long ago …) in a lovely light blue.  I'm not sure why the scallops aren't symmetrical — presumably my own doing, as they look alright in the original photo!