i did it ...

a few years back, i found a wonderful milk stool at an antique shop in the skagit valley ... it was even painted the most perfect clean white possible ... (i'm thinking perhaps this milk stool had not seen too many barns in its day) ...

for a few years, that lovely stool sat waiting quietly in the corner for the day that she would have a new seat cover ... she waited and she waited ...

and she waited ...

now i'm fairly new to crochet work and i've tried crocheting in the round a few times but each time i did the end result was a floppy flippy piece of fiber that looked more like a beach hat than anything that would lie flat ...

so yesterday's challenge to myself was to crochet my stool a lovely cover ... a lovely flat cover ...

so with trusty hook in hand and two "how to" crochet manuals on my lap, i got to the task ...

it grew and it grew ...

until finally, finally this afternoon, i completed my first flat seat cover ...

and i'm thinking perhaps it was worth the wait ...