Beach Cover-Up

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I just started yet another new project. Three of the four I have going right now aren't terribly portable, and the fourth is driving me crazy at the moment. I started a wrap-around short skirt meant for going over a swimsuit. It's a very open stitch made with worsted-weight cotton. I'm not sure I like how it's going to turn out. The cotton may end up doing very weird things after about the fourth wash, and definitely won't hold up to lots of sitting on any sort of rough surface, so it's not going to make a good general-purpose skirt. But it should be okay as a swim/shower cover-up. And I'm going to look for other materials for another one that might wear better. Mostly, I'm doing it to practice following directions and to learn another new stitch (a variation of a shell). It did get me a nice conversation on the light rail. The guy sitting next to me asked if I was making a sweater. I said no, a mini-skirt and showed him the picture. Oh, nice! Very open, it'll look great, he said. Wait, I didn't mean like all sexy or... he trailed off. I told him no worries, thanks for the compliment. I'd taken him at face value with the 'nice'. :) It led to a conversation that took us through ADD (crochet as a fidget for those of us with it), hobbies, his phone, watching a few people around us, and something else before he was finally distracted by a phone call on his cell.
Anyway, one of the nice things about this project is how little time it's going to take me, relative to the other four things I have going right now. I got 1/6 of the way done in about 2 hours, and it's something I can work on just about anywhere, so I should have it done in no time. Unlike that other skirt I'm working on. Which unravels itself if I even look at it. Feh.