I like to crochet, but I tend to go in spurts. I’ll whip out several projects and then I won’t touch yarn for months. I am currently in one of those spurts. It started with a baby hat for an upcoming shower, and then I started staring at my basket of yarn, dreaming of all the other things I could make.

Last week, I went to my friend Lindsay’s house down the street and we made covers for our DSLR camera straps from scraps of fabric we had laying around. I like how mine turned out, but a few days later my dad offered me his old camera strap, which is plush (the neck part is high grade foam, oh yeah…) Of course I wanted to make this strap as pretty as the first one, but I wasn’t ready to wrestle with my sewing machine again. Then I had an idea – I’ll crochet a slip cover!

For this particular strap I used the standard 8 hook and regular weight, variegated yarn. I started a chain of 12, slip stitched into the 12th chain from the hook and began to work in single crochets around the circle until the piece was long enough to fit over the plush part of the strap. Then I tied off and sewed a long piece of yarn through each end, leaving tails.  After I slipped the cover over the strap, I pulled the tails tight, knotted them, and used the hook to pull them back underneath the cover, hidden from view. Simple and pretty!