Crocheting with fishing line

Crocheting with fishing line can be finicky and a bit frustrating because the nature of  such filament is not to make stitches.

I came across a few spools of different weight fishing line in a  box at a garage sale,  two small aluminum crochet hooks elasticed (there is now a verb for the word elastic) to this larger wooden one and a bag of beach glass and pretty stones. 

Crocheting with the fine line and a thin hook was okay but I soonest switched to the thicker line and this wooden crochet hook.  Ahhhh.  Much easier to sort out the spaces in the clear ‘yarn’.  I hadn’t anything in mind – was  ‘playing’ – but the bag of stones was  on the table so I made a small basket.

And put some of the stones in it.  And wondered who had gathered the beach glass and where and how it came to be at the sale for the Philharmonic. 

I left the two ends of the fibre long until I discover how to attach it securely because fishing line has a way of frogging all on its very own.  Is there a knot that is up to such tricks?  Would a touch of heat ‘stick’ the end to the body? 

Then it occurred to me how the beauty of beach glass intensifies with being in water, being in the element that turned it from a sharp broken shard into a round smooth piece.

The basket got submerged.  The glass came alive.  The fishing line took on the aura of something ethereal that would melt at the touch.  I am thinking it could be suspended in a glass cylinder of water.  Or in some sort of simple waterfall like hanging from the curved tap in the kitchen or bathroom sink  so the water runs through it.