By The Beautiful Sea

Okay, so I'm not actually By The Beautiful Sea.... but a girl can dream.....and I am always dreaming of the sea and it's sandy shores and the mysterious creatures that live beneath its glorious surface. What could be more intriguing than a magical starfish?! They almost look like the stuff of fairy tales and mermaid legends to me.  Ever since my first glimpse of one as a child I've been smitten. 

So imagine my pure delight when I tuned into one of my favorite places to visit ~ KNITALATTE which you can find at :
http://karenlcase.blogspot.com ~  and discovered these lovely STARFISH DISHCLOTHS twinklilng across the front of her beautiful blog. If you pay her a visit you can click on the link to download the free pattern. I couldn't get that to happen here. Sorry! {Truth is I don't have a Son~in~law about the house at the moment to walk me through it!}. But this way you'll get to visit Karen if you haven't already ~ and you'll just LOVE her! :)

Once I started crocheting these I had so much fun messing around with different color combinations I just couldn't stop myself! By the time one evening passed and the next afternoon rolled away I was surrounded by 5 of them! YAY! There were stars dripping from my fingertips like manna from heaven.

"I have pined for the sight of the sea for years-

Pined amid hoping, and wished amid fears;

And my heart grew glad, and it bounded in glee

At the sight of the broad expanse of the sea.

The sea, the beautiful, beautiful sea-

Beautiful, boundless, joyful and free!"

Taken from The Beautiful Sea

By Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert