Bottle Cap Trivet

Here is some more of my new found skill of crochet.  I made a tea trivet.  Too bad I don't have a tea pot to put on it.  Too bad I don't drink tea often.  Why did I make this?  'Cause it's cool and you have to drink beer in order to make it.  Ok, DH drank beer because I was pregnant at the time and I just stole the bottle caps from the beer bottles.  I think there is an orange soda cap in there somewhere.  Why did I make this???

Making this is pretty basic and I stuck to my usual MO of only half following the directions.  If you look at the pattern, there is a very tricky step when you have several stitches all on your hook at once.  Then it magically doesn't.  I decided I didn't want to follow this step and it's the bottom of the trivet, so who is going to be looking at it?  No one.  I just decreased the stitches and was still able to easily put the bottle cap inside my little crochet circle, so it all worked out in the end.

The only thing I would of done differently is use more colors.  Even though I have several small balls of left over sock yarn, I only have two of light-weight sock yarn.  The medium weight is just too heavy for this project.  One day I may come back to this project.  Maybe add some circles so that I can use it in the kitchen.  Or make matching coasters for the tea cups that I don't use.  Why did I make this?

I know why I made it.  For the BattleStar Galactica game that I am playing.  One of the missions was to make something by reducing, reusing or recycling.  I reused bottle caps and made them into a tea trivet.  It's all in good fun.