I finished my work early one night recently and, taken by surprise by that event, looked around for something to fill a little time before bed. I decided to try crocheting with ribbon, pulled from my stash. I used PlanetJune’s Love Hearts pattern.
The white and gold heart was made with 1/8″ wire-edged ribbon and an E hook. The dark blue heart was made with a J hook and non-wired ribbon that had loops along the edge; without the loops it was a bit over 3/16″ wide, and with the loops it was 3/8″. They both turned out fairly sturdy and I think crocheted ribbon baskets and catch-alls would work quite well. The one difficulty with ribbon, that slows down the stitching, is that it wants to coil up into a nice corkscrew as you go along. I could probably have alleviated that by detaching it from the spool, but even once I did with the blue ribbon it still coiled until the free end was short enough to no longer drag on the floor. Instead I had to smooth it every stitch or three. It still didn’t take too long to make these hearts.