Crochet Madness
For the past month or so, I’ve been juggling freelance, slacking off, and a large crochet project. Since the cat is out of the bag (i.e. the gift has been given to its new owners) I can post about my crochet madness. I made a large afghan for my friends who are getting married in September.
Mom helped me pick out a pattern that is relatively simple for my beginner skills. And let’s face it, I don’t have much patience for reading patterns; not to mention all that counting!!! I’m not sure why I don’t like reading directions. It’s not so much that I don’t read them; I skim. And take off running because I’d much rather be doing something than sitting there reading the Greek that is a crochet pattern. As it was, I think I tore out the first row about 4 times until I had the precise number of stitches. UGH. Anyway, the pattern was easy enough to learn once and and not have to look at again, until the end.
I might not want to mention this, because my friend might be reading, but I’m going to anyway. So I stitched away and at some point in the middle, I realized I had screwed up the pattern some 20 rows back: there were supposed to be 8 stitches between sections, and somehow I was only 7 on one section and then 9 on another!!! I had gotten too confident, brainlessly cranking along on auto-pilot that I had stopped counting along the way. Luckily, it wasn’t too noticeable, or I would have pulled it out. I fixed the problem going forward, and didn’t make another mistake for the rest of the project! As my grandmother always said, the little mistakes make it special and home-made.
At least my mistakes didn’t ruin the piece. Also, I finished it on-time for the shower and my friend really loves it!! Hurray! Now, on to the next project: Macrame!
It looks beautiful! And your grandma is so right, a little imperfection makes it perfect :) I still haven’t started tackling the sweater pattern you gave me… I need to get some yarn still LOL
OMG, that’s supposed to be simple. Great work!
Your grandma is a smart woman! Also makes it unique!! Well that’s what I tell myself when I make a goof :) Love the design!
It’s beautiful and we love it. As for the mistake, that twitter tipped me off to in advance (kind of), we’ll never find it. If we do…it will make for a nice little chuckle. Thanks for all the hard work.
Its lovely! I can’t see any mistakes at all, and I love the pattern you used…where did you get it? I’m about to start a macrame project as well!
Kate: Thanks! Unfortunately, I got the pattern from the “Library of Mom” She has an unspeakable number of patterns. I might be able to get a copy for you though. ;)